{"id":1731,"date":"2010-01-16T14:49:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T21:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.12sided.com\/blog\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2010-01-16T14:49:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T21:49:31","slug":"denis-obrien-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/?p=1731","title":{"rendered":"Denis O&#8217;Brien &#038; Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the incredible and horrible stories from the Haiti earthquake made me think of an article I awhile back in Forbes. Digicel CEO Denis O&#8217;Brien has brought mobile telecommunications to the world&#8217;s poorest countries. Digicel has been a large part of the surviving communications infrastructure in Haiti and has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/world-news\/americas\/obrien-pledges-836435m-as-charities-plead-for-money-2013043.html\" target=\"_blank\">offered \u20ac3.5m in charitable funding<\/a>. It would be frightening to think what Haiti would look like right now without Digicel. <\/p>\n<p>In time, Haiti will begin the rebuilding process, it will need more people with vision and guts like Denis O&#8217;Brien.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/forbes\/2008\/0811\/072.html\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes: Denis O&#8217;Brien Cover Story, July 2008<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the incredible and horrible stories from the Haiti earthquake made me think of an article I awhile back in Forbes. Digicel CEO Denis O&#8217;Brien has brought mobile telecommunications to the world&#8217;s poorest countries. Digicel has been a large part of the surviving communications infrastructure in Haiti and has offered&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[104,130,155,401],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reads","tag-denis-obrien","tag-forbes","tag-haiti","tag-reads"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}