Ruben, I think you have the mic not open. Apologies for that. I think I thought that. OK, so good evening, good afternoon, good morning. Depending on wherever you're coming from, welcome to this amazing station. And I know I'm pretty sure I'm very much confident that you're going to enjoy it because we actually have amazing speakers that are actually coming from the OTCs. But at the same time, it's also fitting into the Equus of Youth Forum, which is also an amazing forum that is actually happening. And this is another amazing side event. So just probably just to go into the session quickly, without wasting much of the time, I'd like probably to welcome you all to the Generation Connect, which is a theme Generation Connect youth leading digital transformation in OTC5, in OTCs. And my name is Ruben Sapetulu. I'm also a youth activist, but at the same time, I'm working for the United Nations Youth Association of Zambia. And I'm engaged in quite a number of things as well. And for today's session, it is actually organized by Generation Connect, the overarching initiative of the ITU, which is the United Nations Agency for ICT Youth Strategy. For those of you that might be thinking, to say, OK, fine, what about the Generation Connect? What does it aim at actually? So the Generation Connect aims to engage global youth and as well as encourage their participation as equal partners alongside the leaders of today's digital change, empowering young people with their skills and opportunities to advance their vision of a connected future. Building on a future, on a Generation Connect is recent participation in the OTC5 youth forum and youth track in conversation hems to my right. I like the role of young people at the forefront of SDG implementation and digital transformation in OTCs. The SDG thematic focus of this session is SDG9, which pretty much focuses on industry, innovation, and infrastructure. Firstly, we will have some opening remarks. Then we'll have two short presentations to provide some context before we dive into an interactive panel session, of which I have quite amazing speakers, which I think you're going to attest to. Then after that, we'll continue with the session. But please note that the session is being live streamed and it will be, I think, archived and made available on Generation Connect social media channels after the session. And then we have a great session today, like I've actually alluded to. So let's start off with open remarks by Marco Opiso, who is actually the head of the cybersecurity division and acting chief of the digital network security department. So I think let's welcome Marco. Thank you. Marco, over to you. Thanks, Ruben. And hello, everyone, from where you are. It's really great to be here with you today. And you saved some of my time, Ruben, because you explained already what the Generation Connect is, which is really good. So I'm not going to rate the rate. Maybe I can give a couple of insight and a couple of data points of why we are here and why the Generation Connect is something that we consider extremely important. So I hope and I guess that all of you know the ITU, the International Telecommunication Union, and as, of course, part of the UN system, as a specialized agency, our main focus is really to try to make an attempt that to succeed eventually on HIV universal and meaningful connectivity. We still have 2.5 billion people who are currently offline. So 2.5 billion people that don't have at all access to internet, which, of course, include youth. And that is where the Generation Connect kicks in. That is where we are trying to build the movement globally to engage the youth as part of the global community that are not yet connected. And at the same time, generate opportunities. So we launched Generation Connect in 2020. And we have engaged digitally. We have consulted. We have co-designed with young people. We have tried to build really this kind of massive awareness on why digital is important and what are the opportunities that can come out from the digital landscape. So from that, I guess it's very easy to articulate what is the progress statement here. On the positive side, we still have a massive, a critical mass of young people that are still driving. It is still driving force, still driving the connectivity globally. So we have 75% of the youth age from 15 to 24 years old that are online compared to the 65% of the rest of the world population. So that's a positive note because, of course, young people are much more and I'm not considering anymore myself a young, but maybe I'm in the middle, but anyway. So they are really the driving force. They really try to exploit as much as possible digital. However, there is a completely unbalanced situation in terms of who is connected. So this kind of connectivity is not uniform across the countries and the region. For example, 90% of the youth with access in Europe is actually the percentage there compared to the 50% by 5% in Africa, where almost the LDC are. So especially in LDCs, young people should be given real opportunities to lead and shape the digital future. So here is the big issue. While, of course, from one side, young people are the driving force, but there is really a big gap in terms of opportunities of the digital landscape. And that is where we want to focus our attention. You mentioned, Ruben, last month, Generation Connect two-part was featured in the LDC Five Youth Forum and Youth Track in Dauak. So within the overall LDC Five Generation Connect was featured prominently on the youth piece. And today's session, I guess, as you indicated, Ruben, we really want to build on that and export in the experience from the LDC Five Young delegates, which are here, and to know more about the work and to try really to capitalize on all these big events that you want to nation-organize. You know that, again, to have and to enable a bit the digital environment for youth and to thrive and prosper. And that is really the core work. So the overall idea here is really to generate real impact in the lives of young people around the world and ensuring that meaningful connectivity and their meaningful participation as kids they call that in the implementation of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development. And we do this always as a co-creation and as a kind of a structural process where the youth is not only participating but it's basically a key player. So now the question is how we can really put youth at the forefront and how we can really exploit this massive asset that we have in order for you to create this kind of enabling environment. There are a few things here. Safe access to the internet, sustainable digital infrastructure, affordable devices and data costs. All these are big enablers that could drive innovation and the digital empowerment of young people all over the world. They should be given really the real opportunities to lead and shape our shared digital future. So with this little thinking and little thoughts I really look forward to hear the contribution that are coming from all of you today.  And of course, to NOLA is our, let's say, big and you know, let's say, valuable, significant ambassador here. So I encourage everyone to join Generation Connect and with that I'll come back to you and thanks a lot for the opportunities. Wow, wow, that was really amazing. And I've actually picked a number of issues that our carriers might take away points of action. And it's good that you also pointed to the fact that we as young people need actually to be given real opportunities to lead and shape the digital media and also just the digital world itself. And it's really, really amazing to also look at the fact that we're being considered as stakeholders and not passive recipients, which is really, really amazing. Okay, so we move further and without wasting much of the time we're now going to the next section. And this segment pretty much aims to give context to the digital transformation in our disease. And with this one, we're just going to pretty much understand what it means and why it matters in relation to El Kosoq. So I've got an amazing delegate with me called Barakat. And she's going to share a digital leadership journey and what it means to her as a senior product designer and member of the Children and Youth Advisory Board of ITU's protection through online participation initiative. So Barakat, over to you. Hello, thank you, Ruben. Hello, everyone. I will move a lot for Barakat, but as Ruben said, I was picking on digital leadership. But just before that I would like to talk with you about digital transformation because that is what brings us to those digital leadership. So digital transformation is a process that involves the use of digital tools, technologies to streamline operations and improve our standard of living. And we have technologies there such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, UIUX design among others. And digital transformation really matters because it contributes significantly to all the performance of every SDG from Go1 to 17, no poverty, quality education among others. The challenges that there in digital transformation, we have challenges like a skills gap and talent shortage, legacy system and costs. And the solutions that exist there is like provision of digital innovation ops, support for women and youths, bringing more people like more enlightenment program, education and screening. That's that old digital transformation. So now I'd like to talk about my digital leadership journey. I've been on a digital leadership journey that has changed my perspective on technology and it's impacting society. Why growing up? I would just like to bring in this scenario. I wanted to be a pilot and over time, I got administrative investing to study plan biology and I have a base in plan biology. At that time, I did not have the adequate information. I bought what I wanted to do because it's a super that decided for me, oh, you'll be good at this, you'll be good at that. And I also like give to them and apply for those courses in the university. Over after my university education, I started like on a quest for monolithic staff. How can I solve these experiments for grants and businesses? And that also brought me about into product design. I started taking and learning courses online. I'm just from there that I got removed from job and started learning about product design. But I still had some challenges while learning challenges such as bad laptop because the laptop I had had battery issues and stuff like that. And we have like power supply issues. I was unable to like even go to a nearby home to charge my laptop or to even access the internet. So these were challenges that I faced by trying to learn. And I was able to somehow see it. From there, I got a job as an intern from a full-time product designer then to the head of product design at Ushiteq where I currently live. So these challenges are there. And we have several of these challenges and also there are consequences that they... My role as a member of the ITU has given me the knowledge to actually know and know about the impact of the internet on children, the social biases that we have out there and how we can work to address this. And also as a product designer, I've come to learn over time that this... So this digital leadership journey is a lifelong process of learning and we must continue to like learn and work hand in hand to bring more people into tech. We must actually... To bring more people into tech, we must... The challenge is that some of us are faced, we need people to also look into this like provision of laptops for people. Enlightenment program for people. We have some people that are just like... Maybe want to enter the investor. So there should be adequate provision of this in place. And also the problem is looking into this to include the quality of life of people. In summary, I would say that to address the unique challenges and opportunities in this part of the world, things that have highlighted like provision of laptops, enlightenment programs, provision of ops, we increase the quality of living and we allow more people to venture into tech to know more about tech. So it's a solution or it's a risk against them to actually start with you. It starts with almost everyone on the call. Thank you. Wow. Wow. Amazing. And we are actually