Very much for that mubaraks end of this bulletin the news shall continue but first it is innovate on counting the cost well talk to i. M. F. Chief christine like god about how the economic model is changing here in the middle east can ireland break regs it find out how the emerald isle is caught in the middle of a big round between the u. K. And the e. U. Plus the year of the dog in china counting the cost at this time on aljazeera. This is innovate africa a series highlighting innovation and creativity across a continent that is on the rise today on innovate africa. Building cheap computers from unwanted waste. And verifying the safety of medicines by mobile phone we have to have a system of truth which leads to accountability touching nigerias rubbish problems using cargo bikes and a mess waste queens there are in fact a wave of africa. And a radical scheme to lift disenfranchised youth out of gang culture and into technology the children of that state of mind. Solving social problems and positively affecting their local communities is what drives the innovators in todays program we start in nigeria where theres a growing problem with stuff like this household rubbish dhoni met a young woman with a radical solution. The world. Good job. Waste a growing problem facing many african cities none more so than in lagos in nigeria we discarded litter pollute the surrounding environment and poisons the Living Conditions of twenty Million People. In landfills a full to overflowing piles of unprocessed garbage and runoff waste water bacteria. But here in this city has also been the seed of remarkable innovation. Because i do believe it has identified an opportunity for social change and he tied to a business separate the called separate life separate only give up if she started recycling and initiative to create a Sustainable Business model up to the household garbage. I must agree in Software Engineering with my class started out as a result of a class that i took while i was a student at mit focused on people that live at the base of the pyramid people that earn less than two dollars a day. While working to empower people in low income communities to be a waste we provide them with convenience recycling using low cost cargo bicycles called wi fi calls. Household service and find on a weekly schedule so are we. On how schools would start. Into three different categories the plastic bottles. The pill what have you on the current. Each kind of material. Each kind of material it different values of points households then we feed from. That tells them how much of each month cereal that we collect and how many points they were able to get many of the household service. So we have to do something that was very simple and easily accessible. Every three months we have a chance of going for price we can get Household ItemsElectronics Like a blender. You know toasted machine generates so even cash. Is something that will. Make an environmentally clean. Means something. We started about two years ago and since then. Six thousand households. Three thousand. Six hundred. We. Need the. Team to expand initiative across the continent. She has come to my home city of cape town to network with the manager of the recycling site in. Im. Good with the welcome to cape town thank you thank you so much. Every day twenty Million People so many people so we have this model. We want to make it such that it can be transferred to other places so thats really what were working on now is to expand our model you know thats a think big. And informal settlement on the atlantic seaboard about twenty kilometers outside of cape town could be home to the first south african beside his initiative. Visit the first time you come in so my first time oh has identified similarities between her hometown and. Thirty thousand people who live here and their Waste Collection system is in adequate. Care and then they were stuck at classes or keeping those bags wow ok then no wonder so gang is the manager of the in his and we had to cooperative here she and her team collect recyclables dropped off by the public sort and then sell them. This from monday until every day. Both of us. Waste. Well listen i dont want marions of africa the Current System relies on the room and we cyclers model could be the perfect incentive to galvanize recycling in the community. A lot and how does the Financial Model of the company work that provides the resources to be able to provide these and simply what we do is we sell the waste. Value at the point of collections for example the plastic bottles theres so many things you can do you know to add value to separate the color remove the car. It was separate the color of the new bus wow and you get more money you dont have to you dont have to remove this one you get more money than if its like wow ok. As we grow one must become big the number of the amount of whats reflected in store huge that becomes all those costs. Now we have not yet broken even though we have supports from companies that they fund for same things that we do. Will fund. And that helps us to offset. That you cannot people cannot become come out of poverty without having. This. Through this. They have no solution so we want to provide. Togo is one of the smallest countries in africa. In the sixteenth century it was a country raided by european slave traders the capital city has a population of less than a Million People many of them young. But its one of the african countries least touched by the communication and computing revolution was sewn up with. Limited resources and infrastructure. To be part of the technological revolution that is sweeping across