During demonstrations biden and trump support just trade calls to count every ballot and protect the vote. Plus kosovos president steps down to face charges for war crimes over his alleged role in the countrys conflict. Its a 100 hours g. M. T. 8 pm on the u. S. East coast 2 days after election day Donald Trumps lead has been falling into key states as mail ballots are counted raising joe bidens hopes of clinching the presidency. Lets take a look at georgia 1st where joe biden is now fewer than 4000. 00 votes behind trump its been a solid republican state for almost 3 decades and its emerged as a surprising battleground this time around the bulk of the remaining mail ballots are from democratic leaning areas were also still waiting on pennsylvania the state where joe biden was born trumps lead has been consistently shrinking theyre just over 60000 votes separate the 2 candidates and the remaining male ballots are mostly from the democratic leaning cities of philadelphia and pittsburgh giving biden a good chance to catch up pennsylvania is another state where trumps filed a lawsuit here is the overall picture the democratic candidate now has a projected total of 264 electoral votes while trump is projected to win 214 remember a candidate needs 270 to win in yellow you see the states that are still being decided in the past hour trumps lashed out at the time its taking for remaining votes to be tallied in those key states saying the election was rigged at is being rigged and stolen saying further litigation is about to be filed shortly well get the latest with our team of correspondents on the ground the 1st his roselyn joe counting the ballots one by one in georgia one of several states that could yet determine who will be the u. S. President on january 20th 2021 the incumbent donald trump demanded again on thursday that the counting is a legal and must be stopped if you count the legal votes easily when if you count the illegal. They can try to steal. The election from us if you count the votes that came in late were looking at them very strongly but a lot of votes came in late trump has repeatedly and incorrectly said the process could be sabotaged but its actually common for states to need several days to count every vote but trump isnt just complaining hes suing in nevada the Trump Campaign is hoping this woman story of alleged voter fraud will shut down the count there are going to vote in the cold i have a vote i personally can matter and you and yours are her it started in person this current been mailed out the ballot and somebody took my ballot officials denied stuckeys charges saying they did Everything Possible to help her vote and in michigan a judge rejected trumps request to halt vote counting in that state around the clock Trump Supporters have been protesting the vote count even demanding to be let into the rooms where the ballots are being counted after meeting with his Campaign Staff in delaware democratic candidate joe biden said he trusts the process saying and i will continue to feel very good about where things stand we have no doubt that when the count is surely senator harris and i will be declared the winners so i ask everyone to stay calm all the people to stay calm the process is working the count is being completed and dad will know very soon so no declaration of victory just yet given the 2 big unknowns the status of the vote counting and the status of the Trump Campaigns legal challenges roslyn jordan aljazeera well they say most republican in Congress SenateMajority Leader Mitch Mcconnell has been playing down Donald Trumps allegations saying everyone should wait until counting is over. Action. Action. Is different from. Accounting and. The outcome. Should not be shocked. By such a. Question. And the president ial contest. One republican in the u. S. House has come out strongly against Donald Trumps claims while not naming him directly adam kenson joe has tweeted that of course every vote needs to be counted but that if someone has legitimate concerns about fraud then evidence must be presented calling for a stop to the spread of what he called the bank misinformation International Observers say they have seen no evidence of wrongdoing fraud or manipulation we repeatedly heard to the president speaking of a corrupt system or fraud system or broken system this is indeed d legation and when it comes from one of the contenders of course we have to take serious so we looked into it d as we looked. At the national. And to this very day. We reached. Out what could be seen as a base so it was indeed hear it again and again including the Election Night. Lets go to our White House Correspondent candy alcatraz been watching things unfold from washington ken lay we had from donald trump in the last half hour or so is clearly not happy with the way things are going. No and i think whats really interesting is the president s body language versus his words if you listen to the president s words as you spoke from the White House Briefing room i think its notable he was using words and making accusations of pronouncements about the Voting System about where he thinks he stands and how he Still Believes hes won the selection all the tough talk that is characteristically donald trump but it was not delivered with the same enthusiasm his body language his posture and even as he walked away from the podium without taking any questions from journalists which is a signal for those of us who have followed him for the last 4 years that hes not in the best of moods he likes to spar with the media this is something that he thrives on not doing that is a signal that this is a man that is starting to acknowledge that the fight hes losing the battle if you will does this mean hell give up no it doesnt appear that at all but at the same time there seems to be a bit perhaps a slow recognition that this president is aware that this may not be election that he wins even