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reaches an overwhelming proportions. i mean let's do business rooting out child labor from global supply chains it takes responsibility and transparency something sadly missing in many sectors take your smartphone or an electric car both depend on cobalt are used in batteries and whose little hands are used to dig that up well 2 thirds of the wide comes from mines in the democratic republic of congo india papua new guinea the philippines and other countries make up the rest of most of it and most companies source the mail from the sea most of it is produced in industrial mines sunday labor and human rights standards but 10 to 20 percent does come from small often illicit mines mazes of poles and cardozo narrow usually small children can get for the cobalt is mainly shipped to china the

batteries are produced there and they end up in the devices you use well. it is from the economic and ecumenical institute zoot bins what can we as uses and consumers actually do about this problem what we can do as consumers is to reduce our consume of electronic devices to use our smart phones longer and to us companies what they are doing about child labor about the human rights risks in their supply chains when it comes to the companies how can a german car maker if we take an electric car for example the remote relies on batteries which rely on this. work out if chinese battery suppliers are following the rule. first. issue of addressing the human rights. supply chain a very complex one at the moment and in general. real. automotive companies

would have. the market power together to influence also the batteries suppliers and shiner to introduce system traceability and also. to look for 5 the respect of human rights in the supply chain so if they work together if they work together and so if he had a lot. to diligence it would help to work together and it will send a signal also to the suppliers in china so the legal framework needs to be there i mean some countries have moved ahead with laws like france and the u.k. but germany germany not so far and we have a. national action plan on business and human rights from 2016 but this is on the bottom terry basis so the government is supporting companies to address the resistance of supply chains but they are not obliged to do so and what we are no

minding is a national law are on human rights to do and maybe we'll get this one in next year in 2020 be cars this national xterm plan says that there should be a new discussion on binding regulation them because when these companies on obliged to do this or to do it i mean it costs a heap of money to check all of those supply chains of all those different countries and and different sectors yes it is a great challenge. there are still nations for example for car companies. that addressing the wrists. supply chains of the resources 6 would cost about $200.00 euro for each car so. it is. it's not you. know it's not a huge cost compared to the. cost of the car and the cost of these kids yeah

missing out on their childhoods missing out on education i mean and what are they going to go after you know spending their childhoods in minds yeah. really big topic that they somehow lose their childhood and like education and so yeah it is a big task for companies to ensure that these children have the opportunity to go to school let's hope groups like yours get behind those laws and those companies and get them moving if maria thank you very much for coming in thank you very much . now can artificially intelligence help solve africa's problems it's still a continent of developing economies that only 35 percent of the population has access to the internet but the startup scene in africa is booming more african apps are coming onto the market and more industries profiting from the technology. even

small farms in africa are benefiting from agricultural digitization this helps farmers to bypass the middlemen they can see real market prices find buyers and ultimately sell their goods for more money artificial intelligence is also shaping the health sector in africa this intelligent glove detects breast cancer even in places with little medical infrastructure. more and more startups are bringing their ideas to market even though conditions are difficult. most people in africa only have mobile phones with low data rates in addition why fire is not widespread usually only accessible hotspots. this makes the challenge of developing functioning ops all the greater. it also makes investment in africa's digital future a bigger challenge. and let's talk to bedlam dessie she's described as the youngest

pioneer in ethiopia's fast emerging tech scene and joins us from aboard a boat tiring bawn as part of the global media 4 of their lucky you being out on a boat so i'm stuck here in the studio let's talk about your career though to stop with i believe you started your career at the age of 9 is that right. yeah that's right the 1st thank you for having me i'm really enjoying my time here. so as you mentioned friends living in ethiopia i started coding very young and i started coding because i wanted to celebrate my birthday and after that i i figured i would build a website to promote my business so that was my 1st tech business and now i'm trying to teach their kids to give them the opportunity that i had when i was little and they're also training women in ai i believe what will happen to future devices and

systems if women aren't involved in the development and the programming stages of ai. so there's a good example that i mentioned on my panel today which is when the seat belt was 1st developed they only considered male models to test out the design and after that a lot of women and children were dying because the seat belts didn't fit them or were not functional to them so it took them time to improve that design so that it's also applicable to both women and children so it's nothing different with if we don't train them we don't involve them throughout the development process process there will definitely be no pressure especially from the women's side and also their value and. that input that they provide is very essential to the divide . so trading women in ai and having women scientists is very crucial crucial to the future is obviously how can i say i change africa do you think.

africa is currently trying to get into the taxi there's a lot of there's no actually real time data out there was we have it can be used to make decisions for health care of the culture and occasions so most of the innovations in developed countries are cool but in africa is a necessary because it decides whether or not the people would have a better life so it's really essential that we train people on ai and also implement some of the aid to some platforms that exist bedlam desi thank you very much for joining us from born appreciate it. and thank you very much for having me . now many african countries have generated income by recycling plastics and electronic waste from industrialized countries asia also jumped on the bandwagon but the load has become overwhelming malaysia is refusing to become

a dumping ground for richer nations. a deluge of plastic. more than $300000000.00 tons of it is produced globally each year lots of it ends up here at portraying malaysia's busiest shipping port. since china halted imports of plastic waste in 2017 southeast asian countries like malaysia vietnam and thailand have taken over a big chunk of the global plastics recycling trade but the flow of plastic west from wealthy nations around the world is proving too much to handle last october malaysia banned the import of non-recyclable plastic rubbish now it says it will start sending all the plastic west imports back to where they came from. we are here to urge the developed countries to also revealed that management of plastic waste and stop shipping garbage out to the developing countries if the sheep to malaysia we will return it back we doubtless this inspection of port klang and

choose to uncovered more than 450 tons of illegally imported plastic waste packed tightly into 10 containers that came from as far afield as a stray or bangladesh canada china japan saudi arabia and the us wherever this west eventually ends up the chances are it will simply be added to the world's plastic trash heap just 9 percent of the plastic produced between 19502050 in that 65 years has been properly recycled. china appears to be signaling a could restrict exports of rare earth metals to the united states opening a new front in the trade dispute between the 2 countries a report by the state controlled global times newspaper said beijing was already making such plans a state official told reuters on the same day that the mystic consumption would be the future priority of china is willing to meet what it called reasonable demands

from other countries china accounts for 80 percent of rare earth metals which are critical as we heard military weapons. after a break of breaking debut in new york in 2014 alibaba wants to work its magic again with a 2nd listing but the chinese e-commerce leader is reportedly looking to hong kong instead of new york so far shares of alabama are only does that on wall street that launched their raise $25000000000.00 was the world's largest initial public offering the move comes with china and the united states locked in an escalating trade battle beijing is trying to get its tektites titans to list closer to home. ice doing business with you.

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