The intricate network we call the modern Global Economy and it sent us all home with lots of time on our hands to think about what sort of world we really want for the future so is the pandemic actually an opportunity a 2nd chats thats our topic all made today how many of us spend less time thinking and more time in front of the play station during lockdown make a waste of time in my opinion but hey its relaxing and taking for a lot of people and using Multiplayer Games in order to spend time with friends online is definitely by way of social distancing some Gaming Operations have seen a boom in sales but not every company is getting an equal slice of the pie a report a kind. Of gaming expert in fact took a closer look. Our talk you or. Ive been playing video games my whole life but in lockdown the time i spent on gaming just exco. With me millions of people and through the Virtual World and some companys revenue suggest these are great times for the gaming industry console select the nintendos which will literally sold out. Game publisher Activision Blizzard even beat analyst expectations by more than 50 percent. But these insane numbers dont tell the whole story there are many people in the industry to profit at all from. One company that is missing out on the boom is jager the small developer based in berlin has been around for over 20 years and is one of the oldest Gaming Companies and jerome. Currently theyre working on an update for their game the cycle its a space shooter that is free meaning you dont need to buy it to play it. Does itself here all the Customization Options but you can spend between 10 and 100 euros to get yourself some new clothes or different looking weapons. For some people the coronavirus time is meant to boom or incredible sales. But was actually in our case we arent really seeing a huge difference in sales but we do notice that we have a lot of new players who just take a look at the game theyre looking at it because they have more time. But it is good or the use of the art of making money with video games has changed 8. Over the past decades with scoring big time. It used to be that once you board a game. No questions asked nowadays you can get. Up there gambling boxes which all course real world money and even make winning easier for you. This phenomenon is called pay to win and true game. Take that but why would you go missing out on a bunch of money. If. We tried to maintain a good balance the feels good for us. Where all game is too. And we want a game thats not paid to win so why should we put that in there. This project is our baby objective least speaking we could maybe make more money that way. Ultimately wed be destroying ourselves. Hes got one so far that hasnt been doing well his life game events in 29 competitive game as played for 200000000 euros in prize money and tell us off thousands watch them do it but this year major events like the years are one in cologne have had to be delayed moved on live with new challenges. Also face the challenge that many tournaments like the major counter strike cant be easily carried out online. You have to remember that lots of the teams come together from different parts of the world. So just ensuring connectivity or figuring out the timing is hard. When you play afternoon might be a good time for one person but its the middle of the night on the other side of the world. So you can compensate a little by hosting those events or live but what happens when the game and the game you play to make a living. Only can happen at those big events. Oh thats right lets check in 7 legend hours and. Play all the way. Like many other pakistani players he cons competes online because his internet is just too bad and even pro players like him cant always afford to practice offline at home in 2001. 100 though door number rising money was my major source of income source i guess i lost my major source of income in 2008 it is very bad because i am not. So sponsors will not show an interest in you because i am more complete again. This is this is very bad about it. Our sense of deep is one of the lucky few who sponsored hasnt abandoned him his friends on the other hand risk losing their jobs if they cant practice. Yes the coronavirus is boosting the gaming industry but just to a very very limited extent and were already in the midst of what is going to be a major recession so everyone is going to have less cash in their pockets i might choose gaming over food at least for a couple of days but many will so these positive effects for the gaming industry are going to wear off very smooth. It is much more important to make for me though one of the best things that come out of this crisis is that were finally using the internet for so much more than just playing games or looking up the telephone book for example online but in many areas progress is being hampered by put Digital Infrastructure if you didnt know already germanys performance on that front is atrocious lets take a look at an International Comparison from the organization for Economic Cooperation and development when it comes to the percentage of high speed fiberoptic Cable Networks in the country fixed Internet Connections south korea comes out on top in europe spain is way ahead of germany to the o. E. C. D. Average lies around 25 percent even a lagging u. S. Beats germany whose high speed fiber makes up just 3. 