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this election move beyond closer to the mainland who continue to resist beijing's push the unification taiwan's trying to trying to presidential election on al-jazeera. it's a mobile world. with cold texts and arabs to help make our lives easier. but not everyone's benefiting. yet. china 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 here's a life. this week life apps is in india

my country at the forefront of the id revolution and which has the world's 3rd largest smartphone market but one in 4 people contrary to all right. meaning. such in go lives in delhi the capital of india he works in the secret sauce. india's high tech boom. he has a double masters in computer cryptography making computers safe from hacking. he also believes in using digital technology to help the less fortunate india has over a 1000000000 mobile. i believe george and me again while technology use evolution for many offered struck. my questions to find on so's to help people in one living at the bottom of the economic bit of. such an belongs to

a collective called mix all they use technology to help underprivileged communities . one of their ambitions is to help india's beleaguered small scale farmers. get anything. now not remembering. the challenge for such an is to design and life. a mobile phone app to help bring farmers a better life. in the local cafe such and his mix all colleagues brainstorm some early ideas for. your favorite the sad stories from you know farmers who saves and all that so there is definitely some problem on the ground which they're facing and my in benjamin not to push any technology to them but my intention is to look for a solution you know which this technology can bring because this is ubiquitous and

something which is very cheap in india why dear will any available at a very cheap and affordable places if there is something you think from a problem point of view which we can address something that could be done is going to like. that is you know sort of. move in with oh are we going to do that in funding should i give this this is the time it is going to be and we have to start thinking and maybe of field visit is something which is much more needed to validate our thoughts. and. such and starts by setting up a facebook page to help research from this problem in this. particular the interesting leads come from the huge southern state of undress president bush. so such an fly south to state capital hyderabad. it's the start of a 2000 kilometer journey deep into rural india. just landed there were there for

hoping i really cared enough insights meeting those people on the ground what are the problems farmers are facing and what does that i.c.t. mobile technology can do for such an wants to hear small scale spawn the stories 1st hand so we can find ways an app can help in under pradesh 7. not to fall miss depend on seasonal rains decent rainfall can mean a bountiful harvest but weather patterns and long term climate change can mean rains a late fall fail altogether. can wipe plan this out and cause some to take their own lives. and local guide privy in visit mr naidu who runs the community managed sustainable

agriculture project. in the 4000 villages. and all that one day we were having a conference with the poorest of the poor but formless one he said. after want to. know. when you are. going anywhere near a good. well. i mean when was the last play to grace in agriculture my. imagination you know when i was sitting in there lee was very different and the

good old talking do you know it does already a big changed you know the studio day about the woman so i such and wants to meet farmers like b.j. or the woman who lost 3 family members revisiting jim 12 very enthusiastic good team has come to mean yeah whatever so tomorrow then it was a very because you are the. 2 hours from hyderabad is cutting nagas his home village. t.v. all day and he and the ins and he had learned to. live eternally and milo acting and they. demand virtually including my london little my little did he call and that lived in a little table then and they went on and on monday and so.

the something some government is a put up by husband money grubber that. when they screw them up. operable in emberton in the eligibility election. that i will go both so that i would. guess. those are far more than is a little overly busy arguing with big. englanders mystery party i think. $3032.00 models will be ok. s. are i farming stands for system of rice intensification planting young spacing white so that multi crops is the growing of several kinds of crops. these new ideas saved which i. read your story is remarkable despite all the hardship she is going through years being able to get control of her life. i want to see this for your well to grow farming to model that does remember to help her and other farmers

turn around and. turned her farm around by using new methods her family had never heard about. sergeants thinking that stories like this should be heard by a much wider audience. the next day such enhanced deep into under oxidation to monday karma. this is a. protected samuel's troubles include expensive fertilizes low crop prices and drought. some real story also has a positive twist he's found hope in organic farming in the land famous for its green revolution with its emphasis on fertilizers and manmade chemicals some mistaken advice to far more naturally. worms and insects keep the soil healthy and

local organic matter feeds his crops over time it really is that you are you are. more your version. of that yesterday when. really. your eyes are going to love me. you're mean without body. gathered ready. to say. if we did it our right to raise elian poverty would have a bad day gary sick to my jeep them i didn't have. school. i'm good because they were good challenge. suchan has discovered how farmers have improvised to deal with their problems.

