those are the headlines we're back in. egypt strongman is ruling with the fairest and the silence from his allies is deafening the u.s. was perfectly happy to trade off for security. turning a blind eye when even the citizens have forgotten victim to his repression executions torture censorship is not acceptable and you won't hear such strong words from let's say berlin or paris or london in cairo on al-jazeera. it's a mobile world. with colds texts

and apps to help make our lives easier. but not everyone's benefiting. yet. chan mobile phone apps be designed to help make a better world. this series challenges app developers from around the world to visit communities who are missing out and then come up with an app that could help me in. life. this week life apps business south africa and to meet young people who are creating their own apps for social good and looks back across the series to see what's been achieved. caped out the beautiful city on the southern tip of africa. south africa is

a rapidly emerging economy it relies on mobile phones and wireless technology far more than on expensive to. young company designs mobile phone apps not just for entertainment but to help people in poorer communities. keep mobile phones a revolutionized everyday life. generation never have access to music they access to live on so little time to sing and they tend to be back to back always keep them coming they can have a good time but they can get help nations on. i'm a she's not just the suits but come on the best. to get some of my sex. sexual health is a huge issue for young people in south africa and believe apps can help.

so the challenge for design is to come up with a life out for sexual health. nun's a grew up in the townships now she's a key member of creative team who has given me a bit because she knows she collects inspiration that's. pretty good. i don't connect with negative image she be a caring creative make a difference so i am a caring creative because i have a story that mirror my society is the relates to the stories that i write therefore i. go ahead. so i'm creative nancy come up with a sexual health. the sets off on a research trip. she's heading north east towards johannesburg. it's been estimated that about one hundred. posts here. and then so and so despite the poverty

ninety nine one hundred households have access to a mobile phone. she wants to find out if a life up could help with issues like aids teenage pregnancy and other sexual health issues. it won't prove easy. so i'm trying to find out you know by now what are some of the things that a bank would want and says from the phone sabo that's house who needs it why why you have to sleep me with the three weeks out of the month that lead to good things up with the big assembly. i think. i meant that you guys would talk of the point of words of what you did to the man when you when you can't do it not that i did that the next lesson that i did is that you you're getting to know the person you're getting to know maybe it's not even a conscious decision what the our actual decision indaba the women researching up

a little more helpful a lot of it all somehow infected or affected by serious viruses that comes through social. engagement on this then so with that said sypher especially with young people as you know by teenage pregnancy is high besides clearly people told don't protect or don't use protection or don't see the need to use protection why is that like it's not like us until you say see right now because of things like teenage pregnancy or to be educational and to misspeak this is b.s. i say show yeah maybe really do you like help. but see need guidance of a career to have. a life i could offer guidance on sexual health the question is how many you have you know and for inspiration none of the steps in my local internet cafe to say how can i help you tune in and surrounded by computer literate

kids about nuns you know is there now access the internet through smartphones as well as laptops and internet cafes many young people still use s.m.s. or text messaging nuns he wants to know what's the best way of building a sexual health crisis how can one actually build the application that would best meets your requirements is do you see a tweet it comes to you six when it comes to health when it comes to excess of information in that regard traditionally you know and there are some as you took the train to pick this could be nancy's got lucky. the cafe owner is trying to develop an app that collects text messages about sexual health and lets people share them it. goes to people so you can create. a mobile application for the whole community sure you know so that showing it can be able to manage its own health issues you know it can see how many. people who have went

to this i mean if your political interests me you know how many people are getting better show there one of those kind of thing. by the whole community to not only the health care system called blown away scientists it was idea is to help spread health information by a kind of extra nic word of mouth. nancy thinks his idea could form the basis of our own life communicating sexual health messages but there's a long way to go so let's connect call skype and then we can take this conversation and then just let's elaborate more on the like the awful bow and access to information and around i've been bastardized how we can actually empower them using a form from what i was that and watching presently doing with that whole health thing of all this the future of this is. thank you so much about a lot of these life up he's clearly going to need much more way. it's

a mission she's still working on. nuns is convinced technology can empower young people not just in the developing countries but the world over. london a twenty first century world city close to the skyscrapers of its financial elites lies shoreditch london's creative digital. and digital incubates up and design i have and. it's all about young people developing new ideas making money and also doing good including with the mobile phone. often is a very powerful tool i can empower people around the world and using mobile phone technology to solve problems in one's local community can be a great way to create change and one leading charity showing how mobiles can be used for good is c.d.i.

