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addressed by turkey we listen what is the proposal of spain for a couple earlier we meet with global news makers and tweet about the stories that matter how does it. it's a mobile world. which calls texts. to help make all lives easier. but not everyone's benefit. can mobile phone apps be designed to help make a better world. 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.

this week life apps. but also a country where 4 out of 10 people live on less than $2.00 a day. ringback ringback like most of the world. small scale farmers for food. farmers. in kenya. farming is now is like. the. 2000. i did. and it will be. a sequel to sequel. says.

when a billionaire. says a real. name. you could. give us and. good to. eat. and. it's making. me. do.

same would be to work with him. but don't. maybe william can find the help he needs among the bright lights of kenya's capital city . mayoral beat. it's full of life it's a miracle. i knew how to put your boss wants. me to one of kenya's new breed of young software developers i want a new career keep on occasions develop a living and they will be a hell of a small startup in my friends called bt and consultants we create tools even i will go on to use more news challenges to design

a mobile phone app to help william and millions of other small scale kenyan farmers who mobilise it's cool and it's not a craze in their o.b.'s socks it's just most people can get to the mall but. this is my favorite joints one reason because the best judgment on on these on number 2 they have the best be in town. there'll be on his own work and go it is like that to coordinate all be so all the techies hollow tell. me. it's a good time to be moving in there i'll be on the supreme said that he's excited. mood.

kenya's take want to open your eyes like a movie you cut a eulogy launch as many as 5 mobile phone apps a day. it's a good time to be living. on self on the. news always believe that mobile phone apps can help. people in the rural areas just as much as those in d.c. to most people don't know what system information services but more bells provide that platform waits at this people it's convenient confuting your pockets. i don't see a reason i'm way too late to be accessible to the gays and by the way has. the new startup company has been going for just a couple of years. these. team is just had some good news on one of their projects to be likely to be because we've secured some funds for low pay look $1.00 of the apps who are doing development is fun and gives you the

chance to create it you create something and you see people use it i mean. so just watch and pray from that compared to going to. the point of the formation of whatever they are and no mobile phones are very cheap and therefore the. coverage more than anything else. lord will not change it's more. tate's part of a logical system which is the information services what are the mic information services what's a simple. interval this is. back in uganda it's the start of the long rains for william it's time to plant. and would be now a days or. a. to

come. and make it but. so can you help william become the farmer he wants to be. filmmaker tony who helped come up with a life apps idea new a challenge that he contra fuse his task to create a mobile application that can help farmers like william. agreed to take 7 days out of his busy schedule to crack it so you can just talk to him to just figure out problems out and see if you can develop a solution for him ok so down to the month you can just.

look we slowly i'm. sorry i couldn't put a number 20. 5. ok. to us asante ok. so we're good. good for the turnings ok found. this. you. know you you you always research is customize means normally in nairobi williams you gania is 8 hours wakes you. up. things that are given. to you and. you.

you. know you would. expect. when they claim you. know. what they're doing and see if. you are legal or. illegal you. knew as to work out what's stopping william making better use of his 2 acres. then you can design an app to help you. be a little tough to the sun and i don't think when danny. and up and began. enough rice a bubble to double up the telephone of the sunni. and then the limo much like

any normal sections decent he says a come assemble to be defined in the b. ditch he is in need be defined be any be defined see says i killing him in a gina let me call this is. coming to me bunda down i'm seeing who. it would be anywhere not a double minded man because. so keep that to some busyness. reveal is easy to not said ok somehow become a pilot making a scene from you seem. to not. be. now you maggie says and i totally named rick and i said say indian opinion of me. and. he said yeah when i talk when i was a coin door and all of them one of them. william suffers from the same problems a small scale farmers globally he has no modern water pumps he can't afford

fertilizers and without proper transport he can only still crops locally so williams joined a farmers group to try and pull knowledge and resources to kink human embryo. thing and as a man. again i'm not going. to be able to link here. with me with him in. the debate and to assess that and then said and then go to him of what he said what he said. to him go nuts when i said forget the so called science and you're to tango yet when it comes to living. in it that the fact that 2 liam is already in a group it's barely 2 months old it's a starting point because it's already brought people together so even if you do all of you know solution to that is going to be a platform and you can use them one of the. first group or

a focus group and also start from hearing problems from other phones as well because now we've had to both really and maybe another families facing a slightly different problem you. city boy will use about a taste of kenyan country cooking with william special he's indigenous kenyan vegetables. emphatic or less lead to thank the food before we take it to the sex case. he made on into my. mind it's a cuisine but. you know you know you. don't want to have your you. know you. know your you'll. pick.

