Why fi has been an undeniable success here it is made web access cheap of the People Living in underserved locations then there are so many People Living i dont want to connect at the. However for those studying the activities of facebook and other Big Tech Companies in kenya its impossible to ignore the huge potential for data mining. Last year facebook was pushed to admit that it had added its own software to the wife i Access Points that enabled non facebook data such as customer names and phone numbers to directly flow to the corporation while Facebook Says the purpose of the software Eastern Shore that hotspots of functioning well theres no clarity on just how much Additional Data is being collected and how thats being used a lot of these companies arent african theyre not even based in kenya in africa forget kenya or longer so what is a kenyan citizenship or if you do want an American Company uses their data yourself their data markets it you know as a product and without their consent without their ability to intervene to appeal to a court system thats kind of the gray area that were falling into it a lot of these big you know tech companies. Facebook isnt the only Big Tech Company playing the connectivity card here in cannes last year alpha that the Parent Company whos most famous brand is google signed a deal with Telecom Kenya to quote connect the unconnected using billings. Billings loon is a path breaking project thats been 8 years in the making and the idea is deceptively simple use High Altitude balloons to revive Internet Connectivity in remote and hard to reach parts of the world kenya is where luna is making its commercial debut i spoke with Charles Merida he doesnt represent loon but its more well known Sister CompanyGoogle Googles mission from the get go was to really get a lot of the africans who are Offline Online and to make sure that they get online in a more affordable and better cond content as well as relevance and the mission around noon is to ensure that we are able to deliver connectivity to the most remote part of the continent and around the world so i am proud to say that here in kenya is the 1st commercial agreement between noon our Sister Company and telco kenya worry. To be seen is what standards of. Accountability there will be where they mean that people are restricted to only using google esque sites for instance that remains to be question what data will be collected in the process of connecting people i put some of these questions to charles he made it clear he couldnt say much more about learning after all he doesnt work for that company he did tell me this though about googles approach to darkly. So what we do at google is we ensure that we have employed a user trust that is something thats really important and that users understand exactly what were doing with the data that we have on them we also ensure that theyre able to manage and control so transparency ability to manage and control the data that we have on our users is really critical and when its so transparent people get to enjoy the magic of Google Charles uses a lot of positive p. R. Speak especially when it comes to discussing matters relating to data that doesnt come as a big surprise because data ownership access privacy is an incredibly sensitive legal and political issue across the World Governments and regulators have been looking at their data laws more and more seriously but perhaps the most widely publicized is the European Unions general Data Protection regulation otherwise known as g. D. P. Which set a Global Benchmark for strengthening individual rights of the personal data thats really the discrepancy that were seeing here is that western governments western societies have more space to keep these companies in check and to force them to abide by their local social standards and countries in other parts of the world and thats where the corner is a label really starts to become evident there is not enough space for ordinary African Citizens to push their governments on these issues there is not enough space for us to actually demand. Different standard of treatment in july has a point just take a look at the state of data regulation around the world and youll see how stark the imbalances are what cording to a study by the law firm deal a pipe our north american or australian or much of europe and china have what they would classify as heavy will robust regulation for many countries across africa regulation ranges from moderate to 0 the kenyan government says theyre working on it but the speed at which they are developing policies is being outstripped by the speed at which private players are revolutionizing telecoms and Internet Connectivity i dont think theres anything particularly wrong with our private sector actors taking a lead role if especially again they have the resources and the wherewithal to be able to do this the question is where are states in this game to keep them in check because of the narrative around how any and all Digital Development is a positive or a net positive asking critical questions is almost seen as being an enemy of progress and therefore the risk is your people in the community so will miss out so because of that nuanced and problematic notion being created very few politicians and by extension government actors want to step up to the plate to play this game proactively. Which come to think of our data as being within us ready to be extracted like oil can be extracted from the earth i certainly used to think of my daughter that way before