drawing some inspirations from there. Thank you so much. So I think before I proceed to the... To my next speaker, for the participants that are actually joining online, if you have any question or rather... There's the Q and A section where you can actually put your questions and then be able to pick it up so that our panelists can actually get to know the questions you've actually asked. Okay. So we proceed. And the next speaker that I have is an amazing one as well. We have Amel. She's pretty much going to explain what digital leadership means for those of us who are actually asking what it means. So she's going to explain what it means to her. As a STEM leader from Comeros, alighting also a person next in this area as well. Over to you. Yes. Can you hear me? Yes. I can hear you though. Your internet is kind of like a little bit unstable. I'm so sure. Okay. So as Amel is working on... Okay. Great. Please talk. Okay. Amel. I'm Amel. I'm Amel. I'm Amel. I'm Amel from Comeros Island. Can you hear me? Okay. We can hear you now. It was breaking, but I think it's a little bit clear now. Yeah. Maybe I'll turn off the video. Maybe it's going to help. Yeah. Much better. Okay. It's fine. Thank you. I'm Amel from Comeros Island. I'm a youth educational activist, but mainly focusing on the STEM education. So without further ado, we are going to jump on the question on digital leadership. For me, I would say digital leadership is a leadership that is inclusive and also that is applied to the human rights because we are living in a world of technology. When you are talking about digital, it's including technology. So for the technology to be accessible for everyone, it has to be inclusive. When we talk about inclusion, it's not really about one side, but to have all the group included, despite their religion, their race, and their gender. So for us to really align our activities and our life and the work we are doing, we have to make it inclusive and accessible for everyone. I could say that digital leadership, it's a leadership that is accessible and that is allowing everyone to have access to digital literacy, digital education, and so on. So talk about my journey and my experience into the digital field, I would say as a STEM educator. I grew up in Comeros, which is a very religious and conservative country. So I wanted to be an engineer from the beginning, but as a woman, my family refused so I couldn't pursue my career into engineering stuff. So I followed my path into languages and so on. But in 2017, when I joined the NGO that I'm working on, which is called Imara Comeros, we are invited by FESTA Global, which is an NGO that is working on promoting STEM education specifically to young people. So they reached out to us as Comeros was the only country that never participated in that program. But at that time we were not working in STEM area. So they said it won't be a problem, they're going to send us mentors to mentor us in order to focus on the STEM education. So it was from that that I really revealed my passion into the engineering stuff and STEM education and I started working into STEM, which has allowed us for the first time like young girls from the Moot areas in Comeros who participated in international robotics competition and who has also won a silver medal, who becomes second in front of big nation like USA and France. This is to say that we have to believe in our faith in the work we are doing. We may not achieve our dreams now, but it may come within the way if we keep working hard. This is to say that I didn't give up on my dream of working on the engineering side, but now that I find it myself working in that area and being like the mentor of the team Comeros or Robotic and also working with my NGO on teaching girls on scratch, initiating them on computer programming and building robots. So it's really showing that digital leadership is really important and for it to be available and to be accessible for everyone, we have to initiate young people, specifically girls into the STEM area from early age. Thank you very much. Wow. I have continued to gain inspiration. I'm enjoying this session. And again, I think we are now about to go to another important segment. And before I go again to that segment, I will still throw in the same appeal that I made recently about the way we can actually participate as participants. So there's the Q&A section where you can actually throw in your questions, and we'll be able to pick it up as well. So feel free to actually throw in there. And we've got different people that actually capture that inclusive of myself. As a moderator, I'll be able to also capture your submissions in that regard. So before I go into a quick round of questions for our panelists, I have three amazing panelists and as the name, as you can actually even see. So I have Irina, which is also an educator and an innovator. I'm also joined with Hamza. Hamza is a youth leader and an activist. I'm also joined by Uber. And we actually made in Qatar as an EODC-5 youth delegate, and it was quite an amazing moment. And I assure you that as you get to interact with these delegates, it's really, really an amazing moment. As we also get to actually discern from them. And then just quickly, I think diving into the question, since I can see Irina is already online and Hamza as well as Uber, I would actually throw a general question to all of you. And this question, just for you to tell us what meaningful connectivity for youth in EODCs look like, practically. So I'll start with Irina. Yeah. Hi everyone. I think we've been for that introduction. Telling a little bit more about myself. I graduated from Stanford University in the U.S. and I have been working in education sector to teach girls and minorities a STEM field also similar to Armel, where I teach them coding, also how to make different robots, code and so on. And also I have through digital connection, my organization called Nepali Women in Computing and my Instagram page where I create content for girls with using different tools because there is a lot of bias in it. So those are some of the things that I've been doing digitally. And coming back to the question Ruben about meaningful connection, especially in LDCs, I think that meaningful connection looks like when you come out of that experience you take away something from it. It could be new information, new connections, discussions or just some thought-provoking experience that makes you think deeper. For example, what is not a meaningful connection is just absorbing through social media. Though it is in digital space and especially in Nepal where I come from there are a lot of people who have access to mobile phones almost 70% of Nepalese and when they have internet in it their natural inclination is to go towards social media to TikTok, Facebook and so on. But they are not using it for information or education purposes and that is not meaningful at all. So I think that when it comes to meaningful connection for youth in LDCs it has to be something meaningful to come out of it and not just absorbing random things from the internet. Yeah. Amazing. Amazing. And I will go to Hamza in a minute. Hamza. Thank you so much Rabin for the wonderful question and of course I do have to agree with Irina on what actually means to be connectivity means to her and especially the youth in Nepal and I think that reflects on a lot of youths in particular in the LDCs when it comes to connectivity and the one thing that I really want to mention is that 80% of the LDCs are not connected and they're not using internet per se and which actually it's very problematic issue when it comes to connectivity within the LDCs and during the LDCs I think if most of you guys remember one of the things that they are pushing forward is also to start online universities where of course is a very good thing for us as LDC youth to get that free education when it comes to online but again the issue of connectivity and 80% of the LDCs are not connected should be solved and of course this should be started from the grassroots level organizations to come and at least contribute at least to what they can in improving the connectivity of the nation especially with youth in schools and under the age of 18 connectivity for me and especially for the Somalis I think it presented to most of the countries where there's high level of connectivity when it comes to social media but this connectivity high level connectivity in social media are not used in a proper manner and this needs an awareness and advocacy now again to be taught to those young people on how to critically use and the connectivity of the internet they have into something which is knowledgeable for themselves amazing okay so we proceed again we go to Buber okay okay uh Buber we lost two are you two there uh Buber your microphone is on mute so um maybe you can unmute your microphone hello yes we can hear you now okay um okay um okay and the residents. So, talking about the connectivity of youth in the PMA, I want to tell myself that, just before the end of May, we need to ask ourselves the question of knowing that if today, you and I are able to communicate today, it is thanks to this same connection. So, this is because it is the safest in the world right now to be able to connect people and others in their essential work. So, if that is the case, we need to make it clear that connectivity is the least safe to be able to advance things in this world right now. And today, the countries that are developing today use the community, the community, as a right for the citizens. But for us, in our different countries, it has become a problem. We have difficulties to connect, not only to connect, but also we have difficulties to have access to the connection through the quality of the connection and even through the quality of the connection. Even today, I have difficulties to connect because I come from work, but through Androids, every time I cross, I have difficulties to hear you sometimes or even you have difficulties to hear me. Because we don't have quality in what we call the connection. So, it is a factor for the countries, the PMAs, to really invest to help us, the youth, to contribute to the development of the future of the respective countries. I want to thank you. Okay, thank you so much, Puba. And I got quite amazing submissions and I keep taking note of them. So, getting back to Hamza. Hamza, you pointed out quite good statistics, most especially when it comes to the LDCs and how probably 85% of them get not to be connected. So, to probably reach that digital gap, what are some of the activities that you are engaging yourself that you can actually share with our amazing audience that they can as well gain inspiration from that, just to see how best we can actually cover up from the digital divide that actually gets to be seen based on the statistics that you've given. Over to you, Hamza. Thank you so much, Robin. Of course, when it comes to the case of Somalia and when it comes to technology and utilization, we are very much behind than other LDC countries in Nepal or within Africa or within the Asia region because still our education system are not in line with the kind of acknowledgement that is supposed to be getting. Example, most of the... when it comes to the pandemic, the pandemic 2020 and 2021, most of the students did not have... their parents even didn't have Wi-Fi and they didn't have phones to get around to study. So, and the government cannot provide free tablets or phones because of the budget that is in system. So, a lot of people suggest an idea, especially an educationist and other youth organization like myself. We came up with a solution where when it comes to the capital, of course, those things can be provided very easily, but how about the rural areas? And this is where we had to go back to the old method of technology which is using radios in terms of giving classes to the students in the rural areas. And such an organization that now after the pandemic, things went very smoothly using those radios and the students with the capital were using their technologies and we had some donors, international donors who helped us with that. But again, after the pandemic, we thought about why not now we become more serious in having a platform where we raise issues on digitalization and technology and we improve from there