as hes saying he will so that was significant the other thing that i think is significant in all of this is that donald trump is really trying to signal to his supporters who is almost 50 percent of americans who voted in support of the president again weve always said divided nation hes trying not to let them down but at the same time this is not the donald trump that were used to seeing particularly on the campaign trail in his best fighting for and what do you make of these comments by Mitch Mcconnell. And other republicans it seems that he doesnt necessarily have full support from the republican camp. Well yeah that thats not surprising although in some ways its its classic washington a lot of them including Mitch Mcconnell are benefiting from donald trump one thing that we should acknowledge is that donald trump defied the polls in 2016 hes defied them again in 2020 even if donald trump doesnt win this election we did see the effects of a trump president seen in the u. S. Congress because americans who maybe supported him also supported some of the republicans in congress it looks as if there will be a holding out of the senate by republicans and they actually picked up some seats in the house of representatives so a you know the bottom line is they havent always supported donald trump because hes not an easy guy to support he does make outlandish claims hes not a typical politician those in congress are and they also know that they have to survive beyond donald trump so theyre sort of calculating calibrating their own political fortunes its not surprising to see them not supporting him they they see that hes likely to lose this election and theres just one there is who want to stay in office and just one of the point we should mention that the president brought up in his press conference is the fact that as particularly Mitch Mcconnell there was an enormous amount of outside money from major donors poured into that race to try and defeat Mitch Mcconnell but he won that race it against speaks to some of the trajectory of donald trump and his machine of the Republican Party even if donald trump himself may not ultimately benefit from it. Committee held at there for us from washington many thanks lets go to mike hanna is in bidens home state of delaware and joins us from wilmington weve also heard from biden in the last few hours what did he have to say. Joe biden is continuing the tone that hes set in the wake of the polls closing and that is a tone of calm its a tone that is seeking to install patience in his supporters in all americans in fact hes making very clear that the vote counting must proceed that every vote must be counted he says that hes confident of victory but at the same time is not going to get ahead of himself now this is a term that is see down to the Campaign Workers in the Convention Center behind me here they too in a briefing with reporters in the course of the day making very clear that their daughter indicates that joe biden is well on the way to securing a victory but at the same time they are not going to be claiming any victory until all the votes are counted now joe biden here is doing a couple of things firstly he does want to restore some semblance of calm to what has been a completely chaotic period but at the same time as well perhaps hes looking forward to the post election period where should he when he may will be dealing with the senate for example that is still controlled by republicans he seems to be laying down Building Blocks at this particular point to balled up a sense of unity that has been so absent in recent years well aware that hes going to have to work with opponents in the years to come you mentioned Mitch Mcconnell now these Majority Senate leaders somebody that joe biden worked with for a long period of time negotiating all sorts of matters with mcconnell and surprisingly or perhaps not surprisingly given their senate experience it actually worked out very well most of the time but by. Didnt does appear to be looking ahead at what happens next but what hes doing as well is creating a wider context to try and pull it away from the acrimony of this election putting this election within the context of a series of elections of a sense of democracy that has been the bedrock of this country and attempting to emphasize that this is just another election another one that comes every 4 years every 2 years with the midterms but it is something that americans have been practicing and what he does in doing that is signals that the Selection Process is bigger than the event itself and hes harping on that remember the process and above all remember the constitution of which this process is based very dignified very 1 may say president ial even at this early stage mike hanna many thanks speaking to us from bidens home state of delaware would georgia has become the unexpected toss up for donald trump and joe biden closing in on his lead there as we mentioned earlier there are fewer than 4000 votes left to be counted and he gallagher has the latest. Well look georgia is one of those states that not many people thought was even going to be at play in this president ial election but here we are we have seen that state as a republican state for decades the last democratic president ial nominee that won there was bill clinton back in 1902 but as these mail in ballots slowly come in you can see the gap between biden and trump narrowing all the time as those votes come in and what is important is where those votes are coming from theyre coming from counties that tend to lead democratic and with 16 Electoral College votes in the state of georgia the stakes really couldnt be higher the gap between these 2 candidates couldnt be narrow and the officials in the state of georgia say they may be counting some of those absentee ballots into friday so a great deal at stake with the state of georgia something no one thought was going to be in