6 percent of connections this is raising fears that german industry could lose its Competitive Edge by calling. It talk to some people in southwestern germany who are frustrated with the situation. I dont know what the problem is i cant explain it we. Have serious issues with his Internet Connection the businessman just cant get anything to download at 5 megabits per 2nd his connection speed is 5 times slower than average speeds in germany Video Conferencing is impossible. His company could use his high tech Circuit BoardsInternet Connections are here in the countryside. With 2 employees working from home but after 2 weeks we have to stop because nothing worked after 9 am. The grievous consequences are that we cant use any Online Services such as cloud based storage we have to organize all this ourselves and buy lots of expensive hardware and software. In 20 a team we had to buy a server for around 100000 euros. And in the future the companys telecoms provider has said that week Internet Connection will also be used for internet calls to the telephone and internet used to be separate our phone connection used i. S. D. N. Technology and weve been given notice that this is being discontinued we think the introduction to internet telephony will make the connection even slower. In the nearby town of fortifying an internet speeds are significantly faster the coronavirus is proving to be a driver of digitalisation at the local University Students can no longer attend classes but lectures are being held online. And if we set up a new video platform we were planning on getting up and running so quickly. Or. 1200 account holders can use it similar. In more than 200. 00 chat rooms and the lecturers are using that option. Matthew i go is studying Graphic Design from his parents home online extras took a little bit of getting used to but a student is glad that the summer semester is taking place despite the coronavirus pandemic during the lectures he can ask questions like he would have in the past. Disfunction york. Its worked pretty well theres no buffering there were a few bugs at the start but now it works pretty well but Internet Connections can be a problem for some for those who live in rural districts things arent quite as smooth sometimes you cant understand what theyre saying and have to ask them to repeat something because they freeze up or whatever but it works pretty well for me open your books and its going to good. Yes now i can just about hear the. Problems with Internet Connections at home can make studying more difficult for some. Form. Im not sure the students will have the selfdiscipline to keep up with the course. I can see how many people have called it the videos. But i dont know which students they are the numbers are falling. Back in the countryside and today as millers Internet Provider has informed him that he can install his own fast Internet Connection albeit at his own cost the price tag 100000 euros. 100000 euros for fiber optic cables that we have to get installed thats out of the question its far too expensive. Now the businessman is hoping the local authorities will save the day there are plans to a stop at high speed connections in the region but so far no date has been set for his village. Slow surfing isnt coper germanys only problem in all Things Digital with many people now working from home brushing up on your tech capabilities is more important than ever i spent most of my morning doing exactly that all this strange time in all our lives has again prompted us to think about how to do things differently and how to get businesses workers up to speed on whats coming our way one company in hamburg is taking advantage of the increased demand for its digital skillz. The Global Economy is in trouble supply chains spanning the planet have been disrupted the pandemic has highlighted the limits of the present Economic System and the importance of Digital Technologies noir fisher is a cult hit in hamburg that describes itself as a school and pool for Digital Talent but. We are seeing growing interest in training in digital professions because of the crisis. For Short Courses it calls group camps to train people in computer related fields. 3 month course in data science for University Graduates costs a little under 9000. 00 euros. Training as a Web Developer costs just under 8000. Digitalisation combined with coronavirus being forced to deal with these things now the. Flexibility and the willingness to go new ways are more important than ever that holds for training courses to Remote Learning is the order of the day. We see people who want to change their lives some have been working in the profession for 15 or 20 years and now want to change course. They spent 3 months with us doing intensive training and so they can work in an entirely new field. The need for many more digital professionals did not start with the pandemic but it has made it great. The problem we are addressing on a small scale with our bootcamps is the lack of qualified personnel there are 124000 i. T. Vacancies in germany right now on average it takes 150. 00 days to fill a vacancy so there clearly arent enough qualified. Digital publishing is one industry in need of more people n. P. R. Publishes magazines one of the print runs of its paper editions have been following for years its Online Presence has been growing fast its Online Publications now account for a 3rd of its revenues. To work on the future viability of a company all the time and that involves finding qualified stuff we have an arrangement with whereby we can contact its recent graduates at an early stage so we can recruit good candidates for digital business. Export driven Manufacturing Base is taking a battering because of the Coronavirus Crisis while digital developments are not. The digital. If we dont manage to. Make them more savvy were going to. Digital technologies play a key role in just about every sector of the economy nowadays there is no way around the need to optimize peoples digital skill sets. Health care workers have emerged as the real heroes of this pandemic we cheered them on banging on pots and pans from our balconies and applauding on street corners we realized how important they are and realized it just. Willing to stick out. In times of so much uncertainty and anxiety its a dangerous job it can cost you your life and just look at what get paid in germany in comparison to senior physicians business consultants. They are just a 3rd quarter as much thats a real scandal. Germany is one of the richest countries in the world its health is better. Since the coronavirus hit theyve been recognised as key workers but the w. H. O. Says there is a global shortfall of 6000000 nurses. Poorer countries are the biggest problem many of their nurses move to more affluent countries in search of better pay but here too they arent particularly well remunerated in germany a nurse gets paid about 20 percent less than the average wage yet its a hard job looking up to sick people round the clock and it comes with a lot of responsibility. So why isnt the pay better an industrial worker who is often male earns above average 1. 