Okay, so hello. Good afternoon. My name is João Vasconcelos. I work for the OECD.  It's also a challenge, as you know, to try to share this session after the lunch break in the second day. In any case, given the topic and also the interest that normally these kind of areas can bring, we'll try to make this session as interesting, as active, as provocative as possible. So the topic today is how to basically bring the citizens on board, mostly from a perspective of governments, and assuming that, as the title of the session says, that two heads are better than one, and how to mostly bring the civil society on board to work with the government. So during this session, I think we have here a very good panel of speakers. I have on my right Ms. Paula Forteza from the French National Assembly. I also have Mr. Álvaro Herrera from the government of the city of Buenos Aires, and I have also Ms. Anna Neves from representing the civil society from Noman. Before giving them the floor, I'll try just to introduce you here a little bit on our topic. And to start with, this was based on the discussion that I had previously with the speakers that is trying to understand what is, and being general about it, what is the general perception that citizens, or eventually, civic tech organizations have regarding governments. And when we talk about government, we talk really the institution, the public institution as a whole. And one general perception, and we can talk with every citizen out there, is that governments are complex. They are big machines, difficult to understand, difficult to manage, and also difficult to interact with. Sometimes, even, citizens look at governments from a perspective that, okay, they are big machines. They are also trying to always try to have some kind of control of procedures on how to direct citizens in terms of services, managing expectations of citizens. So, also, this perspective sometimes comes up. And even if we can jointly think about these two ideas of complexity, of big control, even of bureaucratic perspective, that's a bit the figure that we have from government, so that they can be quite scary sometimes. And I think you can share this vision with us. I'm trying to be provocative here, but mostly, I think we have a general understanding that citizens look at governments, that public institutions as locked institutions. So, with some that sometimes are opaque, not very transparent, difficult to understand, and sometimes even not really willing to cooperate with citizens, although some efforts are being done from that perspective. But I can assure you, and working with governments all over the world, from OECD member, but also partner countries, when you try to get the feedback from government officials about how to work with the civil society, how to have engaging policies, how to bring the citizens on board. We have perspectives like this one, like, let's be open and collaborative, let's bring the citizens, let's give them voice, let's share data, let's do all kinds of events so that citizens can have some kind of co-responsibility, some kind of co-ownership of the policies that are being put in place, mostly from a perspective of being open, having a open government and make it really, really an institution that wants to bring the citizens on board. Sometimes, even, we have this kind of perspective, that is, you have public officials that are so committed, they are so happy about having the citizens on board it, they have this kind of naive perspective of, hey, best friend forever, so let's have everybody here to cooperate with us. But, I can also assure you that this sometimes also happens, that is, governments do a big effort to bring the citizens on board, the civil society, the companies, the academia, all kind of stakeholders, and by one reason or another, and that's one of the things that we would like to discuss with you, the civil society is not really responding to the calls of government. Sometimes, some initiatives are put in place, and actually, whether we're talking about open-date participatory budgets, crowd-sourcing initiatives or others, so the civil society, the one that demands to be heard and to participate, it's not really there. So, trying to be provocative again about this, so the main issue of this, of our discussion here today is precisely how to make sure that governments and citizens, through digital technologies, are really able to work together, how to manage the expectations of both sides, which kind of winning perspectives or winning approaches can we have to really have this kind of good partnership and good collaboration. So, I'll give the floor to each one of my speakers here in the panel to give, so they can share their perspectives on this. So, I'll start with Paula, and the perspective from the French National Assembly. Thank you for inviting me, I'm very happy to be here. So, I think maybe the question can be also reversed. Maybe we can say it's not that we have to bring citizens on board, but we have to bring institutions and political representatives on board. We have in this, like, tech for politics or tech for public affairs movement, two big families. We have the open government and now open state movement, which is more of a bottom-down, top-down, sorry, movement, which has been gathered around the OGP, the open government partnership, where we have a kind of network of reformers coming from a little bit all over the world, and which are doing this effort of trying to be open, to do open data to launch all kind of initiatives, but that have trouble sometimes to mobilize communities and civil society. And we have on the other side this civic tech movement, which is more, which comes from civil society, where we have tools that have been used more during social movements, like in France, we have indignados in Spain, we had occupied Wall Street in the US, we have the movement in Taiwan, and we choose these tools to take collaborative decisions and to mobilize citizens and to work together. But that sometimes can get a bit isolated and that sometimes didn't get the political impact they were hoping for. So I think these two movements are kind of losing strength, and I think that if we want to save them or to make them obtain their results, we have to make them work together. And that's the only way we will have a real political impact, and that things that come bottom up will trigger real political decisions. That's the real issue. And in order to do that, we have some examples of people coming from civil society that got political responsibilities. We have Pablo Soto, for instance, Audrey Tang. I am very humbly trying to do the same, coming from civil society and getting a spot in the National Assembly and trying to hack the system from within and trying to make it change by infiltrating, let's say, institutions. And so I think that's the way to go, but we need to scale this up. We can't all only rely on some individuals that are doing this in a kind of isolated way. So how are we doing this at the National Assembly? We are trying to go beyond these platforms, these participatory platforms that have become kind of like playing fields, where political decision-making guys say, okay, you kids can play around here and we, the adults, are taking decisions on the other side. And when sometimes all these participatory initiatives are manipulated and used for communication aims and where anything that comes from these platforms doesn't translate in real political decisions. And so what we're trying to do is say, let's map all the entry points, all the moments during the legislative process where our participatory elements can be plugged in. And so not only do one consultation that is isolated and that happens like a way of the political process, but let's plug in citizen participation, citizen arguments all along the process. And so for instance, in the legislative process we have the moment of the agenda setting that can come through petitions. We have the moment of the amendments, the moment of the discussion between MPs, the moment where we follow up the implementation of the law, the moment where we evaluate the impact of the law. And in all of these moments, citizen can contribute and can have a word or something to say about it. So there's a lot of tools that can help us do that in a more dynamic, iterative and dynamic way. And so in a more technical way how we do this, because one of the challenges of all these platforms because today we have the tools. We have so many tools all around the world. A lot of them are open source. We can use them from one country to another. The problem is not the tool, but it's how we can outreach or make the right people get engaged on the platform or on the tool. And I think we have reached the point where citizens get engaged. Citizens respond to consultations, citizens participate. But they don't see that they're getting more and more frustrated because they don't see that this translates into real decision making. And how we're trying to take the problem the other way around and say we will first think about tools that are useful for MPs in our case under daily work. For instance, a platform to manage amendments. And where we're sure that they will use it because it's useful for them, it's practical and it's something that will simplify their work. And then we plug in features, participatory features on this tool like voting system or proc on arguments, et cetera, so that we already have influential people on the platform and they are organically exposed to this expression, citizen expression. And so we're trying to do this and it's really starting to work and we think it can be, it's an experiment, but we think it can be a way to turn the problem around. So that's my first... Ah, okay, good. As you know, as you can see I'm not a tech person. I work for the government. We're learning, but it takes some time. Well, at the beginning of the, in your opening remarks, Joel, you talked about how to bring citizens and civic tech organizations on board. And for us, those are two very different venues. I must say that we are very good at bringing citizens on board and we're not so good at bringing civic tech organizations on board. And that's something that is, it's a challenge, it's something that we have to improve. This slide has some examples of all the citizen-oriented policies that we have. Last year we launched an online participatory budget project which was extremely successful in terms of the quantity of citizens that participated. We got more than 26,000 proposals. We recently launched a project that's called Commissaria Sarcanas, the