play but here we are election workers in georgia say its unclear how much longer it will take to go through all the ballots that we anticipate having the count quote unquote done when the legal deadline for certification is which is going to be 10 days after the election thats when were done because there are ballots that are still coming in or about to be cured is there a balance there provisionals better to be verifying so we can know how long the process will take we dont have clarity on the outcome to these elections as soon as possible however when you have so many important elections it being so closely done is a very relative term at this point were trying to get all the legal votes counted accurately so we can get the right results and make sure that everybodys vote is reflected properly moving on to pennsylvania which is another one of the critical Battle Ground states which could decide the election here is al is there is number crunching area why the state is so crucial. Pennsylvania is famously joe bidens native state you probably heard him mention scranton pennsylvania more than a few times but it is important for anyone who wants to win the white house pennsylvania has 20 Electoral College votes on offer and the pollsters believe the keystone state could in fact hold the key in deciding who wins this time around but if history for you here we go back 299246 straight president ial elections it has backed the democrats bill clinton and barack obama who won twice john kerry and al gore who didnt but pennsylvania still became part of the socalled democratic blue wall but like so many things all of that changed in 2016 pennsylvania flipped red only just when donald trump beat Hillary Clinton by less than one percent now were going to bring up the 26. 00 electoral map to see who did well where and youve got the democrats down in the southeast they did well the other cities in the suburbs the republicans who won in mostly rural areas did pick up some urban centers and then the 3 counties which weve colored in orange who switched from barack obama in 2 elections to donald trump in 2016 a quick look at some demographics for you and more than 80 percent of pennsylvanias voting population is white blue collar voters who have long been the democrats base noncollege educated voters who favor donald trump also 10 percent of eligible voters are black and hispanics a little over 5 percent so it will probably come down to do is urban voters in pennsylvania and whether biden can hold on to them and then woo some back from donald trump to decide who gets 20 vital Electoral College votes and that is why pennsylvania matters. Well lets get the very latest on the results in pennsylvania passing game is in philadelphia for us passing when we spoke ali there was some indication that we could get some conclusive results by the end of the day have you had any more about. What that was whether we could get some results today. Theyre getting theyre getting very close and i 1st started talking you just a couple of hours ago they still had dont stop at about 90000. 00 vote lead that now according to the secretary of states website is down 265000 with 250000 votes left to be counted so the biden team feels very confident in the state of pennsylvania because of where the majority of these votes still need to be counted are coming from theyre coming from places like here in philadelphia cities that and their suburbs that tend to vote more democratic if you look at the vote the bidens been getting with these mallon ballots hes getting about 70 to 80 percent of those votes so if you do math at home please do math for me if you could look at 7080 percent of 250000 that likely get you to overcome trumps lead that we might not know tonight because there is a county because of courts and a settlement that you cant count 35000 votes in till tomorrow but the secretary of state says theyre going to be working throughout the night to try and get this total i think its important to take a step back and talk about what votes were talking about were talking about mail in ballots these are the ones theyre counting were sent in into the polling places by the Election Night at 8 pm so these are not the votes that were cast after these are not it will just emit votes this is legal in this state of pennsylvania these ballots should be counted legally so thats what theyre doing in the building behind me just to give you a sense of whats going on theres so much more of a party last time i talked to but that sort of broken down the organizers of said its. Time for everyone to go home we have really peaceful situation here and i think thats important because youve seen across the country these scenes of angry Trump Supporters angry biden supporters really attacking one another what we have here was some term supporters of by far the minority have a step out of the race you can see it they were separated by a fence there were Police Standing by but they didnt need to get involved there were a whole lot of supporters saying count the vote by the supporters they had a band they were dancing and that there wasnt any physical confrontation there might have been a few words back and forth but i saw Trump Supporters and giant trump flags waving through the crowd of people who want to see joe biden the next president and Nothing Happened so i think we can also get a skewed sense of whats happening in the country by just showing those places where theres conflict here in the city of philadelphia theyve been out here for hours both sides we havent seen any confrontation but what we have seen is joe biden steadily gaining on donald trump and i dont come out as put pretty much painted the picture for you but again if joe biden takes this state its over for him beats basically going to be the president elect because that will put him well over the g 70 he needs that its a very very difficult thing for President Donald Trump