or does expect her to fix. some of those neighbors not i am not a sama sama narrow strip of land. with some whose help they realign not only on organic farming but on multi cooks planting several crops not just one like rice it's a blend of traditional farming wisdom and modern scientific knowledge. then will come our only of years did that occur if you got your liver from would you categorically and if you cannot i really will take a witchy in j's thinking very. high that i am very good dad just regular people k.k. q.q. very young give a cuba i know you cannot find out i am martin governor bob a popular guy very much if you get your barbaric with name learning. how do you manage being without function we are trying to remain in grow up this sentiment

only grew. to. be. good. business. now and his neighbors now grow several crops all year round not just the standard old rice crock. they have more than doubled their income an extra $2.00 a day each more. the message such as picking up here and drop a dish is that some small scale farmers are coming up with fresh ideas and initiatives. too often other farmers just don't hear about them but there are people trying to change that. some touches with a c. and a women self-help group. she runs that organic pest control store. she

spreads the word using very basic technology. she's using a pictorial way of helping villages remember new farming ideas that you have. among the young folks studying like i work with and i got someone to tell me it's not a full fit that will cost out of my time obviously there are a lot of money. and a lot of if i want to thank you for that she said quote this aspirational interest i want to ask her if she is given a mobile phone. she can pay me for all those 40 have been telling us save most of the boys you know they're going to be happy of all good because she has better knowledge of you know the confidence monday morning of the northern vermont rather new go girl. for get to know you start there but i'm on a reform the modern art of the miss a response i want tried opposition and turn obvious to download on

a model out of them 101 the monday mail on monday q 4 that are not going to mark so much on a hard line rule under memory stunned. by the monday. monday we did with egypt w.b. i was hangin in general she was saying yes if the global storytelling is part of the cultural landscape of india so such a needs to know that santos show will be happy using text. new foreign watered up little or no model are done to restore part of the owner were dismissed upon but i'm just a part of the on going in model of bank you support them votes on kind of thing that we're going to speak. a little we want to do something for them you want to bring something for them when i come home again yeah and sure what bank and we're. going to foster we'll start off with. thank you.

such as heading back to hyderabad to assess everything he's learned it's becoming clear that a mobile phone app could help if you collect and disseminate stories of better farming practices like those he's been hearing about here in under pradesh i see you know all those mobile application which we are thinking of could really do something off in fact if you could back is their story in a way that they do not struggle you know in learning technology instead you know being what they are good act which is you know telling their own case studies in the way they are comfortable with. such an wants to play to the farm the strengths of storytelling in state capital hyderabad stories travel fast people cross-pollinate ideas and experiences could form

a share ideas in the same way for inspiration such as calling on the honey bee network. for 25 years honey bee has been gathering up ideas and inventions from farmers entrepreneurs and scholars across the world. to me. they help with peyton's. ending and spreading ideas on the internet so such as calling on the networks pretty good. to see how honeybee works in under a pradesh. with a real pleasure sitting here because i have read a lot about i mean it was there is tremendous hidden knowledge in the villages are the grass roots level and they have the ability to solve the problems to great extent and that's because they have a harmony with the nature solution identified by farmer for his own problem is required to meet he says foremost in this country more than the board now all of

them are not so blissed like this farmer who followed his problem but if they get this technology this innovation the. all of them millions of them will slightly go at no cost. i'm so excited today after meeting together going to. do stories of farmers and really innovators are so amazing that i'm just dying to meet them tomorrow. so such as off to meet one of the farmers turned inventor whose ideas honeybee is backing. after a 9 hour drive he meets side that button. with electricity as sporadic has the reins of power for irrigating farms is vital. site is on his $400.00 windmill. murdered the

bank a passport and i. have no. problems with that at that. body . when i get near my car was because i. was not really nervous and then as i'm a muslim i really really have an idea when you go explore the attic idea years so that i'm got a couple of the. here and there actually i guess i will progress. first school i want to go back sort of wired to. see how they were danish and like i don't exist or danish unlike is how i did right by going to. the. nearby. women leave beautiful saudi.