on. So far we have been doing a lot in terms of training youths and how to use excels and normal computer classes in the certain rural areas. We have actually established a technology hub in Goroway, which is in the north of Somalia where we train youth to learn about computer classes which is free of cost and if it's other classes that are advanced that we give them sponsorship or funds from international partners for them to get their things done. But it's not something that we hope that we are going to be expanding more to the rest of the country but it's better than nothing I can say. Wow, wow. I can actually even just that I can't probably start clapping from here but I think I wish I had that option to do so. Okay. So to Irene as well, I think she mentioned quite amazing works that she's actually doing and I picked some coding that she's teaching young women as well as robotics if I didn't get it wrong and this is really, really amazing and maybe just to probably point out some of the issues that you pointed out concerning meaningful digital engagement. I just wanted just to understand how or what mechanisms or probably what innovation have you actually engaged in that is going to bridge that gap to ensure that young people accessing digital platforms are actually using them meaningfully but at the same time they're also not being just passive or observing the information from social media passively. What are some of the innovative ways that you're actually putting in place here? Yes. Thank you for the question Ruben. So definitely there is a problem that youth are inclined towards all these social media platforms and so on and that's not always bad and how we have been twisting it is promoting our work on social media as well for example the content that I create I posted on social media so that when youth and other get engaged in social media they're not only and it's just not me I think other people are also inclined towards social media to put their useful content so that people absorb that as well and in terms of digital space our organization we give different workshops digitally so that we can reach a lot more people that only in physical space which was in COVID times not possible in the first place but also coming from different parts of the world for example when I want to I am currently living in the United States and when I want to teach my students when I want to give workshops I'm able to do that digitally too so that was very important to be engaged digitally in that space and not just absorbing things randomly but giving them information and workshops of important things like how to enter the tech space for example or how to get to universities in the US we did a lot of those workshops so that the youth could be engaged meaningfully amazing, wow wow and I can see some clubs in the charts and allow me just to also mention again just to encourage our our participants if you've got any question that is either get it at Irina or Hamza or Boba please make sure that you actually throw it in the chat so that you'll be able to pick it up in the Q&A section okay so let me just dive directly to my last question for both I think Hamza, Irina and Boba so I'll start with you Irina just on your experience I know you've pointed part of it and you've actually spoken part of your work in digital leadership but maybe if there is anything that you felt that maybe it's really really important most especially in your experience as well as work in digital leadership in the hell of disease that maybe we can as well just learn from I think it could be actually very very important for you to bring it out, yeah yes I think one of the things that I'm doing that is very personal to me and that is very important is creating content around using tools by girls and especially in my country and I know it's still prevalent in other countries as well which is tools for example hammers all these like digital all these like power tools and hand tools are only for men and when women start using it they even get ridiculed or like they are straight up said that this is not for you and that has been my personal experience too but as an engineer I grew up using these tools and I want to create space for other girls and women too to feel that it is not intimidating and it is for girls and women too to use it so I create content in my Instagram and YouTube all these videos that I record content that I create of how to use these tools and what can be done to like fix things around the house which can also be done by women and girls and they don't need to feel that it is out of their space and when I post things there I have also received feedback from so many of girls and women that oh I've always wanted to do this but you know like it doesn't feel right in some ways and I feel really happy and privileged that I am able to inspire others through my platform yes thank you okay that's really amazing I'm actually getting a lot of inspiration I think I need to find ways and means of stealing part of your work as well okay so yes sorry I wanted to add I forgot to mention the Instagram handle is called girly tools you know like it's also for a girl yeah ah amazing okay so we jump to Hamza with the same question Hamza I just wanted to understand pretty much in depth the experiences of work that you actually have in digital leadership in LDCs I know you pointed part of it yes thank you so much I mean since being a youth activist I've never worked in digital transformation since last year I started actually doing it last year and what actually inspired me was seeing a lot of youth not having those benefits in being in the digitalized world and actually helping them as much as we can because most of the young people that I work with in technology hub or we call it T-Hub in Gorova Somalia is they are mostly graduated from abroad Somalis who are graduated from abroad and came back to their country and they have seen that there's lack of technology classes or at least helping those young people in integrating to digitalization world and we actually wanted to bring those gap close together so we started actually one year ago and we have been doing amazing work in Gorova it's not yet expanded through out of Somalia but it's now in Gorova in Galkaio some few cities in Somalia and what we are doing is actually giving classes on normal and basic online classes on computers now we are doing advanced classes on computers like Photoshop and other classes and especially for young girls who are based in Gorova which of course they're trying to be more more free when it comes to the culture young girls studying STEM I think Irene that topic she's more used to that girl standing STEMs especially in LDCs especially with the same cultures that we have it's very hard for them to get motivated and recognized what we're trying our best is for us to at least give them those kind of education for them and they'll at least inspire them to do more when they graduate from their primary or secondary school so it's something that we started very early last year and it actually has been going around in Somalia that young people are doing such programs for young Somalis across the north side of Somalia and I hope this kind of initiative can inspire others actually to start it doesn't matter how big you want to start but as long as you inspire one person and you educate one person I think that should be something that can motivate you to do more so that's it Robin. Okay thank you so much and actually taking note of quite powerful statements and apologies to but I think due to earlier connectivity issues won't be able to probably dive in and I think allow you to also exhaust your point however if you have like maybe a submission that you have to make in order for us to mitigate this problem you can actually throw it in the chat so that everyone will be able to see your submission that you got as well as responding to the same question that was actually thrown in and as we conclude with this segment I would just probably throw it back to our panelists because I do know when we get these inspirations and they like what is it that we have to take away and what is it that we need to go home with so I'll just throw it back to you probably just President or what you think young people should you know go away with that they have to go back and do when it comes to digital leadership but what role they can actually play in ensuring that these digital divides to ensure that everyone has got meaningful access to digital platforms so I'll start with you Irina and then we close with Hamza Ruben sorry you cut off a little bit in the middle I couldn't completely hear it actually ah okay which part did you hear I think I'll start from there which which part did you give me really I think about the like in the middle you cut off a little bit actually ah okay so I was saying after all this amazing work it would be important that the panelist or the participant that actually joining and to you know take something home that they have to I know they have gained the inspirations and they're like but what's the encouragement you know your closing remarks what's what's the encouragement to them on what they actually what role they have to play in ensuring that they actually break the digital divide and ensure that these meaningful accessibility digital platforms yeah so I'll start with you yeah yes so one thing to definitely take home is that everybody can become a leader in digital space or in physical space you don't have to be someone else to like become leaders or you don't have to wait to become digital leaders I think you can start small and and just start maybe teaching something if you have something in mind and if you want to go and do that it could be in digital space it could be in physical space um nothing is small to start with I would definitely say that nothing is small to start with in a digital space of course when you think of digital space you immediately think oh I don't have so and so many followers I don't have 10,000 followers or I don't have people who have on my social media page but it's about slowly building that up in digital space and becoming leader in your space great great and uh before I jump to Hamza I would again throw in there's a question in the chat box that I have to I think bring to your attention as you also brainstorming so that the moment that Hamza is going to be giving his remarks probably you'll also touch base on it as well as also allowing him to touch base on it so the question is coming from Tong New and the question is saying that digital leaders in health disease are not excessively elitist and represent more young people from those regions I'm going to repeat the question again how can we ensure that digital leaders in health disease are not excessively elitist and represent more young people from those regions so Irina as you are thinking through allow me to also throw it to Hamza so that it as well touch base on it as his remarks then come back as well yeah so Hamza yes Ruben and answering the previous question and I mean what what can we leave behind when it comes to digitalization and transformation in LDC especially Somalia one thing that but now recently growing in Somalia is a cyber bullying and sexual harassment through social media and a lot of young people are actually suffering from those kind of attacks within the community or within the Somalia here and I don't know if you guys have seen there's a lot of these issues that have been going on within the previous month and how we can stop those kind of issues and one thing that people are doing this because they don't have their advocacy and awareness on how to use the digital and how to use the technology in what sense is it safe for children in what sense is it harmful them and is for us now again to leave behind an awareness or advocacy where we we teach them on how to use it safely we teach them on how to avoid such issues and also encouraging and pushing the government on establishing a cyber security unit within the police force where they can people can report to if they have been bullied or if they have been their pictures or their videos have been leaked online where they can go and report so this kind of issues have been going on in Somalia and I think that unit will be gonna be formed soon but still we need to push on such an