Complicity is going to go to the sun you know maybe you know john you know but. The only palestinians who gets the most help from its to reduce them counterparts i dont think theres some of those who are under the vision there are no one who could do this. And there is a lot thats not as to how to destroy any of the muscle that you have i dont know if you can compete in the doesnt seem to do more in the middle. Welcome back with technology becoming less of a privilege and more of an s. S. D. Some of the developing world are finding it as a useful tool for growing a while back when i was at the World Economic four if i had the chance to for i had a chance to sit down with the g. Ary the head of youth for technology a group that focuses on bringing technology to the underdeveloped communities in africa i first asked her what the state of technology was like in these developing areas heres what she said. Youth for Technology Foundation is an International Nonprofit organization i founded the organization in two thousand during my career at microsoft really the Organization Mission is around creating enriched learning communities where the appropriate use of technology affords opportunities for young people mostly living in developing and low income communities as well as women many of whom of their mother is and really i started the organization out of. A drive to really bridge what i would refer to as the digital camera the difference between technology access. By those living in developing countries versus those living in developed countries you know in the early two thousand the gap was there was evidence and the lack of access to technology of course. Really meant that these young People Living in developing world economies will not have access to information which without access to information really lessens the ability to further their education less of their ability to secure well paying jobs etc and so that is really how youth for Technology Foundation was born in an effort really to bridge this gap when we think about you know the digital care knew that youre you mention are we talking about hard tools or computers that i paired we talking about connection to the internet give us a little bit more yes so thats a great question when we started this work it was about you know a p. C. On every desk in every office was basic you know hardware and access but with the evolving we technology has gone over the last years last couple of years especially continents like africa which are really mobile first continents its really about access trade access to the internet but not only just access to the internet its what do young people do when theyre on the internet and what do they are communities what i. The bill to achieve by the youth and other Community Members being on the internet and this is where we move past just basic Digital Literacy into you know mobile and Application Software development where were teaching young people how to program code to be able to create applications that they can for them monetize in the global marketplaces and then you know moving into into emerging technologies which have an opportunity to really unlock innovation especially in developing world economies where young people can get access to these technologies use the technologies to create a design and invent really the world envision for themselves what is i dont know if youve done this what is the average age of the person whos a beneficiary of use for technology so our work really caters for young people between the ages of eight to twenty five which a couple of years ago the United Nations really defined that age group as the youth right these are young people all over the world and so that is our target age group we have you know eight year olds coming in who have maybe never seen a mouse or even a computer before and this is their first foray really into the Digital Economy and then we you know we have twenty four year olds recent University Graduates who are both undereducated and unemployed living in developing world economies and so they participate in white c. F. Academy which is our Flagship Academy to help them link between Tertiary Education and their university or university and the world of work or intrapreneur ship and i know this from dealing with you know kids and grandkids how do you ensure that particularly the younger folks or not using the technology for games or when youre older a twenty four year old or so of the for something thats perhaps inappropriate and so thats a great question a lot of what we focus on is not just you know the hard skills not just the Technical Skills which i guess most people refer to as the kind of hard skills we also really try to build. A well rounded young person and so by doing so we tap into. Those soft skills which are indeed harder to learn those soft skills which include communication teamwork leadership and empathy and by giving young People Knowledge around these soft skills these soft skills are really what we refer to as twenty First Century competency skills right and these are the softer skills that are a little less technical so think about empathy putting yourself in another persons position think about Cross Cultural knowledge and these are skills that in addition to the hard skills we reinforce in our programs so that these young people graduate from our program is having both the hard and soft skills so that they have the Digital Civility to know what to do when they are they have access to the internet or they are online right and so this notion of how civil are these young people when they get online so that they know the positive things to do with the appropriate technology is an area that we are size very much in our programs so it is future proof part of that so really when we think about the future of work we know that we are currently in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the digital revolution and the future of work and tales of you know by twenty twenty for instance sixty percent of the jobs that will exist then we only have twenty percent of people that have the skills for those jobs in many of these industries we dont even know what those jobs are so in our minds we are preparing young people. To learn our goal is to prepare them and to teach them really how to learn we want to prepare them to be everything ready to be future ready and that does not necessarily mean were not focused on work or were not focused on careers were really focused on those things but we want to get that right well very well rounded young person so that the. Adaptable and the able to learn of really learn and learn to the jobs that are going to exist in the very near term here this is so cute and important because technology above many circuits actually is so important for Economic Prosperity talk about the little bit absolutely technology is an equalizer right in you know this is not just in my mind but really. Fundamentally technology and access to technology should be a basic human right to be affordable that should be accessible to really everyone on the planet because through technology you get access to get access to resources you get information related to employment and education etc so technology really deem as. A basic human right it should be right up there with the water food shelter clothing etc in our in our work that we do the reason why technology is so in tune with Economic Development is because in these economies that we work with there is the burgeoning population right africa the continent of africa is