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Want to know what's going on in your world and the world of the S&Ps? Let's take a look at them. What do you have? Bottom line is that we get option expiration. We've been doing ABC structures on the NDX100 up for so long. It's been amazing. Now, this is the first ABC structure on the way down. That's what we have set up here. And if we take a look at it, what you're going to see, first we'll start with the spy. You're going to see we're breaking the B point. We need 78 million shares. You're already getting 80. So your A point out here is the high, $454. B point is $443.28. So let's just say, what is that? Approximately 11 points. C is at the $448. So you got $437. And we're $441. The next swing down here is $436. So we'll go on to that swing. That swing we're talking about, that's down at the August 19th area. NDX100, we get harmony in the marketplace doing the same thing. NDX100 took out its B point, took it out with volume. B point here was $373.37. We're $373.30. When I just started the update, we weren't down here. They're pushing it down right now. We needed the volume of $34 million. You already get $43 million. So you're blowing that away. Your A point out here is $382.71. Your B is $373.37. So you get $9. That gets you down to $369. And your swing point down here is $365. Your strength is $368. Bottom line, we're going lower. You get the expansion of volume. You get the role taken place in spades. Inside the NDX100, the strength versus the weakness out here today. You get the strength, the zooms up 2.6%. You got Baidu up 1%. Taken away from it. Moderna is off 6% or $25. You get a copart off 4.5%, rather a 6.90. Quell comes off 3.5%. A full $0.60, and ASLML is off 3% at $28.69. We're also putting some heat on this. And this was fast and furious on the way down. That's not even in the top 10, because you have other equities that are going down. But Microsoft, Microsoft's down 504. That has a big implication, no doubt, inside of the NDX100, as well as the Dow. Apple, oh, check it out, man. OK, we're going to start spelling ABC Downs now. Apple's an ABC Down, blowing away a B point. OK, watch this one. Whoa, baby. $157, $146, $157 what? $157.26, $146. So approximately $11. And that's going to bring Apple $136. And you're at $146 right now. So $136 is the number. And that baby there at $136, this would be pretty intense, because that would break the whole consolidation. So if Apple breaks the whole consolidation, folks, we're going to see some real problems here, because then you would take the $141 to the $157, and you get $16 away from the $141, which gives you what? $136. Yeah, $136 brings you to the top of the next range down. So pretty wild, man. There's no doubt about it. OK, so let's go look at the GDX. One of the tigers out here, a look at the GDX and thinking that it's real possible that we may have an ABC structure down on the weekly. I don't think we do, because I know what we're going into. And I see what he's saying, though. OK, yeah, $30.65, one second, hold on. But where would be, it'd be a small one if that's it, because you wouldn't take the whole thing. Alls it would be, it would be from $35.82. Well, that's still $5. And that would be, that would line you up at $28.52. You got $30.68, yeah? Yeah, that could be. So the question is, is that an ABC structure down on the GDX on a weekly? And it very well could be. It's a small one, though. It's not from the high. The reason it's not from the high is that when you take these, OK, we went, you know, we came down hard on the week of the 18th, and then you went sideways. So your A point on this would be the $35.82. Your B point is the $30.68, so you get $5, which you get to $28.52. We'll see how that shakes out. Because what we're also doing here, you can see, and this, I actually, when these happen, it's kind of pretty cool, because you're going against more than just the bottom of the consolidation. The bottom of this consolidation here is $30.64, and you had volume of $152 million, and we're only going to do, well, $129 right now. So we're not going to make that. So it's going to really depend on where we close. If the GDX can close at over $30.64, that's saying that you get a rejection of lower price into the lower swing with lighter volume. We'll see whether we can catch a bid. Dow, Dow Industries right now, Dow 191, Nasdaq's off 173. Nasdaq's off 44, we'll come right back. Are you looking for a way to consistently add winning trades to your portfolio? Tom O'Brien is here to help. Tom O'Brien has been successfully trading markets for over 30 years. A frequent contributor to TD Ameritrade Network and CNBC, Tom O'Brien founded TFNN over 20 years ago to help educate investors just like you. 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You have 334,000 contracts, they haven't made it to the lows yet. And the 30 year right now you're going into 493,000 and you're still above it. That low there was 163.18, we got to 162.18 rather. We got to 162.08 and we rejected it. So this is a rejection of lower price with lighter volume and then if we take a look at the tiger has the TLT, the TLT set up nice man. The 20 a plus has rejected lower price out here today. I mean, we went up, Monday, no Tuesday, we've got Tuesday at 19 million and back today with nine million, but still wants higher price. And you can see you're going into 20 million. Yeah, so that game is still on there for higher price.  