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Kerry the head of youth for technology a group that focuses on bringing technology to the underdeveloped country 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 in low income communities as well as women many of whom are the a mother is and really i started the organization out of. A drive to really bridge what i would refer to as the digital canyon 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 evident and the lack of access to technology of coras. Really meant that these young People Living in developing world economies will not have access to information which without access to information really lessens their 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 carryon that youre you mention are we talking about hard tools or two 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 another Community Member has been 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 and codes 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 and use the technologies to create a design and invent really the world they envision for themselves what is i dont know if you dont know 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 youth right these are young 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 you know Tertiary Education and the university or university and the world of work or interplay with 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 something 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 what we regard you know 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 programs having both 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 can for size very much in our programs 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 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 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 as you get access to resources you get information related to employment and they do keesha etc so technology really deem as. A basic human right it should be right up there with 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 the 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 to widen 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 and math koreas 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 you 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 twenty 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 were 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 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 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 full product thats viable and marketable and really in essence workable it doesnt just involve the hardware the most of 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 and 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 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 that. 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 and Jessica Harry c. E. O. And founder of youth for technology what an inspiring thing youve been doing so many people have been served and help 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 of twenty sixteen thats all for now thanks for watching be sure to catch boom bust or you tube you tube dot com slash boom bust party or great weekend. Twenty fourteen a bloody revolution to the demonstrations going to be relatively few. Political protest to be increasingly violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it you know or hiccup what a pretty meaningless book video a clue in the new bill is that i knew scrolling needed to the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. Of those who took it invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. Society of all this he is and has and he practices they are precious oppressors measures being deployed against the Palestinian People everywhere the be the set of colonialism the theft of all of now and the many many can hope to stating things that they are coming is a link of course they can cool the intifada or uprising. That. Its. Certain i want to do things that show everybody is doing really be very clear. The way to go to. Management. And they are they they have what they have and they have. You need to feel the. Sun yes im them what do you how to become a celebrity look local do you want to. Come to mind if. I want to be in the book and theres you still want to talk more next time. Headlines on. The u. S. Russian nationals in connection with alleged meddling in the twentys sixteen election. There is no allegation in the indictment that the charge. Of the twenty six. Knowing about the danger posed by the florida. Case of mistaken identity. Welcome to the program here on international we have. The u. S. Justice department has indicted thirteen russian nationals and three companies over alleged meddling in americas twenty sixteen president ial election indictment accuses the defendants of waging Information Warfare. The United States. Indictment charges thirteen russian nationals and three Russian Companies for committing federal crimes while seeking to interfere in the United States political system including the twenty sixteen president ial election the financial legibly conducted what they called Information Warfare against the United States with the stated goal of spreading distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general because meddling is not chargeable offense though id bet good money it soon will be the thirteen nationals and three entities have been indicted for first and foremost conspiracy to defraud the United States one of the main defendants is the St Petersburg based Internet Research agency and their alleged goal was to sow discord in the u. S. Political system namely the two thousand and sixteen president ial election funnily enough i Catering Company can also be found on the list of the accused apparently they were used at least partially to fund the whole scheme meanwhile the allegations have not been left on the answered with the Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson calling them absurd tens out there with thirteen of them according to the u. S. Justice Department Fifteen people were mentioning in the us the action against the billion dollar budgets of the intelligence agencies against the intelligence counted teligent against the state of the art technologies upset yes but this is americas modern