{"id":43906,"date":"2018-01-25T21:05:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T21:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=43906"},"modified":"2018-07-09T17:01:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T21:01:52","slug":"sdglive-wef18-lighting-africa-conversation-akon-energy-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2018\/01\/sdglive-wef18-lighting-africa-conversation-akon-energy-access\/","title":{"rendered":"#SDGLive at #WEF18: Lighting Africa: A Conversation with Akon on Energy Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"--awb-max-width:600px;--awb-max-height:360px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:60%;\" ><iframe title=\"YouTube video player 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H5CZS4JNJ00?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture;\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>A conversation with Akon, Founder of Akon Lighting America. Moderator: Dr. Alaa Murabit, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ SDG Advocate &amp; High Level Commissioner<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"atMention\" title=\"akon\">Akon<\/span>&#8216;s Lighting Africa is equipping communities in Africa with sustainable solar energy. He joined\u00a0<span class=\"atMention\" title=\"almmura\">Alaa<\/span>\u00a0in the #SDGLive studio to talk about how he&#8217;s helping the world reach #GlobalGoal7:<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[fusion_youtube id=\"H5CZS4JNJ00\" alignment=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" autoplay=\"false\" api_params=\"\" hide_on_mobile=\"small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility\" class=\"\" \/]\n","protected":false},"author":243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[179,229,129,194],"tags":[5519,369],"class_list":["post-43906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-video-no-poverty","category-video-partnerships","category-video-energy","category-video-economic-growth","tag-davos","tag-economic-growth","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}