{"id":9951,"date":"2012-04-16T16:08:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T14:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=9951"},"modified":"2012-04-17T15:35:40","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T13:35:40","slug":"comunity-appoints-paris-mashile-as-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/9951\/comunity-appoints-paris-mashile-as-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"ComUnity appoints Paris Mashile as chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local mobile development company, ComUnity, has confirmed the appointment of former <a title=\"ICASA - Independent Communications Authority of SA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2027-ICASA-Independent-Communications-Authority-of-SA\">Independent Communications Authority of SA (ICASA)<\/a> chair, <a title=\"Paris Mashile\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2028-Paris-Mashile\">Paris Mashile<\/a>, as its new chairman.<\/p>\n<p>ComUnity is a mobile services platform that provides tools for companies to provide mobile applications and services, such as mobile retail ecosystems and media systems.<\/p>\n<p>Mashile is currently the programme director for digital multimedia management at the <a title=\"GIBS - Gordon Institute of Business Science\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2029-GIBS-Gordon-Institute-of-Business-Science\">Gordon Institute of Business Science<\/a> in Johannesburg. He was previously CEO of Vunani Electronics Communications.<\/p>\n<p>He has an extensive regulatory and political background, as well as various degrees in electrical engineering and communications which will undoubtedly be used to benefit ComUnity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local mobile development company, ComUnity, has confirmed the appointment of former Independent Communications Authority of SA (ICASA) chair, Paris Mashile, as its new chairman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":9952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,21],"tags":[25,2380,36,2379],"class_list":["post-9951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","category-telecommunications","tag-active","tag-comunity","tag-icasa","tag-paris-mashile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9951"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9955,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951\/revisions\/9955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}