You know the stereotype classics but if you think the future of the country that i dont. Think. Its all that. You. Post. Here. You. Shift. To a special program about internet equality with programming lessons for girls medical support by smartphone and lifes little injustices but first programming together for more equality open Source Software is free of charge and accessible to everyone enabling programmers from all over the world to cooperate on social projects for
instance. The says. Persons water bill online the u. S. Donation platform the Human Utility is helping citizens of detroit who cannot afford Running Water program or Tiffany Ashley bell founded the Online Initiative using simple means people should be able to have water in their houses were garley regardless of their financial situation so me being a developer the first thing that we kind of did was shorting the game was throwing up a website to try to find people who needed help with their water bills. Tiffany ashley bell uses Open Source Code for her Donation Platform its a source code which is available to everyone other users can see the code on the open source. And use it for their own projects or proposed changes. We started on literally and again it was just like some tape together bootstrap code google for. And it looked like it was something more expensive than it was but it
was just posted there and get how you can contribute so like a real type on the website people would like to pull requests to fix it or whatever but again it was just a matter of just like seeing this is a community effort. For some time now and hasnt only been small initiatives which is Open Source March Foundation such as the bill and Melinda Gates foundation are also discovering the benefits of Free Software with their project. The open source project aims to make it easier for users in developing countries to pay their bills online pay platforms such as m peyser are often incompatible with Banking Systems the Open Source Platform will connect them to the relevant Banking System whats special about it is that the foundation publishes the source code instead of delivering a finished Cloud Solution programmers can use this code and adapted to their local needs their foundations all across the world its foundation is the largest of them
all who are investing incredible amount of resources in addressing the Social Problems that we see in the world around us but the fact that theyre now looking to open source as a tool i think is incredibly scats formative and i want to see more foundations and philanthropic after look to technology as a possible solution for many of the worlds problems solving Social Problems with open Source Software is already common in africa one example is got to vote from kenya which helps citizens master the complicated Registration Process for Elections Programmers from ghana malawi and zimbabwe like the idea and adapted the Open Source Code for their countries the app dodgy doctors enables users from kenya to see whether their doctor is registered practitioners with no formal qualifications are common there the Open Source Code was then used for a similar project in south Africa Program where brisson can train Software Developers all over africa and advises. Them to use open source. As a release to african countries open sores has a big. Impact in terms of helping africans Build Products to solve for african challenges and problems. Open source projects of come up in the recent years in order to enable the warpers and everyone to be able to use the m to Build Products and solutions for us. Its the Sharing Spirit that motivates programmers to use open source the more people help improve the code the better it is for social projects. Shift says Free Software for better world. And now that workers digital makers and shakers today coding feminist berets hang mia. Her mission is training underprivileged girls in cape town to get
a head start in technical professions the South African Founded The Charity Girl Hype thirteen years ago its all about programming. Someone taught me how to code like an hour i realize beautiful this year that everybody should know every tat and having being on their feminist side as you know what its i should focus on what i know which is guess. Parents hang me regularly visits the townships to teach Programming Basics she gives Afternoon Classes at several schools. Is funded by donations and joint ventures with tech companies. Over ten thousand girls have been sponsored so far. And. So thats why we exist. To have top One Hundred Thousand girls by Two Thousand And Twenty so women too can shape the future of south africa. And now more justice through Internet Access open and Affordable Access to online information ought to be guaranteed worldwide but just over fifty percent of the worlds population have it even in germany the situation isnt optimal everywhere. Where in the middle of the forest as soon as the trees move or Weather Conditions are unfavorable theres no internet reception. Its a distinct disadvantage to have a fast and stable Internet Connection no matter whether youre in Western Australia or in germany or Mountain Region modern Communication Technology is
a prerequisite to development both socially and economically. Digital inequality no longer arises from a lack of access to the internet alone nowadays its about the speed of the connection and the costs germany is not particularly well equipped when it comes to Digital Infrastructure in terms of availability and speed of four g. Networks its behind turkey and. Germany is a digital Third World Country to be frank we lag behind in all the statistics were not just talking about people being able to download a film faster. Were talking about the neural pathways of the german economy. Its already the case that nobody wants to set up a business in rural areas where there is no decent Internet Connection. Or Mountain Region in Eastern Germany is digitally cut off from the rest of the world
so its not possible for the saxon hotel owners. To offer a modern Internet Connection a distinct disadvantage. Its very annoying we pay our taxes to the government has to intervene and build an appropriate infrastructure to support Business Owners the small and medium sized enterprises. Investment in Digital Infrastructure is crucial worldwide and the only way to reduce digital inequality between rich and poor Old Town And Country but in order to create more equality the internet has to be universally accessible and affordable. From the remote australian town of. Calling for the. Sooner they get it the better so they can get in touch with the outside world you know. There is hope for the community in the australian outback
a new radio mast is due to be put into operation soon. She says high Speed Internet for everyone. Now digital medical aid for crisis areas a smart phone is all it takes to support doctors there thats the idea behind area. Even complicated cases of illness can be discussed via video call or whatsapp. Afghanistan a country struggling to find peace basic medical care is a problem to doctors and hospitals are. Complicated external support can be useful. Which is why Wahid Arianne founded the Charitable Organization army on television in Britain The Physician fled from afghanistan himself as a teenager when i came at the age of fifteen in ninety nine to go into the u. K. On my own that brought with me to be able to one day become
a doctor and then to be able to contribute to the communities where i live which is the United Kingdom but also go and help globally to as many people as i can we have a vision his organization offers remote medical aid in its simplest and most effective form of advice via skype whats up a text message or email around one hundred registered voluntary doctors can be called on for advice because of security they cannot come to. And its a very easy way to contact with them and. Consult. Patients through the telemedicine its a direct and and bureaucratic way to help patients in crisis areas. Where medics where the doctors and nurses and staff or other Health Care Professionals that were here for because its a vocation for us and using Simple Technology to be able to give that advice in Conflict Zones is one of the best ways to get that reward and simply. What hes the
audio on has received several International Awards for his work. Shift says Technology Enables essential aid. And theres always a shift we leave through the exit our Internet Find of the week today totally unfair were all familiar with these situations its close but not quite close enough. The graphic designers from the French Company parallel studio feel duped by fate theyve turned their negative experiences into brightly colored animations. Sometimes youre just out of luck many users feel the same the clip has been
watched on vimeo around two and a half million times. And next week the first esports World Champion from the arab world Abdul Aziz Al shehri player name mr Dunne The East Sports Scene is booming worldwide the middle east in particular has huge potential as a future market a role model for young arabs next week on shift. Eco india im one of the countries of biggest problems waste from the media the majority of the things is not processed and most often ends up in landfill but not in missouri the sheer garbage is turned into a resource and even makes a profit. All schemes of the and sustainable is the slogan lets find the. Camp thirty minutes from the d w. C her first day of school in the jungle. First including listen. Then Doris Granger moment arrives. Join the regulating on her journey back to freedom. In our interactive documentary the floor of the following attained returns home on t w dot com times. In history that show for the story. Of the first one more told from different perspectives by peter craig come from the Eastern European perspective from the african perspective from the perspective of turkey on the our new book. The w. To come slash w w one. You can tell a lot about
a society by its garbage. Just some worthless for the rich but for many poor people it offers their chance of survival. And i could be lunch for today just like thats. Our reporters travel to nairobi and work and meet people who know the true value of courage. It has created a surprising paralleling claim. What does all this mean for economic inequality around the world you guys are starting class war the response to that statement should be yes we are starting to lets walk it because were tired. Actually disrupt any kind of play bridge to the truck seclusive report starts nov seventeenth on g w