You can see, so picture this folks, okay? Just today, this is not a big correction, okay? But let me tell you something. All you need is a couple days of this and the Fed will start getting nervous again. Everyone's gonna think that, okay, they're gonna come in with bread again and they are, that's the bottom line. And the aspect of when they're gonna go up on rates or the last time they're pushing out there again, well, news-wise. News-wise, it's saying, okay, they might start tapering in November and then go up in 2023. We'll see where it shakes out. My take right now is that we're gonna be lower for longer. And the reason I'm saying that, first off, I'm saying exactly what the Fed is saying. And secondly, and this is I think the biggest part of it, if they turned around and went up on interest rates right now, okay? And they stopped the bond buying program. So pitch, they have 120 billion a month that they buy. It's 80 million in treasuries, it's 40 million in mortgage-backed securities. If they stopped that right now, this market would fricking tank so bad that by the end of the day, they'd come out with a press release saying rates are never gonna go up again. I'm only joking, folks. But there'd be some kind of a press release, let me tell ya, that would be just about as intense. We have gone so far off the deep end, meaning on, if I go back in time in my trading career, it used to be the Allen Greenspeed put, then there was the Bernanke put, and now it's not even a put. Now it's the deal that they are in such a corner that I just don't see how they're gonna go up on rates. And as I brought up many times before, I don't think they have to go up on rates because our rates are still really high. The 10-year rate now is 1.36. Germany is a negative. So why Germany? So, picture this. If we give the United States, if we give them, let's say we give them 10,000 bucks, we get back $130 in 10 years. If we give Germany $10,000, we get back. We don't get anything. We get back $9,982, like really? So you can see the correlation there. It's pretty intense. The Netherlands, that's still a negative. France, France-Mos will be a negative. You get the gist of it. The gist of it has to do with the aspect of actually how high rates are across the world. If we do this exercise on a 30-year, it gets even more intriguing. Look at this 30-year, man. We're at 1.9, and Germany's still at 0.21. Switzerland, man. That just might be so strong, it's insane. Switzerland on the 30-year is just slightly in the negative.  Now, if you're questioning why anyone would do that, we've explained it a few times, but it has to do with the balance sheet of insurance companies. It also has to do with traders, because if they think rates are gonna go lower, those prices will actually go higher. That's how that shakes out. Let's go take a look at a couple of the gold equities, man, all our gold bulls out here, we're grasping for anything, folks. The first one we're gonna take a look at is, when I say we're grasping for anything, we're grasping for any type of bounce. The low is $7.93, the high is $14.49. El Dorado is up $0.06. That's not bad, does it mean anything? I don't think so. What we've done, when I say I don't think so, when you get a sign of strength, what happens, you need a lot more than $0.06. What we have got in El Dorado is you got a rejection of lower price at $7.94, which is great, okay, because we went to $7.93, we rejected it, and we're gonna have, let's see, that one there is 8.1, we got 8.5, and you still, well, okay, so watch how this goes. This is just like the GDX. On the small swing, you have higher volume. On what you're going into, however, you get tremendously lighter volume. We're going into 19 million on a weekly, and you got 8.5. Another one is First Majestic. I think these are the only two metal stocks up today. Now, I like this move in First Majestic. It's almost the same move, but this is what happened with First Majestic. AG is this, First Majestic, First Off, didn't get to its low. The low in First Majestic is $11.53. We got down to 11.81. You did that with 6.2 million shares versus 7.8. So this is a decent setup, man. I mean, when I say a decent setup, what I'm talking about, if you're ready for a bounce, okay, and you get a bounce, it's gonna be pretty cool, because we just went straight down from $18.93 at the beginning of June, and the low was established four weeks ago at 11.53. We hit 11.86. So that setup there is saying, yeah, we might be able to get something going. Let's go take a look at the SLV, because what we did have there is that, so the SLV's lower, man. Yeah, so that's now 46 cents. You get 41 million shares traded. This is coming against 336 million versus 1.66. Man, this is a trip. And it could be a bad one. Right now it's not a bad trip, but it's pretty close. The SLV, what do we make it down to? 2069, 2045 is the low of 336 million shares. Well, we're down here on one half the volume. You're gonna need more selling than this. That's the real bottom line, but what we also need is that we need a rejection of lower price. That's where this whole thing is shaking up. 