really undergoing the use boom there are two hundred million young people between the ages of fifteen and twenty four by twenty twenty five about ten million young people are going to be coming into the world of work in africa these people need jobs the private sector is saying we dont have the right skills the Education Sector is saying we are teaching them but they are not deploying the skills or the private sector it doesnt have jobs and so these young people are at the center of really this disconnect between the private sector and the Education Sector so it is left up to these young people not just to groom themselves and to get the correct skills to transition into the world of work but they also have to understand and sharpen their ship as a viable career this is particularly important for women and girls absolutely we use the Technology Foundation we. Really tiki gender lens approach to our work we believe that of course there is research that has shown and in our experience that there are cultural and gender stereotypes that leave girls further and further behind in the technological revolution the gap is even going so wide in further with the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Careers that women and girls have historically held such as Customer Service careers may be replaced by Artificial Intelligence for instance so in our minds it is not just enough to leave girls out of the equation it becomes more of really an urgency to ensure that we have girls going into Science Technology engineering careers so that they are prepared for this Fourth Industrial Revolution because mind you before the Industrial Revolution does not mean that we wouldnt need Human Capital we would need highly skilled Human Capital and so that is our focus six percent of girls in kenya are engineers so theres a wide gap there in our work there were really focused on on girls in secondary secondary in Primary School education in kenya the same thing in nigeria and uganda as well and jeddah can you give me some numbers tell us about how many recipients of gain from using youth for technology so we have trained about one point eight million youth and women about seventy percent of that number is young people between the ages of twenty eight and thirty five in the countries that we work in we work in about forty eight hundred communities since our inception we have also inspired the creation of about fourteen thousand Women Owned Business so our work in appropriate technology is both in the education and intrapreneur ship corridors where we are looking at the application of the technology in those fields were primarily a business and finance program and we talk about numbers all the time and those. Those are impressive numbers but could you bring it down to a personal level for us and give us maybe perhaps an example absolutely so we have thousands of youth of course that go through our program each year you know a specific example is a young man called the mantle and the mount all came to our program as a fourth year engineering student in a lot of these countries that we work in the Education Sector is not just broken its actually obsolete and so our role is to upscale these young people in when emanuel came to us he was an engineering major but really had very very little Practical Knowledge of engineering and so he enrolled in one of our programs called three d. Africa which leverage is the power of emerging technologies and teaches young people to innovate and you know a man who went through the program and learned three d. Printing in particular and recently a man who has kind of gone out of just human centered design and basic three d. Printing and is now into electronics and figuring out how to incorporate those electronics into the three d. Printed product because when you think of the a for product thats viable and marketable and really in essence workable it doesnt just involve the hardware to move the software and so hes been able to match those two skill sets and start creating products when last i heard emanuel had created a robotic arm that could be used in the distillery industry so really really going out of out of the box in terms of thinking and innovation to really think about locally produced. Goods that can be used in industry i should mention that you won social entrepreneur of the year and you know you have served all these people i wonder if you have any advice for other nongovernmental organizations or were others who perhaps might be inspired by your story and know that youve had some trials and tribulations any Lessons Learned that you might want to share theres so many lessons weve learned along. And. You know if i look back to the last seventeen years or so of doing this work. The work doesnt necessarily get easier what happens is you see the true impact that youre making an organization is making in these communities you hear the stories of the young people you know the eight year old that comes in the door and sees i dont know what i want to be when i grow up and by the time they graduate from the program they want to be a nurse you know theres a young young student we work with she wanted to be a nurse and she was really inspired by technology so you know the older people that we work with that perhaps have come out of secondary school but havent gotten the mission into the university and they have no Digital Skills and they come to us and they learn the technology and the unlock the innovation potential so its these stories of impact that we experience that really keep the journey easier but i mean its windy roads i say i would see dont give up you will be told a lot of nos good good idea but no but just keep keep working as long as you know the vision of the work is something that youre truly passionate about eventually you will definitely succeed in jeddah kocherry c. E. O. And founder of youth for technology what an admirable and inspiring thing youve been doing so many people have been served and helped and we appreciate the time you spent with us to thank you so much. And before we go the dow finished up six days in a row its the best week since november twenty sixth see thats all for now thanks for watching be sure to catch boom bust on you tube you tube dot com slash boom bust party ever great weekend. Twenty fourteen a bloody revolution to the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful. Political protests to be increasingly violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it you know lawyer here but i mean your list put video and put him in the new bill is not an idea its pulling you know the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. Those who took part had invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine and these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. 