{
  "id": 8025903,
  "title": "MDF is the IT channel’s most underused lever",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/mdf-is-the-it-channels-most-underused-lever",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-17T12:50:15.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "TechCentral",
    "slug": "techcentral",
    "url": "https://techcentral.co.za/mdf-it-channel-south-africa/286239/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Market development funds go unspent or unproven because nobody in the channel owns them.",
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  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}