agenda forward okay great just the second one second one it's true we need more young people to be involved as much as we can to transform digital transformation in their own countries I mean when you start with Elysis of course it's good because they have the financial means to to go and speak and which is good you know when someone is has those financial capability to speak and go around and talk about digital and technology it's good because it actually helps to bring light what is happening in the country but of course I do also agree with the person who asked the question we need to motivate more young people in the grass roots to come on board and actually be part of the campaign in improving digitalization of their country so okay great so I allow Irina to also respond to that question and then I'll throw in our first two speakers to make those to be their closing remarks yes so Irina respond to that before I go to Amel yes I think it is a sad reality that those who are privileged those who have access to internet and phone or computer will only have only be able to represent in digital spaces and that is the sad reality of today and we are privileged enough to have this opportunity I think what we can do is not limit these opportunity to ourselves and give back the resources because even when even though you have these resources digitally sometimes you're not able to find them so those who have these opportunity these privileges should go back and give back to the grass roots and tell them to and if possible some organizations sometimes they have a little bit of budget to give internet access for the limitation of the program at least and also another thing is when these things are very new for the grass root people the computer the internet they are very intimidated to use these and that is from a first-hand experience when I used to teach people in the rural areas they were they have never seen a computer they have never done coding and they become very intimidated so I think it will be on us to make them feel more comfortable to these new opportunities for them as well yeah that is what I have to say wow okay that's great that's great so allow me also to throw Amel and Barakat in your closure so that we can actually close it with that I think you have one minute each to close probably end on time as stated yes let's start with Amel hello can you hear me yes we can hear you I'm really sorry I cannot turn on my camera network it's okay it's okay please can you repeat what was the question sorry yes so just a closing remark yeah yeah so that closing remark is pretty much directed to the young people what is it that they have to go what's the encouragement to the young people what should they go and play in the digital transformation yeah thank you very much for giving me the floor what I would encourage young people is that it true that we may not have accessibility to all the tools that are needed in order to bear work in technology but I do believe the tools we have on the ground we can turn them into another tools that is going to align within the technology we are we are using now so it's for me like to start with what they have for now like I would just give an example like when we were young we were making cars with like a can of tomato or a collect those kind of like it creates creativity with the kids so I think that the importance is to help the young people to grow up with that creativity that mindset of trying to build something new if like we have engineers today it's because they started from their early from their young ages to start thinking and working so for me to require young people it's not to stop doing the work they are doing because they don't have funding or they don't have tool they don't have computer and so on they can just use what they have which is something very special because they have the skills they have like the ambition to want to change and to want to inspire others and also to use the tools on the ground to keep working hard because it's really impacted even though we are not seeing the results now thank you okay thank you so much I was going to cut you but it's good that you actually hit yourself for those remarks Barakat within a minute 30 seconds you can just pick what I appreciate Barakat over to you okay Barak yes yeah please proceed okay I would say between us young people we can also like promote digital education within ourselves and also organize like our new program for people that do not know about technology conduct awareness programs and effort to highlight the importance of reuse in the representation of youth representation in digital leadership positions just to create supportive environments and generate momentum for change and also organize programs around digital literacy providing programs for young people that are to promote digital education between the upcoming generation be a great impact to you thank you okay thank you so much and thank you so much for the all speakers that have actually actively participated I can see the comments that are actually coming in the group and people are agreeing with the speakers and it's really really amazing to hear and catch to listen to these amazing amazing panelists that have actually had today so and to our amazing audience I think so amazing and I thank you so much also for your active participation for those of you that have also managed to also throw in one or two questions we greatly appreciate the engagement that we've actually done and just the last one is just the call to action we just invite you to get involved with the Generation Connect and at this point in time I'll just ask our support team to probably force for a group photo as we allow we can manage to I know others don't have the provision to you know probably open their videos but I think to our speakers I would allow us to open our videos so that we can get a group photo together but for now thank you so much and I've been your 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If you're looking for some new soccer moves, these are 9 easy soccer moves you can use to beat more defenders. I'm going to give you a demonstration on how to perform each skill and then give you an in-depth tutorial on how to improve these soccer moves a little faster. Developing these skills is so you can beat players. If you're trying really complicated things and you're losing the ball every time, it doesn't matter how good your skills are. When you slow the play down because you take way too many touches, it doesn't matter how good your skills are. So whenever I do skill videos, I want to show you real moves that actually work in games. So these are a few that I use. Some have a bit of flair. Some are super simple. I promise if you stick to them, you become confident going right and left. You're going to beat so many more players. So let's talk through it. Number one, I just did a body faint. So dribbling out of the defender, I'm just going to fake with my entire body. I'm going to do a hard step and I'm going to try to send his body control, send all his weight to this side and then I'm going to attack the other space. So I'm dribbling out of him, hard cut, push into the other space. If I was going right, I would step left, push right. So there's a big difference between this, this. Okay, so I need to start selling my fakes, selling my fakes. Sometimes you might do a lot of skills, but it doesn't actually trick the defender in order to really get him to shift his weight so you can create space over here. I need to put a little more emphasis on the movement. I need to step a bit harder, get a bit lower to the ground, throw with my shoulders. I can even throw with my head, with my eyes and also being down in this position is creating leverage here. I'm allowing myself, I'm helping myself explode, explode into the new space that I've created. So when you're doing your faints, I want you to think about getting a little lower to the ground and actually trying to sell it with the shoulders, with the upper body movement, with the eyes, be more deceiving with your movements. So in the video I did, in the demonstration I did, a single, but I also did a double. I mean you can go as many as you want, just don't get yourself in the habit of doing too much because you have to be aware of the defender. You might have already beat him. You might have already sold him with one movement. So if I take another one here, now I'm going back into the space that I already created over here. So look at the defender, if he's shifted, boom, I can go. If he's staying with me, maybe I have to lose him again and I can come over here. So body faint, heart sell, quick explosion. Next is, I'm calling it a cradle step over because instead of just putting my foot around the ball, instead of doing a normal step over, I'm actually starting the skill with this touch.  So I'm going to cradle, then I'm going to step over. So I'm basically faking this movement. I'm faking this and I would explode there. But instead of exploding away, I will go into this space here. So again, with all these skills, I want you to practice right and left, right, touch with the inside, step over, and again, where is my body positioning when I do the step over? Is it up here or is it down here? And then I can explode quickly. You have to have the ability to go both ways. And the ability to control your body. If I know you're a right footed player and all you want to do is cut on your right, you're so easy to defend, unless you have way more pace than me, unless you have way more skill, I want you to start being able to go both ways, right and left. So work on these skills with both feet. Next I did a multiple step over in the video, I was actually doing like a triple. Double step over, if you get caught up in it, you can go triple. Like you can do as many as you want, just think about what I said before. There's no point in doing skills if you've already created the space. Once you see the space, boom, explode. All these skills, it doesn't matter so much what you do with the ball, it's what you do with your movement after you create the space. How many times you've played with maybe a teammate or against a guy, he doesn't have the best skills, but he beats so many players because he just explodes. He has like one touch and he just sprints with the ball. He creates the space and he sprints with it. Maybe he doesn't even do skills, he just sees the space and he goes. Keep it simple, create the space, go, attack the net, go forward with the ball. The fourth skill that I did was called a Ronaldo step over. So it's kind of two movements, it's roll step, so it's like a scissors, a scissors to a step over and I'm starting with this roll here, step out into space. If I went the other way, roll here, come on. So start slow, get the movement and then you're going to go. I want you to always look, a lot of times I do this, different skills, but it's the escaping touch afterwards. Okay, so if I come here and now this touch is forward, rather than side, I'm a lot more likely to get tackled. So I want you to think about that touch when you're trying to escape from someone. It's this touch, I'm getting away, I'm going like a triangle, right angle, rather than he puts his leg out and I just put my escaping touch there. So again, both feet, Ronaldo step over. After that, I went into some simple moves and I put them in the middle because I know so many players are going to look at these and they're not as flashy as the other skills, so they're going to overlook them. But realistically, these are the most effective ones, these are the ones you can count on the most and they're going to help you beat the most amount of players. First was a croquette, so it's inside, inside. Now let's really break down the skill because there's much more to it than two touches. Number one, it's the direction of this touch. Just like I talked about with the escaping skip, I don't want to put that touch here because that's easy for him to tackle. I want to put it across my body and even more so, if I can put it backwards into myself, it's going to be much harder for the defender to reach the ball. Okay, so think of the direction of that touch and then also the speed and the force, the pace of that touch. If this touch is slow, it's easy for the defender to get the ball. If it's quick, he can still lunge for it but he's going to be too slow to get the ball. And also, I'm really stretching my leg because I don't want to receive it here. I want to receive the ball here, away from the defender. And all these skills, it's being able to do it while running with the ball. So you'll see me and a lot of good dribblers, when they're approaching the defender, it's these little quick touches because if this touch is heavy, now my time is off, my spacing is off, I can't make the move at the right time. Keep that ball close and then when it's time to go, get away. Keeping it simple and effective. The next skill is just that skip. So remember we talked about the escaping touch. Well, that is, so it's one of the best moves in the game. Watch Messi do it. Robin used to be so good at it after buying it in so many years, I mean, he's still good at it. Where he's playing in the Netherlands, I forget the team.  