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Our top story this hour the u. S. Justice department has indicted thirteen russian nationals over alleged meddling in americas twenty sixteen president ial election however Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein says these charges dont mean any alleged russian meddling altered the elections outcome arties caliber weapon reports. Its being widely reported that these individuals thirteen russian individuals as well as three russian entities are being charged with meddling in the us election but if you actually read the indictment there are specific charges there is no such crime under the u. S. Federal laws known as meddling at this point theyre being charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States as well as violations of the federal Elections Commission is act and the foreign agents registration act essentially its alleged that these thirteen people as well as three entities purchased advertisements on social media and gaged in some banks transactions and tried to influence the elections of the United States they supposedly were disparaging Hillary Clinton and favoring donald trump this is just the latest in the ongoing bob muller special counsel investigation being conducted by the department of justice into allegations that trump allegedly colluded with russia during the president ial elections and that russia is somehow responsible for the Election Results and now at this point there has already been testimony before the u. S. Congress about the impact of these alleged facebook ads and how they may have determined the elections this is some of what we heard before the u. S. Congress showing that the impact of these ads may not be as broad as some of the Mainstream Media reports seem to hand. The film portals into our Society Russia has harnessed the tremendous and quite frankly to me frightening power of social media there. Used to be very dos and discredit her democracy very or using our own social networks our friendships or family use and our biases and a few points against us Bernard Kerik one for. We determine the number of accounts we could link to russia and that were tweeting election related content was comparatively small. Aggregate these ads impose for a very small fraction of the overall content on facebook but any amount is too much. These videos mostly have little view counts. Now the indictments serve almost as defacto sanctions against the individuals and entities listed while these individuals what we apprehended in russia and taken to the usa they certainly wont be traveling to the United States theyll be unable to set up Bank Accounts and such so these are almost serving as defacto sanctions we do have a response to todays indictments from the spokesperson for the Russian Foreign ministry tends out there with thirteen of them according to the u. S. Justice Department Fifteen people were mentioning in the u. S. That should think against the billion to the budgets of the intelligence agencies against the intelligence counted ten digits against the state of the Art Technology so upset yes but this is americas move to put its cool reality by the way why things he apparently thats the only number without the sushi asians announce that. At this point we also have a response from the president of United States donald trump who earlier was briefed by the department of justice prior to their releasing of this indictment now donald trump stated on twitter he said russia started their anti us campaign in two thousand and fourteen long before i announce that i would run for president the results of the election were not impacted and the Trump Campaign did nothing wrong and he repeated the phrase often used throughout the process he repeated the phrase ending his tweet with no collusion furthermore we have a statement from the White House Press secretary on behalf of the white house in which they urged americans to unite against what they call the bad actors saying that americans must unite to protect the integrity of democracy and elections urging urging urging folks to not focus on the divisions of the allegations of collusion. Rather focus on uniting against russia so at this point now we have also heard in Russian Media there has been a response from the individual named in the indictment and called kind of the mastermind the first individual listed in the indictment has responded saying that americans are very impressionable and that if you want to find a devil its easy to find one so this is this is a wide ranging response from from the world that weve heard from trump weve heard from the individuals indicted weve heard from the Russian Foreign ministry everyone responding to this move by the u. S. Department of justice. And media analyst leinil doesnt believe theres any substance to the in time and it reads like a narrative went out there being any crimes there is something in law in our country called the demure or which you file that basically says oh yeah so what what does this mean they wanted to quote so discord by. Breaking into elections no stealing the numbers no changing the numbers no voter fraud no book by merely providing information through advertisements or the listings and social media accounts that were shared by americans far worse in their tenure but basically ideas and fact they made it very clear today this is my favorite that there is no evidence of this affecting the election at all but i have never seen out of a thirty seven page indictment such lyrical. Being prosaic narratives about this one did this and this one without saying this is against the law. Well the floor the governor of florida i should say rick scott has called for the director of the f. B. I. To resign this comes after reports that tips were missed regarding Wednesdays School shooting in part one that left seventeen people dead and around a dozen injured the f. B. I. Admits they had already received information about suspect Nicholas Cruz didnt follow the necessary protocols in pursuing the case a person close to cruz had called the f. B. I. Is hot line on january the fifth about his allegedly disturbing behavior and him expressing a desire to kill u. S. Attorney general Jeff Sessions has altered a review of Justice Department procedures he called the deadly shooting a tragic consequence of the f. B. I. s failures. Poor form and i find five Intelligence Officer an emotional thinks the f. B. I. Should learn the lessons from its past failures. I think weve seen time and time again over the last few years our intelligence agencies across the west dropping the ball in terms of getting tips being aware of potential threats and not following up on those threats and. Taking out sensitive measures it seems lessons not being learned they need to have a proper view about you know what exactly are the threats what are they trying to do and how can they best protect the people of their country to protect against these threats and that doesnt seem to be done i think what were seeing at the moment in america is not so much russia kate but intelligence kate where we are seeing larry there and theyre being peeled away from what appears to be deep state collusion to try and just deal just mize the Trump Presidency and try and stop a professional between america and between russia. And the u. S. Secretary of state is in turkey in an effort to mend ties with ankara Rex Tillerson has met president as well as the countrys foreign minister the nato allies have been at odds over washington support for kurdish militias in syria is angry the u. S. Banks groups that turkey calls terrorists to us and trying to ease tensions by claiming the support is limited however this does not seem to be enough to appease ankara. Always been clear with turkey that the weapons provided to the Democratic Forces would be limited Mission Specific provided all that you committed to achieve military objectives only we demand that this relationship and by that i mean we want them to and all the support given to the syrian arm of the p. K. K. The white b. G. Well lets take a closer look at the two groups the defense ministers are very into there the p. K. K. Is the Kurdistan Workers Party a Group Fighting turkish authorities for more than thirty years both ankara and washington