your you or your. next one when use research trip is a visit to you getting a town center he's going to meet william's group of local farmers. who wants to know if other farmers have the same problems as william. and how we can design a mobile phone app to help. find their meaning. because we. combine of mice and doesn't give me. no never mind you think you know this is going to turn to could build a light. lay's attorney imagine a gun that. is if i do you need to come my. systems. you know. when i say my fault to find a key to tell his id to parties in big to find

a yuppie in the meeting. after listening to. and his problems all the challenges he faces and he's doing his farming they're not unique to him other guys in the community also facing more or less the same problems. when you want to research how much the crops william grows could fix so he heads to one of the largest markets in the area. it's only 40 kilometers from williams home but he's never even been here. every turn journey using public transport would cost him $5.00 almost a week's income. so it's williams 1st jones to find out how much the indigenous

vegetables he grows could sell for in the big local markets. you know nothing more american. and. the truth should be. there. in the south suburbs sounds a little bit to get back to the question that got no. one to sign up our city this is something that. says i'm good to her said. it is as old as the bananas of the vocal 4 winds up on the top she done as a whirlpool $82.00 more didn't know fuck the mickey and. the quirky menow no you didn't when i said much about jonah king city and you know when your dad william william william the william wanted william billy will to sign up to pick up someone analytical mckee. pulling resources with

a group could mean lower costs and higher returns for their produce. when you realize this is how a mobile phone app could help looking up from the fall mas to the snow and then what the market for these a lot of ideas to be explored in the same area was of the problems become visible from a group level as a group you want to what source you support you see how much all these particular item before you see that name of intelligence reporting it as it will be able to sell these produce and also to what you need to be and how much to better. you know you. you know you only you. know you'll you'll leave or you know you'll. it's a quick goodbye to william as more news of back to nairobi. his challenge is to design an app that can help william make a better life from farming. it is

a sad story unfortunately. and was see the food prices in nairobi ridiculously high and these guys can sell their produce out here i mean for instance you give me an example here into the market 500 ceilings of all farm produce he only sold a 100 killings so the rest will end up protein and becoming compost. it's time for my new to brief his team i met a farmer william and here is the future lenses that he's facing as an indigenous crop of the i also know that sounds of meeting the group that he belongs to these

farmers need from push information so we're looking at her technology. kamin and bridge he's got under so support them to get to the next level so movie these this information about. planting seeds on this date and then they come they have how much the i mean from the farm financial financial planning so the information we need to bridge that gap because the team decides to go with a simple text based app why you can't use the chance to kind of phones these for use you you can school with they don't know smartness is developed technology you develop solutions for technology people you just want to information to move from the farm to the market and from the market to the farm and the only way you can do these is through their groups is it to be a law that. seems fire away but they're almost ready to go back to william with their idea for an app back. to say that you didn't

use it but to me a living come by i need to give my mind mind you. this. is. the prototype of their life app is ready to show william in person. now. with them but. he wouldn't that have been. on the road back to william and this time when used joined by jeffrey one of the best trainers. software city boys are about to be reminded why otiose communication is

a problem. going to punish them much and get people. to remodel. in a solution. the 1st step is showing the group how the prototype app works so i knew what to do missing where william and i see him. and me and billy and i talk to mark willacy skinny and so because so much more.

it's a swahili word meaning fertility supposed to be a platform to exchange information well aids market information whether it's based on disease information on record keeping all that in one. so how exactly does road to both work. step one register the group farmer name and produce. steps to send the details to road to 1st data banks. step 3 send reports to wrote to both via text message such as which are crumbs and the quantity they're selling. step for on market day then text all the farmers in the group to share the information.

then they can agree on prices and share transport costs. nicky to kids who is an enemy need. most of interaction with the system will get through this a mess of us with a farm as a missing the system of the system getting the data back to the farm it can be tailored to be anything the family to be for instance if the group owns a farm implement like a palm. even from all it's to use the pump to request for the pump waste a mess. to clean up the group. all. now keep it up. now. you call. the app would allow williams friends to collect and distributes the information they need to work together see

where the building may be operate. like you are not will be. fine yeah yeah. well why not because they said they like the product. they need so i think it went pretty well he should have seen the smiles on his hands. the smile on their way and is what gives you that belief. moni and when you can offer. that. you can call it mind blowing all out experience something new to me and it's all in the experience you'll have. to come. back

to your mom. but you know. it's an. open the you can. be. it says i me me me for taking the could to me it seemed to be an. investment funding to develop or to buy as a fully functioning technology. he's convinced that mobile phone apps like you tube can help kenya's millions of small scale farmers to work more efficiently find new markets and have a better life. putting information on people's homes do you think they fall out. i should have access to point one is from a place called their laws for eating meat food and they're feeding that michelin green then this comes on the same as saying or time envisioning but some of these surprise if a cunt killed even much on the beef. and it does woolfolk roads just the

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