I couldnt be prouder of you. With that, let me take some questions, all right . Thank you very much. [applause] let me all right. So here i think youve been told how this works but im just going to repeat it. Im just going to call on as many people as possible. When i call on you, introduce yourself, tell me what country youre from, make your question relatively short so that we can get as many questions as possible and im going to go boy , girl, boy, girl to make sure that its fair. Okay, so let me see who i am going to start off with. This is such a goodlooking group. Im going to start with this young lady right here. There you go. With the african earrings. Very appropriate. Im from kenya. And my question is how curious you keep the balance in terms of your background as an African American and the struggles you had to get here and be michelle obama, shes amazing. You seem that dont let that interfere with your work and been effective. How do you keep the balance . First of all, i w
Approach to cyber warfare between the public and the private sector. Can we say all private sector and the Public Sector goes one way and are there any differences in the approach to that . Thank you. You want to take that. And i have a little bit of a different perspective than my panelists so this should be a interesting discussion. 85 of the networks in the United States are private. And contrary to popular belief the National Security agency is not on those networks. Not unless they have a warrant to be there and that is highly unlikely. And so what happens is you have Intelligence Services overseas and trying to bring it back to protect the government and we want to share that information in realtime so the private sector it protect themselves today. That is where we are today. It is not working. Sharing is terrible. No one wants to do it for liability reasons an a whole host of good reasons not to share so we can fix. And here is the problem with the private sector saying heck wi
True. So i have good news from now on we will give americans an opportunity next summer up to 80 Young American leaders will join [ applause ] up to 80 Young American leaders will go there to africa to learn from you and your countries. You guys are going to have to look after them when theyre there. You know, show them good places. But not have too much fun. They need to be doing some work while theyre there. So these connections and partnerships and friendships, they forge an understanding that brings our peoples closer together. After six week period some of you are officially texas long horns or notre dame fighting irish. Youve shared african cooking with your american friends and youve have a burger and hot dog at a fourth of july celebrations. Im told many of you went bowling for the first time. I hear it didnt go that well. There were a few strikes. By the way, there was at least one marriage that came out last years class. [ applause ] so who knows what might happen here. So as
Its one of the fastestgrowing regions in the world. Africas middle class is projected to grow to more than one billion consumers. With hundreds of millions of mobile phones and surging access to the internet, africans are beginning to leapfrog old technologies into new prosperity. The continent has achieved historic gains in health, from fighting hiv aids to making childbirth safer for women and babies. Millions have been lifted from extreme poverty. So this is extraordinary progress. And young people like you are driving so much of this progress because africa is the youngest continent. I saw the power of youth on my trip. In kenya, Richard Ruto Todosia helped build yes youth can, one of the countys most Prominent Civil Society groups, with over one million members. At the Global Entrepreneurship summit in nairobi, shadi sabeh spoke about how he started Brilliant Footsteps Academy in nigeria, which uses education to fight religious extremism and provide more opportunities for muslim y
In many cases theres lack of inclusive policies within the government and youth are often part of marginalized group themselves. So young women, young youth with disabilities, youth that are part of other maximize ethnic and groups within the country that theyre operating inches they are facing further obstacles to participation. The other other thing we see is a lack of skills in order to advocate and a dress grievances nonviolently. Knowing how to get involved with some of these processes. Theres a high tolerance of violence, is perpetrated by protesters, by young people who are often encouraged to take to the streets on behalf of Political Parties and others. Its also perpetrated by police, by a culture in countries where there is a high tolerance for violence. This has been seen as an appropriate tool to engage. The last point is a sense of meaning, i think were all looking to lead meaningful lives on it comes to young people it is an important or intense time. Youre trying to figu