Children which makes her feel worthless and incomplete. In a society that expects them to be her children this is a burden many married childless women in niger suffer from. A wife is only fully accepted upon motherhood. A very personal film about the suffering of childless women in niger and. The fruitless tree starting january fourteenth on d. W. Shift living in the digital age coming up living life for followers googles app of the year. And digital input overload. But first Block Chain Technology for refugee some fifty thousand people live in this camp in jordan the u. N. Provides aid to these victims of war and persecution to cut costs and bottlenecks its turned to a futuristic sister. Iris scan instead of pin number chain instead of bank account theres also no need for a bank card or the customers iriss compared with a pre stored scan their purchase total is automatically deducted from sums they receive as aid. The Uns World Food Program gives Syrian Refugees around twenty five euros a month so that cash is not stored in a bank its on block chain a digital shared record of transactions maintained by a network of computers on the internet. And his team are in charge of coordinating and accounting the blocked Train Technology was launched from his office in munich it made aid work more transparent and cost effective. To the frutti how every refugee has a virtual bank account and instead of having that account at a bank we can carry out individual transactions by a block chain. Unblocked chain each refugee is identified by an individual code the information is not stored centrally its managed simultaneously by thousands of servers thats why the blocked Chain Technology is seen as virtually forgery proof all interactions between participants are stored in an encrypted text file that way organizers can trace who bought what and when. The end is the use of it its extremely attractive for us because before block chain we were using various databases so we had our own databases Bank Databases as well as those of the business transactions and that may. And that at the end of the month we had to triangulate reports from sales in banks with block chain there is only one definitive block chain truth and we dont have to spend time tracking the flow of money. But experts say there are risks theres no government or Financial Institution controlling block change to say convinced of their mind solution i dont believe such protocols can be trusted entirely you still have to have the capability to intervene if the need arises even because its good. But the you when is already counting on blocked change it says it could revert to Bank Transfers within a space of hours from now though its planning to bring blocked chain based aid services to other camps. Were now trying to roll out the program for up to one hundred thousand people in jordan by the end of the year and simultaneously launch it in other countries we believe that in jordan alone we can save several Million Euros a year on bank charges thats money that can be spent on food aid. Alexandra all the benefits across the humanitarian aid sector she says it could help build a Digital Identity for refugees who have lost everything. The capability of the black chain is you could record a lot of different types of information on the black chain so for example like a lot of refugees or displaced they lose their papers they basically have to start from square one they dont have education records etc if you begin putting those things on the block chain that it becomes an immutable record thats also transferred across borders aid without boundaries and banks in this project its already a reality. Shift says an effective use of technology. Time now for the shift ranking this time the countrys most lacking in Internet Freedom. In fifth place cuba u. S. N. G. O. S. Freedom house studied restrictions on Internet Access content and Data Protection in sixty five countries despite modest steps to increase Internet Access cuba it says remains one of the worlds least connected and most repressive environments for. Scoring seventy nine out of one hundred possible negative points. In fourth place iran and iran has its own cyber bullies Internet Access beads and band with have slowly improved still the country scored eighty five negative points. At number two no you havent missed anything in this ranking two countries are tied for second place syria and ethiopia both with eighty six negative points and war torn syria its dangerous to air independent views. Bloggers and bloggers risk their lives and he has the worlds worst Internet Access. And at number one china was the worst abuser of Internet Freedom despite a smartphone of the mobile internet boom the country has the most digital restrictions notching eighty seven out of one hundred possible points. That was this weeks ranking and now reality soap on the internet influencers are online almost twenty four seven for their fans sharing moments of intimacy to make money. Thanks to more or less obvious advertising messages. Her workday starts before breakfast streaming live from her cell phone. I my ok i still have to cut the apples and grapes from my cio putting up with being minimal see ya later bye for now. More than four thousand five hundred people have just watched louisa