Okay? So dribbling, skip forward and you'll notice it's a bit of a jump. I'm not just like here, here, here. I'm actually jumping out of the tackle and moving forward with the ball. Skip forward and then with pace, attack. I want you guys to get in the habit of when you're dribbling, if there's space there, just sprint in a straight line towards the goal until someone tries to tackle you. You don't have to beat him and then beat him and then beat him and then beat him. All you have to do is sprint with the ball in a straight line until someone tries to close you down. Then you use your skills to escape. But if the space is there, don't hesitate. Don't drop with the ball when you should sprint. So getting that habit of being more directly to dribbling, you can be way more dangerous. Next skill, keeping on pace with those simple ones, this is another simple one, but extremely effective. I was just calling it a hard cut. So if I want to get into that space, I'm going to dribble here and I'm going to do a hard cut. Now it's the weight of that touch is so important. The direction of it and the weight of it and my body movement. So think about beating players with fewer touches. What's more effective? Exactly.  If I take too many unnecessary touches, more defenders are going to close me out. What's more effective? Or this. And now I'm already in the space. So a hard cut. So dribbling there, hard chop and I want a better cut than that. So think about harder change of direction and like I said before, it's what you do after the cut. After I make this cut, am I coming up and then jogging or am I practicing my acceleration skills, staying low and getting away. Be direct, the ability to go both ways, accelerate after the movement. I'm not even talking about the technique of the skill, I'm talking about what you do, the mindset of dribbling. Next was a spin I called it. So dribbling after the defender, basically here I'm going to turn away from him and I'm going to try to make him get close to me.  So there's two ways to do it. And before we talk about the skill, this one especially, but all these movements, when you're doing that change of direction, you have to get low because if I'm trying to spin up here, I have no balance, I have no power, I have no acceleration. So here, here, can I just stay low on the ground, use your arms, so when he gets tight, I'm actually going to spin him. I'll put my hands on him, spin, give him a little push in the opposite direction. Obviously, not enough to get yourself in trouble as far as a foul. But put your hands on players, learn to protect yourself. So many players just play like this. You have to learn to get your hands up, use your hands, use your upper body as well. So two ways to do it. First was the outside cut, next was an inside cut, super low, hands up, protect yourself. Once he gets tight, make that spin. Now, if you go to do this movement and you don't feel him coming close, or don't see him coming close, then you probably can't spin back into him, but I could turn on him and use a different skill to get past the defender. Last one that I wanted to show you was, it's a move I use kind of different than running straight out of player.  So I'm basically faking this movement, there's a couple of different ways to do it, but I'm faking that I'm going to push the ball backwards, and then I'm going to dribble into that space. So it's like we're both running together, I can't quite lose him. So I want to get him to stop running. I want him to be running with me and then think that I'm going backwards, get that half stutter step, and then you can create that inch of space to get past him. So a couple ways, one would be, let me do it here for you to see, I could roll back and tap with the inside, I could just roll with the sole, let me do that better on my left. Roll with the sole like that, I could go super fancy and something like that. But more so than the touch, it's selling it like we just did with that body faint.  So think about those skills, but like I've talked about so many times throughout this video, it's not so much about the skill, it's what you do after the skill. Practicing these skills, because watching these videos, it's only going to get you so much better. You're going to have to actually put into practice if you want to see noticeable changes. So what you could do, small space like this, put one cone down, and just practice those nine different skill moves that we talked about. So you could just go pre-step up, skills, just go tire yourself out, going back and forth, attacking the cone, or you could break down and go maybe ten repetitions of each skill. So five times I would go left, five times I would go right. But challenge yourself, the most important thing, in the beginning obviously you have to go slow and you have to master the technique, but if you want to actually be able to transfer these practice skills into match skills, you have to train with pace and intensity and speed. Okay, so don't worry about screwing up, because you're going faster, you're challenging yourself. You should be screwing up. If you're not screwing up every once in a while, you're not going fast enough, you're not pushing the pace. We want to get into games and we want to be able to make a difference, we want to use these skills, we want these skills to be effective, but sometimes if we analyze how we're training, it's way too slow, it's not challenging enough. If you're training is easy, the game becomes hard. If you're training is hard, the game becomes easy. So think about it and ask yourself, am I pushing myself enough, am I going fast enough, am I going long enough, really getting my stamina going. So in a small space, set up a cone, practice these skills, maybe just go back and forth until you're tired, until you're really out of breath and then just walk around, recover, focus on your breathing, shake your legs out, maybe do a few stretches in between.


Thank you. Everybody, oh my gosh, listen to me. Yeah, my name is Ali. I'm a lot of things, but for the most part, I'm a digital producer and course creator. This is my dozenth plus time speaking at a WordCamp. But this is my first time in Asia at all. And I'm so honored and humbled to be a part of this first time event. It's been a very long time coming. I'm so happy to have been able to meet so many of the people that I've known through Twitter for many years. And finally, I get to see their faces and hug them and congratulate them. And so before we begin, I would really like to stop and give a huge round of applause to the WordCamp Asia organizing team volunteers who have been working for literal years to make this event possible for us. And it's been so far so fantastic, and I'm so grateful. As we go through, please tweet about what you see and what you think using my Twitter handle, ali underscore nimmons. Let me know what you're thinking and feeling and all of those wonderful things so that I can connect with you afterward as well. So if you are someone who is not particularly a huge fan of code, if you don't like to code, if you're not that passionate about coding, or if you'd simply like to learn to do other things aside from coding, this is the talk for you. So I'll go over here. A little table of contents for you and just an overview of what we're going to cover. We're going to talk about what tech actually is, right? Because we say, we work in tech. What does that actually mean, especially in the context of code and software and all that stuff? I'm going to go backward on myself and talk a little bit about why you should know at least a little bit of code. I'm going to tell you my no code story. We're going to talk about why WordPress in particular is so good for people who would like to work in tech without needing to touch any code. I think most of us kind of know that, but we're going to go over it together. And then we're going to talk about how to actually begin a career, a freelancing career, finding work, finding jobs in tech as a person who doesn't write software. So a quick show of hands. I'm really curious the professions and the passions that we have in the room right now.  Website designer, logo designer, UX designer, all of that kind of stuff, cool. If you work in business, marketing, analytics, data, all of those kind of numbery things, raise your hand. Gorgina, love that.  If you work in community or events, that kind of stuff, raise your hand. Nice.  We have such a good mix of people here. I'm so excited. OK, so when I started preparing this talk, I asked myself this question, what is tech? What does that mean? And I went to Ye Olde Google to try to figure that out. And the first definition I found is this one, which I don't like. I think it's way too technical. It's like way too dry and specific. And I just kind of feel like it's not very true. There are lots of jobs and lots of passions and responsibilities that don't necessarily fit this definition. So I kept searching. And I found this one, one that deals with computer programs, hardware, software, networking, and maintaining systems. Still a little bit dry. I feel like it omits a lot of the creativity and, again, doesn't include a lot of the things that I think about when I think about what a lot of y'all and myself do. So I came up with my own definition, because why not? I've decided that to work in tech means that you do work that determines how computers and or the internet affects our lives and affects our businesses, which I think way more covers the gambit of what we're all actually here to talk about. How we use WordPress, which is reliant upon the internet and our computers and our phones. How we use WordPress to affect how people run their lives, how people interact with information. And spoiler alert, that doesn't necessarily mean code. So like I said, I'm going to kind of be a little bit of a hypocrite and talk about why it's important, I think, if you're working in tech, to at least know a little bit of code, even if it's not in your job description. And when I'm talking about code here, I'm talking about the basics. HTML and CSS, I think, are important for even people who don't work in tech to know. Knowing code provides a baseline understanding of how these systems work.  