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he has so beatiful dreads…
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very cool report, in this day in age something should be done to help those people.
the video needed more subtitles
but in the end it’s good report
Does anyone agree that Youtube oughtto be active in this field?
Superb as always, Joanna.
I don’t even own a video camera, and I have indoor plumbing.
They’re using VLC. Good choice.
We have plenty and arent happy. They have little and… okay, maybe they arent happy either. But at least they dont have to keep up with all the stuff.
Seriously, good vid, as always.
Weird project. They provide the boys with cameras that are devices to grab an input, and the output goes to Youtube and Flickr, that is to people who live on the right side of the digital divide. Hardly Kenyans. Why not to use the money to bring the Internet into the slum? Free software and a canadian software like User Multiplier lower the cost of a workstation to less than 50 dollars. Brazilians are doing that. It would be money better spent IMHO.
As much as I agree those people need direct help with infrastructure, that just won’t happen as quick as they would like because people like you and I are not sufficiently aware of their problems. However, by having a few more people with cameras spreading the word, like Rudd Elmendorp here, the message will get propagated much faster and more often thus eventually generating some positive action.
Without this report you would not have had the opportunity to share your insight about the user multiplier software and your idea, and I would not have picked up on a solution for a problem right here in our own schools in Canada!
Now what do you propose the people in the slums do with Internet access? Sell their patties? Play online poker? I believe they have more pressing problems such as accessing educational material; so maybe there is a good use for it.
I’d like to know where the little kid helping his father got the GAP sweatshirt from. Hardly slum-wear.
Ruud; 2 thumbs up as always! Dank u.
RB: the Tubers still get under my skin but what the Hell. The auto-play of topless, drunk John or Blain’s last stunt however, I really can do without; especially since there is no way to opt out before it starts playing.
Quote: Without this report you would not have had the opportunity to share your insight about the user multiplier software and your idea, and I would not have picked up on a solution for a problem right here in our own schools in Canada!
The report at best briefs me about that specific slum in Kenya, not about the standing of African countries in the world map of digital divide, which is a particular sad one (the UN disclosed figures just last week). And the one about the use of User Multiplier is not an idea of mine but a huge project underway by the Brazilian government that I happen to know pretty well for reasons connected to my work. (Incidentally, UM is a proprietary software next to be replaced by upgrades on GNU-Linux promoted by this project).
The question here is: why worrying about citizen journalism altogether if you don’t have a basic infrastructure that will circulate the news for a local growth of real or digital citizenship? It replicates the basic pattern of an African made commodity, namely information, directed to a non-African consumption. And see if someone outside the slum won’t find the way to rob the intellectual property of those kids.
Quote: Now what do you propose the people in the slums do with Internet access? Sell their patties? Play online poker? I believe they have more pressing problems such as accessing educational material; so maybe there is a good use for it.
There are scores of programs that combining solar panels with radio and tv sets, as well as computer workstations, fulfil the needs of remote communities, beginning with the problem of illiteracy (that can be fixed in a very short lapse of time, given due attention and resources, and including the grown-ups in the target). If you have a community of literate people, trained to basic computing, to have a widespread Internet access makes for a terrific reduction of the cultural and informational gap between a slum and a European or Northern American town. But it is up to local authorities, not me, to plan the program relating to the territory.
I’m a gang member too! We live in a mud hut. Kenyans should too.
I did some film work with people like this once, good times.
Thank you Rocketboom!!!
mistranslation at 2:28 it’s supposed to say Fortunately not Happily.
Awesome video
dutch people help people to make other people understand these people need help from those people
It’s sad that what they are going through is not uncommon.
Yes yes yes!
This is in german(or something very similiar)! Why? Where exactly is this Kiberia that it has a gemanic language?
This was interesting, but don’t you guys usually post these kind of videos on Fridays?
I believe the narrator is the field correspondent Ruud Elmendorp mentioned in the video description. His bio says he is a Dutch journalist who moved to Nairobi to report on “news and current affairs in Africa, and abroad.” :)
nice work rocketboom, you always have your finger on the pulse and know whats going on in this crappy old world. 5stars
I would rather go through instead of having the government owning me. At least that you are free.
They have OS X on a PC?
very interesting, thank you for sharing hun =3
gr8 story
A. Not legally,
B. I believe I saw a Mac Mini, just with non-Apple peripherals.
Wow, I actually watched the whole thing and it was very interesting. Too bad Obama’s dipstick brother isn’t helping anything, is he?
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If you look closely, that mini is running Mac OSX, there is a dock at the bottom of the screen.
wow that was awesome!
800,000 people in a small area… couldn’t a few hundred of these people get together & help that lady dig the crap out of her ditch?
Hey maybe advertisers can target Kenyans who rummage through the trash heaps.
Just give them all smart phones. Hurray for captialism. Hurry for George Soros…Ban Ki Moon and the great One: Obama
We change CHANGE the world re-ARRANGE the world, it’s DYING to get better.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/11/business/11target.php
I had a little go to find out if Philips or other corporate crap was behind the scene, and honestly couldn’t track anything of the sort, though mine was not a too indepth research as it would be needed when you want to tell the sharkish side of an uplifting story, and you want to keep to facts.
What can I say? Maybe I am wrong, but I smell a rat here.
it may have come on dutch news, so for they talk in dutch because its made to be showed in holland
Wow! such a different lifestyle over there.
What, no Nikes!!!!
Wow. I can’t believe that three of you watched this and decided to comment on the operating system was on the computer they did their editing on, seriously…. if thats all you took away from this video… you fucking lame.
am I wrong or is it Dutch language in the background :?
that dude with dreadlocks has really bad accent almost impossible to understand :)
yeah that’s dutch. and I know this because I’m dutch myself.
The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus. ~Marshall McLuhan
Oh, I see it now, these poor people…
dutch are awesome people :) well looking from my personal point of view I know few :)
BR from Lithuania :)
=) I’m dutch also. I didn’t see it on tv though.
Shocking to see how that community have to live.
Good video.
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I just saw those comments. Argh I am just as frustrated as you
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