App of the year. And digital input overload. But first Block Chain Technology for refugee some fifty thousand people live in this camp in jordan the u. N. Provides aid to these victims of war and persecution and bottlenecks such turn to a futuristic system. Iris scan instead of pin number chain instead of bank account theres also no need for a bank card the customers iris is compared with a priest stored scanned their purchased total is automatically deducted from sums they receive as aid. The Uns World Food Program gives Syrian Refugees around twenty five euros a month so that cash is not stored in a bank its on block chain a digital shared record of transactions maintained by a network of computers on the internet. And his team are in charge of coordinating and accounting the block. Technology was launched from his office in munich it made aid work more transparent and cost effective. To the fruity how every refugee has a virtual bank account and instead of having that account at the bank we can carry out individual transactions by a blocked chain. On blocked chain each refugee is identified by an individual code the information is not stored centrally its managed simultaneously by thousands of servers thats why the blocked Chain Technology is seen as virtually forgery proof all interactions between participants are stored in an encrypted text file that way organizers can trace who bought what and when. The end is the use of its extremely attractive for us because before block chain we were using various databases so we had our own databases Bank Databases as well as those of the business transactions and that meant that at the end of the month we had to triangulate reports from sales in banks with block chain there is only one definitive block chain truth and we dont have to spend time tracking the flow of money. But experts say there are risks theres no government or Financial Institution controlling block change to say convinced of their minds illusion i dont believe such protocols can be trusted entirely stands you still have to have the capability to intervene if the need arises even because its good. But the u. N. Is already counting on blocked change it says it could revert to Bank Transfers within a space of hours from now though its planning to bring block chain based aid services to other camps if was looking at were now trying to roll out the program for up to one hundred thousand people in jordan by the end of the year and simultaneously launch it in other countries we believe that in jordan alone we can save several Million Euros in. On bank charges thats money that can be spent on food aid. Alexandra benefits across the humanitarian aid sector she says it could help build a Digital Identity for refugees who have lost everything. The capability of the block chain is you could record a lot of different types of information on the block so for example like a lot of refugees or displaced they lose their papers they basically have to start from square one they dont have education records etc if you begin putting those things on the block then it becomes an immutable record thats also transferred across borders aid without boundaries and banks in this project its already a reality. Shift says an effective use of technology. Time now for the shift ranking this time the countries most lacking in Internet Freedom. In fifth place cuba u. S. Ngo Freedom House studied restrictions on Internet Access content and Data Protection in sixty five countries despite modest steps to increase Internet Access cuba it says remains one of the worlds least connected and most repressive environments for. Scoring seventy nine out of one hundred possible negative points. In fourth place iran and iran has its own cyber police Internet Access beads and band with have slowly improved still the country scored eighty five negative points. At number two you know you havent missed anything in this ranking two countries are tied for second place syria and ethiopia both with eighty six negative points war torn syria its dangerous to air independent views. Bloggers and bloggers risk their lives and he has the worlds worst Internet Access. And at number one china was the worst abuser of Internet Freedom despite a smartphone of mobile internet boom the country has the most digital restrictions notching eighty seven out of one hundred possible points. That was this weeks ranking and now reality soap on the internet influencers are online almost twenty four seven for their fans sharing moments of intimacy to make money. Thanks to more or less obvious advertising messages. Her workday starts before breakfast streaming live from her cellphone. I might have ok i still have to cut the apples and grapes from my cio putting. Being minimal see ya later bye for now. More than four thousand five hundred people have just watched louise adela much of her life takes place online the same goes for her boyfriend young kaba theyve both made names for themselves as fitness bloggers demonstrating workouts on the internet. She has nearly seventy thousand followers on instagram theyre both influencers companies are exploiting their reach by placing their products in the hands of social media personalities a luxury lifestyle in exchange for advertising and Product Placement and constant public attention. By the first the two of us are going to go for a run and lose goal is to rock this thing in under two hours. Thats missing is the. Sorry but people dont know what you mean by this thing Half Marathon yeah scuse me. Ok so now were going to start running but i just looked into the camera see if that was ok. But it was then a frost is also an influencer more than fifty thousand users follow her day to day life its a. Full time job and how much you make is down to simple math ports in told you can charge about one hundred euros or ten thousand followers we always charge around five hundred euros for an Instagram Photo for a blog post it depends on how much it involves do we have to book a photographer or make up for the shot then were in the range of one thousand five hundred to twenty five hundred euro sites and. Instagram wants influencers to clearly identify paid posts but not everyone discloses such content products are peddled under the packaging of an every day life disease is again you see all these beautiful young girls with size zero figures and designer bags worth several thousand euros and quite a lot of people assume that this is their real life because they see nothing else i have a problem with that because it conveys values that in the long run create frustration. That it is as it was the. Video bloggers are also starting to acknowledge the downside to life as an influencer. There are days when i wish we could go back to having a normal relationship normal relationship for me would be not having to take photos of ourselves the entire time and posting something on instagram. Can you go offline its not that easy to most money deigned daily activities are marketable has already made the basic salsa i threw in a bit of vegetable stock and tomato paste theyre not so everybody young is cooking a healthy lunch and then of course well have the recipe for you. And of course a photo hopefully it will at least taste good parents. Shift says all the privacy plates. And our short and sweet fish if aftershocks. And google has named its number one half of the year and the twenty seventeen winner is so credit to hold work. In class it may all seem crystal clear. But when it comes to doing homework alone at home its one big muddle. The apps are pratik offers free homework help. And its easy to use just scan the exercise with your smartphone Artificial Intelligence solves it and provides the explanation to. An additional chat feature allows students to share information with their peers and can be used like a study Group Without having to switch out of the app. At least more time for important things in life. You know of an interesting app. Then rightists that shift at d w dot com. Well try out your best tips on the show that was option. As always we leave shift through the exit. Internet find of the week today digital over stimulation. Smartphones of taken over modern day life. From the first thing in the morning. Even before the first sip of coffee were scrolling through our apps like teen texting surfing. This is how the british designer came taylor sees smartphone dependency there is no rest for people who are permanently online. 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