open police stations. So once a month, every first Thursday, the police stations which are more than 60 in the city of Buenos Aires are open to the public and the chief of the police station must be there with some members of the local parliament and members of the executive branch to be accountable to citizens, to listen to the citizens and to learn from their problems. Yesterday I told you about our platform on public works and also the city mayor and the deputy mayor have town hall meetings three times a week, each of them. So we can say that we are very close to the citizens and we are doing our best to try to listen to them and to process and capture all that information. And I think that's one of the key areas where civic tech organizations can help us. We are obtaining lots of information and we're trying to make a proper use of it, but I think we can improve and we can learn a lot by the type of work that civic tech leaders are doing and the type of projects that have been discussed over the last two days. And at the same time we are having problems at the city level in finding civic tech organizations that are focusing on cities and specifically in public services being delivered in the cities. So that for us I think is one of our biggest challenges. And at the same time we are open in spaces where this collaboration with civic tech organizations could take place. We are broadening the civic space, we are building new venues for enabling this type of interaction that so far as I said has been mostly focused on citizens. We are members of now full members of the Open Government Partnership. We were one of the 15 pioneers that joined OGP.  We have hackathons, we have these town hall meetings, we have an innovation lab, so we have many spaces in which we could improve the type of collaborative work with civic tech organizations and in fact we resort to them quite frequently. Let's say on a demand that is generated by the government, we are reaching out to civic tech organizations for help and it's not the same, you know, let's say backwards. We don't get many requests from civic tech organizations and I think I'm a former civil society person and I know the power of agenda setting that organizations have. So I think there is a lot of potential on that field. Right now we are working with the GOV lab in a project called the Civic Challenges and we are trying to get their help to resolve together in a collaborative fashion with citizens and public officials setting teams, mixed teams of citizens and public officials to solve problems that historically in the city could not be resolved. So we do realize that sometimes for most of the time citizens know more about their neighborhood than public officials and we want to bring that intelligence, that knowledge into the process of policymaking and I think that for that purpose civic tech organizations could make a huge difference. And I think we are doing, I mean we have a gap and I think it's our fault. I think we are not, we do not have the right tools to convene civic tech organizations and that's probably our main challenge. So thanks a lot Alvaro for this perspective from local governments. I'll give the floor to Anna from the civil society perspective. First of all, thank you very much for the invitation to be here. I feel very humbled because I'm just personally interested in the topic as a citizen and it's really weird being the last one to speak because you basically said it all and I was also curious, thinking that it's interesting to have such a strong spotlight on us because I think it kind of mimics what really happens which is a huge spotlight on citizens but also on government to do something and I think the problem is we're still seeing citizens and civic society as a separate entity from government and I think that's one of the key issues. I had prepared some notes which I will scrap because you said it all as I said but I will pick on something that Joao asked which is why is civic society not responding and I think I can talk for myself but also from lots of different civic society organizations that I know and I interview and I think it comes from a huge disbelief because even when government opens the doors you still wonder how really open is that door and there is a lot of focus on government creating tools for crowdsourcing ideas and for people to vote on ideas but then your ideas on your votes what happens to them afterwards is still a very opaque thing so in a way, yes, you're opening the doors but on the other hand there's something that still fosters and promotes this spirit of disbelief and the other thing which I think is probably in the root of everything it's the lack of engagement from when government does things the citizen is not there from day one even build a concept of the tool if you're creating a platform you're expecting the citizen to use the platform but the citizen was not involved in the process of creating it and the same thing happens in civic society projects to be fair which is citizens have great ideas civil society organizations have great ideas and they go ahead and do it and sometimes not consulting and involving the government from day one and these I think these lack of engagement from day one is probably what's the core at the root of the issue of the mistrust because I think there's a mutual mistrust here the other thing and it's part of this mistrust that is sometimes promoted by this openness how many open data portals do you exist in the same country it's just unbelievable the amount of this willingness to be open and opening your data me as a citizen have this idea that if you're opening your data but you're making people to go to 20 different sites to find data you're not being that open really and this is just an example of I don't know, almost dividing to conquer and not being really it's almost like institutions are more worried about stamping the initiative and saying we did it and this is a negative acting collectively as a group in the public interest and that I think it's also a cause for this mistrust the other thing I'm just going to pick on something that Paola said which you use a really interesting expression which is hacking the system and we are in a great audience we understand totally what that means but it's interesting how many people see that hacking carries a huge negative term and as change carries it's almost equivalent in that sense hacking and changing it feels very threatening because at the end of the day government are people and they're human beings as well and if government needs to be conscious about the language it uses I think we as civil society need to be very careful about language we use and communicating with government because there is mistrust there as well and we should not promote and this mistrust and I guess finally what I would like to say just for this intro is I think and I'm and this is very much a personal opinion although I know it's shared by many I don't think it's for the government and the public institutions to do the work and create the platforms and make it all happen because I don't think that's necessarily a role I think civil society as much of an interest in making things happen as government should and it's okay for civil society to take the reins and make things happen I think it's important for government to find a role and accept a role as a facilitator and almost as a scaffolding I like the idea of a scaffolding someone who's there to support and make civil society go higher because I think there are many we were talking about two heads there's billions of heads around the world there are more heads outside of government than there are heads inside government and that's math and I think government needs to acknowledge that and respect that and embrace that as an opportunity rather than a threat so thanks a lot I think we had very different perspectives here and they are complementary among themselves so let me probably make you a first question before giving the floor to the audience that is we discuss more and more in the OECD and it's not a new concept the issue of looking at government and trying to follow government as a platform approaches so meaning the government try to be open the finding guidelines, standards and having a different attitude towards citizens to really bring them on board and co-create with citizens several solutions as I told you, it's not a new concept but it's something that we really feel that even in OECD countries and in most advanced OECD countries in digital terms it's still something that is being developed right now do you think that's a good approach that should be followed? Yes, no, what are the key issues that should be considered when following this kind of approach? Do you want to start? Yes, I'm very OK with this concept we speak of National Assembly as a platform or as a platform Parliament as a platform so we borrow the expression to apply it to the parliament but we see it more in tech terms in terms of the administration of the National Assembly to give resources to civil society open data, open source code open APIs give the technical infrastructure so that we have these actors all around that can develop apps, that can develop services that are alternative and that can give more tools to MPs, to politics, to politicians et cetera so we think that should be the way to go, that the institution gives the basic resources and gives the whole liberty to this community to create and to flourish but we think one of the points that is crucial for this to happen is to have this community around that trusts the system and that I think the trust issue is key and this work in the long term where we have a relationship that gets created and nourished on the long run and to do that for instance we have launched with my team a project that's called the Bureau Vert in French it's like the open office so every Friday I open my office and I bring in and I invite anyone who wants to come really but it's civic tech initiatives it's developers, designers journalists, economists and it's kind of a continuous hackathon because we all know that in hackathons you never have the time to do what you wanted to do and it's always a bit frustrating in terms of results and products that you can develop so we follow up projects on the long run and it makes them understand how the machine works from within and what are the real needs of the MPs so that their services and their projects are really responding to these needs so that we can maximize uptake afterwards so I think you have to have the technical resources that are opened up by