It allows you to kind of understand how things are working underneath the hood. I think learning any language, whether it's code or whether it's Spanish, Thai, German, knowing other languages encourages a different way of thinking. And I believe that a lot of people in this room are bilingual. There's a lot of people here who know English and another language. And I'm sure you are aware of the fact that when you switch languages, it changes a little bit of your perception. It changes a little bit of how you see the world. And I think knowing code changes a little bit of how you see the world. Code is great to help with troubleshooting. If you have a website and something's going a little bit funky, maybe you install the theme. It's not doing exactly what you want. Being able to go into that little CSS customizer and add a couple of little things to change how you want things to look is an extremely powerful thing. And it helps you to be a better teammate. It helps you to be able to speak and communicate more efficiently with the people on your team, in your companies that do code. And I think makes you a more valuable team member at the end of the day. So I think that since this is a persuasive essay that I'm writing here, it's good to include a real life example. So this is my story as somebody who works in tech full time and doesn't write any code. So 2013 is about the time that I dropped out of theater school and decided I was going to become a web developer. So I decided to take this 180 turn and go from the performing arts into sitting in front of my laptop for eight hours a day looking at bright lights. And I started learning how to code first out of library books because at the time I didn't have a laptop. Eventually I got enough money to buy my first laptop and I would go to Starbucks and I would use courses like Udemy and Code Academy and Treehouse and Linda and YouTube. And I would write code in my notebook because having learned Spanish in high school I was like, well, to learn semantics and stuff, I need to write it out to remember it, which in retrospect, I feel very silly that I ever did that. But that's how I started to try to learn. And I really didn't enjoy it. It wasn't very fun, but I wanted to build websites. And in my mind, that was the way you started is you learned how to code. And after about a year of that, I got my first job as a junior web developer at an agency in Florida. And that's a picture of me helping my boss to start our very first podcast. So I've been a podcast person from day one. And I did a lot of different things in that job. And that job was actually where I got introduced to WordPress. That was the job I was working at when I met some of the people in this room and I attended my first word camp. And I started to learn that I didn't actually need code because I had WordPress. And so about a year at that agency was not a fun place to work, so eventually I was like, I need to get out of here. I struck out on my own. Because I had WordPress, I could build websites for people and I could sell those services. And at that agency, I learned about SEO and I learned about maintenance and I learned about hosting. And I learned enough about building those systems and processes without any code that I could start turning around and selling those services to other people. So this is, I had to go onto the Way Back Machine and find a screenshot of my old website. And this is kind of the best that I could get. And I was like, oh man, I have this old weird headshot that I took and everything. But I started my own business and I was able to make my own money on my own terms. And it was the confidence of starting this business that allowed me to feel like I could apply to speak at a WordCamp, which I did about a year later. So things were already kind of starting to roll. And again, I wasn't touching any code. So I ran that business for about three years and eventually I was like, I'm getting really burned out, not making a whole lot of money. I miss working with people and being on a team. And I actually met Michelle for Shet, who I'm seeing nods a lot of you know. And through her, I learned about GiveWP. I learned that there was a position for support tech and I applied and I got that job. So this is a picture of me working the booth, the sponsor booth at WordCamp US in 2019 before the world exploded. And I think you can tell from this picture how much fun I was having and how much that I was enjoying myself and I was making friends. And I wasn't alone in my bedroom, fiddling with WordPress all day long. I was out, I was speaking to people, I was doing things, I was impacting things and it was extremely, extremely fun. And that first job was the rocket ship that sent me to all the other opportunities that I've had. So for this 2023 point, I couldn't figure out what to list here. So these are just some of the companies that I've been lucky enough to be able to work with, to be able to create content for, to be able to make money working with. That's a pretty cool list right there if I do say so myself. I'm pretty proud of myself for that list. And again, none of them have asked me to code. None of them want me to code. They want all the other knowledge and all the other experience that I have. And these are some of the things that I've helped create in some ways. I've helped build the Black Press Slack Group, which is a fantastic community initiative. I've helped build underrepresented in tech with Michelle. I started my own podcast production company and now I create content from Astro WP. And it's been an extremely gratifying experience all without needing to learn to code. So I think there's been a theme throughout all of this, right? And it's been WordPress. I think that there is no other software tool community that is as supportive in tech of non-coders as WordPress is. I think most of us can agree that putting up a WordPress site doesn't require you to code. That's normal. That's typical, right? There's this huge community, part of which I'm looking at right now, of non-coders, people who don't focus on that, that you can learn from, that you can find friendship and mentorship from, that create educational resources for you, a lot of times for free, that you can find to begin to learn from. To contribute to WordPress, which is one of the most powerful things that you can do with your knowledge, doesn't require coding knowledge for I would say the majority of teams. There are fantastic teams, important teams that need coders. But I think one of the saddest things to me about our contributing structure is the lack of emphasis on the need for people who do not code. If you know two languages, you can be a contributor to WordPress. The Polyglots team needs you. If you design anything for a living, a contributing team needs you. If you know how to write, if you know how to edit, if you know how to take a picture with your phone, a contributing team needs you. And that is contributing to a tech open source project without needing to know any code. And if you do decide you want to learn how to code, which every year I look at myself and I'm like, man, this is the year you're gonna learn JavaScript.  And then the year's over and I'm like, man, that past version of me was really dumb for thinking that because I don't wanna do it, right? But one day, if I do decide to learn some JavaScript, I know that I have resources and people at my fingertips ready and willing to help me do that. There's people in this room that I can look at right now and know that they will help me do that. So despite me saying you don't need to learn how to code, you don't need to learn how to code, it doesn't mean that you shouldn't learn how to code or that you can't learn how to code. All right, so if you want to start working in tech, you don't know how to code. How do you make that leap? How do you make that step? There we go. The number one thing that I think I did right when I struck out on my own, I made a lot of mistakes. I made way more mistakes than I made good decisions, but I think the number one thing that I did right very early on was I built a portfolio of work for myself. And a lot of it was fake, right? I would create a website for a company that didn't exist. I would like grab a stock photo from Unsplash and I would say, what does this photo represent as a company? Let me make a company around this image and I'm gonna build a homepage around this image and this fake company, right? And then I moved into building things for friends and family at very low cost, but all that beginning stuff, all that beginning practice and trial and error was just for stuff that I made up. If you're not necessarily a designer or a builder, maybe you're a strategist, maybe you're interested in SEO, some things like that. I'm sure we've all had the experience, right? Of going to a website for a company that we're trying to get something from, right?  Who designed this? I could have done this so much better. Do it, sit down, open up one of my favorite tools ever. If you write down anything from this talk, Local by Flywheel is an amazing tool for just spinning up a WordPress website and getting started, right? Download Local by Flywheel, start a website, it'll open up a blank WordPress install for you and redesign that company's website. You don't ever have to give it to them, they don't ever have to see it, but get that experience, get that practice. And if you put that into a portfolio, you don't have to say, oh, I sold this to this company, you can say this was a personal project. You can be transparent about that, but you wanna have something that you can show as far as what your skills and your experiences. Same thing for plans, strategies, all of these things. You can make it up, no one cares. Just get the experience and make sure that you keep all of that. I wish that I had kept so much more of my early projects and the early things that I worked on. Because especially if you're working on these things and you're thinking, well, maybe I'm not doing a very good job or I'm not really happy with this. Future you, you in five years is gonna love being able to look back and say, I'm so much better now than I was before. Look at all the progress I made. That's a huge, huge, huge confidence booster. And start creating content about the things that you know and about the things that you're learning. One of the things that I always recommend is starting a blog, right? Most of us here know how to do that, thankfully. Start a blog and document the things that you're learning. So if you sat down and said, okay, I wanna learn how to use Figma for my logo designs. Write a blog post about that, about how you learned it, what you learned, what you struggled with and document all of that progress. Start a podcast, start a newsletter, put content out there. And you might think, well, nobody's gonna care what I have to say or maybe I don't have anything interesting to say. Do it for yourself. Do it for yourself. Do it for yourself in five years. There are tons and tons of job boards out there, particularly WordPress ones that are looking for non-coders. Post status, I've heard mentioned a couple of times today as a fantastic place. It's a Slack channel as well as other things, websites. And there's tons of people to connect with there who are hiring and looking for you. WP career pages is basically just a long list of WordPress companies and you click one and it'll send you to their careers page. So you can just tab click, tab click, open up all those career pages and tabs and apply to all the jobs that you can find right there and then. Jobs.wordpress.net is similar but kind of opposite where you can filter by the skill or the profession. So if you're a designer, there's a design tab that you can click on and it'll open up all the WordPress companies that are looking for WordPress designers and so on. And then a little bit of shameless self-promotion here. My friend Michelle and I created a database called Underrepresented in Tech. And pretty much just from looking at faces, almost everyone in here is qualified to be in this database. It is a database of people who are not your, I will say average in the West because I don't wanna make assumptions. Average in the West meaning straight white men. If you are not a straight white male, you can be an underrepresented in tech. You add yourself, you add your profile, so you say what you do, what you're interested in, what kind of opportunities you're looking for and then employers will go through that database and be able to find you. I know that a lot of us identify as introverts, right? I know a lot of us are already getting tired today because we've been interacting too much with people and we're starting to get tired. But networking is an incredibly important part of this experience, especially if you are looking for a creative role where you're gonna have to be communicating, right? And thankfully WordPress makes networking pretty easy to where half the time you don't even know that you're networking, right? You've already done the first step. You're here at a word camp. That is the first step to networking. Go to a word camp, find someone to talk to, congratulations, you just networked. Apply to speak at word camps or your local meetups if you have them. I would not have gotten most of the opportunities that I've gotten if I didn't decide to get up on stage and start speaking. Same for podcasts. I met Michelle who got me my first WordPress job because she had a podcast and I applied to speak on it. Pure and simple. There are tons of podcasts out there and they're