africa. Sam is a young man who has started a tech business in the city his Company Infinite loop is a product of his passion for technology and the change that it brings. Sam first became known for the robots he was making since he was a child hes programmed the robots to play football and even recognize faces. While he was at university he and his friends could not afford computers and had very little access to technology he decided that the solution lay in the fate of thinking with cheap computer chips and second hand pots computers could be built from the most basic and unlikely components. But his aunt sally quinn bill sammon golf outwalk. All the up till now which is on as well as. Funk feels that the former top dog or not is up out scene. From sun was awful mental. For a scream and the computer can be plugged into a new t. V. All your guests being call the new life thats your new life in a moment fam want to pollute. The news and i was not theyll. Send uses a combination of both component and easy ways to make his Handheld Computers but for other young told police keen on a career in technology the markets are a good place to start. Gnome is market sell everything from the waist to these plastic jerry cans they are found throughout africa but here in long may be used for more than carrying water. Bottle was a regular ok. They jerry is a tough d. I. Y. Computer anyone can build from recycled computer parts housed in a jerry cab. This group of young people call themselves the jerry collab theyre working together in a downtown space called the way down a place where young innovators gather to collaborate and share ideas while building the technology they cannot. Who do you root is the current team leader at the wheel or valid youve already reads as an origin out there who is equally valid as either mother views or the not. And he said in one piece. Are you not. On the deficit. Not the oh yeah one i was not that also now its one. That i feel those of us know making more than the god do i think there was. No way. The network would be led the way so wed. Be fat and i watch our faith well out. You know what i mean. On preventing ended up is on. Part of the philosophy is to include the community. The schools in togo dont offer any computer classes and the way lab is filling an important gap one of the most ambitious project here is to build a three d. Printers from waste material some months ago the way lab team succeeded in building an Award Winning three d. Printer using recycled parts its said to be the worlds first three d. Printer made from new waste its currently being showcased in europe and the team is building more. Larger than the. Average. Well not. Very worried. Three month where the battle not among one of the ana. Sam kodo began his technological journey at the way lab but has now moved on. Sam was nominated for a prestigious award a prize for innovation and entrepreneurship he was one of twelve finalists chosen from all over africa. And was african on. All live in. Fact. In. All the all. Africa cape towns gang culture is a complex social problem has proved difficult to overturn but now a group of ex gangsters are using technology to radically change their community. Cape town is a city visited by thousands of tourists every year and Table Mountain is one of africas great natural attractions but in the shadow of the mountain is an area known as the cape flats. It is home to a large mixed Race Community who were designated kunitz during the upon take issue. These communities were forcibly removed from their homes and dumped him. Many young people without Cultural Roots or status have turned to drugs and gangs. But now this area has spawned an innovative scheme to tease technology to offer a way out of the cycle of drugs and violence. This new cafe on the cape flats is unique to the city. Here no money ever changes hands but nothing is for free people pay for their meals and refreshments with a Virtual Currency cold exactness. Many of these young people are unemployed and some of them even homeless they only slept was that accredited to get digital wanted by attending free i. C. T. Courses. Are. Letters can be used in the online store to buy groceries and time train tickets haircuts and snacks at the youth cafe where free wife i and access to computers is also available to. Be. Desired to Exchange Program and the youth cafe itself a key parts of the model brands find good i welcome to it to our left over here good to meet you and nice you too so theres a space quite viable and let. Us off with Developers Working on different projects. Our labs is a free take space where everyone is. Welcome to hear the facilitators run free courses focused on using technology to grow skills and build futures. Ok good morning everyone and every cost attended individual. People still learning opportunities again and able to find that you cannot make opportunities. Facilitate his work with the students on developing Software Platforms building apps and using the technology on office to turn ideas into income generating i. C. T. Products. Its also a safe space for these troubled takings to come together and feel part of positive change was in was he not the he was she was the night wasnt i mean it was the seat was it entrepreneurship last year so we wanted to give it like a corporate feel like they have a sense of what a boardroom exactly its all about empowering our local and entrepreneurs Brant Williams used to be a drug dealer and gangster. Having been through the system himself he now runs this campus. This rule book coding happens this is we we we all the magic happens or people thought of without