the institution and you have to have this constant dialogue so that the apps and the services that are developed respond to the real needs and that's the way you can have an ecosystem that works I think Thank you I totally agree I agree with the project that the government has more it's a platform as long as it has more resources in some way it's an uneven field in which I think governments have more responsibility but I do think we have to pay a lot of attention to some issues that Ana brought up for example when you mentioned the problem with open data and open data portals we feel the same way we invest a lot of money on those portals but we don't know who's using them it's a very small public and we're trying to improve them to make them more relevant to average citizens and probably what we're trying to do is to give more public value to information I think that I also agree with you with the fact that the government cannot do everything and not all the apps and all the platforms should be done by the government if the government opens the information in the right format there should be a collaboration with civic organizations or companies like Google that uses transport information to improve their apps so we are very concerned in terms of generating a public conversation on the importance not only the importance but also the relevance of information and data because if we fail at that I feel like this open government movement and all the open data will be just a fashion that will go by but if we succeed in making these tools and these strategies relevant to citizens there will be a demand for that there will be an electoral demand people will care about when it comes to voting so I think that's a major challenge that we have at the time making these reforms and this approach to government sustainable Anna please I have a computer science degree so platform in my language means technology but I have also derailed to the soft side so for me it's no longer the technology is the technology and mostly the people who use it so when we look at government as a platform I think yes it's the technology but above all is the culture that surrounds the technology that will empower people and encourage people to use it for what we intend them to use so I think it's really important that government yes embraces these initiatives and opens the data but also make sure that open data is used every time it communicates and people are encouraged to use it and it's great if government does hackathons and engages or invites civil society to use the open data and create new apps or if they open the data and say yes it's here for you to use but it would be so much better if then they would say come here find a date and see all these great examples of what citizens are doing with the open data because it's also and we talked about the mistrust thing it's also interesting when government creates these open data portals and makes data available and creates his own tools of looking at the data because I as a citizen and as a scientist if you want will always question if the visualization that it's being offered to me is the one that interests the government or is the one that I should be interested in as a citizen but this bit is a provocation so thanks a lot I think we've heard again different perspectives here several ideas are right now in the air let's call it like that so I would like also to give you the floor so you can put some questions to the speakers here so probably I'll collect for a set of questions have it there please can you please just identify yourselves and put your question thank you for a very interesting talk my name is Anna Coulomb from the Open University there's a growing body of evidence on the importance of offline or non online only spaces of citizen engagement and transformation so I'm wondering how much governments understand the potential of using online in combination with already powerful and existing offline spaces because perhaps I'm thinking it's not that citizens are not on board but maybe we're not knowing how to engage or where to reach them so interesting to hear more on that from you thank you we have other questions there please and also first here thank you so much for those interesting thoughts my name is Eshpa Nkwesiga from Parliament Watch so I come from Uganda and in Uganda when we had the presidential elections on the debt on the polling debt the internet was shut down and so what happened was a few brilliant people came up with this thing called VPN and they literally in almost a day taught the entire country how to use the internet if you have the main internet service providers shut down so the government said that it was because they didn't want the opposition parties to announce their own results which they said would lead people to just flood the streets in celebration of wrong election results so anyway they later reconnected the internet but more and more we see the same government using the same internet especially Facebook and Twitter as a platform or as a tool to make public announcements two months ago the president recently fired the head of police on Twitter so I guess my question to you is and this is a question to all the panelists from your experiences I guess how far have your governments gone in as far as using some of these tools to make public announcements thank you I'll just collect one last of this first round of questions I'm Jean Brice from Transparency International I will first start with a comment by saying I think you are expecting too much on technology and data because obviously we are developing technologies they are computer scientists so they cannot provide solutions to any kind of engagement issues they can just contribute to existing solutions so that will be my question to you when you want to engage for example women from a specific region or engage youth to politics what exactly is your approach where we can apply technology I'll be happy to hear if you could put my brain on and think about something I could develop that could help to enhance this solution so thank you we have already three questions I'll give the floor to our speakers Paul you want to start yes the first question on how to on the level of importance for us on how to articulate offline and online participation we have always done it that way any time we launch consultation or a participatory process we always do contribution events all over the territory and we go to the places we go to schools we go to universities we go to clubs we go to we don't reach eventually by only doing something online so I think it's key then we have on internet how do governments and political political figures use internet to do public announcements so in France we have a movement of political renewal with the Macron and the En Marche movement which brought in a lot of people coming from civil society and a lot of young people people that are very used to use social media and to use internet and these have changed a bit like the practices and we have a lot of ministers for instance that do online sessions on Facebook for instance or that use regularly sorry social media to communicate and to make political announcements so this is something that in France at least is getting stabilized as a practice the last question I'm sorry I didn't understand it very well but maybe my colleagues can come back to it afterwards quickly offline participation I totally agree with you it's extremely important first because there are sectors of the community that do not use technology or do not have access to the internet and we have seen in cases of ground base I don't know the term in English but ground base offline participation in for example for urbanizing some shanty towns or favelas within the city of Buenos Aires and those mechanisms were extremely successful in terms of the effect and the impact substantially probably more than our online mechanisms because it helped resolve very deep rooted problems of the city internet the use of networks and social networks and internet for making announcements I think it's political communication is changing all the time and yes lots of politics is going on online and in the city of Buenos Aires for example we have cabinet meetings that are broadcasted in Facebook so I think this is something that is everywhere now and it's unavoidable and for the last question if I got it right if you were talking about how to use technology or how to use using them or giving them more access I agree we have identified large sectors that are not using technology or cases in which for example elderly people that have a problem of being lonely because their relatives are not around and they do not know how to use the internet so we are developing a special program free where they have access to the things that they want this project was developed after a consultation process with a research project with elderly people and it has panic buttons access to medical information and to their medical records all type of things that are conceived to satisfy their needs but of course there are many sectors that need to receive more attention and could benefit more from new work by governments we are in Portugal so we are talking about the online and offline question I think I need to encourage you to have a look at what the Portuguese Government has recently done with the first national wide participatory budgeting process although the voting was online all the gathering of ideas was initially offline they basically went to the government went the Secretary of State in fact went around the country and had face-to-face meetings engaging with local entities and they worked the ideas so they engaged the elderly the people who don't use what have real needs so in a way it kind of also answers the third question I think at least it's an example of how it can be done and they literally worked with the people what's your pain and how can this pain be construed and used to create an idea that is good nationwide and obviously the voting was then done online but the core was born offline so it's interesting there are flaws in the process I'm the first one to identify them but I think it's a really really good first approach and I think it deserves your attention if you can maybe I can come back on the last question if I thought about it a bit I think you're talking about not having a tech solutionism approach or not expecting too much on technology I think the approach to have is to say technology is not an end in itself it's a means for a political will or a political program or a political action and there's always behind