for over 40. families in. this world. hey there good to have you here on the 77 percent the show that i'm the phys the voice of off because you my name is. good to have you with us. today it's all about young africans who shipped all future with digital technologies and it's a special show too because we have an exciting guest joining us in the studio. jay jay of woods or is one of the most influential on the point he's here to talk about the told people this opportunity. in ghana we find out how electronic waste

gets turned into one minute for me i'm. more than the little one who shoulder. so let's begin with a life for many digital devices ends. in guyana it's probably africa's most famous dumpsite for electronic waste one young woman decided that all the hard drives she and all of that the knots and bolts aren't just useful you know a lot tops and mobile phones in fact matilda payne is convinced this can be turned into fancy jewelery and interior design. pretty cool earrings right well damage from west these country chairs are also up cycled just like these funky coffee temple design of painting turns trash into treasure she. find.

and book. site for electronic waste it's a place where old computers and keyboards wind up along with stacks of car tires the smell of burning rubber fills the air a lot of people here upon the trash to recover pieces of coal park that they can sell on but my kid up paying is not hunting. she's on the lookout for inspiration. voiced to get the positives from you so we've tried to find a solution to this problem so we not all small we so need to be climate change we decided to come here for wings. forwards. this scrap yard has an army not snake name. it's about the size of 20 so copy out which means there's plenty of material for my children to sell to prove. she comes over time so weak and this time abuse computer

circuit boards have caught her. with that's going to work with anything whether it's broken all is new or all boys do that so it was bad to be calling them once in a while commander store final credits it was for real. the 1st stage of the transformation is a good clean then the material is cut into smaller pieces. and sanded down to make smooth images finally matilda paint puts the finishing touches to how unique earrings. killed those projects require time and teamwork spaces are biggest challenge we don't have a bigger space so we cannot employ more and we can do more. for us on the 2nd one is machinery as you can see around we have just simple tools that work with the team set. only isn't lacking is imagination they can try an ordinary electric scrap

into lampshades tables or clocks and matilda paint regularly exhibits have designs on conferences objects not only like a chink they are opening to i think rather than take all this amazing stuff that all this money has been poured into and just put the world with it why not turn it into art a lot of places across the world were having a problem with an increase in waste and like managing the ways to getting rid of it matilda pain has won several awards recommit nice thing hard creative way of doing her bit for the environment and she has even bigger things planned for the company . we are looking not really able to empower more women therefore we would have to train more women to venture into what we're doing now to be able to start your own businesses who would also like to empower the youth expression

between come into premiers like us for every item sold. already donates 5 percent of the money she mix to the education of and the people h.t. angara as she doesn't only want to bring peace candidate items back to life she also wants to give something back to society. wow but some way to quit jewelry ok now let's meet a woman who actually wouldn't want to be cut up into pieces and one as earrings this is. she leaves him up to him with a big soggy a fast trained as an architect but then went on to study at 80 as she saw more business opportunities there would you believe that not even one out of 10 people in was a big have access to the internet this is something sighs here is determined to change to bring her country forward into the future. in my food

well school like old rusty woods meat smart to pronounce like sousa she's convinced that digital technology will revolutionize the continent. in. 30 years from now i see an africa that produces solutions and africa that thinks on a global scale in order to find local solutions. of the sort of solution that. serves your sousa study and went on to found her own company techno plus a team of 20 people set up computer systems and build websites and databases for banks and shops. know what. challenges such as park or expensive hardware. beliefs that are challenging work environment doesn't have to be an obstacle to success. many scientists and creators will come from

here from africa because where there are challenges there is also creativity where they are problem also. it's not all about making money in order to expose more young people to the digital world she also gives free i.t. classes in a nearby school every saturday so far not even $1.00 out of 10 was on beacons has access to the internet for most students this is the 1st time they have ever used a computer. approach to teaching is to show her students the beauty and creativity behind a process that is too often perceived as just technical. because if you can get a machine a piece of software to do the math with just a few lines of code that is just beautiful.