to stay in office if he doesnt win pennsylvania it is possible but its a very very remote possibility so every hour that passes were seeing trumps lead in this important state that it and that could be hard to explain the behavior in the out right is the statements that he made from the white house he is seeing the white house a 2nd term slipping away right here in the state of pennsylvania. Good to speak. In philadelphia for us. Lets move to the west of the country while brennans joins us live from los angeles on the latest developments in nevada and arizona 2 more crucial battleground states what is the latest were hearing from that in terms of the vote counting. Well lets take a look at arizona 1st because we do have some new information the authorities released a new batch of votes and it shows that joe bidens lead is kind of steadily shrinking as the votes are tabulated the latest numbers that came out just a short time ago show biden ahead by 58900 votes earlier today the biden lead with 68000 votes so this is a case where the votes are that are accumulating are favoring donald trump so when donald trump says we should stop counting the votes in this case at least in arizona that would not benefit him at all it would rather benefit his opponent joe biden earlier today that we expect more numbers to come in later on tonight prosody within a few hours and those could be very significant well take a look at those these are again mostly mail in an absentee ballots from the urban center of the state in phoenix in Arizona Arizona has 11 electoral votes and the secretary of state in arizona kathy hibbs says that there are more than 300000 votes still to be tabulated she hopes to get through them all at least by the end of this weekend so still some some work to do there in nevada joe bidens lead on the other hand is increasing over donald trump 210000 votes over 10000 votes the nevada secretary of state says that 190000 ballots remain to be counted the vast majority of these once again coming from the urban center of the state from clark county which includes las vegas and is generally a democratic leaning area. The clark county registrar says that the remaining votes there will be counted again by saturday or sunday that he hopes to get the final votes all their the campaign has filed a suit to stop the count alleging that there are irregularities including voting by people who no longer live in. Nevada and people who no longer live period dead people thats one of the claims the clark county registrar joe gloria said in a news briefing today thursday hes not aware of any irregular ballots being counted or processed the priority he said is speed and not. Excuse me mr gloria the registrar said that in response to criticism over the slow pace of counting the votes in the vote of that their priority is not speed its accuracy and doing that with the following all the rules now weve talked a lot about nevada weve talked a lot about arizona but theres one of the state and its considered too early to call and thats way up north in alaska now it sure its a strongly republican state it has not voted for a democrat for president since Lyndon Baines johnson won there in 1964 but only 50 percent of the votes in alaska have that counted and thats one of the reasons that the Associated Press has not called the state for either. More wide alaska wont even start counting more than 120000 absentee and mail in ballots until next tuesday the 10th of november thats the law and alaska and while trump is likely to win alaskas 3 electoral. Votes the senate race there could be a different story there is a republican incumbent dan sullivan is facing a very well financed opponent grows and if there is a. Chance that growth could pull it out that could change the entire makeup of the senate next year its a long shot but politics is full of surprises indeed rob reynolds there for us in los angeles many thanks oh we can talk now to brett burr and he is a former white house director of Global Engagement other under president Obama Joining us via skype from washington d. C. Appreciate you speaking to us here on aljazeera let me start by asking you about these claims by donald trump that democrats so rigging the election and republican observers have been denied in counting reams what do you make of his comments about that how transparent has this vote been well let me you know point to a decision that was just handed down even philadelphia where President Trump was making most of his allegations and the judge in that case threw it out and said this is simply not true exactly asked Trumps Campaign of surety for their campaign observers in the room and the attorney said well the number is not 0 so what were seeing is a rather elaborate extensive distortion and quite frankly to damage our democracy and that is what is so dangerous about what we heard this evening from the podium of the press Briefing Room at the white house are you surprised that its this close when the polls have been telling us for so long that there was going to be a blue way. And that we wouldnt be in the situation. Well lets look at a couple factors one these state pennsylvania michigan wisconsin had voted for donald trump last time so were talking about a significant shift in the popular vote were talking about somebody who has gotten in the case of joe biden more votes that any candidate in u. S. President ial history and then on top of it he is wholly evidently over arizona potentially even georgia that is not nice at all accomplishment and on top of it obviously depends emic has made it very difficult and democrats were quite responsible in how they campaign during this season unlike republicans as we as we move towards getting a result these results tell us that america seems more divided than ever before if biden does come to power hes going to find it very difficult to try and unite people listening. Well without question