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did all becky aaron for $100.00 flights after a crash on friday left at least 12 people dead $98.00 passengers and crew on board the cause of the crash is still unknown there be more protests in the indian capital new delhi after a controversial citizenship law which critics. demonstrators bore symbolic handcuffs and shouted slogans calling prod minister narendra modi's government a dictatorship and they're calling on police to stop using excessive force israel's leader benjamin netanyahu has thanked his the crude party members and promised to lead them to an election victory after fending off a leadership challenge rival gideon saad had hoped to convince members that it was time for change. and those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after live at ft.
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it's a mobile world. which calls texts and apps to help make all lives easier. and but not everyone's benefit to. yes it can mobile phone apps be designed to help make it better whoa. 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 get a life. this week life apps is in kenya
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the hub of africa's high tech boom but also a country where 4 out of 10 people live on less than $2.00 a day. by side by. side. by. side with. ringback kenya like most of the world realize those small scale farmers for food. farmers like william large weighing in uganda in kenya as fertile west a former city dweller farming is now is like. you miss out on clean looking and the . 2000. lupul token it would be. a sequel do a sequel. says
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do. and. don't see. in. 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 you guys want. me to one of kenya's new breed of young software developers our new karaoke i want to pick your songs develop a living and they will be called a small startup with my friends called bt and consultants we create tools even i will go on to use more news challenges to design
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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. this is my favorite joints one reason it was the best judgment on on these on number 2 they have the best be in town. they'd all be on his own work and gold 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.
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kenya's take want to open your eyes like a movie you cut your teeth 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 dogs in this city most people don't know what system information services but more bells provide that platform waits to see it's convenient confute in your pockets then i don't see a reason i'm way too late to be accessible to the gays and by the way as. when you start up company has been going for just a couple of years. before the. team is just had some good news on one of their projects to be liberating did because we've secured some funds for low pay look one of the arabs who are doing development is fun and gives you the chance
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to create you create something and you see people use it i mean. so just watch and pray from your god compare it to going to. the point of the formation of whatever they are unknowable phones are very cheap and before the. coverage more than anything else. lord will not change its mark on them for tate part of a logical system which is the information services to the mic information so this is what's a simple case who are in trouble this is. back in uganda it's the start of the long rains for william it's time to plant. and when you can be now a days or. a. to
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come. this in a sealed to. 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 to new a challenge that he contra fuse is tasked 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.
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look we slowly i'm. sorry i couldn't help but i'm number 20. 5. ok. to us asante ok. so we're good. good for the turn it's ok phone calls all. you you. you you. know you you you always research is customize means normally in nairobi williams you gania is 8 hours wakes you. up and. things that are given. to you. you.
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you know you. really do you. expect to. win it but i mean it's a whole lot of experience but you know. what they're doing and see if. you're legal. or illegal you'll be making good money moon us to work out what's stopping william making better use of his 2 acres. then he can design an app to help you. be a little tough to the sun and i don't think when danny ainge is on the air temp and began nailing s.f. enough for ice a bubble to double up the telephone of the sooty. him in the limo much on balcony
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or to like in on the sex was decent he says that the most mbanga mean a to be defined in need be did he even to be defined be any be defined c says i killing him in a gina let me marry as equal this is. the same come on i'm a bunda damn i'm seeing who mark idea you would be it would be anywhere not a double my lady mandy. says i keep on buying that to some busyness seem cool. nevil it says internet ok somehow become a pilot anything but a scene from the scene he gets in to not find the next. name maggie says and i totally named the record and i said same doing nothing when i'm lying. and then he said when i talk when i'm one of the 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
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fertilizes and without proper transport he can only still crops locally so williams joined a farmers group to try and pool knowledge and resources to kink human embryo. do you think it is i mean there. again i'm again. going to try to link here. with me was in. the debate and you assess it and then said and then go jim of what he said what he said. to him go nice when i said forget the so called send your to tango yet when it come late and living. in it that the fact that really i'm is already in a group and 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 solace from 2 thought and these ought to be a platform and you can use them one of the test group or
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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 know you. do like the. city boy moving use about to taste some kenyan country cooking with william special needs crop is indigenous kenyan vegetables. and even quite a collection to thank the food before we take it in the sense can. be made on internet in a question that limbo your teenage years and mine is a cuisine but you you you. you you know you. you. i don't want to you know you'll. be over you'll. pick.