political action to put in place with this idea that technology is just a tool and a means towards a different end but I don't know if I understood we can chat afterwards if not so thank you I see one, two, three Hello, good afternoon my name is Marco Nopaki from ITS Rio, Brazil many of you have talked about the vision between solutions created by civil society and governments at ITS we always try to think our projects as multi-stakeholder solutions by design to potentialize social impact what are the biggest challenges to think civic solutions in a multi-stakeholder solution by design good afternoon my name is Jessica from Kenya my question is about the difference between civic tech and civil society is it that in your country majority of the time civic tech is run by organizations that are not civil society or just taking companies what would be a good model in your experience in the different challenges that you face in your day-to-day lives I think we have one more there yeah please Hi, John Bruce from Transparency International it's really great that we're having this talk with government and civil society on the same table but I think there's an inherent selection bias just by virtue of you being here you're already reformers and modernizers not every politician does the amazing thing that Paula is doing with opening the office on the Friday and letting developers and journalists come in and I appreciate my question it's very context dependent depends on the political economy I was wondering if you have any advice on how civil society can engage with politicians who are less willing to listen to us and who are not reformers and modernizers some maybe anecdotes or specific advice you might have on that thank you let me get another one Hi I'm Bruna, I'm also from Brazil and I'm president of the board of open knowledge in Brazil and also I lead an area of knowledge in innovation and organization a non-profit organization that works with public servants in over 100 cities in Brazil and our perspective is that the public service is somehow the first social control so in terms of tactics in this movement that we are talking about in civic tech my question is how can we make better use of public servants in this movement towards openness and what are the tactics that you've seen on this thank you we have already four questions I'll go to the speakers and ask them to be as focused as possible just talking about tools and about how we can make civil society and governments work together we had last year launched a project called the OGP Toolbox I don't know if you've heard about it which is kind of a mapping of all the existing civic tech tools designed or by civil society or by the government but more importantly where we tell stories about how these tools have been used or reused by different actors and what is very interesting is to see how we have this batch of tools that are open sourced and that are reused at the international level for instance in France which has been developed in Argentina and that's the software that we use today to make consultations in the French National Assembly we also use software that was developed in Iceland to make crowdsource questions to governments in the National Assembly we just had the chat that you are using to decide Madrid to make open budget in Argentina so that's how interesting that's the richness of this movement and how international it got to be and I think that maybe answers I don't know some of the questions sorry I'm trying to be as concise as I can and regarding how to onboard other politicians that are not yet familiarized with this way of working we have this challenge at the National Assembly we try to form them on digital issues on how to use digital tools and always with this very practical approach how these digital tools can help them simplify their daily tasks and their daily lives and their job and that's how they get to uptake to see the interest in it and then we move on to consultations to more developed and complex like collaboration systems so yeah I'll stay at that as for the question on the first one by Marco I think that one interesting approach is to have case studies proving the advantages of multi stakeholder approaches and that most public officials in Latin American countries are not aware of the advantages that these tools have and that's why many times they do not use it also it's true that they are more time consuming so probably you cannot use it for all parts of all the elements of the policy making process but I'm sure there is room for more use of these tools and I think one of the problems one of the challenges is the lack of knowledge so doing case studies and peer learning probably it could be a good approach and then on the question of civil society and civil texts whether or not they are the same at least in Argentina what we see we have a large civil society movement but it's not all fashion but it's more they have an institutional reform approach you know they are more political scientists economies, sociologists and on the other hand we have very few organizations that have technological skills so that's like a very scarce asset in our society and that's what with my presentation I mean to say well we need more investment on this type of organizations because everything that relates to evidence based policy and all the evidence generated by data it put public officials on the spotlight so it's a good way to improve policy and to make government officials accountable and how to engage politicians who are not reformers well we need to use this type of alliances I used to be a board member of the local chapter of Transparency International in Argentina and now I'm working for the government so I'm all the time telling my friends, I was going to say my former friends but we are still friends my friends how to support each other in this type of alliance and I think that type of alliance is very important especially in governments who have policies for civil society or for experts to bring governments that are mostly dominated by traditional politicians and also for the last question what I see in Argentina is that most government officials are not very aware of the open data movement for example so when we go knocking their doors telling them we run the open data portal and the data sets and there's 30 seconds of silence until you realize they are not familiar with that there's a lot of work to be done towards the core of the governments we are thinking of having an open data school or like an open data training program which is an idea that our friends from Govex Eric Ries and his colleagues gave us we need to generate more awareness within the government more capacity within the government to be able to use these tools and to be more aware of the advantages of these tools. Very quickly in terms of what I perceive to be the main difficulties or working with multi-stakeholders I think one of the hardships of working with government from the civil society perspective is there is an electoral mandate which in Portugal is four years it varies from country to country and that influences a lot the commitment to time the priorities and what civil society perceives to be a big issue today maybe it's not a very interesting one for media to cover or for the government to see as a priority and that has a huge impact on the level of acceptance and openness to whatever you're trying to create. In terms of engaging civil servers a servant sorry I like to think it's about inspiring them I worked in the government in UK so I was on the other side and I see a lot of hard-working people people who are committed to their work and love to do a good job and sometimes they just do not know how to do better so I think it's I like to think that it's a matter of inspiring them and it's not about teaching them what maybe what is about open data it's about what open data can do for them and how it can enable and empower them to do a better job. So I like to think about inspiration as a moto more so than information which I think it's scarier I'm looking right now at the time and I think we're really need to finish this probably you can address some questions here to our speakers during the break in any case before closing I would like to invite each one of our speakers to if you could share with us one lesson one thought one request here to this civic tech audience based on your experience during the last years what would be a key message a key idea that you would like to share I would love to have the opportunity to listen more to your stories and your use cases or the the examples that you have of civic tech initiatives that really had a political impact or that translated into decisions or and why do you think that was maybe we can launch like on twitter with the hashtag civic tech like some kind of examples if you have something to say so that we can go on exchanging about that and have some examples after this to share and to share outside of this conference. Thank you. Very short. Help us please. Does everyone have any questions or any questions or any suggestions that we are not familiar with? As I said, I am not a technological person. I have more institutional reform background and this today is speaking of inspiration for me. Every presentation I listened to was you know, I providing health information, immediately I thought of one problem we have in the city of Buenos Aires with migrant women who do not go to the hospitals because of cultural reasons and how we can use that type of idea to solve problems. I mean, I think we need to find mechanisms like this forum, you know, to have more of these type of encounters to get to know each other, to share ideas. We are very hungry of these type of ideas. I guess I'd like to invite us all, me included, to start thinking more of a we civil society against them government but more of a we who people who care about or versus people who don't care and don't care in the sense of maybe don't know enough to care about these topics and so but I think this is a different me versus them idea. So thanks a lot for sharing this. Thank you Paula, thank you Alvaro and thank you Anna. I think we had a lot of ideas that were shared here. For sure we will start having or we can continue our discussion during the break and I think you can all agree that this is a continuous effort. This is not we're not trying here to to find one solution, one answer or even a pack of answers. It's a continuous continuous process and I think that's also the commitment that each one of our speakers here had. So thanks a lot and okay see you around.


