{"id":955949,"date":"2025-08-19T08:17:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T02:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=955949"},"modified":"2025-08-19T08:56:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T03:26:02","slug":"at-104-kerala-man-becomes-symbol-of-states-digital-literacy-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/19\/at-104-kerala-man-becomes-symbol-of-states-digital-literacy-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"At 104, Kerala man becomes symbol of state\u2019s digital literacy revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: Taking to the buzzword of upskilling to keep abreast of the evolving world, a 105-year-old great-grandfather from Asamannoor in Ernakulam district has put himself through a one-year training programme to handle a smartphone.<\/p>\n<p>M A Abdullah Maulavi Bafaqi, who joined the state government\u2019s digital literacy programme in 2024, is now sufficiently adept at looking up news and relevant information, especially on YouTube, Facebook, and WhatsApp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: Taking to the buzzword of upskilling to keep abreast of the evolving world, a 105-year-old great-grandfather from Asamannoor in Ernakulam district has put himself through a one-year training programme to handle a smartphone. M A Abdullah Maulavi Bafaqi, who joined the state government\u2019s digital literacy programme in 2024, is now sufficiently adept at looking up news and relevant information, especially on YouTube, Facebook, and WhatsApp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}