you because when i had serious problems on a personal level and i was unable to live they're going to. want to know their story in full migrants terrified and reliable information for margaret's. gone in one fell swoop all that work against poverty inequality and discrimination down the drain the pandemic has put us back to kate's it's exacerbated social divisions and it's highlighted more than ever just how unfair economies can be welcome we do about it let's take a look the entire populations of rich industrialized countries could be vaccinated

by the end of the year imagine nations that may not happen until next year is that fair well you've just got to follow the money to find a vaccine we compare the challenges facing europe's economic engine germany africa's largest economy nigeria and the world's biggest democracy india. developing manufacturing and distributing vaccines against the coronavirus it is a huge challenge will only rich countries get the supplies they need what about low and middle income countries. the situation in india. i mean mumbai and my aim is to find the answer to that question. over the span of about a month around $8000000.00 people in india have received their 1st vaccine. the

government aims to vaccinate 300000000 people by july. health care and other front line workers 1st in line. among them gaeta raj who's been a nurse for 20 years. she's very relieved to be protected she was worried she might become infected and then pass the virus on to her family. but maybe abbott never had to be extremely careful at home i was worried about our children and their health i slept in a separate room picked my clothing and shoes separate maintain proper hygiene and constantly used sanitizes i try to take care of every little thing around at home the whole time is of the essence infection rates a stable right now and india hopes to vaccinate more than 60 percent of its population by the end of the year. but in that time frame where the numbers are

going down so would be very imperative that it became vaccinate as many people as possible it would be able to avoid be po'd be if the oxford astra zeneca vaccine is produced under license in india by the serum institute of india a company owned by one of india's wealthiest families that's one of the world's biggest pharmaceuticals manufacturers. the government has pledged to provide the vaccine at low cost like now free of charge we're going to be. probably the lowest priced call the 19. vaccine manufacturing the world like we are for all of axes it's going to be priced in a few 100 rupees initially that won't cover the costs but we're talking to the government to see how we can manage that with high volumes to see that you know we don't go into a dog lost or whatever in december india became the world's largest buyer of covert 1000 vaccines ordering 1600000000 doses in effect 800000000 people all 60 percent

of the population india is fortunate in that it can manufacture a european vaccine and indian vaccine is due to follow and they'll be imported ones how is the manufacture of vaccines proceeding in industrialized countries and what's the situation in africa on the continent relies on imports and they're being coordinated by kovacs a global initiative a mirror to ensure equitable access reporters sampson adelaide is in the nigerian capital abuja. we all have to wear masks on the streets of. vaccinations have not yet begun here in nigeria. the only country on the african continent to have started this south africa a number of others are planning to start soon. are you dealy is medical director of the private connected car spittal he hasn't seen many covert

related deaths for the government the task is so important that only public vaccination centers will deliver the jab those and for anyone is contrary to the complex sentences of my population i don't care what happened in this you're not a part of the world so. this pandemic is just telling us all to do wald is one big global village nigeria has a population of more than 200000000 doctor i routinely tells me that to attain herd immunity by a vaccination more than 100000000 would need to be inoculated the national health care development agency isn't working on a vaccine of its own its director pfizer says it will be getting the one manufactured by the serum institute of india with the support of the world health organization we get him around $60000000.00 doses of the identical type of vaccine in the month of february and that. these will likely call

in batches. he says less than 2000 people have died of covert 19 in nigeria the mortality rate in south africa for example is much higher the number of doses being provided by the w.h.o. and the gates foundation amounts to less than 20 percent of the total need it so what's the situation like in germany let's find out from our colleague in berlin. vaccines are to be produced in a number of facilities in germany some are still being built. and countries around the world are competing to acquire the available vaccines. on february 1st chancellor merkel confirmed the government's commitment. does to us everybody effects a nation by the end of the 3rd quarter said that is the end of the summer. in fundable. germany is among the slowest rich countries when it comes to vaccinating

its population orders for vaccines were placed too late senior citizens and health care workers topped the priority list around 3000000 doses have been used so far. germany is one of the world's richest countries it might well succeed in completing its vaccination campaign by the end of the year. but vaccinating lower income countries especially in africa will depend on assistance from the international community. but this isn't just about money it's about government's organizational skills and getting the public on board israel is well on its way to becoming the 1st country in the world to a vaccinated its population anyone who's already had covert and survived or has jabs will get a green passport allowing them to move more freely the thing is this isn't just

a race against the coronavirus anymore it's about beating the diseases ability to mutate a reporter spoke to an official leg of a the alliance that's working to help lower income countries get their fair share of the vaccine. back seen alliance is involved in campaigns around the world to vaccinate against infections to see since such is ebola and polio. that's set up refrigeration facilities in africa to ensure an uninterrupted cold chain for rick seems. i'm going to talk to god he's director of countries. about the global corona that respects the nation program. to act quickly it's absolutely critical because. the quicker we can. contain the virus the faster we can prevent it from for example

mutating countries in the north one hemisphere and south america as well as australia will likely have facts by the end of next year. but it's feared that the vaccination timeline from many countries in africa and asia will extend to 2023. that rich country is currently the populations of the rich countries get vaccine early have and populations of the a much in countries where changing that our intent is to make sure that low income countries can access this in fact scenes at the same time as high income countries are much money do you have did you collect already so far we've mobilized $6000000000.00. and we are still seeking an additional $2000000000.00.