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What is it really intriguing there is that when you actually take a look at the Dow industrials, you get Microsoft up there, but it's surprising that, I believe that Apple's in the Dow too, maybe not. But the bottom line is that Apple's in an ABC structure on the way down, which is gonna be problematic in a huge way because there's so many people that own Apple, folks, okay, that you start breaking down on Apple, there's gonna be people flat out that start moving out of that stock pretty quickly. Let me just show you something here. This is what is pretty wild, that, and this is why you gotta pay attention to percentage moves, right? If we just take, let's just take the last six months. If I take the last six months, a normal retracement brings you down to 143. That's just a .382. Well, actually a normal retracement is 50% of the last move, that's 138. And at 138, that doesn't seem like a lot, but at a high of 152, if you bought around there, which many people definitely bought from, what is this, 150, 150 to 145. And the reason I'm saying that is that because we were in a consolidation for a long period of time, well, for two months. So when you're in a consolidation like that, there's no doubt folks like to, you know, you buy the bottom of the consolidation, sometimes you sell the top of it, sometimes you just buy the bottom of it because you wanna stay in the trade and wanna basically stay in for a long period of time. The thing that's weird about Apple, I don't think they pay a dividend. Yeah, they do, .60. Some of these companies get away with murder. It's pretty amazing that you have an Apple, that that's all they pay.  When we pull this up, they are growing, like when you see this, these are all three year numbers. So in America they're growing by 2.5%, 2.34 a year. Europe, like 2.1. Greater China, they're contracting by 1.1% per year. Japan, they're growing by 2.1. And the rest of Asia, they're growing by almost 3%. But that's small numbers, man, for a growth company for what, let me see, what we're paying up for Apple. So Apple you're paying up, it's actually not that bad. No, it's not bad at all actually. You're only paying $26 for a buck. Yeah, you can see that that's, that's your earnings per year, $26 for a buck's not bad, but it's still pretty expensive because what you are doing, you just, if you take the 26%, you take the minus three, guess what? You're still paying 23%, well $23 for $1 of income. Amazon, let's go take a couple, look at a couple of the other big dogs up here. Amazon today's strong for a down market. It's only down $28 trading, $34.60. We take a look at Google. Google's down, okay, so Google's breaking its swing, $28.34, we just broke its swing. So Google's gonna try to get into this $2,707, right now you're $2,831. What you're gonna wanna do over the weekend folks, okay, is some of these high flyers or some of these stocks that basically came down hard today, you wanna check it out to see whether their ABC structures on the way down because we have a bunch of them out there. Let's go to our man, Frank and Gloucester. Hey, Frank, what's going on man? Hey, hey, Tommy, how are you? I'm doing great man, yourself? Good, just fine, fall's coming in and things are doing good. I can't believe falls coming in because I felt like, I mean, I know I haven't talked to you in about six weeks, but man, that was really quick. Yeah, it's like we took the air condition around one day and we were throwing the blankets on the bed the next. I know man, well you know it's so intriguing man, I remember just springs coming, you're out there looking over those beautiful rocks and then the summer's here and then all of a sudden falls here man. This time deal was pretty wild folks, I mean, they say you can't get time back, but I'm telling you, it definitely does accelerate. Every day I feel like I blink in the days over man. Well I know it, I know it, and the markets are messed. Yeah it is, it is. Well you know, it is, this is what the scary thing is, right? You know, I was, Tommy and I were talking this morning and he gave me some numbers about, like if you take a look at the market folks, okay, as to how long it took you to get your money back and from the year 2000, it took like 20 years to get your money back from the year 2000, okay? And then, but guess what? If you bought in 2009 of course, 2008, you accelerated beyond belief, okay, and then of course if you bought in COVID you accelerated beyond belief. So the real question here goes like this, it's like, let me put this shot on this side because when you look at this shot, this is a scary looking shot man. And what I mean by that is that when you've done, let's say I put this on a monthly, when you see this man, this is like how I had to comprehend and you gotta take into consideration, look at this thing man, I mean. What do we got here?  So it's like okay man, you know, just a normal pullback could be some trouble. And then the real question is, we're so used to markets continually going up, you know, if we get a market that is like after 2000, it's really a bummer, you know, it's anyway. Let's go take a look at the CSQ for you, CSQ. So what do we have here? Thank you. Okay. Well, this is an interesting little fun. It's holdings are all the big dogs that you like to talk about. Okay. 12% there's a Rappel and Microsoft 3% of Amazon, Google is 2%, Facebook is one and a half, AMAT, NVIDIA, JP Morgan, Bank of America, all 1%ers. Yeah, I like what's inside here. I can see it. I have it up. Okay, cool man. Okay. And they pay a 5% dividend. Wow. That is huge. 5% dividend folks, if, you know, it's huge, man. I mean, the cool thing about dividends folks, okay, is that no matter the stock stays flat, you're getting paid. What I would do, I mean, do you own this Frank? You're looking to buy it. I own, I've owned a little bit of it for a long time. Okay. And, you know, I'm waiting for to buy more when the market gets. Yeah, no, I think you're gonna be able to get it somewhere around 1753. The benchmark here, Frank, is on July 19th. As the market is also, you know what I mean? And now what's happening today is that we're breaking a B point, but it doesn't look like you're gonna get the volume. You need another 10,000 shares, and this is not that liquid, but, you know, if you do break that B point with that 189,000 today, then this lines up 19, that still only lines up 75 cents off of, so it still lines up 18, 1975. Yeah, I'd keep your eye on the 19th of July, Frank. Okay. Cookin', brother. Thank you. Great to hear from you, man. 