teaching method is unique and. i. don't often interpret. that she could shape the future not just for herself. it's a lesson she wants to pass on. but i really hope we will be prepared and implemented our own innovations instead of the ones coming from outside. the next and. taking advantage of the opportunity. wow that's really inspiring it's about digitalisation can have a huge influence but of course it's not without challenges and would like to delve into these but also into the opportunity one guy who is an expert on digital

aviation and new media in africa is jay jay. jay jay. public speaker and an expert on digital. but now lives. i think everything. everyone touch more lives impacts more lives because the ability to be everywhere. to help africans and money to businesses i want to be. a young africans with this new book digital the new well. they say. well it's really great to have you with us thank you. what's the biggest opportunities for young people online i think the biggest has to

be access because the us is and you can spread this thing in whichever way you want to express it so the biggest thing is as an m.b.a. after as i for the b.b.c. not everyone sees has i t background that everyone is into coding so how after the axis how can someone make money on social media why should anyone be official media and if you can if you haven't understood you don't have followers who don't have an understanding you can be an ivory gets on so you're a bridge yes they're like a an agency you could you call it a business from a company that wants to sell something on the internet and then you connect them to the influence of the markets and so you know you would have to have an icon subdued right not to mention you say it's not accounts for your own business or you'd be the influencer yourself or even creating platforms yourself so the chance of opportunities are limitless you know you one of them with success we bloggers on the continent does the number of for you to tell me how much you could or in the case of organic advertising is that not so much anymore really big is these

engagements engagement model followers because you can have 5000 followers and have people engage in a specific issue say flowers or it's cost. or bristly as i drew is right if you have engagement around our conversation then you can attract business opportunities because because of the engagement and i was in time you could have a huge number of followers i know having a good mentor around anything that is what do your business is interest and you have pointed out they did nanny opportunities on the line but they're also challenges so what happens when you come from a country where the cost of internet is too high now for example if you're coming from nigeria where $1.00 g.b. of data costs about $2.00 right well someone is coming from zimbabwe and house to pay a mind booking 75 u.s. dollars for the same amount of data now we offer from young as the baldwins how they deal with the high cost of internet data let's have

a look. and think they've gone down. using tools he can jane. i mean we don't use price like we place i can't even if i did i sound like by the way like like the cool kids in school. and i need. to know i say most of the ones not think that it was right not everything seems so it's pretty hectic it's actually selling like you know. j.j. how can we overcome such challenges as high into that price it's a tragedy like just looking at the numbers and it would be $2.00 and then you guys mind you just decide on density imagine this only $5.00 a gig in zimbabwe just dust that i think were really still happening government has to get out of the way because the wait is right now governments literally in the

way of innovation on isis ceuta the internet and when i say government it's not so great for he says taxes the cost of living $5.00 out of 6 it's not just about the immediate cost there's also the. source of pain taxes to governments to lay this 5 out of 6 and 5 of 6 i do live wire of the internet and the internet is a live wire of modern business so government has to get out of the way and then also incentivize industry because it's a business idea end of the day and if you incentivize industry and if you remove the bottlenecks that prevents business is from getting into space the bits of prices would automatically go down and the national media is going to like it's not just about businesses it's also about the what of information that exists for young people on life you know whether you want to learn new skills whether you want to imagine yeah advocation just anything you know the internet is the electricity of today's economy now is that country that comes to mind as we're talking that could

be a perfect example of a government that is working for the people when it comes to internet access and connectivity estonia of africa. i mean it certainly is that is i mean you know i mean in africa because he said perfect example of that message that example western difficult because there's a perfect example we dispense of that on the continent all right i'm definitely give props to nigeria we fiberoptic cables like 2 or 3 of them in one g r k r is not deemed by me to us to be said south africa what as a collective the numbers about and what the fed does it will come to any of them that's what we are all striving for perfection that is indeed true now what is it digital dream of what do you dream of a digital africa in 2050 i mean i think you already have something to let him let it be said at a 50 shots but it's very long speaking about digital but i would said that for me is about connect c.d.c. and affordability let's everybody has to be connected because this our rights it's

our rights to prosperity so you did your rights to freedom of expression and then of course affordability because it's not enough to be able to connect as we've seen by we just so it's also important to people can't afford to be able to connect now before i let you go i need you to finish this question. to be successful on social media you need to. explore. very you have it thank you so much made a full year now tell us these new media a promising professional field for you share your thoughts on facebook and how we look at our you tube channel. now on a different note let's head to kenya now he has a growing graffiti scene in fun some of nairobi's street artists able to make a living through their passion those who made it now some of his role models for younger. if you're looking for street art in nairobi you need to go to low

income neighborhoods. take a smokey. grew up here in jericho. in the canyon of his teens there wasn't much in the way of st. but smokey started spraying until one day it became his korea. for war for the states. in the last 15 years. has grown. and smokey has his own little one of the old train carriages. also makes time to mentor up and coming artists. make enough not to live off even if it isn't always easy. to.