for it to take us through the end of the year and into 2022 many countries have contributed funds to god with the aim of ensuring an equitable distribution of coronavirus spec scenes the ones in grey are not donors low and middle income countries marked in purple are to be provided with $8000000000.00 euros to buy a vaccine you're up to mr maher asked that they need it 60 to 70 percent and goal of vaccination of the whole population robie are achievable within this year i wouldn't say that no i think. that would probably be a goal that would be achieved in 2022 i think you know globally. but. certainly from our perspective reaching those 1st 20 percent that are the most for all that will. go and we're on track to do. a pandemic aside what about how awful fishel intelligence is changing our lives it's doing some great stuff but

it's also creating an even unfair a world the systems are mostly made by a bunch of white guys so the decisions made by the bots or algorithms a based on biased information if you're not a white guy the social impacts can be extremely far reaching on health education and economic status for example in some cases it can be a matter of whether you live today or not. a drone attack artificial intelligence decides on the target the size of a life and death. increasingly it also selects who is going to be invited to job interviews or not. and who is put behind bars and who gets out on probation. it's 5 o'clock in the morning it's in the dark outside time to work and to talk with a leading expert in ethics. in australia. kate

crawford studies the social impact of artificial intelligence which is becoming more and more important to our everyday lives. wise in just as the producer developers have the power to minimize it in many ways we are training the technical systems of the future on the historical data on the past and along with that comes all of the biases and structural inequalities of those periods so this is a fundamental problem that we see in terms of the way that artificial intelligence works and for example studies that i have done on the possible king of things like predictive policing software which in many cases is trained on police days or that contains many forms of you know racial inequities so if you are black person being judged by some type of either you know profiling software operated policing

software the likelihood that you are receiving fair treatment actually goes down. so what is this solution we think of these problems as engineering problems as though when we see these forms of inequality being enhanced by a high that what we can do is come up with a technical fix to try and simply modify a system to address it but in actual fact this is again part of this corny artificial intelligence or somehow removed from society is pure math the opposite is true these are systems that are in themselves profoundly imbedded in all of the systems of labor data and of the environment so if we do address profound issues inequality we need to see them as social rather than as engineering problems in the future ai systems could become ever more closely intermeshed so for example my bank might make assumptions about my health on the basis of information about what i

tend to eat making it potentially difficult to get a long term loan where do we have to draw the line what do you think from your point of view. i think the lines a very different depending on what spaces we're talking in many cases i look to the existing regulator restructures that we have and something like the health care demand do we need to come up with a totally new different set of rules and i or can we simply adapt the sorts of sector specific regulations that we already have that and my sense certainly at the moment is that really just growing from a sector specific laws and regulations we already have is the way to go doesn't respect national borders yet there are no shared international rules about its use in the e.u. data protection laws are written don't compare to the united states and in china there are hardly any curbs on the use of ai. at the moment we don't really have a body that's doing that there's a very new one called the global partnership on ai but again it's very early days

it's less than a year old and the sort of work that it's doing is entirely voluntary people can choose to follow those norms as they wish the e.u. wants international guidelines on ai weapons some other countries don't the bottom line those who stand to benefit from a i want to keep that. as a transfer of power to the already powerful we're seeing as an increase in his power his image towards already powerful institutions and corporations so these are the ways in which i see artificial intelligence as intensifying already existing dynamics of power inequality in society. racism is bad for business 2 thirds of people will buy from will boycott a company based on its social or political position according to a survey by marking consultancy firm edelman the killing of a black man george floyd by a police officer in minnesota led to

a global discussion on racism and the role of businesses in social justice just what can companies do to fight for racism within and beyond the workplace we asked kara hudson banks a professor of psychology at st louis university who helps enterprises learn how to become anti-racist and anti-racist organization and one that acknowledges not only how racism is showing up in their organization but is committed to taking action against it consistently over time. 'd so organizations want to know how to build and anti-racist commitment they need to one identify the harm you can't assume that everything's been ok until now listen to the voices of folks who are most impacted and do it without being