we are clearly divided states of america and bind him and use perhaps one of the few people who is able to try to bridge some of those chairs ims and to find Common Ground this is a guy despite some of the rhetoric from the Trump Campaign who has worked throughout his career across party lines and yet it is true and i think this is important for your International Audience that biden is not going to come even with a strong mandate hes going to find it difficult especially if you for public use hold on to the senate to govern and those of us who work for president obama recall the tea party and the obstructionism in the Republican Party that were going to see them put on steroids if you know we hold to the present course and biden has to contend with a Republican Senate and obviously a victory in the president ial polls but not as strong as some of us would have liked preparation former white house director of Global Engagement under president obama many thanks for speaking to us not just there. 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President donald trump is claiming without evidence that if legal votes were counted he would win the election at a white house News Conference he said legal challenges filed by his campaign may end up in the Supreme Court if you count the legal votes i easily win if you count the illegal the us they can try to steal. The election from us if you count the votes that came in late were looking at them very strongly but a lot of votes came in late ive already decisively won many critical states yes democratic candidate joe biden has been calling for calm as the final votes from cheese days election continue to be counted hes closing the gap on trump in pennsylvania and georgia and says he is confident of becoming the next president each ballot must be counted and thats what were going to see going through now and thats how it should be democracy sometimes messy it sometimes requires a little patience as well but that patience has been rewarded now for more than 240 years but its just not government governance and i spend the envy of the world. We continue to feel seen and i will continue to feel very good about where things stand we have no doubt that when the count is surely senator harrison i will be declared the winners so i ask everyone to stay calm all the people to stay calm the process is working. The u. S. Has seen a record jump a new Coronavirus Infections a day off to the president ial election all the 102000 cases were confirmed on wednesday exceeding the record set last friday. And new nationwide lockdown has come into effect in england as it struggles to cope a 2nd wave of infections i saw you Headline News continues here on aljazeera. Investigating the use and abuse of power across the globe on how to see. You think of some of the Biggest Companies in the world today is google Amazon Microsoft facebook we checked all of them big tech with algorithms that one more than just uses or customers will these businesses would generate is a datum they need us to like them for them to be indispensable because the more that we use them the more data we produce where in the midst of a great race a dot and Big Tech Companies are on the chase. For the past 3 years academics nichol dri analysts have been investigating a phenomenon they call dot of colonialism. Well the scales of context may have changed they say colonialism same underlying functions of empire building extraction and appropriation remain the new langue grab going on theres not land thats being grabbed its us its human life the acquisition the construction of data valuable data to corporate use out of the floor of our lives thats the lag right going on and thats why the work is the only one who does justice to that lets think for instance of all the and use her license agreements or the terms of use that we read whenever we sign up for a new social media platform and if we think about the process of being asked to agree to something that we cannot even understand when signing away certain rights signing away our property in this act i think its a very interesting were not for one moment saying. Colonialism today with data in both the same horrific level of violence that was involved in the beginnings of columbia this. Way saying that the core of historic colonialism was the force to involve people in a massive new system a new order a new organization of the World Economy in the history of colonialism weve had different empires times of course we can think of this kranish empire the British Empire i think we would say at this point in history in terms of data colonialism we have 2 centers of power and we have the United States on one side and china in the other and of course we know the american corporations very well in terms of Google Facebook amazon maybe we dont know the chinese corporations very well because their reach is just beginning to expand beyond china so far china has been kind of like an internal colony but we are starting to see how these corporations. The infrastructure developed into. You know its starting to expand to 2 different parts of the world including asia and africa. But chinas biggest private company well way to acknowledge east africa has been a coal miner so its countries like south Africa Nigeria kenya which is where now have delivered some of the biggest most rapidly growing telecom its. Has studied the way effect here in kenya theyre Building Products for example that are suited to the African Market the cheapest mobile phone that you can get in various African Markets is a chinese phone so you will not go all over the place if you look at on one to both of the stores and they are building relationships with governments they are providing infrastructure so while we has provided a lot of infrastructure for. Surveillance in kenya and i see team kenya to work in every country whether its developed by the big or somewhere in the middle