always, always, always looking for guests. And a lot of the American or North American ones are desperate for guests from other parts of the world because there are stories that we don't hear on that side of the world. So you are hot commodities. Attend other tech conferences that are not about WordPress. Please, I wish more WordPressers would go to conferences that are not specific to WordPress because there's so much else to learn and there's so many other perspectives to get. For better or for worse, the WordPress community is on Twitter and will be for the foreseeable future until Twitter actually explodes. So if you don't have a Twitter account, set one up today and if you have one that you don't really use, try to be on it a little bit more frequently. That's where a lot of the conversations are and a lot of people are posting about these kinds of jobs and opportunities on Twitter. And find one of these Slack channels to join either a post-status or black press. These are places where people come together and talk about a lot of these opportunities and where you can find mentorship in the kinds of roles that you're looking for. All right, so I wanted to list out some of the types of roles and types of jobs in tech that are very popular, very high in demand that do not require any code. So I've tried to group them into sort of like categories. So we have a design category that's website design, UX, UI, themes, logos, graphic design, animation, video, all that gorgeous stuff. I group these into sort of like a business category and that's consulting, coaching, helping other people to run their businesses, human resources, data, starting your own agency. If you're one of those, the saying is like, if you can't do, then teach, right? If you can't do, then lead. They lead the people who can do and support them, uplift them, or working in things like e-commerce. So these are all great for if you are passionate about leadership, if you're passionate about numbers, data, people, these are all very powerful. And there are tons of certifications, courses, workshops online where you can learn to do things like this.  There's a lot to do with strategy. There's a lot to do with advertising. SEO is a huge one, as well as social media. All of these things, you could code as a SEO person. You don't have to. If you are a natural writer, I see some natural writers in this room already. There's tons and tons and tons of jobs within the tech community that need writers and people who communicate well. I can't tell you how much tech documentation I've read that is practically illegible because we don't have enough writers to rewrite these things. Copywriting is incredibly important. SEO and blogging, proofreading, documentation, creating courses, that's one of my favorite things that I've been doing recently is writing educational content. And all of it comes down to the writing skills that I honed in high school, right? And if this is something that interests you, just start, just start doing it. Freelance, find gigs online, write your own content and publish it. You have the power to do that. I remember when I first started out on my own, I would write SEO articles for $5 on Fiverr and it was hard and it was kind of demoralizing but it helped me to hone those skills very, very quickly and it gave me a body of work to show for my skills.  Tech communities are one of the most important parts of how we build these products and these services in this software, right? We all know that WordPress wouldn't be what it is without this community and we need people to run those communities. We have some of them sitting here and I'm so grateful that they are here, right? Community can involve consulting. I do a lot of diversity consulting that has nothing to do with software but it's needed. Podcasting, nothing to do with software but it helps build community around that software. Organizing events, right? Maintaining the open source project. There's so many contributions we need to WordPress around maintenance, keeping things going the way that they need to be going as well as news, reporting on the things that are happening, right? Join in as many conversations as you can. That's where Slack comes in handy. That's where Twitter comes in handy and publish your content about your thoughts. Start these conversations yourselves. Contributing to WordPress is one of the most powerful things that you can do to thrust yourself into these opportunities as a non-coder. Yesterday at Contributor Day we had all of these amazing, beautiful, wonderful people come out and either contribute for the first time or help other people to contribute. I'm right here, right there. Yeah, that's me. I look great, don't I? That's about, I can count, I think, eight pixels. Contributing to WordPress is fantastic and everything I've mentioned, all of those jobs that I just, like roles that I just had in those bullet points, there are corresponding teams for those skills. If any of what I just said appeals to you either as something you would like to do or something you already enjoy doing, there's a team for you. It's right there for you to get started with and to find people to mentor you as well who can help you move even further into those fields.  If you're a design person, there's a design team. If you're a writing person, pretty much every team needs writers. If you're a community person, there's a community team. Make.wordpress.org, write that down also. Make.wordpress.org is where you can go to find all of those teams. So that is it for me. I would love to answer any questions that anybody has. While you think of those questions, I would like to take a quick picture of all of you if you don't mind that I can commemorate my experience with. So if you are on this far side, if you are on this far side, I would love it. If you would scooch in as close to the center as you could get, I'd really appreciate. If you don't, it's like five o'clock. If you don't feel like getting up, I totally understand. But if you wouldn't mind being in my picture, I would, it would make me really happy. Yay. Oh, I appreciate all of you. I have so much power.  And I will be, I will take a picture of the picture and I'll tweet it for all of you to be able to see and share, okay? So everyone look cute. I got to get this way. There we go. I think I got everyone in here. All right, one, two, three. Yay. All right. Thank you so much.


As Chancellor of the University of the Western Cape, I would like to welcome all of you, the international guests, the board members of the OpenCourseWare consortium, as well as the local participants from UWC and other institutions to the OpenCourseWare workshop we are hosting today. The University of the Western Cape has a long history of fighting for political freedom and promoting access to education for all South Africans. We have been continuing in this tradition by actively participating in the OpenCourseWare and Open Education movements and are grateful for the opportunity to serve on the consortium board since 2008. The ideas of sharing and collaborating across institutional and national boundaries with academics and students from all over the world are a natural extension of our past. I wish you a constructive and informative workshop and hope that South African institutions will play a leading role in shaping the open education landscape in the years to come. God bless you.


Hi and welcome to the session. Today we will learn about right-angled triangles and Pythagoras property. Here we have a triangle A, B, C, right-angled at V. So triangle A, B, C is a right-angled triangle. Now the sides of a right-angled triangle have some special names. The side opposite to the right angle is known as hypotenuse. So here angle B is a right angle and the side AC is the side opposite to the right angle that is angle B. So here for the triangle A, B, C, right-angled at B, AC is the hypotenuse and the other two sides are known as the legs of the right-angled triangle. So here side A, B and side B, C are the legs of the right-angled triangle A, B, C. Now let's see the Pythagoras property. This states that in a right-angled triangle the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the legs. So here in the right-angled triangle A, B, C according to the Pythagoras property we have AC square is equal to AB square plus VC square. Now this means for a right-angled triangle the Pythagoras property will hold and if the triangle is not a right-angled triangle then the Pythagoras property will not hold good. Now conversely we also have if the Pythagoras property holds then the triangle must be right-angled. This property is useful to decide whether the given triangle is a right-angled triangle or not. Let's take an example for this. We are given the length of three sides of a triangle as 6 centimeter, 8 centimeter and 10 centimeter and we need to determine whether the given triangle will be a right-angled triangle or not. So for this first of all let us find out the squares of all the three sides of this triangle. So 6 square is equal to 36, 8 square is equal to 64 and 10 square is equal to 100. Now it is very clear that 100 is equal to 64 plus 36. So that means 10 square is equal to 8 square plus 6 square. So from this we can see that the Pythagoras property is satisfied. That means the given triangle is a right-angled triangle. Now hypotenuse is the longest side of the triangle. So here for this triangle the side with length 10 centimeters will be the hypotenuse. Now let's take one more example. Suppose we are given the triangle ABC right-angled at B with length of the side AC that is hypotenuse as 41 centimeters and the length of the side BC as 40 centimeters and we need to find the length of the side AB. So for this we will use the Pythagoras property and according to Pythagoras property we have AC square is equal to AB square plus BC square. Now substituting the values we will get AC square that is 41 square is equal to AB square plus BC square that is 40 square. This implies AB square is equal to 41 square minus 40 square which will be equal to 1,681 minus 1,600 that is 81 which is equal to minus square. That means AB is equal to 9 centimeters. Thus in this session we have learnt about right-angled triangles and Pythagoras property. With this we finish this session. Hope you must have enjoyed it. Goodbye, take care and keep smiling.


The Nigerian civil society situation room has asked the chairman of the independent National Electoral Commission, Ainek, Professor Mahmoud Yacoubou, to apologize to Nigerians over what they describe as poor conduct of the 2023 general elections. In his final statement on the elections, the situation room maintained that electoral body failed to leave up to expectations despite several assurances from his chairman. The convener, NLB, called for an amendment of the constitution to eliminate the position of resident electoral commissioners under the control and direction of the commission through the appointments of state directors of elections to replace RECs. We are quite disappointed with what came out because we think we had the capacity to have done better and we are still asking the Ainek chairman to apologize to Nigerians because of the electoral issues. You know, because of technology, we demand for an apology because we worked, we asked the Ainek chairman if the electoral process, if the technology will work. This election was about technology, but this technology was disappointing. National Commissioner in charge of voter education, Festa Sokoe, had admitted that there were challenges but urged Nigerians to look forward to better polls in the future. There are a lot of positives from the election. There are also challenges from the election. Based on those challenges, we are going to look at the reports from domestic and international election observers. We're also going to look at reports from political parties. We're also going to look at reports from our own electoral officers, from coalition officers and returning officers. And we are going to see whether there are issues and things that we can deal with administratively and we deal with those ones. We can also see whether there are still issues that demand both legal and constitutional change or reform. Then we will go before the appropriate organ of government and deal with... So you get notified about fresh news updates.