defensive i think too often individuals within organizations feel uncomfortable asking well where we are we've done wrong because they feel personally complicit and it might be that they are part of the problem but we have to understand that racism is not just individual action racism is a system. it's about the patterns that we've created in our organization and so if we're willing to think about what are the patterns that we have in the bill landscape in the bill environment of our organization we can spend less time getting caught in our feelings of defensiveness and move to solving the problem. to get specific so once you have. of what the harm has been so then you've got to not just say oh we see that we have some patterns you have to get specific about how you're going to rectify those and equitable patterns maybe

you say internally we're going to commit to more professional development specifically for our employees of color but to make sure that everyone has access and opportunity to the professional development they need that mentoring they need and the networking they me. 3 deal with discomfort coming to see how your company or organization has been complicit and perpetuated dynamics of racism requires that you're honest about how you maybe made a misstep don't get caught up in perception rating or dwelling are wallowing it is what it is you maybe didn't fully understand the depths now you do you can feel all those feelings and put in the work to be actively antiracist. for be accountable can you tell me that the opportunities on your team have been

equally distributed equitably distributed we have goals that we set over time and those shift and change as we progress and it's the same with anti-racism so if we look at our disaggregated data and we see that disproportionately we have people of color at lower ranks and our organization but not higher rates. we want to increase those numbers so that means we're going to focus on like i said mentor we're going to focus on professional development we're going to focus on making sure people have access and opportunities and can be seen by leadership. companies that are doing this work well are willing to grapple with. the problem of racism they're not willing to settle for easy answers they are engaging people at all levels of the organization on how we get creative and how we all work together

to be anti-racist this is ongoing work that has to get integrated into the fabric of a company and should not just be siloed in one unit or and one position that it is a shared commitment throughout the organization. well when young people enter the workforce these days they don't just take whatever they can get they're the ones making the demands whether it's something like frank showy where they get to sit in the office or if the company offers a caring and fair a workplace this generation really cares about ethics including those of its employees campaigners say respect existence or expect resistance. they need the superheroes who are going to save the world. is a student in berlin he's only 20 but he's already politically active in the fridays for future environmental movement. like many others in his generation he

wants to create a sustainable and fair free from discrimination and racism. i think generations is very value oriented we're very progressive very cosmopolitan and we're committed to tackling all kinds of injustice and that can be a problem when it comes to the kind of careers we want to have because many employers are still very traditional and conservative in their thinking. to save the world superheroes need super powers. for generations that one way to change things is via social media. quite posh also works for the german platform tin can producing short educational videos for young people if topics of the gender pay gap like climate change and democracy. we have to look at the bigger picture and not just that employers we have to consider how politics society and business interact

if we want to achieve transformational processes and change of course employers must decide whether they're prepared to give young people greater opportunities without expecting them to have experience and. this or that area but we also have to take political measures that enable business to employ young people with little experience and give them a chance. that generations edge doesn't just want to post and like things on social media it wants action people born in or often 995 make up generations that many vote green and eat less meat than that free distresses the many else and they expect a fairer and more caring work place. a job of the verge of eden this generation will be very demanding and have very specific ideas about what they expect from the world of work they have their own

view of the world. they have demands and wishes and i think that they're less willing to compromise than the generation before. many young people $25.00 or rhonda would want any employer to respect and even embody their. diversity equality. shuteye rocky's. transparency for example when it comes to salaries and sustainability. they apply for jobs at companies that live these values and they take part in demonstrations to up hold these facts. it's really got there are more jobs than applicants right now or no it's not that means young people are in the very privileged position of being able to pick and choose the position really suits them or not. that's why as long as often young people are

arrogant. they're not just realize they're standing or what they're worth they're not stupid. you know and they choose employers depending on whether. they're a good fit. for us. and that means for employers it can be a challenge to attract and then to keep talented young people. they're quite educated and looking back on previous generations on they're probably one of the most highly educated generations of recent history but that being said they're entering the workforce with considerable less job experience on than previous generations so that you know that's something that when the workplace when and when employers start to think about you know how would what they need to do they need to consider the fact that yes we have very very smart people that are

coming to work but that they're going to need serious training you need to. klang pasha knows he's privileged to be in a strong position on the job market and has opportunities for personal development and many others in his generation unless. this was a fridays have a demonstration. record yes i get my db you know the stage was here and the brandenburg gate is right behind you even the this is where fridays for future always stage there global strikes but let the last one it was on september 25th and 2020 will be tens of thousands of us demonstrated here i did a serving social distancing towel for climate justice and for the german parliament to implement the 1.5 celsius cap in bonus talk that. now it's deserted but even during the pandemic generations that refuses to be silenced for now compact just keeping up the protest online. while without racism

and justice and environmental problems we all like that maybe we all need to be a little more the magic thanks for joining us today on the business show made i've been physical and see that side.

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