in this family of farmers and leaving. so to help he invented the awesome machine he wanted to save women weave is the tedium and pain of repeating a single motion 9000 times a day just to make one sorry. for you find very fine when i open a mission when i was going to keep going to come here and here for the plane the men are pretty much gone here's canano. telecast here been a minimal kind of cool army prepared i'm taliban they've been me. the moon you also wear them when you're on the plane you can get to a pretty cool tree but they worked under the how do you also were done here than a long monotone model done justin is on to bundle no one to give 100 now given them to the accordion in long island yes he didn't cheat on the kid and not astonish him

. such is not travelled over 2000 kilometers nothing about the innovative ways india's funds are improving their own lights he's convinced mobile phones can help people share ideas so everyone can benefit. sol 2 of my big buddies you know where the people will have mobile phones and connectivity so does already there whether they can afford the mobile phone that is already there what does not there is a very simple and intuitive solution for them so that they can use these gadgets to tell their stories share them questions. doubts anything then they are stuck. back in day and such in steam work with volunteers who've offered to

help build his story sharing life. how we can close a small by last saw your time problems off his farm was so could see. a picture and then click on it the idea that settling on is to use pictures and voice recordings instead of text so all weekend you know the us system which is cobol. they can share they can learn and they can build there and you know when. they come up with a working model the mobile harvest app. it's an app that helps farm as share stories and ideas m can be developed into

a fully fledged smartphone app. well i wanted to show you this application a man. with a beige book follows in india so with the help of a few blogs i may be able to do this in the us too early you know it's good we created from a weak moment of the been. moved . back in under a pradesh suchan wants to field test his mobile harvest up. many to system but not the man 5 it will it is it will but it was kebab of human in the lead out this system with. also called the funny thing if you go to

step one the user logs into the mobile harvest up system in. the school that's getting. on a. better step to record the idea. only got i got told that it wasn't a. child getting a look and say oh good now fold up good but that god got a case with a person i can pick up that. george will. be in some crucial. step 3 select this you to bill image. step through all share your idea with the whole community via the app. that i got in there saying i'm sick of lying is something i don't cook advocate or those who think it. just because he had

them the langage or scummy so neither of us is that he gets a. chance to one up meet up so not so. well but for you system or the oddest sell off either hoboken me any meal you pull in a mere fist of said not visible in the mini it's quite a change out of the chip on to me you know it's not really a chip in a some other we're not gonna let the talented live and the money in mississippi add to that iran cannot ship being a mentor who could look good i didn't i'm not even little bit you branch out of it been done. so what does organic almost make of such in small ball harvest up down fired up with your god was it one go to go and go bridge or who quit that it was allowed to get a beautiful same journey is opposite the border with such and such like up using

sound images you don't have to be fully literate to use it. so what does mr ray do who helped plan such ins jannie think of the prototype i pleasure of having a lot of this valuable input from you little interest in your. obligation. i think it was a really exciting opportunity and i hope that you're going to launch a pilot with us then i can give you a little bit of feedback up for we're going to the point now that i've shown the app you can do it to 6 people and they're all in the present different stakeholders so right now i am very happy with the book which is happening for the feedback which i have and there's a lot of detailed feedback which i brought. on which i want to work on so from here i want to develop this application make it more robust and they could through the pilots go science and make it something you know which can be adopted nation like.

so long way to go just the beginning of the project. we live in a digital world where even the remotest communities have access to mobile phones. but look in this technology bring to a nomadic existence life facts travels to the media and gives the software design the ultimate challenge design a map to help to him the tried in their daily lives can you really be done in. life facts one for nomads analogise even. when the news breaks today the current government has lost the trust of the people by god to anything because the protesters are against it when people are to be caught by surprise working represent the lofty goals for opponents of brecht's it's drawing the conservatives al-jazeera has teams on the ground that now hopes the meeting in

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