Today, we're building a secret room in public, a hide and plane site, and we're so confident the secret room won't be found that we hired a real detective to try and find us, but it won't be that easy for him because we have tricks and traps planned to help throw the detective off. And if he can find us by the end of the day, he wins $20,000. We only have one hour before the detective starts looking for us, so we have to find a perfect spot. Let's go! Wait! Why are we running? Why are you running so fast?  So I have a plant A, plant B, and a plant C. Ooh, dumpsters! We can turn this into a secret room, but we need to make sure this is a good enough spot since Shawn and Kat will be teaming up with the detective to find us. Yeah! Before the detective showed up, Shawn and Kat got a head start on finding some equipment to hunt us down. We could use this to bust out any door they're hiding in. Ah! God, this smell! In order to make this work, we need to clean everything out. Oh! What was that? I'm pretty sure I had to step on some poop. Oh!  And just when we thought we found a potential hiding spot, this happened. There's a cockroach crawling on your face. Just like that. Ah! Ellen? Meanwhile, Shawn and Kat were still searching for more supplies. Oh, wait! Look! Over there! A smoker name! Wait! Where'd you get that? We don't talk about it. So we're on our way to the next location because that last spot didn't work out. Right, Ellen? Right? This is a black light camera which is perfect for finding secret rooms. Oh, the binoculars! Oh, yeah. I already got some. Like, at home. I got the biggest telescope at home. See some stars. So we found a porta-potty. And what if we built a secret room? And here, it could be good because it has a building toilet. And we would never have to leave.  I don't think so. Let's find somewhere else. There's no way we won't find Ellen and Alex with all this stuff. Yeah, we just a product. So we've been to the dumpsters, to the porta-potty, a secret wall, and now we're out of part.  Which means we can build a secret room out of a fake bush. Oh, yeah. This could definitely work. Let's get back home and get the building. Go, go, go, go! So we have 30 minutes before the detective shows up. But on top of everything here, we also have a surveillance van. We just got back from buying some wood. And the first thing we're going to do is transform this into the same shape as a bush. Perfect! Alex, we don't have a lot of time left. You want to stop screwing around? Get it? After some hard work, we finally had a box. Check it out. And with under half an hour left, Sean and Kat start to test their gear. First up, we're testing a battery array. Oh, this thing is heavy. They don't stand a chance with this. Meanwhile, back at home, we were finally making some real progress on our secret room. Done. So we're finally done installing the last step. The door. This thing works well. We're running out of time. But be careful. Alex.  Here's how we're going to smoke them out. That's definitely going to keep them out of the room. Wait Sean, wasn't that our only smoker need? Oh. So we just got back from the store. And we have some snacks, some decorations, and some entertainment. Let's get customizing. The last thing we'll be testing is this black light before the detective comes. It's a print. That means that the secret room could be behind this wall. Sean, are you seeing this? Sean? What? Now, before we give you guys a full tour, we only have five minutes left. We need to move this secret room back out in public. Alex, help. Come on. Step out of the street. And everyone's looking at us all weird. After we found the perfect hiding spot, it was finally time for the challenge to begin. Detective Holmes, I'll be in charge of this investigation. I can tell by the moisture on your hand that you like to stay moisturized. Oh no, this is actually a... Let me talk to your partner. So who are the persons or person we're finding today? It's these two. Alan and Alex. They're twins. They're twins. They are twins. So you're telling me we're looking for two people that look exactly alike? Oh, no. They don't look exactly alike. See? Damn, that's a big guy. Okay, so the first clue is the room is going to have to be big. Really big. Alright guys, check it out. I can't believe we have a working TV in here, a PS5, LED lights, snacks, drinks, bean bags, a basketball hoop, and soundproof candles so no one can even hear us in here. Dude, anybody can hear that. Before we even start the investigation, in order to become a detective, you need to look like one. So first things first, we need to check their Instagrams and find out who their best friend is and bring them in for questioning. Wait, who's this? Oh, that's Caleb. Caleb seems like a close friend. Can one of you guys triangulate his coordinates? It says that he's at a feminist rally outside of Target? Target? We'll be there momentarily. And after one hour in the secret room, we realized we made a huge mistake. Alan, you know what we forgot in here? We forgot a fan. Yeah, I know. Well, there's no way I'm going to stay in here all day without one, so I'm going to target. So we're on our way to Target right now, and we actually came up with a really good plan in case anyone spots us there. And that's why we're matching. They should be free! Listen to me! Detective Holmes, I need to ask you a few questions. Am I being arrested? I'm protected by the First Amendment! Freedom of speech! Are Alan and Alex your best friends? Women are my best friends! Wait, those two look like twins! That's our target. We're going to wait for them to come out, and then we're going to secretly follow them to their hiding room. Okay, we need to make this quick and find a fan, because if the detective has as good as he says he is, then he's probably two steps ahead of us, which means he could already be here. But luckily, we were three steps ahead. It's hard enough to track the two of us, so let's see how he does with the seven of us. Yeah! That's right. Before coming here, we hired five people who looked identical to us and had them ready and waiting to be our decoys. When we all leave this store, I need you guys to run in different directions. You got it, Alex. Let's go. If the detective was waiting outside, this was our first chance to throw him off. There they are! Wait, they all look the same! How do we know who's the real one? They're messing with us! Follow that one! Follow that one! Go, go, go, go, go! Follow that one! He's getting in the Tesla! Follow him! Alright, mission success. They're following me, so I'm going to leave him to the first booby trap. Keep following him! See where he goes! He's just driving around in circles. What's going on? Wait, he's leaving us to a park! Go to the park! Go faster! Go! What do you think I'm doing? I don't know, but you're not following him! Then you drive! He's running! Alright, you guys stay here. I'm going to go by myself, okay? Just stay here.  Go! Here we go, Sean. There's a toilet in some kind of portal to a secret room. Yes! Wait, wait, someone's right there! Do you need some hand?  I can watch them bars. Go watch some footage and figure out where they are. Okay, yes, sir. So we're back with the fan, and it definitely wasn't worth it. Well, we did pick up a few other supplies like hidden cameras that we're going to place outside of the bush and a remote-controlled car with a built-in camera so we can literally scout the place and see who's nearby. You just hit the curb. You want to give it a try? If it's not already broken. Let's just continue our search of the park. I've seen this before. I know what this is, because I've seen enough movies. I know that this shopping cart and this wall create the secret portal. Detective Holmes, this is not Harry Potter! Trust me, this is a secret wall. Harry Potter is based on a true story. Get out of the way, Sean! I just made a slight miscalculation, but I'm always a step ahead.  There's green pipes right over there. Detective Holmes, are these the pipes you're talking about? Listen, I've played even more video games and movies, and I know there's a secret tunnel right underneath that pipe there. Like Mario? Yes, like Mario. Don't get in there. There is a secret tunnel under there. Get in there! Oh, my. You don't know how to get in the tube correctly? Hey, that was good. Hey, Alex, come on. That was a good one. Ah, man, and we're trapped in here. No ventilation, no air, nothing. Ah! Do you want to go outside and maybe use the restroom? Dude, I was kidding. I don't want to use the restroom. I have to use the restroom. And because we didn't want to risk being seen, we had Tanner pick us up in the world's fastest car. Quick! Get in! How are we going to fit? It's a two-seater. I'm thinking one of these trees... Maybe they're on a bus. Hey, wait! What's my Lamborghini doing here? Go, go, go, go, go, go! Hurry, hurry, you're losing them. Sean, we can't lose them. Go, go, go! Oh, freaking punching me. Okay, okay, I get it. Come on, man. He's driving like a madman. So is he! In a Lamborghini! We're in a Lambo! You need to be driving faster! Come on, come on, come on, come on! Go faster! No, you don't get it. I already know where they're going to be. I'm three steps ahead. I'm already planning their next move. They're just not here yet. But they will be. A few moments later... No, we lost them!  I need to go use the restroom. Let me out now. Okay, let's get back. And while they were driving around in circles, a security guard saw us into her secret room and kicked us out. It was actually pretty cool. You guys saw how much attention it grabbed earlier, so we're going to disguise this box into a giant Amazon box and move it somewhere else. We even got an actual Amazon outfit and a real Amazon truck. So we're probably just going to end up putting the bush back in our house. But since we're technically cheating, we're going to call the detective and give him a huge hint. Since you're having trouble finding us, here's a tip. We're at our house. That's not much of a tip. I was going there anyway. Alright, whatever, man. Good luck. He was not headed here. But we weren't going to let him find us that easily. We set up booby traps all over the house to waste his time. We're here! Alright guys, so the detective is now here. But we're going to know exactly where he's at at all times because we set up hidden cameras throughout this entire home. Okay, so here's the game plan. I'm going in by myself.  I got this one. So when they come inside the house, they're going to walk right into the first prank, the glue trap. They're playing checkers. I'm playing chess. That first prank was a warm-up. This next prank is going to be pretty painful. This looks like a suspicious pain. And it's hollow. We'll circle back to this later. You know upstairs. I've seen secret rooms under stairs before. Okay, if he's dumb enough to go back up the stairs, this next prank is going to set up perfectly for the next few. The true detective doesn't need his eyes to see. So I'm going to wash all this off with. I'm going to be able to see. Do we need to call an ambulance? Then on that chair because we put an airbag in it. Finally see again. Tell us what you learned. We're going to find them. Let's clean you up and go find them. Thank you guys. I'm never leaving you guys behind ever again when I'm getting a call. This could be them. It is them. Hello? Hello? We'll give you our exact location if you agree to tie up Sean and Kat. Done. What? I had to choose between the mission and you guys. I'm choosing the mission. You guys said you were in the backyard? That's a trap. I'm going to the attic. He said he's leaving? Is he actually leaving? Actually, let me walk around and hand this to you. They better have some extra for my hospital bills.  What? I'm Alex. You're not Alex. Who just spoke a few seconds ago? Get out. No, we didn't. You phoned me? Yeah.