and thats really useful for governments here so we advise you know on that Government Data centers on the economy and services or anything else we can share those expenses from around the world the nice thing is of course of the benefits of people connected to our business so that generating revenue for us as well but the other piece of the chinese influence is that the surreptitious war theres a lot of questions about Data Collection with technology thats coming in from china and in some ways its the other side of the coin right there is a whole lot of data thats being taken out from african countries and from African Citizens to be kept handled used by people who are not this is certainly responsible for answerable to African People so while it is not access peoples data oh so data so i dont think that we are the kind of company. That benefits of peoples data the only data that were using is just to improve our products and sell. Such as using Artificial Intelligence our smartphones in our Network Equipment so that it can in improve be faster there are skeptics who would question adams assertion after all most Big Tech Companies do exploit use a darter in some way however even if while way doesnt do it there are other chinese operations in africa that collect and make extensive use of peoples data. Here in nairobi the dominance of chinese tech is undeniable from telecommunication lines to Satellite Networks right down to the planes in peoples hands and the apps on those fights Chinese Companies have this market and much of the data it produces in its cross trends in holdings for instance sells to over 40 percent of the mobile market in Subsaharan Africa its fun someone to the brand names techno i tell and in phoenix but its strategy doesnt end with the hardware data driven apps like the Music Streaming Service in play and Digital Payment platform pompei add to a growing repository of data on african uses and can help boost money making opportunities for transients when you think about those and i think any i think the thing that gets lost is that the primary objective it was about money was fundamentally about using power using culture using all these kinds of tools to impose one society in another society is still at the 1st society could make money off of that where you define corner as a map that then you really start to see the residences in china has been investing in africa many parts of asia for 2030 years very systematically is never pretended that it that its doing anything other than expanding its economic interests it does not use civilizing rhetoric because it doesnt need to lets contrast that for the moment with a company like microsoft which talks about democratizing ai or facebook. That is concerned to give as it were connection cometary can just be a privilege for some of the rich and powerful and needs to be something that everyone shares. Facebook has made a big push to present itself as a benevolent force to get people online since 2013 the company has been leading a giant project called internet dot all sort of gateway to the World Wide Web for those with poor connectivity. The app that serves as the portal to facebooks version of the internet is called free basics and its been launched in at least 60 countries more than half of them in africa the idea is to provide access to select sites without data charges in effect its a stripped down version of the internet that has one very important component guaranteed connection with facebook and guaranteed possibilities of data extraction which is why despite the companys slick marketing not everyone is convinced that this is an entirely selfless exercise injuries cimbali is a leading to all rights advocate i think whats most interesting in the it what ill call technicality x. Is the rush to connect the unconnected and the rush to retain the connected in very specific platforms a lot of these actors will do anything and everything to make sure at some point or other these users go through their platforms because its all about the data its all about how much data can i get about peoples of arkansas ads so that you know concrete predictive things to keep them hooked into what im able to offer and therefore the world will keep churning theres no way that a lot of these Tech Companies will be able to behave in their home countries the way they behave in the developing world there is no way that you would be able to roll out a project as big as free basics without some kind of check or balance with some without some kind of ethic or. There was no effort to even say this is what this mean. Means this is how this will work for you and that is really telling right on what they think that African People want and or need from the internet projects that are largely in this case emerging from a Silicon Valley west in america centric approach to connecting the unconnected i really deeply steeped in the same condescending ways of doing development so this notion that give them something that is better than nothing i mean why would anyone not want that vehicle in us some is framed in terms of a civilizational mission when people are connected we can accomplish some Pretty Amazing things just like historical colonialism was framed as well in terms of bringing progress bringing something that is good and beneficial for humanity we can get closer to the people that we care about we can get access to jobs and opportunities and i do our participation is expected and our petition pretty soon were told is for our own good meanwhile all of this extraction and capturing of the you know is kind of happening in the background we dont. Do consequence d the Facebook Free basics model which is basically about expanding for facebook the demain of data extraction across the world at a time when demand for facebook is beginning to fall amongst younger people in particular in the socalled west. Is very interesting just as in historic