Welcome to the Rich TV Live podcast. I'm your host Richard D'Souza. Today. We're gonna talk about the markets and they're hot Now, what is the catalyst? You always need to understand what is the catalyst for the market? CPI you could see here at the very top core CPI came in 0.2% CPI month over month came over 0.0% and CPI year over year came in at 3.2% they had initially anticipated 3.7% and Previously we were sorry. They're anticipating 3.3 percent previously. We were at 3.7 percent So you can see that this is a huge drop for the CPI Which means inflation is going in the right direction Which means the Fed in America and Canada and other countries might not need to keep raising rates In fact, they might start lowering rates and the market is exploding on this news Now I'm gonna show you what's happening here on Market watch and you can see for yourself Dow Jones up 1.62 percent or 555 basis points. This is one of the biggest days of the year in the market S&P 500 up 2% 89.52 basis points and the Nasdaq huge day for the Nasdaq leading the way 2.28% up 314 basis points Monster day for the Nasdaq and let's take a look at some of the stocks that are benefiting from this. So BCDA Huge move today on FDA approval So lots of these deals starting to move now after Big drops in the market stocks are starting to make some moves. So BCDA put them on your radar put them on your watch list up 210% today that massive green candle. Here's PXM D After dropping it's starting to do a nice dead cap bounce up 52% on the day and these these start these charts I've been I've been marking up so you can see where they've been They've been much higher. They've been lower and now they're starting to do dead cap bounces Here's THRX up 48% of the day and a lot of the same with these stocks They all kind of have the same look about it this year where they have Come down from much higher levels Found a ridiculous bottom and are starting to bounce back on use. So put THRX on your radar Put on your watch list I think it's very difficult these days to ride momentum because a lot of these stocks go up for a day And then they go back down. So I wouldn't suggest you go and buy a stock just because it's up today Okay, that's not why I do this. I want me I want to make you aware of what's happening in the market But typically what's happening in these markets these days is that they move up penny stocks specifically They move up like crazy for a day and then the very next day. They come back down. There are some exceptions But overall, that's what we're seeing with a lot of these stocks. So please proceed with caution Don't immediately go buy it just because you're hearing about it. AIRE Same thing been much higher came down dead cat bounce and then you can see the nice Green candle starting to form here. So AIRE up 37% of the day TPIC Here's one that is having a big day today up 30% another one of those charts that looks a lot of the same Always mark the hot. These are yearly charts I always like to look at the year see where it's at and you can see they're all bouncing off these Bottoms so very difficult to trade but these are some of the harder plays of the day and I envy oh this is actually one that's really starting to come back up and Now up at $2.05 up 27% of the day after going up yesterday and really been up for the last week or so Last couple weeks really Okay, so here's BLNK, I told you about these guys. I told you I like these guys blink charging code So this is a company that is for charging stations for electric vehicles I think that this is huge potential and I'm not the only one because it continues to go up now three days in a row Where it's been climbing? BLNK put them on your radar put them on your watches. Here's EVA Having a decent day up 8% here's DRCT They continue to climb up 5% Shopify Talked to you guys a lot about Shopify is one that I sold this year and took profits They're up 5% of the day good day for Shopify Tesla Started to gain steam again up 4% of the day Tesla gaining steam Tivc one that I've been watching doing this dead cab balance. They're up another 5% today data dog up 3.9% today they continue to climb and a lot of these stocks right now have momentum So don't be surprised to see stocks climbing roblox rblx really climbing. I told you I like them They continue to climb up 3% of the day uber I've been talking to you guys about uber for over two years and they are really flying high now up 3% of the day Amazon continues to climb as you can see they're trading at around a 52 week high right now for Amazon and Planet Fitness continues to go higher as we've talked about Planet Fitness They continue to go higher and NVIDIA back to almost a 52 week high again If not, are they at a 52 week high they look like they're right around a 52 week high So congratulations if you're in on the video because they continue to roll the number one chip maker in the world and the number one AI stock on the planet Google Approaching a 52 week high Netflix in the green so lots of green across the board today You can see here oil is approaching $80 again So oil is also starting to climb as you can see here the ups and downs and ebbs and flows and now it's starting to go back higher Microsoft trading at a 52 week high and just continues to go higher coin base top crypto exchange in America They are going higher Apple continues higher as well at 186 dollars up 1% Gold is also higher today COMT one of my top dividend holdings they continue higher today as the price oil goes up All right, what else is happening? Bitcoin is taking a dip today Bitcoin has been on an epic tear and they are taking a dip today down a Half half a percentage point so nothing huge still at 36,288 But definitely selling off after getting to that 37,000 region Ethereum still holding over 2000 at 2050 so in my opinion that still looks pretty good for Bitcoin and Ethereum and Ripple Sitting at around 65 cents down 2% all right. Those are the markets. That is what's happening And that is the news. Hope you enjoy the video if you like these videos Please smash the like button comment down below share the videos everywhere and subscribe if you're live I'm your host of the most or more rich and rich TV if you're not winning Probably not watching bring in the winners bring the news CEO interviews breaking news training topics and we bring it to you first once again BCDA right now up a hundred and ninety five percent PXMD up 55 percent THRX up 48 percent a IR e up 37 percent those are the big movers of the day TPIC up 32 percent INVO up 21% BLNK up 12% so big green day in the markets and we are watching all the top stocks Eva up 8% DRCT up 4% So these are some of the stocks that we've been watching and Shopify like I told you guys having a big day of 5% Tesla Having a big day of 4% TI VC having a big day up 6% data dog continues higher After reporting strong earnings up 3.9% roadblocks told you guys are really like these guys I want to take a position haven't bought it yet, but they are having a nice week very nice couple months really roadblocks is and Continuing to climb and uber has been uber hot ultra-hot and Has been really one of the top plays of the year that no one really is talking about but they've been an absolute Winner recently and they continue to go higher just under 54 dollars now and trading at a 52 a chi if we go to the one-year chart You can clearly see uber is trading right at a 52 a chi right now So congratulations if you got into uber one that I've talked about a lot put in my top tens and they've performed very well Amazon at a 52 a chi as well Also doing extremely well and finishing off the year completely opposite of what they did last year when all of these stocks were getting crushed last Year this year. They're having a monster year in a big bounce back planet 13 Sorry planet 13 planet Fitness PLNT They are climbing as people are going back to the gym at NVIDIA Just under five hundred dollars up two percent of the day and absolutely flying Like I said, the number one chip maker and AI stock on the planet Google up 1.45 percent having another big day and Netflix over that 450 mark and Trading close to a 52 a chi up 1.4 percent once again oil just under $80 at 79 31 up 1.3 percent today Microsoft Continuing to climb above its 52 a chi as you can see I've marked it and it's trading at 52 a chi right now at $370 Coinbase 93 57 the top crypto exchange in America number two in the world and they are starting to climb and a lot of the Big ETFs in America are going to be using Coinbase's custody. So I think that Coinbase is really going to do well Apple Number one market cap stock on the planet continuing higher at $186 gold having a nice day today as well 1964 up just under 1% and COMT 30% dividend oiling gas and precious metals holding ETF Which I currently hold myself and it's doing well today TNON one that I've been watching has been having a good week or so there in the red today Ethereum at 2050 slightly red and Bitcoin at 36,273 Also slightly in the red today right XRP They're also in the red 2% and They're at 65 cents. So those are the markets I'm your host of the most your boy rich or rich TV if you're not winning probably not watching because we bring in the winners See oh interview is breaking news training topics Engaging shows and we bring them to you first. Hope you're having a great day Happy trading out there. Good big green day in the markets and your boys out Peace