i began doing research and interviews for this episode but ive since come to realize that our lives locations family members our preferences our dislikes all of this is really data and to create algorithms that can convert every single human being into a collection of bits that money can be made off of so this myth that the somehow the oil or they call it the day to exhaust naturally within a switch is naturally there to be used by corporations it happens for their profit is certain. Credibly important myth to say theres nothing we can do about this this is the way things are but go back 203040 years this was not the way things were we need to hold on to that to remember it to pass on the memory of that. In order to show that this remains the myth the digit the core of the colonial project so were not just talking about the big players Facebook Google amazon in china by do. Cetera the social quantification sector is a larger industry sector thats composed of the big players as well as all sorts of hardware Manufacturers Software developers all of this platform interpret new words as well as Data Analytics firms and data brokers so all together they. Constitute the. Sector that provides the infrastructure for making this extraction possible structure of data from our human social life we are the bodies producing the data but were not necessarily the ones who benefit from that so at stake here is peoples ideas peoples dreams peoples hopes peoples frustrations being used to sell things back to them where do we actually get our money back were not saying no attack in africa were not saying you know just jump over africa as youre thinking about and i internet that its it has done a lot of really good things in africa its made a lot of connections possible that were not possible even 510 years ago the question is how do you mitigate the harm how do you make sure that you protect the good and you corral the bad the model that we have now isnt doing that i think we should be bored enough and brave enough to go back to the drawing board and challenge ourselves to think differently about this model is there a better way of doing this thing is there a more humane way of doing this connectivity thing that were trying to do through all of these corporations. Technology is neither positive and negative or neutral it will always intrinsic motivation that exists in a community where its being deployed one practical tip that ive found very useful is to keep myself informed and bring in as much critical for it and questioning of when we are told you know technology x. Is the solution and is the disrupt. You know to question how we were arrived at that conclusion supporting actors who are making their day to day lives to ask these things is one way to also keep making sure your views your concerns are represented and educate you know not to give into their fear we can still figure out how to heal the Society Technology could help with that but its dead teaching us that we and we need to go back to the basics of how we form societies how we find consensus and how we quite exist in this world children who are now 5 years or younger growing up with toys which are in fact robots algorithmically programmed which operate by tracking everything they do and playing back to them in forms that help the child grow everything they say we dont know what happens to that data but it will be probably impossible in about 10 years time to say to the child who is now by that stage but grown up adult you can live in a World Without being tracked algorithmically at every moment of your life its therefore very important we start in a sense speaking the truth to a very new type of power as hes walking the face of the i think its easy to forget you know a time even before all of our lives were ruled in a certain sense might all of these for the military and yet when i talk to young people. Encourage by the sense that they really dont think all of this. And they are actually less deterministic that i am when i think about technology. And when i hear them. Talk about their changing perceptions towards facebook toward social media how theyre becoming more critical and how theyre becoming more. Literate consumers in terms of reading the terms of service in terms of trying to make sense technically the mystic language i think that gives me hope. That people can become more active consumers and participants think that its really important for us as were thinking about the issues of their personalities and the challenges the Technology Presents to remember about human beings. And human nature is very its very true and its very repetitive weve actually been here before with other forms of Communications Technology we think about radio and the role that radio played for example in the 2nd world war when you think about the launch of television and you know the fears around advertising in the fields around how television would change society but these are all conversations that have actually happened in the past and so for me the big lesson is lets learn from what has already happened in the past lets not be afraid to look back theres nothing radical you so radically different about Internet Technology that human beings havent really grappled with before. Around the World Council and is a way to manipulate and influence us trolling the sports take you just algorithms that a team developed in designed to push content that says click me every click we make is value in software and in the trade of a 5 part series i did raise in mexico