colonialism the apparent weakness of the colonized populations that lack of weapons their lack of certain results is the lack of an economic structure suggested to the colonizers that they needed to be colonized they needed to have whatever the colonial system would offer them to bind them in. Free basics is just one of facebooks many initiatives across africa. Facebooks latest push here in kenya is called express why fight companies teamed up with local Snack Service providers to install why 5 hotspots like here in the mass my town of eagle are on the outskirts of nairobi. Jerry nimble c. E. O. Is a hairdresser who signed up as of into facebooks express why. He gets a commission on every dot a bundle he sells his customers say they look like they do his 1st book because even myself i use it im a friend of the band of keep the cheaper. Compared to other networks you get the 1st round of the 1100 in business for free yeah. You run. Yes they do they find it cheaper to fund it when the book and then the doctors dont express why fi has been an undeniable success here it has made web access cheaper for the People Living in undeserved locations then there are so many People Living i dont want a corner to be. However for those studying the activities of facebook and other Big Tech Companies in kenya its impossible to ignore the huge potential for data mining last year facebook was pushed to admit that it had added its own software to the watch my Access Points that enabled non Facebook Datta such as customer names and phone numbers to directly flow to the corporation while Facebook Says the purpose of the software Eastern Shore that hotspots of functioning well theres no clarity on just how much additional daughter is being collected and how thats being used a lot of these companies arent african theyre not even based in kenya in africa forget kenya longa so what is a kenyan citizen supposed to do what an American Company uses their day to sell their day to markets it for you know as a product and without their consent without their ability to intervene to appeal to a court system thats kind of the gray area that were falling into the lot of these big you know that. Tech company. Facebook isnt the only Big Tech Company playing the connectivity card here in cannes last year alphabet the Parent Company whose most famous brand is google signed a deal with Telecom Kenya to quote connect the unconnected using buildings. Buildings loon is a path breaking project thats been 8 years in the making and the idea is deceptively simple use High Altitude balloons to provide Internet Connectivity in remote and hard to reach parts of the world kenya is where luna is making its commercial debut i spoke with Charles Merida he doesnt represent loon but its more well known Sister CompanyGoogle Googles mission from the get go was to really get a lot of the africans who are Offline Online and to make sure they get online in a more affordable and have better conduct content as well as relevance and the mission around noon is to ensure that we are able to deliver connectivity to the most remote part of the continent and around the world so i am proud to say that here in kenya is the 1st commercial agreement between noon our Sister Company and telco kenya were amazed to be seen is what standards of. Accountability there will be will that mean that people are restricted to only using google esque sites for instance that remains to be question what data will become acted in the process of connecting people i put some of these questions to charles he made it clear he couldnt say much more about lou after all he doesnt work for that company he did tell me this though about googles approach to Data Collection. So what we do at google is we ensure that we have employed a user trust that is something thats really important and that users understand exactly what were doing with the data but we have on them we also ensure that theyre able to manage and control so transparency ability to. Manage and control the data that we have on our users is really critical and when its so transparent people get joy the magic of Google Charles uses a lot of positive p. R. Speak especially when it comes to discussing matters relating to data that doesnt come as a big surprise because data ownership access privacy is an incredibly sensitive legal and political issue across the World Governments and regulators have been looking at their data laws more and more seriously but perhaps the most widely publicized is the European Unions general Data Protection regulation otherwise known as g. D. P. Which set a Global Benchmark for strengthening individual rights of the personal data thats really the discrepancy that were seeing here is that western governments western societies have more space to keep these companies in check and to force them to abide by their local social standards and countries in other parts of the world and thats where the cornal is a label really starts to become evident there is not enough space for ordinary African Citizens to push their governments on these issues there is not enough space for us to actually demand a different standard of treatment in july has a point just take a look at the state of data regulation around the world and youll see how stark the imbalance is according to a study by the law firm deal a pipe north america or australia much of europe and china have what they would classify as heavy oil robust regulation for many countries across africa regulation ranges from moderate to 0 the kenyan government says theyre working on it but the speed at which they are developing pulis sees is being outstripped by the speed at which private plays are revolutionizing telecoms and Internet Connectivity i dont think theres anything particularly wrong with private sector actors taking the lead role if especially again they have the resources. And the wherewithal to be able to do this the question is