presentation, you can always look for my screen. Awesome, thanks. I guess you can see my screen. You can hear me and all of the, right? So what I want to show today is something that we've been working at Consensus Lab, which is, I mean, for those of you that are not aware, we're exploring sharding in Falcon. And the approach that we are following for sharding is that we want to do what we call the hierarchical consensus, where we have the root main Falcon chain that may be potentially doing some checkpoints in other root chains. This is what CERES is working on. And any user would be able to spawn a new shard from the root chain. So we could like spawn a new shard from the root chain, shard 1-1, shard 1-2, and shards can also have child shards. So this is the architecture that we're considering. Right now, the only requirement that a user needs in order to spawn a new shard is to have some stake and to put some stake in the shard. But what we've been building these past few weeks is a prototype of sharding, the sharding architecture in the Enorico, which is the Lotus base code. But for, I mean, with a few interfaces and the coupling so that we can explore. And we have a working prototype with shards with different consensus algorithms, where we have a shard actor that is the one that manages the spawn of new shards when users want to join a shard, when they want to leave a shard, and so on. These are some of the functions that actors, I mean, the shard actor has right now. It has a net function to join, sorry, to spawn a new shard. The join one, checkpoint, leave, and submit for it. I mean, all of them are not implemented. Right now, we only have the basic skeletal to do add, join, and leave. And we need to do some design on what are the specific, like the incentive system, the crypto icon, and so on, so that we can have a fully operational system. But the idea is that right now, we would be able to spawn new shards with different consensus algorithms over Ioudico. So for those of you that are interested in this, like, Ioudico will be public soon. But if you want to see the code, early, feel free to ping me, and I can give you access. There are a few design dots where we are discussing how to implement, I mean, the design decisions that we're making behind these hierarchical consensus. And we have a few issues where we are tracking the IPP that we are aiming for the end of the year. And without further ado, let's do some actual demoing.  This run script, the only thing that it does is it starts a new peer with delegated consensus. I'm using delegated consensus for demo purposes. The delegated consensus in there, what it does is that it assigns one miner to create a new block every second. And what we're going to do is spawn a new shard that has proof of work. So from this root network that has delegated consensus, we're going to spawn a new shard that runs a proof of work consensus. So here we're going to start, we're going to start one peer and a second peer here. We're going to connect them so that they see each other. And I can still mine it like here. I'm starting to mine in the main chain, the delegated consensus. So I mean, it's nothing new happening here. They're just syncing their chains. And we're mining from this peer. So now what we're going to do is from the first peer, we're going to spawn a new shard. So if you see in Odeco, I mean, if you download the Odeco base code, you'll see that in Odeco sharding, we have some fancy new commands like add, join, this shards, and leave, which are the ones that we have currently implemented. And we're going to add a new test shard that is running the consensus number one, which is proof of work. Right now, we only support proof of work and delegated consensus, but we are right now integrating also the Falcon consensus so that we can, we'll see how, so that we can have child chains that have delegated consensus. So we are going to add a new shard. This sends a transaction to the shard after asking for writing the shard and putting some stake. We put two fill for stake in order for a shard to become active right now, the threshold is one, but we'll need to throw out the right numbers for these. We want to do actually, we want to have policies so that the ones that start the shard can choose what kind of security assumptions they have in the shard. And we see here, like, I think we missed it, but if we go here, top left, you see that at one point when the state changed, we see that there was genesis for a new shard created. We started a new pop-up topic to an new mempool for the chain. We started a new chain, and now we are mining two chains in parallel from this year. And to show that this is actually happening, let's stop mining here. We see that, we see that the demo, oh no, this proof of work is not at fast, but we see that this guy is still mining in the shard chain, and it hasn't joined the shard, it's sinking nothing. So now let's keep mining and let's join from the other peer. So we start mining again, and here we're going to wait. I'll probably need to give some funds to this guy to port the wallet. And now we are going to join. So we do Eurico sharding join, and the name of the shard, and the amount of state that I want to have. Actually, instead of putting one, we're going to put 0.1 because one is the threshold in order to be able to become a miner in the shard. So we're going to join without being a miner so that we are only going to be part of the shard and seeing with the chain, but not be a fully miner in the shard chain. And again, let's wait for the finality, and eventually I should start sinking with the seed. So I'm starting to the initial sink, and now I'm part from this peer and part of the shard. If I stop mining here again, we see that this guy should eventually mine a proof of work block, and here I'm sinking in the other chain also. So now we're sinking two chains from both peers in part. If I add additional stakes, so instead of one, we add additional stakes, now we can, I mean, we're going to become a miner because we are over the threshold in order to become a miner in the shard. And if, when final, so yeah, actually that happened. And now you see that I'm also mining from, I mean, proof of work blocks from this peer for the shard chain. And yeah, so we could also check how much has been staked and the shards that are in the system already. We see that here is a proof of work shard with 3.1 field state, and we could even make sense the same way that we, let's do it from this one. So I can reuse the comment, but like the same way that we did an exchange from one peer to the other in the main chain, we can do the same in the chain. Right now there is no inter, and you'll see in a moment, why there's no inter shard communication. So like there are two independent shards that they don't have communication between each other. We see that here we are, once the proof of work block is accepted in this child chain, the exchange is effective and we could even like check the amount of fields that I have in each chain. Again, like there's no moving of field yet between shards and networks because we haven't figured out the protocol. But like you see that I have 55 here because that is the one where I'm mining, we improve of work and if I remove the shard and I check my balance in the main shard, I only have the ones that I initially set. So this H.8 after the stake and so on.  So here once the block is final, we see that we've stopped, I mean we can stop mining here and we see that we are no longer mining in the shard chain, but as here we have enough stake still for the shard to be active. We are still running the shard with proof of work and if this guy leaves, probably the shard should be killed. So let's take this guy and we should remove completely the... I need to mine because the shard actually is in the main and eventually once finality happens, yep, I stopped like this is where I'm closing all of the PAPS out like removing the handlers and so on. And if I list the shards, would you see that we don't have any shards active anymore? And that's it, I think I'm on time, 30 seconds, yes. Thanks.


