A 2nd chance 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 its for a lot of people and using Multiplayer Games in order to spend time with friends online is definitely one 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 our reporter kind. Of gaming expert in fact took a closer look. Our top 4. Ive been playing video games my whole life but in lockdown the time i spent on gaming just exco. With me millions of people entered the Virtual World and as some Companies Revenue suggest these are great times for the gaming industry console select the nintendos which were 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 game economies and germany. 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. 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 has meant a boom or incredible sales. But with us 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. To let live or die because of the art of making money with video games has changed and. Over the past decades were scoring big time. But it used to be that once you bought a game you own thats it no questions asked nowadays you can get. Up gambling boxes which all course real world money and even make winning easy 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 old game is too. And we want a game thats not paid to win so why should we put that in that. This project is maybe objective least speaking we could maybe make more money that way. Ultimately wed be destroying ourselves. Is not the one single that hasnt been doing well is life gaming events in 2019 competitive game is played for 200000000. 00 euros in prize money and off thousands watch them do it but this year major events like this year so one in cologne have had to be delayed online with new challenges. Also face the challenge that many tournaments like the major counter strike cant be easily carried out online i. 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 we play all 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 but what happens when the game and the game you play to make a living. Only can happen i post big events. Oh its very close lets ask tekken 7 legend hours of them. Are still a good. Player on the way. Like many other pakistani players he cant compete online because his internet is just too bad and even pro players like him cant always afford to practice offline at home in 2092000. Rising when he was named 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 me because i am more complete again. This is this is very bad about it this is so bad arsalan so deep is one of the lucky few who sponsor 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 soon. It is much more important to make for me though one of the best things to 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. Speeds 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 my colleague mit talked to some people in southwestern germany who are frustrated with the situation. I dont know what the problem is i cant explain it. Has 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 flow with an average speeds in germany Video Conferencing is impossible. His company could use as high tech Circuit Boards but Internet Connections are low tech here in the countryside so we tried it with 2 employees working from home but after 2 weeks we had to stop because nothing worked after 9 am. The greatest 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 28. 00 team we had to buy a server for around 100000 euros. And in the future the companys telecoms provider has said that weak Internet Connection will also be used for internet calls 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 fort valley an internet speeds are significantly faster the coronavirus is proving to be a driver of teachers like they should at the local University Students can no longer attend classes but lectures are being held online. If we set up a new video platform that we were planning on getting up and running so quickly. 1200 account holders can use it similar. In more than 200. 00 chat rooms and the lecturers are using that option. Matthew i go to is studying Graphic Design from his parents home online lectures 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. 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 rule 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 oh beautiful to me 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 videos. But i dont know which students they are the numbers are falling. Back in the countryside and to their 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 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 ive spent most of my morning doing exactly that well 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 food 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 Technology knowing official is unhelpful in hamburg that describes itself as a school and pool for digital talent. We are seeing growing interest in training in digital professions because of the crisis. For Short Courses it calls boot camps to train people in computer related fields. 3 months course in data science for University Graduate costs a little under 9000 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 their profession 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 to start with the pandemic but it has made it greater. 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 people. Digital publishing is one industry more people. Are publishers magazines one of the print runs of its paper editions have been falling 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 our digital business. Export driven Manufacturing Base is taking a battering because of the Coronavirus Crisis while digital developments are not up to speed. The digital. Digital technologies play a key role in just about every sector of the economy nowadays theres 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 pads from our balconies and applauding on street corners we realized how important they are and realized it just of us 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 nurses get paid in germany in comparison to senior physicians Business Consultants manages. The 3rd quarter as much thats a real scandal. Germany is one of the richest countries in the world its health work 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 the 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 one 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 think germany the Health InsuranceCompanies Just pay great set rates per patient. Yes 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. 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 assisted. Midwife cristiana kimmage shared her experiences with my colleague philip 5 stein. Craft. Services need to be constantly around the clock 365. 00 days a year he could probably. Like to see my profession getting more recognition and for the actual hours we put in to be paid promptly side additionally for good. Its a disastrous situation and for a country like ours i find the way made which for me 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 the. Fear of 4. 8 kilos. Thats a pretty packets. 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 the time. Of the sticky. But i sometimes fantasize about this crisis needing to positive social change. I would love to see a big rethink on what kind of society we want to have. And what the important things are. What. This is. 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 during 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. Wrong its so clear and you can hear it just with your ear. For this for me its the most beautiful profession in there its working with such an intense connection to life. I always say that every woman is entitled to midwinter recap regardless of whether shes had a miscarriage a plan devotion or an induced abortion due to complications. From. The oh my you know my name is cutter. 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 the men 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 vacancies are not being filled and fewer colleagues are willing to work in delivery rooms because the conditions are simply too demanding standard dot trucks or blasts and. So i think at the toy youre 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 and profits i think you guys. On the beach. You know so much. Through. The winter they. Have. The i. Q. Go by enjoy the moments of creativity where people sing from their balconies but it does sometimes make me angry people just clapping leaves us feeling underappreciated. You know because the clapping doesnt bias anything. So could this crisis lead to a stronger more compassionate and better connected world well have to wait and see thats all for this edition of made. A cd next. Going to. Come. 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