where are states in this game to keep them in check because of the narrative around how any and all Digital Development is a positive or a net positive asking critical questions is almost seen as being an enemy of progress and therefore the risk is your people in the community. So because of that nuanced and problematic notion being created very few politicians and by extension government actors want to step up to the plate to play this game proactively. Which come to think about as being with us ready to be extracted like oil can be extracted from the earth i certainly used to think of my daughter that way before i began doing research and interviews for this episode. But ive since come to realize that our lives locations family members our preferences our dislikes all of this isnt really done until you create algorithms that can convert every single human being into a collection of bits that money to be made off of so this myth that somehow the oil or they call it the day to exhaust naturally within a switch is naturally there to be used by corporations it happens for their profit its an incredibly important myth to say theres nothing we can do about this this is the way things are but go back 203040 years this was not the way things were we need to hold on to that past to remembering to pass on the memory of that past in order to show that this remains the myth the digital corp the colonial project so were not just talking about the big players Facebook Google amazon in china baidu ali baba pants and cetera the social quantifications sector is a larger industry sector composed of the big players and swell alternative hard word Manufacturers Software developers all of this platform interpret as well as Data Analytics firms and data brokers. So altogether they. Constitute this. Sector that provides the infrastructure for making this extraction possible structure of data from our human social lives we are the bodies producing the data but were not necessarily the ones who benefit from that so at stake here is peoples ideas peoples dreams peoples hopes peoples frustrations being used to sell things back to them where do we actually get our money back were not saying no tac in africa were not saying you know just jump over africa as youre thinking about and i internet the interest on a lot of really good things in africa its made a lot of connections possible that were not possible even 510 years ago the question is how do you mitigate the harm how do you make sure that you protect the good and you corral the bad model that we have now isnt doing that i think we should be bored enough and brave enough to go back to the drawing board and challenge ourselves to think differently about this model is there a better way of doing this thing is there a more humane way of doing this connectivity thing that were trying to do through all of these corporations. Technology is neither positive and negative or neutral it will always the intrinsic motivation that exists in a community where its being deployed one practical tip that ive found very useful is to keep myself informed and bring in as much critical forward and questioning of when we are told you know technology x. Is the solution and is the disrupt. You know to question how we were arrived at that conclusion supporting actors who are making their day to day lives to ask these things is one way to also keep making sure your views your concerns are represented and you know not to give into their fear we can still figure out how to heal the Society Technologies could help with that but its dead teaching us that we need to go back to the basics of how we form societies how we find consensus and how we quite exist in this world children who are now 5 years or younger growing up with toys which are infractions robots algorithmically programmed which operate by tracking everything they do and playing back to them in forms that help the child grow everything they say we dont know what happens to that data but it will be probably impossible in about 10 years time to say to the child who is now by that stage but grown up adult you can live in a World Without being tracked algorithmically at every moment of your life its therefore very important we start in a sense speaking the truth to a very new type of power that is walking the place india i think its easy to forget you know a time even before all of our lives were ruled in a certain sense might all of these for equality and yet when i talk to young people are encouraged by the sense that they really dont think all of this but the whole and they are actually less deterministic that i am when i think about technology. And when i hear them. Talk about their changing perceptions towards facebook toward social media how theyre becoming critical and how theyre becoming more. Literate consumers in terms of reading the terms of service in terms of trying to make sense technically the mystic language i think that gives me hope. That people can become more active consumers. Participants think that its really fortunate for us as were thinking about the issues that theyre pushing teasin the challenges the television presents to remember about human beings this and human nature is very its very true and its very repetitive weve actually been here before with other forms of Communications Technology when you think about radio and the role that radio played for example in the 2nd world war when you think about the launch of television and you know the fears around advertising in the fields around how television would change society but these are all conversations that have actually happened in the past and so for me the big lesson is lets learn from what has already happened in the past lets not be afraid to look back theres nothing radical so radically different about Internet Technology that human beings havent really grappled with before. 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