Good morning, everybody. I hope you guys are having a great day so far. Some of you guys are like Drew, why do you look so glossy and dewy today? And that's actually natural sweat. The air conditioner broke in my apartment. It's currently 85 degrees. It broke yesterday. The guy's coming to fix it tomorrow. It's slowly rising. It was 83 this morning, now it's 85. So it's gonna probably be at 87 by the time I get back from IKEA. So I'm currently going to IKEA and a couple of other stores that way I can use their air conditioning to cool off a little bit before I come back to my dungeon. But besides that, I'm having a really, really great day and I'm super excited because I'm actually gonna be heading to IKEA to work on a DIY project for you guys. Now, as many of you guys know, I do random kind of one-off, larger scale, vloggy style projects every now and then and this is going to be one of those projects. In the past, you guys absolutely loved when I turned that IKEA Billy bookcase into a woven cane like storage hutch and I was obsessed with it. So I kind of wanted to do something similar because I'm actually currently working on my living room makeover and I need a new media console for my TV. The one in my old apartment just clashes really badly with the floor because there are two different tones of like yellowy orange wood. So I really want something more on the black side when it comes to the media console. I was on Pinterest the other day and I came across this image here and I was absolutely obsessed with this. I looked everywhere online for like a similar piece just to honestly purchase and everything online was between 1200 and $2,500 for a similar kind of return style media console. Editing drew popping in really quickly. I actually posted this inspo photo on my Instagram stories and you guys found the initial source of this picture. This sideboard's actually from HKLiving.com and it's $1,695. I had no idea where the source of this project came from though and you guys came through and found it. So thank you guys so much for that but let's get back to the project. So I rushed over to IKEA's website. I knew I could probably find a base of like a media console or like a buffet or something that I can use from their site and then craft it into what I want it to be and that's what we're doing today. So let's go ahead. We're gonna head over to IKEA right now. I'll take you guys along with me and I'll probably see you when I get there. So let's get started and get on the road. So I'm at IKEA right now and I just picked up all of the pieces that I need for the media console. It was kind of like a build your own system. So I got the TV unit base and I'll make sure to put all of the pieces I got on the screen for you guys in case you wanna create a similar one. I got the three internal shelves. I got four legs sets to put on the bottom, the hinges over here and these are the drawer fronts here. I got one more just in case I mess up because I've never actually used a jigsaw before so we're gonna have to see how this goes. It's gonna be a trial and error. So I got one more just in case because it's only $20. I still never get why the IKEA carts like maybe run wild. Good morning everybody. It is the second day of this IKEA transformation. Now I got all of my pieces yesterday at IKEA which you guys probably already saw and today I'm going to be kind of creating the template for the front of the cabinet. So I have some paper here that I wanna use to create a template for the drawer fronts. This is just a roll of filming paper that I have. You can use wrapping paper, whatever you have to create a template. So I'm gonna start off first by kind of measuring out my template and give you guys the idea of how I'm going to be creating it. This is the front side of the door and this is the back side here because I think it's two hinges are gonna go into these two holes. That way there's the most space for these hinges. So it's kind of gonna be something like this when I cut it out on here. One and a half inches is enough space. So this will be like the skinniest portion is one and a half. I might wanna do two. No, I think one and a half. So I'm gonna cut this square down three inches on all of the sides.  That way it's an equal one and a half on all of it. If you guys can tell based off this inspo photo, this side here kind of has like a straight edge and then it kind of curves into this oval shape on the sides. So I kind of wanted to recreate that by having a little bit of a straightness to start. And then I kind of created this curve here and I pre-handed the whole thing. So next what I'm gonna do is just cut this shape out and then I'm gonna tweak it as I feel like it needs to be tweaked. And I'm also gonna start it out just a little more and then kind of fade it into the line that I created. So I wasn't a fan of my original template. It was just too skinny over in this section here. So I actually folded it onto another piece of paper and laid it down, traced it on top here and then kind of recreated this shape here, which I think will be a little bit better. I'm gonna start cutting it just a little bit in. Alrighty, so I laid out all of the drawer fronts on the floor here. And basically it is the hinges on the left here, hinges on the right here, hinges on the left here, which means on the backside, those circles are right here, here, here, here and then here and here. Because basically I want this piece to go right here. I'm actually gonna go ahead and apply painter's tape around everywhere that there's going to be a cut line. That way I can actually create a pencil line on top of the tape. And then it's also gonna protect the surface when I use the jigsaw. And lastly, it's also going to prevent chipping from this fiberboard, which is like a pressed board. As you can see, I have the full little half circle shape cut or traced onto the top of the piece here. And before using the jigsaw, I actually need to drill holes in both of the 90 degree angles.  So I have my drill, I put a little wood underneath it so that I could drill through and stop. But you're basically just gonna wanna drill all the way in that corner. That way you could get your jigsaw in there to start the cut. I'm gonna be using this Ryobi jigsaw to cut this. Now I have it on a speed setting of two because this one here shows that fiberboard is out of two. And then I'm also using this blade here, which I got this at Home Depot as well. It's a steel cut wood scroll blade. So I figured it would be better for like delicate work. And then I'm gonna adjust the speed up here as I kind of go with it. But yeah, this is what it looks like. I found the scroll saw blade worked really, really well and also a high speed also worked well on the fiberboard. So I suggest going at a more rapid speed and then also working slowly just to make sure that the cuts are nice and clean. Oh my gosh, you guys look how perfect this door turned out. The cut is amazing. I do have to go in and sand a couple spots here, which I'm just gonna probably do off camera. Just sand those to make them a little bit cleaner. But this shape is just perfect. I love it. So I'm gonna mirror the other door and do it like the flipped side of it. So it's gonna look like that on the other side and then do one more door. So let's go ahead and cut those doors as well. So I cut the second one. I don't know if you can tell here. There's a little bit of like a residue. So when I want to do like a fine sanding, I use this 220 grit sandpaper.  I use an, I think this is an 80 grit, which is just like a coarser sandpaper. Good news, I took a little like hour break because the air conditioner guy came over and fixed the air conditioner, which was super, super amazing. So it's finally cooling down here. I was literally dripping sweat while sawing the wood, but you know what, you gotta do what you gotta do. So I'm gonna share with you guys what the two doors look like next to each other. Here are all three doors completely cut and they look perfect. Now keep in mind, I have never used a jigsaw in my life before and the jigsaw I purchased was from Home Depot. It was like $60 or so. And I'm gonna be using it from now on for sure. It was super simple and easy to use. And I'm just very, very happy with the outcome of these doors. They look great. There are some tiny, tiny little imperfections where I wish this was maybe rounded a tiny bit more. But honestly, it's nothing you're gonna even be able to tell once it's fully constructed. So I placed in a little bit of this cane here, which is like the circular woven style retan. I also have the open mesh style here, which you guys have seen me use multiple times in the past. However, I think the circular style is the one I'm gonna go for. I just love the way that this looks. However, I only have a piece big enough for one of the drawer front. So I'm gonna head over to the cane shop and buy a little bit more to fill in these sections as well. So I got the cane that I needed. I got nine feet of it and I also got some of these reed splines. And then I also got this five eighth inch flat reed, which I want to finish off inside of the doors with where I cut. Also huge shout out to the cane and basket supply shop in Los Angeles. The lady Susan in there is so nice.  