the center for digital inclusion based in brazil but with a branch here in shortage to use on the program is called out and it's about inspiring young people to become a problem solvers through getting them to think through person what is their problem and i look community and how can they so they're using my fault technology . absolute good are now working with fifty thousand young people are cross britain creating mobile social and web apps. so we're trying to create generation problem solvers said that young people can get the skills they need to actually understand what the technology is not just consuming technology that's a definitely not about money games are about solving a problem and here sounds huge commercial industry out there tearing it up but the main thing that we advocate is that getting young people interested in the first

place and being part of my kind of me is really important. job so good so that's once an hour an hour working on a stop and search out. people from ethnic minorities are two times more likely to be stopped by the police than white people the app documents and uploads they use as experiences when they're stopped by the police. so i have been sites and such before obviously coming hours telesales just next to brixton a supply of people all stopped going to databases and always for the right reason is watching around me so a lot of times when i was stopped and still used to kind of fix myself is direct perceived that i could carry a knot in my even allowed to be stopped today so can i mean so. i had not noticed this kind of put me in a position where i dispelled a bit disempowered in that situation so the stuff i said shout was

a trade in two thousand and ten going to help people know what they're right so we need to stop he said but it put the police in a quick and easy way once you've downloaded that. you click into it tells you what you can do and say or why you might be stopped and searched when you can on the road or when you're in a vehicle and you've got a section for the top of the sea as well because a lot of reporters and stuff like this use when the filming stuff yourself into if you lost. what you have to do is just upload your experience and that consists or basically put in your age in your fantasy your sex and then just like you to put in the office by two numbers he stopped and searched you on this stuff and such that number if you get one or so after that you just basically break how are you sure you were treated by the offices and there's like a set criteria of questions here such as how badly do you think the reason was for the stop and search and how much respect you feel you were shown when you stopped

to say. and what are you doing with this for the time your notation will make using the g.p.s. . i want you still without a form just upload it one hundred percent known in the city to. database and sure experience that. ops for good are now working with four hundred schools across the u.k. . one of the first to enroll was east london central foundation girls school. pupils have shown how designing mobile phone apps can help young people to identify and solve everyday problems. and i hope is. something only phone that does one thing and one thing only really really well why is it good to be able to solve problems because you're going to face the everyday

an obstacle teaches you how to think of a problem in a creative way and not taking us in oh my god this is going to go could be wrong if you don't know this turns out that. creativity magination absolutely has no limits serves only zero ideas a pig you can do anything with. knowledge is like guess do you have to use it on the good of every movie but otherwise what's the point of having if you want to be so sure that. i was who buzz about is it's a very one hundred market it's own cook with interest if you time and day as usual and they all see why it's your choice record a reason why you need to wake up. some young people find it hard to wake up in the morning so the girls have designed the buzz of bodies. so this is a step by step process to set up a puzzle but you. say say it time you can choose to repeat it on a on a date so maybe on weekdays and weekends you can label the alarm. and then you

set a recording so if anything that you'd like to do your reason to wake up after that you can choose your puzzle buddy so this is anyone from your contact list. and you write in message. you know i have to say the u.s. is impressed same and it is a real honor and a way to go. for the course organizes the pupils enthusiasm and success show how mobile phone apps can help solve problems not just in london but across the world. michel technology is a great way to empower young people for the world and all is actually about to. become the problem self as and they can do that plague. so let's look back at what the life of designers from across the series have achieved. in africa life i was visited kenya and met william who's

a farmer in rural uganda. and you could. because. you can guess. the challenge was to see if a life could help william far more efficiently. it seemed life ops invited to help william live three hundred kilometers east in nairobi kenya as capital.