00 reason workers afford hard for their share by striking if need be but nurses 4 out of 5 of whom are women face a problem its one thing to close down a factory but an entire hospital what about the patients and besides measuring the value of good nursing is difficult if not impossible it doesnt show up on a Balance Sheet thin germany the Health InsuranceCompanies Just pay greed set rates per patient. At the Health Care System here is very costly even if nurses wages are relatively low. Its funded by insurance contributions and taxes the question is will people be prepared to pay more to improve nurses wages once the pandemic is over we may clap for Health Care Workers but will we show our appreciation for real. 9 months on for the great lock down there are going to be a whole lot of little socalled kuroda babies being born couples have to fill the time somehow and its not like babies stop being born during quarantine either you can lock down nature but its been a very challenging time for the people having kids and the professionals who assistant births midwife christiana kimmage shared her experiences with my colleague philip 5 time. Midwives services need to be constantly around the clock 365. 00 days a year he could probably. Really like to see my profession getting more recognition and for the actual hours we put in to be paid probably side additional difficult to try. To cut its a disastrous situation and for a country like ours i find the way made with free is treated is often disgraceful. My mom with my name is christiane actually michelle was born in 1968 ive been working as a selfemployed midwife for a good 20 years now. I think the crisis has left us all feeling pretty unsettled tomorrow. And also the families are having to adjust and were trying to reassure them of the. Fear of 4. 8 kilos. Thats a pretty packet. Yes and now over to dads. Christiane i never really suggested working from home and you do wonder how would that be possible for a midwife sure you can use Video Conferencing and phone calls to address the concerns of young families but only up to a certain point it is important to have that personal element seeing and talking to each other directly thats not something you can just dispense with via some digital option or to time the call. For sticking. Through. But i sometimes fantasize about this crisis needing to positive social change. What i would love to see a big rethink on what kind of society we want to have. And what the important things are. Here. It would be nice if you could make sure you drink a bit of a liquid iron supplement look. Im one of the main factors that id like to see introduced in our profession is a guarantee of one to one supervision cheering birth and for people to realize how crucial that is. This is Real Prevention we will probably even see in studies in the future that it reduces costs but. If you could come over here for a moment ill show you if you put your hands on her belly like this youll feel very clearly where your child is. Down here right now. Or you can feel it over here with your left hand. Quick quick quick quick quick. Quick quick quick quick with. Wrong its so clear and you can hear it just with your ear. For this for me its the most beautiful profession in their midst with such an intense connection to life. I always say that every woman is entitled to made with a recap regardless of whether shes had a miscarriage a plan devotion or an induced abortion due to complications. In the home i think my name is cutting the para ive been a midwife for 19 years for 15 of those have been accompanying home births and 9 years ago i started my own practice. What was terrible when the corona crisis started was that all the courses had to be cancelled. The restriction on movement and personal contact made that inevitable. But we moved the postnatal and prenatal courses online and there was an amazing response to that. The women were just happy that there was anything at all up and running. In moment happy here right now im a bit concerned under Current Conditions there are certain support visits and other services the 10 now being compressed into emails. Carried out via video phone. And sometimes i fear that this fact will be used against us people will say oh it looks like thats working i hope thats not the case definitely. Its good to live here we dont have enough midwives as a result of vacancies and not being felt and fewer colleagues are willing to work in delivery rooms because the conditions are simply too demanding standard dot com so blasted since. The cracks i think about. You know taking care of 4 or 5 women in labor at the same time which means constantly to ing and fro ing a lot of the women feel neglected and more interventions become necessary simply because theres not enough time im trying to take me. On the beach. You know so much. Through. The winter. And hope. The akeelah by enjoy the moments of creativity where people sing from their balconies but it does sometimes maybe angry people just clapping leaves us feeling underappreciated. Because the clapping doesnt bias anything. 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