They have so many different supplies there. Definitely check them out. I'll put their address on the screen for you guys. It's literally right in Miracle Mile area, if you know where that is. So definitely check them out because they have such a wide variety of canes and just like materials for really cool projects. I just got back from the cane shop. Here's my big roll of cane. I actually cut the exact length that I needed for this project and also added on a couple of inches because what I'm going to be doing is I'm going to be soaking this in warm water in my bathtub for about 30 minutes prior to stapling it on the backside. That is actually the proper way to apply this cane material to projects is to soak it first because then you staple it, it kind of becomes a bit elastic. And then as you staple it and let it dry, it actually shrinks up and creates a really, really tight finish. Now when it comes to stapling down the cane, it's actually super simple. I used a quarter inch staple that way. It didn't pop out the front side and I stapled down about every inch and a half. That way it was just super, super secure. I applied quite a bit of staples to the backside but no one's going to see it at all and it may feel a little bit loose. However, when that cane material dries after being soaked, it actually shrinks and gets really, really tight on the front side. So it's going to look amazing. I just brought the doors outside. I'm going to leave them out here until they're fully dry and it should shrink up the cane and make it really nice and tight on the inside. There's also another one over here and then we're going to finish it off afterwards. It is now about two hours after I put them outside and you guys, they are perfect. I don't know if you can tell. I want to show you how, like I don't, can you tell how tight this is attached on there? There's literally no bounce to it at all. So it worked perfectly. It's super nice and snug. All of them are filled with the cane material now and it looks so pretty. I'm so happy with how this is turning out so far. To finish off the doors, I started by painting the flat reed black and I used a little bit of golden carbon black paint because that's the most opaque black paint that I have and I mixed it with a tiny bit of just an interior paint from Valspar to thin it out a little bit. So I painted the front side and the edges of all of the reed pieces and then we're going to go ahead and glue them on the inside of the door. Now, adding the second piece of reed spline on the inside is totally optional. I just felt like I gave it a double finished look. Like it just really cleaned up that whole shape and really defined the look of it. However, if you don't like this piece, you could totally leave it as is because it looks really great and finished already. And some of you guys might be like, oh my gosh, you are hot gluing your furniture and yes I am because I'm using a special glue stick by Gorilla Glue, which is just super, super strong bond. I'll link it below for you guys from Amazon. Just finished finishing one of the doors. Now, from this view, it might be a little hard to tell but when I come in closer, you can see that this is an unfinished door. It still has that like fiberboard pressed Ikea wood situation in there. This is what the finished door looks like. How perfect is that? So I basically painted that flat reed and then I glued it all the way on the edge and then touched up any areas where it needed it and then went in with the reed spline and glued that right on top to kind of finish off and just make the shape look a little bit more clean. And this is what it ended up turning out like I think it looks awesome. I love the way it turned out. So I'm going to go ahead and do the rest of them and that's going to finish up the doors. Wow, you guys, it has been a long day but a very, very productive one. I finished all three of the door fronts and they look perfect. I finished them with the little reed spline inside but I'm going to go ahead and catch you guys in the morning. The sun is setting right now. It's nice golden glow in here but I'm going to catch you guys tomorrow morning where we're going to finish assembling the base unit, putting the doors on and styling this media unit. Hello everyone, it is day three. I wanted to first start off by kind of showing you guys what I was talking about with the yellowish tone of this wood just not really going with the wood underneath. Does that make sense? That's why I wanted to originally create a new media console for this space and today we are going to be finishing it. So yesterday you saw the doors being finished and today I'm going to be building the base of the project. So I'm going to go ahead and get started and construct the base. I didn't want to go into too much detail when constructing this piece because of course I just followed the IKEA instruction manual and then I went ahead and used the hinges to apply the doors to the front of the TV unit. It was super, super easy to construct. The pieces were very minimal and it probably took me about an hour to do so. Oh my gosh, you guys, this looks exactly how I wanted it to. It looks incredible so far. Everything fit together perfectly. The legs look amazing. There's still some IKEA stuff underneath them but I initially actually had this door put on wrong. I had it flipped 180 and I was like, there is something off about this and then I ended up fixing it but there is one more element that I want to share with you guys. These are some really cool brushed brass handles that I found on Amazon and I'll link these below for you guys. They're pull handles and I've never personally used a handle like this before but let me share with you how it works. So you can use this on like any cabinet drawer that you want to pull out. It kind of is like a flush mount so it just goes, slips right behind the door and then you kind of put it into its position, close it and for instance, like it would kind of pop out on the front like this and you can pull the door open like that because I feel like this is just going to add a nice little touch and kind of make it look a bit more expensive than it is. I went ahead and moved the console over into its place. It's new home and it looks incredible. However, I want to do a little bit of styling and do like a mini reveal because you guys have kind of already seen it, little bits here and there but you haven't seen it in its full glory yet. So let's get to styling and then I'm going to share with you the final project. Guys, that finishes off today's project. I hope that you guys enjoyed this one. It was such a fun one and I definitely experimented a lot with this project. I had never used a jigsaw before. I never properly installed cane into something before. So there's a couple of new things. I also learned about these drawer pulls which are pretty cool or like door pulls I guess you could say. It ended up turning out amazing and I'm going to put the total cost of this project on your screen for you guys. So you can see how much of a fraction of the price it was from the original piece. Now, I also want to give credit to the people who of course created this item and I do think that it's probably worth the money if you don't want to create this piece because cane furniture is all handmade. It's very time consuming and they had to do a lot of the same stuff I had to do. However, theirs is probably even better because it's professionally done. So I'm going to go ahead and link the original side table below for you guys as well.   But without further ado, I hope that you guys enjoyed today's video. If you are not already, make sure to subscribe to my channel. I post brand new home decor and DIY content here on Lone Fox every single week. And also some of the styling decor up here is from my website, lonefox.com. Like my favorite lavender candle over there. This mini heart dish right here which is so cute. It's like a little trinket holder. It's also from my site. So check out Lone Fox for home decor finds and just specialty goods. So I'll catch you guys all in my next video. Have an amazing rest of your day. Bye guys.


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He gives you nightmares because every football member was a Cleveland Brown championship, was on his wall. They won 10 division championships in 10 years. He was all pro-quarter back 9 out of 10 years and they won the NFL championship 7 years, so... He has a tendency to exaggerate. No, that's not true. I felt like I was sleeping at the Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. But he's a neat guy. I feel good. You're going to come back next year to the Boogie Bus. Well, I may next year. I couldn't get it this year. Things a little busy. You've got to get your priority straight. That's for sure. That's for sure. A story that is appropriate for you two here. Years ago, Bob Zuckie, the coach of Illinois was also a great painter. Loved him. And one night, maybe it was for Northwestern, we were going to the University of Chicago this time. You know, a hotel there on the Boulevard in Chicago. And I'm trying to remember the position, but it was, I think, alignment. But a good football player had been and he was in the room with them. There were some people visiting there. And he and Zuckie were standing at a window and looking out and he remarked about to Zuckie. He said, look, he doesn't have a beautiful view. He says, it's not the coming of it. And Bob Zuckie says to him, you played whatever it was, guard attack or whatever.  You're smart.   I've got to ask you a question. When are you going to show your hands? Seriously, Zuckie, you're 70. 73. Great shape. Well, for one thing, is George Allen going to push up or something? He's going to hypnotize yourself, too. What you're starting to do, Bob. Oh, yeah. He's going to take a little to the right. Why don't you give him a push?  I see you push that ball. I don't know where he's going to go. I need 70. Do you know who's all American basketballs about to start off? I'm a cardee. I'm a cardee. I'll work then. I'll work then. I'll work. Mr. President, Otto is a real patriot. He loves this country. He loves the service. He loves what you're doing. I admire him more than any other quarterback in the history of football. Well, no, I'm sorry. I'm a real patriot. He's retiring in a member from 25 years in the Coast Guard. I'm going to make a commander in chief. You will. I know. I'm not going to worry about that. Hustler, thanks for the end date. We feel it next year now. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. How are you? How are you, Matt? I'm good. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. This is great. These are great people. They have got more enthusiasm. I'm not a family member. All right, just a few more. Well, we've got a lot of feedback to report. So, thank you for the question. Thank you. I'm a director of the National Center, and we'd like to invite you down to open the conference in part on the 30th of September. Yeah, now I'm just trying to think whether I've been told already that there's some people hidden away here that for both of us, what a thing in front of us that tells us what we're going to be doing every 15 minutes, and they know, people say to me, say, Friday, I can't answer, but there's somebody I don't know. I'd like to extend that to the invitation that you may understand. I'll see the thing you know about it. President, I'm also... Good to see you. Nice to see you. Nice to see you. Nice to see you. Nice to see you, sir. Do you take that chair right up there? Let me begin very briefly by what I hope sets the stage. I do, I'm sure, have forgotten about a year ago that you and I shared at the first one of the Nation of Risk Symposiums, and we were trying to think about opening this, I thought on the way over, Mr. Secretary, that what I think these gentlemen have come to tell you is that we've begun to address the national problem of education. We're certainly addressing the national problem of defense in terms of risk. We have an industry that we think is important in terms of not only the President of this country, but is also at risk. And what I think each one of us would like to do very briefly is to lay out for you our concerns of rage from, I guess, your ability to help us make Americans better understand the importance of agriculture, not only to our states but to the country, but some of the credit needs, and so forth. So I'd like to ask...