without without business income by the way to give them a laptop. We call it and they have access to the internet out resources and also which they use values all software developers. Each year the our labs Management Team select six new i. C. T. Innovations to be part of a nine month our labs Incubation Program. Through its partners our labs makes up to twenty thousand dollars available for developing the best ideas and getting them to the market. Terence hendrix was recently selected to join the Incubation Program he has developed a Search Engine for local people looking for entry level employment which is as basically just a phone call for the normal an employed person on the road with a job engine been dubbed a womans linked in has like a Search Engine that allows you to search for jobs so basically you dont even need to register you can just go to she got me and search a job thats as far as i was unemployed for many years and i told them my history and then i said but youre the perfect person to create something for Unemployed People with just launching the new mobile site. New time to d. S. C. Is another our last big thinker. He has designed an app called go vice city which has just gone live its designed to help disadvantaged students navigate the University System from applications to understanding the system and choosing courses so in this platform its where people share their experiences and other people commenting on the experiences for instance our labs is not only creating new businesses but overturning existing role models. People who have not as cars. Who go out every weekend but now really feel like the change agents of that state of mind that if you dont you are the example thats the atmosphere. That our lives concept began with a revolution in a difficult space its an african innovation with the potential to change travel communities all over the world. You cant go back to the. Illegal prescription drugs claim thousands of innocent lives in africa but one group of connie innovators is protecting consumers with a smart and accessible solution and all you need is one of the. Counterfeit drugs are big business in africa fraudsters are cutting the medicines with toxic active ingredients or just sending these lists fakes all packaged to mimic the real deal. Thousands of unsuspecting patients unwittingly buying bogus medicines and the consequences are severe huge numbers of these innocent people are dying each year as a result of taking fake drugs that either do nothing to cure their illness or poison them. Counterfeit and he malaria or tuberculosis drugs kill an estimated seven hundred thousand patients in africa every year governments and special task forces across the continent are trying to crack down on this criminal activity but its a tall order the drugs are not only sold on the street they are often sold unknowingly by pharmacies the packaging and appearance replicated to match the genuine brands. In ghana a Company Called impaired. Have come up with a way to fight back using mobile phone. We have to have a system of truth ability which leads to accountability and this illusion if it provides enough or not all bets provide auction you provide the tracing it provide the tracking. Rights findings and his team and pedigree and rolling out the solution to this problem its a quick and simple way for consumers to find out immediately if the drugs theyre purchasing an illegal welcome to imperatives of thank you so much for your work on the single product is that different no was this like is what i was serialized that is the kind of name given to the technology the serialisation technology very few people will take a second look at what they are thinking most people because they do not have money going for the cheaper alternatives. And then the next thing the happens is either the person dies or more time spent in seeking further treatment because of further complications that take place so this is coughing so on there is an upward acts you can see the batch numbers reading here and expiry date is written here participating manufacturers serialize each product with a specially designed m. P. Degree scratchpad scratching reveals the products unique serial number every particle or product what happens is that you send a text message with this number here two one three one three which is our short code sent. And it is free for the consumer to check for it so in one second we have the response it says ok genuine call fix one but all cough mixture by sheer number one four years three zero two so this is how it will to protect consumers. You dont need at all you dont need to download a special or anything its bare bones that provide. Its much more value first of all for the decision of those made for you to buy the product and then second of all for the money for. Identify Something Like a tree and it makes it impossible for someone to use it i dont know how it got to them because now you can have transparency and visibility is contemplated its also about the politics and helps us. To reform this kind of politics our evolutionary not only because of the Technological Advancement that. Also change the politics in which welfare and. Health and education are. Time to test the system for myself. I visited a pharmacy in akron to buy anti malaria only vacation i know you can i just have one. Great. Thank you thank you thank you all i need now is to scratch reveal the serial number on my mobile phone. Within one second of estimating the serial number to the empedocles platform. I received a free text response confirming that the drugs only git. 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