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your you. next on when used 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 any. because we. combine of mice and birds and guinea. no no no you think you know this is going to turn to could build a light. lay's attorney a magic gun that. is if i do you need to come. systems. you know. when i say my call to pinedale community to tell is that i did 2 parties in big to find the
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p.d. the meeting was good and after listening to. and his problems all the challenges he faces and he's doing is harming 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
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vegetables he grows could sell for in the big local markets. you know nothing on the ground. and. tried to feed. them. in the south suburbs sounds a little bit to get back to the question and it got no. one to sign up our city she needed something to. sell some good to her said. that is a no no i've been looking for vocal winds up on the top she down is out. now if i come up to. me now you didn't know when i say much about your city and you know when you're more than 21 when you meet it when you want to be able to sign up to pick up someone analytical mickey. pulling
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resources with a group could mean lower costs and higher returns for their produce more you realize this is how a mobile phone app could help looking up from the farm was through the roof now and then what the market is these are lots of ideas to be explored within the same area was of the problems become visible from a group level today as a group you want to hold what source you support you see how much all this particular item before you see that name of intelligence reporting it as it will be able to sell his produce and also to what you need to know who to be and how much to build. you know you you know you'll you'll know you'll you'll you'll you know you'll. it's a quick goodbye to william as more use of back to nairobi. his challenge is to design an app that can help william make a better life from farming. it is
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a sad story unfortunately. and was see the food prices it might all be ridiculously high and these games console their produce out mean for instance you give me an example here into the market me $512.00 all from produce he only sold a 100 killings. so the rest will end up the protein and becoming compost. it's time for my new to brief 15 i met a farmer william and here is the future leaders that he is facing as an indigenous crop of the i also at that sounds of meeting the group that he belongs to these
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farmers need to. push information so we're looking at are technology can come in and bridge these gap under so support them to get to the next level so movie these these information about. planting seeds on is a date and then they come they have how much the i mean from the farm financial financial planning it's all the information we need to bridge that gap because the team decides to go with a simple text based app. well you can't lose the chance. for use you you can school be don't last much develop technology you develop solutions for technology people use 1004 mission 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 said 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
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like me let me come by i need to give my mine mind you. this. is. the prototype of their life app is ready to show william in person. now. 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 oh teo communication is
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a swahili word meaning fertility supposed to be a platform to exchange information well it's market information whether it's based on disease information on record keeping all that in one. so how exactly does road tube or work. step one register the group form a name and rogers. step to see if the details to rotifers data banks. step 3 send reports to wrote to both via text message such as which crops and the quantity they're selling. step for on market day then text all the farmers in the group to share the information.
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then they can agree on prices and share transport costs. such as an immigrant new key to kids who are the center. most of interaction with the system will get through with a mess and that's 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 families it will be for instance if the group owns a farm implement like a palm. even from all it's to use the pump the request for the pump waste a mess. to clean up the group to some it says i watch it. all money make up now keep it up. to check what was. really cool. and a cool and. you call. the app would allow williams friends to collect and distributes the information they need to work together so
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why are they giving me the operate your comments how lucky you are not know my fine yeah yeah. well i don't quite know nothing like that they like their product. they see their body neat so i think it went pretty well he should have seen the smiles and was grazed his. smile on their way and is what gives you the belief. that we. need. these as. you can call it mind blowing all out of experience something new to me and it's all in the experience you have your problems to come a 9 minute price and it's about one with plenty of you know. but you
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know. it's an. open he can be a key to. it he says i mean. in particular could do not seem to be young and he's going to. use currently seeking investment funding to develop a tuba as a fully functioning technology. he's convinced that mobile phone apps like the tuba 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 fish will have access to point formation of play because they're the ones providing new food and they're feeding the nation on green the nation as i say or time envisioning but some of these things are present because kill even much on the beach. and it doesn't woolfolk roads just the beginning you know you'll you'll
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