examining how propaganda shaped. All the algorithms on the. This is a dialogue let you decide not to have children to save the planet but the stake is really human survival everyone has a voice that i start with our community because of course this is a debate and its a he did want this is a little be patient literally be able to do a ph d. Ideally join the global conversation with people i think if only they knew what is happening to oil or muslims they will be with us and they will be outraged on out is iraq in afghanistan the taliban is renowned for its violent repression of women now a new deal with the u. S. Could see the group return to power one o one a student best to gates of afghan women who paid the price for pace on aljazeera. Culture a dance thrives here every day generations of tibetans continue to embrace and maintain their Cultural Heritage its a reminder of who they are and whether. This is a suburb of the idiot capital new delhi tibet so be refugees here since 964 buttons here have been defined as migrants are not refugees because india hasnt signed up to the 1951 Un Convention on refugees so tibetans here have been able to access the Indian Welfare system so theyve become selfsufficient setting up over a businesses and looking for work independently but for some its not enough. Aljazeera. And 3. 6 6 heavens you recognize government blames the u. A. E. For air strikes that help separatist fighters regain temperature in aid. Of the m g m i dont know this is just the red line from doha also coming up several members of colombias former farm rebels and as the new offensive after withdrawing from the peace deal. Italys new coalition of contradictions the populace 5 Star Movement and the center Left Democratic Party join hands to keep the far right a material sowed levy at. A south Korean Court Orders a retrial in a Corruption Case involving a former president and a top some some executive. A warm welcome to the program yemens un recognized government and separatist forces appear to have divided control of aden as fighting continues between the 2 sides in several areas of the city the government is accusing the u. A. E. Of launching air strikes against its troops in the coastal city at least 40 people have been killed in aden and in sindh in the side of according to its Information Ministry well in a statement yemens Foreign Ministry says the government of yemen condemns the u. A. E. Bombing of Government Forces in aden there moratti bombing has resulted in deaths of our soldiers and civilians we hold the state responsible of targeting. Legally and against International Law and we asked the saudis to stop the unjustified military escalation well the has the latest. 6 separatist celebrate near the entrance to the city of aden. Yemens internationally recognized government says the u. A. E. Conducted strikes targeting government positions which allow the separatists to retake territory theyve lost to saudi backed Government Forces 24 hours earlier the separatists pulled in troops from the front lines fighting the. Bard and. We managed to retake all of aden and we are now clearing the city of sleeper cells we urge all residents in every district to hand over all elements from those sleeper cells they are invaders we dont want traitors among us. Separatists from the Southern Transitional council are part of the saudi u. A. E. Coalition thats fighting against the he. Bought in a dramatic twist less than 3 weeks ago they took over the city of aden the city to the saudi backed internationally recognized yemeni government. Wednesday Government Forces recaptured the city both sides say theyre now in control. The violence has exposed an apparent rift in the saudi u. A. E. Coalition with each country backing opposing sides in southern yemen is caught in this awkward limbo whereby it does not necessarily want to discard its alliance 5 with but it knows that if yemen divides then the humiliation will be on saudi arabia and not necessarily on the u. A. E. Saudi arabia knows if yemen splits between north and south so it is likely to be north is likely to be pro iran saudi arabia is the party that produces. Government forces say theyre sending reinforcements to aden 60000 people have left the city but tens of thousands remain in harms way as the fighting intensifies Victoria Gate in the aljazeera. The u. N. Security council has been meeting to discuss the key man this hearing crisis that continues to unfold across syria the Un Special Envoy for syria to particular attention to the growing numbers of dead displaced people mike hanna has the latest from the United Nations the council heard from the u. N. Humanitarian chief mark alcott who pointed out that it looked in particularly in the northwest among 3000000 People Living there half of this number of children one and a half 1000000 children living in what is an ongoing conflict to the humanitarian chief pointing out that the ceasefire that was agreed to at the beginning of august was broken she even before it could be put in place the council also heard from the special envoy for syria get peterson who once again expressed deep pessimism about the situation in. Syria as a whole pointing out that there has been no agreement in any area and the situation there continues to deteriorate this is what he had to say the. Violence and instability in syria is extremely alarming we have an ever rising civilian death toll millions to supply on tolls tens of thousands detained or missing large parts of the syrian territory prime and between Different A