political reality by the way why thirty apparently thats the only number with bad associations announce that only hope the parties in question are said to formulate a plans to bolster donald trump and disparage Hillary Clinton using methods ranging from organizing political rallies to posing as grassroots groups but some of the tactics listed are questionable and one instance russians are said to have fun of the construction of a cage aboard a flatbed truck and then to have paid someone to wear a costume portraying clinton in a prison uniform to sit in it defense also allegedly purchased advertised. Its on facebook to promote a rally titled support hillary save american muslims not sure how that fits in with the pro trump anti hillary agenda and lets not forget efforts claim to have been made on social media where the russians are meant to have use Fake Identities to push divisive hashtags and topics according to the document the fake accounts became the means to reach quote significant numbers of americans however when platforms like facebook and twitter were grilled about what part their Companies May have played in the alleged meddling they testified that the influence was minimal. We determined that the number of accounts we could link to russia and that were tweeting election related content was comparatively small. Aggregate these ads and posts were a very small fraction of the overall content on facebook but any amount is too much. These videos mostly had low view counts. And it looks like at the end of the day all of those efforts were in vain at least according to the u. S. Deputy attorney general there is no allegation in the indictment that the charge conduct alter the outcome of the twenty sixteen election now this development came out of nowhere and something worth noting is that all the accused are private individuals and companies the indictment is silent when it comes to trump kremlin collusion the goal of the whole investigation. We discussed in the indictment with a number of experts they believe that the timing could be significant. Is it then if say shoal for them all enough fridays and people have always thought that on a friday when this is done itll absorb as much of the heat as possible but isnt it interesting i ask the question we had a shooting where the f. B. I. Apparently and other Law Enforcement agencies were told repeatedly that various young man is exhibiting behavior which most probably is dangerous one can only suspect rather that since the idea that the indictment was released today to take pressure off the f. B. I. I mean these indictments of course are prepared took a long time to prepare it could have been ready to go. For some time they could have held it is no evidence for me to say that but i wouldnt rule that out i mean its an interesting thought but they were going to maybe do it next monday and they pushed it up. The i has admitted to a new its a florida shootout posed a threat years before wednesdays atrocity and says it had been receiving intelligence on the alleged perpetrator of one of the Deadliest School shootings in u. S. History before the attack. We have on covered at the Broward Sheriffs Office that weve had approximately twenty calls for service over the last two years regarding the killer the f. B. I. Has a term and the protocol was not followed. The information was not provided by mcgill the office. And no further investigation was conducted at that time. The f. B. I. Had been given information about Nicholas Cruz his gun ownership and his social media posts his desire to kill people erratic behavior and potential to conduct a School Shooting were also flagged and one of those who actually wall the Security Services about cruz has spoken out about what led him to raise the. September twenty fourth two thousand and seventeen i sent a screenshot of a comment on one of my videos you know this comment said im going to be a professional School Shooter and i knew that i couldnt just ignore that i hit the report but report it to you. Of course they remove the comment in then i tried to email it to the f. B. I. The shooting in parkland florida occurred on a wednesday when a former student fatally shot seventeen people and injured some dozen bull and nineteen year old suspect was detained by police on the day of the atrocity his case and how the f. B. I. Failed to recognize the threat posed by him is now being investigated. In fact u. S. Attorney general Jeff Sessions is now calling for an immediate review of the f. B. I. And the department of justice a florida is not the first deadly attack that could potentially have been avoided had more attention being paid as well to use killable and reports Nicholas Cruz isnt the only mass killer to be on the radar screen of the f. B. I. Before conducting their crime all marmot teen who shot up the post nightclub killing forty nine people in Orlando Florida was investigated by the f. B. I. Twice before he committed his mass murder. Turns out they deemed him not to be dangerous i dont forget about dylan ruth the selfproclaimed white supremacist who killed nine churchgoers in south carolina. Well it turns out he was able to purchase his weapons because of errors in the f. B. I. s background check process and then theres no adele his stock has shot up a u. S. Military post in texas back in two thousand and nine. Times out the f. B. I. Was fully aware that he was online in communication with top Al Qaeda Leaders they still didnt bother to investigate i think weve seen time and time again over the last he is 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 you taking out the fence of 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 how can they best protect the people affect one tree to protect against these threats and that doesnt seem to be done its not like these federal Law Enforcement agencies are lazy just recently we heard from the f. B. I. That Chinese Foreign Exchange Students are a threat to National Security we also have federal. Agencies urging us not to buy chinese brand cellphones and more recently congress renewed the power of the n. S. A. To wiretap and spy on american citizens some might come to the conclusion that its not incompetence or a lack of effort the issue is rather the type of threats these agencies are choosing to fear
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