get trapped or. thank you for the words i don't. like. spring for businesses. but it's in the community. they really want to make an impact. is more powerful. you know just sitting in this small small. they argue. for example and they've known for it's high crime rate and violence. grew up here. so when former gang members decided to build a community center and the children's library they asked him to help with that. many people engaging in this but. they decided to form wanted to express themselves

as people who are willing to do something for change so they greeted me. with. open eyes to graffiti jam and get together of artists from all over town. some of them have had to save up to buy paints and spray can. be here to help brighten up the area especially for the children and the youth. of my asthma to as motivation. i think is the what more do so is the one move. to new community graffy do. graffiti. with their art and his fellow artists have earned the respect of the community i didn't . using symbols so i can see

that i am. that's. a lot of talking about something with what would. make him one of the words they shouldn't have looked at. me welcomed me and given me several orders. it's his way of saying thank you to the community and maybe inspire the next generation of street artists. let me take you away from nairobi and let's head to fit in the gambia where iraq and activist ace takes us on a tour through his home city although it isn't the capital of the gun be a fairy queen that eve of a more think market trading santa in a more west african country and it's the place to be for the youth of the country. called world. ace activist and i want to welcome you to my city several.

of the group will take you around places around town. pretty. well from the outside. and deeply connected to his west to. the 35 year old who was born here in the district of and some are convinced east. 365000. that's also the country's cultural and economic hop. of the city. on the long island sound. in body so this is the couple i know one of my favorite foods out here has the sour taste and you add. like i thought of some sort and pepper and some sugar to have

that sweet and sour you know on the shelf and you know it's louis is nice like gives you a different sense. overwhelmingly but there aren't enough jobs for this many are able to get by by doing or troughs and even scott's just struggled for a while as a self or inventor on the so-called black market. to. know. the heart of this place a lot of people survive with these specially young people and if you look at all of these young people like in contrast to go that they can go mediterranean sea for all to go and you realize that the young people really do want to be something i believe that my music inspired them to keep on believing in themselves because killer isn't just a rock he's also an activist as a political injustice began when he was just for us old his family fled from the original former dictator today not to states when he was 10 the age of 15 it teamed

up with a young people and organize demonstrations against a president in the west will district by his commitment to justice made him a target. which means if you're part of the herd of cows to get to the city to get to the beach $48.00. and that song spoke against corruption the police brutality arbitrary arrests and a lot of is that what happened in that time i was targeted after that and that's why i have to give this one away as if it could come back to. his love for his homeland brought back to the gum get in 2017 when the democratically elected president about more power to the country's poor economy situation still hasn't changed but sir residents don't know these problems or stop them from enjoying life . to screw up the town a typical working class neighborhood is kind of messed up. the bus to come for me

to find out about the i'm probably pretty good idea is about people going to be free and this is a miss on the rise of life from the shores. of pristine sunday beaches have made it an increasingly popular this to nation of the locals also like to relax on the beach india fee time. so welcome to land one of my favorite places in the gambia you see the beautiful beach the beautiful people having fun and you know that was really a great time have you guys like to thank everybody for watching and hope that you come to gambia since this is my city this is not all that pretty but it's still matsumoto. sad to have to break up with my mom but i've been like a. little you need a few months i. wouldn't be going to do this it's now time to wrap up the show but thanks a lot for joining us and leave next week that we're always happy to hear from you

just write us at 7 to 7 at d w dot com if you have any feedback for us all even story ideas we ended the show with someone from the guy yes you guessed it right here is he not featuring only resign we that get to see caught up catch you on the next episode of the fun to 7th and until then good bye. to. the one time said look this is the one time there's been enough time. not one of the ways it will be how different the harvester number needed. to know what you want to let tom. playing the

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