much of her life takes place online the same goes for her boyfriend. Theyve both made names for themselves as fitness bloggers demonstrating workouts on the internet. She has nearly seventy thousand followers on instagram theyre both influencers companies are exploiting their reach by placing their products in the hands of social media personalities a luxury lifestyle in exchange for advertising and Product Placement and constant public attention. First the two of us are going to go for a run and lose goal is to rock this thing in under two hours. Sorry but people dont know what you mean by this thing Half Marathon yeah scuse me. Ok so now were going to start running but i just looked into the camera see if that was ok. But it was then a frost is also an influencer more than fifty thousand users follow her day to day life its a full time job and how much you make is down to simple math ports in told you can charge about one hundred euros or ten thousand followers we always charge around five hundred euros for an Instagram Photo for a blog post it depends on how much it involves do we have to book a photographer or make up for the shot then were in the range of one thousand five hundred to twenty five hundred euro siphons. Instagram wants influencers to clearly identify paid posts but not everyone discloses such content products are peddled under the packaging of an every day life disease you see all these beautiful young girls with size zero figures and designer bags worth several thousand euros and quite a lot of people assume that this is their real life because they see nothing else i have a problem with that because it conveys values that in the long run create frustration. This. Video bloggers are also starting to acknowledge the downside to life as an influencer. This one there are days when i wish we could go back to having a normal relationship normal relationship for me would be not having to take photos of ourselves the entire time and posting something on instagram. Can you go offline its not that easy to most monday and daily activities are marketable so ive already made the basic sauce at doing a bit of vegetable stock and tomato paste the idea so everybody young is cooking a healthy lunch and then of course well have the recipe for you. And of course. Hopefully it will at least taste good parents. Shift says more privacy plates. Are. Now shorter and sweet fish shift after shots. Google has named its number one app of the year and a twenty seven thousand winner is so credit to hold work helper. In class it may all seem crystal clear. But when it comes to doing homework alone at home its one big model. The app socratic offers free homework help. And its easy to use just the exercise with your smartphone Artificial Intelligence solves it and provides the explanation to. An additional chat feature allows students to share information with their peers and can be used like a study Group Without having to switch out of the app. That leaves more time for important things in life. You know of an interesting app then write a sort of shift that d. W. Dot com. Will try out your best tips on the show that was an option. As always we leave shift through the exit. Hard internet find of the week today digital over stimulation. Smartphones is taken over modern day life. From the first thing in the morning. And even before the first sip of coffee were scrolling through our apps like teen texting surfing. But this is how the british designer tailor sees smartphone dependency there is no rest for people who are permanently online. Social Media Channels demand constant attention liking the day away tell your wife i crash and. Be back on line to calm the nerves with the game. And end the day with a bit of diversion just for adults. What what what digital over stimulation turn your brains about to burst. Next time a shift to a future of communication how humans can interact with three dimensional avatars in Computer Generated spaces mixed reality blends the physical and Digital World next time on shift. Why do elephants need this. How does a plastic model turn into a paving stone why do algae make it clear. Good idea kill working in the way and there are people developing Smart Solutions everywhere. Lets inspire each other to the environment magazine eco at africa next d. W. A small neighborhood in East Jerusalem here palestinians and israelis fight tooth and nail over every inch of Land Real Estate speculation evictions and house demolitions are common we accompany palestinian residents and meet jewish settlers. A new perspectives on the holy city on the other jerusalem in forty five minutes on d w. D w that as we speak the language. For content in dollars. Pashto and or prospects for returning our web special refugee journeys life in germany and the prospects for those returning home. Join the discussion on t w dot com and on facebook. Prospects for returning news d. W. May for mine. Every journey begins with the first step and every language with the first word published in the. Rico is in germany to learn german why not learn english have a simple online on your mobile and free themselves from d w z e learning course nico speak german made easy. Hello and welcome to you could be environment magazine coming to you from nigeria kenya and germany i am