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a. good link to screw africa more whole story link to exceptional stories and discussion. of these each i want with safety debbie to come snatch trick up join us on facebook. africa. violence overshadows the opening of the world economic forum on africa in cape town . also hope young people taking the initiative stops creating jobs and shoots across its. nothing is stronger than a man with an idea how it's not a roving the comics helps disabled people get moving using try. and let's face it sean i do consume no. on the trail of your good name you'll play with just
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just smiled at your face to place your balls. this is business africa. violence on wednesday overshadow the opening of the world economic forum on africa an offshoot of the famous meeting world leaders and captains of industry and doubles the south african house of course we're keen to show their best side but instead been protests in several cities including johannesburg people see few prospects in their home. has also been directed against people from other countries a reporter claridge filed this report. trade in the port of cape town continues as usual for a couple of minutes and loaf you can enjoy the rest the young entrepreneur arrived from johannesburg the night before the unrest in her home town shook her. it's total tragedy it's very sad as specially. the looting
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and the killing and the chaos it's not good for. us it's going to scare away investors south africa is a land of extremes much of the black majority population under apartheid is still living in poverty there are a few prospects especially for young people the economy is stagnating economic growth last year was only half a percent far below the expectations of many experts. not only does it not live up to expectations but also fall short of the needs that exist here. in india the unemployment rate in this country is just under 30 percent it's unacceptable that every 3rd person hears unemployed under from sunni and without a functioning and growing economy unemployment can't be cut back. but while the state sector is key. some young people are taking the initiative founding startups
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creating jobs and future prospects these include. who provides education for young women we are the disrupters you know we are the ones that understand how to all to make solutions we understand what young people require we understand what women require you know and i think there's an opportunity where we could also engage for that. while some people are disillusioned others are becoming more engaged they believe in south africa's potential. job creation and environmentally friendly digital technologies some of the topics being discussed the african green revolution forum in ghana across stakeholders from across the continents our cultural industry currently meeting to examine policies and programs that could transform the way africa produces food. for misplacing
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a special focus on inclusive economic growth and development. from the green revolution from an hour from now joined by benjamin sadly only on the phone an expert in the digitalization of agriculture in africa from a technical cultural and rural corporation of benjamin what kind of signals are you getting from farmers in africa in terms of adopting technology and innovations in their work. when. there are thank you very much for this opportunity yes we've been working we've smallholder farmers in africa are in the cereal just like they see in every quarter for some years now and record there is increasing in phrasing that stopping some of these technologies to congress with taxation increasing crowned miss access to finance and they're not i think.
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which is very encouraging and you think groups well you know women program that stuff well you know there may well i don't think it's technology to be able to increase. their income of the across. these positive signs aside there are still challenges in rural africa isn't there when it comes to farmers success and access and technology and appreciating the importance of. what we have learned over the years is that the problem the biggest problem. is we. actually saw this solution you know most of the solutions that we've been promoting are funded by june. and they have this on project so you know that the losing farmers you know tell me the enjoy meeting tells them to have access to real time they're good at going to make practices but at the end of the
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project you know they said there's a problem of paying for the solution since the project has come to our name you know so that as being the problem it's not so much about other things that people talk about it's about how do we source gain to prove the scene of the solution to the families so far my subsume the benefits the enjoying is because the most of the solutions are project based solutions they don't survive they don't they don't follow and that is the big issue this sustainability of of this solution is that we are promoting farming then what is technology and innovation actually helping to attract more young people to the farm. yes we have seen that we have seen that. we rush through dies and we have some of the young the you do not recover that are technology savvy that are actually blocking the disease absolutely
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that are being used in the agricultural sector so we can carry we provide a platform for them to be able to be plugged the solution is. we we. we provide all the needs required to. good for them to be able to give love the solution and think it through the market and day in and level them to be able to highlight a few things to sleep on the ground for farmers to use them the other parts of p.t. encourage the young i grew pretty nervous because they're my group prefers the young few that are interested in going into farming you know and so we we encourage them to interact with these these absolutely into the agricultural practices so that we don't follow the same for additional affluence that the appearance and ramping refuse to follow so by the taking this to the police we see lots of young people that are you know traditionally drifting away from the rock communities in physics is the smell coming back into like we called her because of
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this technology. thank you very much you're welcome. these days we hear a lot about how the international car industry is struggling to make vehicles economically electric vehicles economically viable on a large scale especially for a reasonable price in kenya we found an example that shows sometimes all you need is a man and his idea and a lot of hard work speeding through the busy streets of kenya's capital entrepreneur lincoln where my is on a mission maybe 3 and going on my that we are. potentially revolutionary vehicles that can transform the way mobility impaired people get around they are environmentally friendly as well made with recycled 2nd hand materials they feel with their materials needed to build them you have. to build around me for i don't know. i guess how passionate what i do passion isn't the only
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thing that powers the machines my. lithium ion batteries. so. i'm saving the environment. but there we go from back. to my theme port lincoln hopes to eventually mass produces wheelchairs providing energy efficient environmentally friendly transportation to those who need it most the realization of the school might be far off but the wheels are already turning. inspiring a lot of fun now to some of the other global business stories making the news today google's video site you tube will pay $170000000.00 to settle u.s. and new york state complaints that it collects data on children under 13 without their parents' consent who will parent company of about made more than $30000000000.00 in profit last. german exports to the u.k.
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dropped by a whopping 21 percent in the 2nd quarter that's the biggest quarterly drop since the financial crisis a decade ago. meus britain's largest source of imports counted for on 15 percent. indian prime minister narendra modi has arrived in the far eastern russian city of lot of us stock or the eastern economic forum and was greeted by russian president but if you put it before the departed by boat the talks are expected to discuss the 2 countries deepening cooperation in the oil and natural gas and. everyone knows that keeping a straight face is a potent when doing business in china you'll be able to pay for your shopping with your facial features soon the country's embrace of facial payment technology despite proceed. shoppers strike a pose in front of a camera and smile into the point of sale machine the image links to
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a digital payment system or a bank account payment is made on the shopper walks out with their freshly purchase goods. in china mobile payment is already among the most advanced in the world but this makes paying even easier. it's convenient because you can buy things very quickly it's different from payment in the traditional supermarket in which you have to wait in the checkout line down. the designers of the system i for you go save his extra safe because it avoids the need for a password with severe cases of which your facial recognition payment is different we can complete the payment with our faces which is very important for the safety of our account and the world and really. among the companies rolling out the new tech is the we don't bakery it is facial payment machines in hundreds of stores across china so i don't even have to bring
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a mobile phone with me i can go out and shop but i bringing anything this was not possible either at the earliest stage of cash payment or mobile payment to those because what all. i for is mainly focused on man stores others working on the tech include ali baba's financial pay which is devices in 100 cities it may mark a major technological advance but the software is not uncontroversial face recognition tech is already widely used to monitor dissent. and that's it for me on the business scene here in berlin for more business news on back cross check out our website. for that you go here's a quick look a couple blocks. enter
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