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The funds are designed to be utilized only by sophisticated investors, such as traders and active investors. Distributor, Four Side Fund Services, LLC. Free at 1-877-927-6648. Internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. I'm O'Brien. Welcome back, folks.  I guess today, folks, is Veshnavi Moore. Veshnavi is the founder and CEO of Arch-State. Arch-State utilizes AI programming in order to best fit applicants looking for jobs in the architectural or engineering field when the available jobs are open.  Veshnavi, welcome to TFNN. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me. Absolutely. So tell us about your company.  But first of all, tell us about your company and tell us who it helps and how it helps them. Yeah, so I am the founder and CEO at Arch-State. Arch-State is an AI based platform that is bringing the power of one click to hiring for the architectural engineering and construction industry. Okay. So basically, when you think about unemployment or there being a talent shortage, the root cause of it all is that we don't have the infrastructure to make a hiring decision within a couple of hours. That's what we do. Traditionally, it takes like up to 52 days to make a single hiring decision. And through our platform, you can end up hiring a candidate within a matter of three hours. That's a lot of jobs created and the employers on the other side get the right talent for their firm and are ready to begin roll out the construction. And yeah. I guess in your business too, I mean the engineers and architects, they can work from us anywhere, right? I mean, I'm sure some of them, they want them in the office, but I mean that definitely is a type of job that you just, you know, you're hiring knowledge, right? That's what the market is trending towards, you know, especially with the pandemic, the way we work has changed. You know, people are more adaptable to new innovation. People are adaptable to new technologies and people are open-minded now. So you can basically work from anywhere, virtually all remote, and still get your productivity and construction done. And where do you see the most amount of demand in the country right now? Is there, is there certain sections of the country that are doing better than other sections? Yes, that's exactly where we are. Florida is one of the fastest growing states in the nation and Tampa slash St. Pete, there's so much architectural construction, building, housing going on. So this area is definitely booming where we are located right now. Well, I'm so glad you moved from California to Tampa. And you know, it's pretty wild. I'm actually a builder.  The bottom line, Zoom works, whether you're looking at the buildings, whether you stop moving stuff around. I had a, I will meet with them this morning. It was just really interesting then, I mean that you were on today because there's no doubt that, you know, I don't need a face-to-face, you know, because most of the time we've been all doing this a long time. You know what you're looking for. So that's pretty cool. And talk to me about the price instruction you have is really inexpensive. I mean, this is pretty cool. I mean, I hire enough people, you know, to hire a high-end engineer or architect with what we're talking only like 300 or 400 bucks, you know, that's what it looks like, right? In order to basically be part of your system. Exactly. So that's what is our differentiator. What makes us different is we benefit both sides of the marketplace. That is, we benefit the employers as well as the employees. In a traditional recruiting, if you're recruiting an architect slash engineer for a hundred thousand, a recruiter would charge the company 25%, which means 25,000 in his pocket. And that salary comes off from your hard-working employee. So your employee would end up getting just 75,000, which, you know, when he deserves a lot more. That's where we come into the picture where we say, you know, hey, stop, you don't need to do that. We are to help both sides, creating a transparent, streamlined marketplace. And the reason that we are able to do that is because we have created a process that's automated using AI. So we are not ending up using any manual slash labor into the process. That's what allows us to be economical for both sides.  Everything else that I thought is pertinent in order to get a job. And that's what the employer is seeing on the other side? Yes, so we have everything to help you as a fresh candidate. You can just come here, upload your resume.  We convert it to a beautiful portfolio. And our whole goal is to show the best sides of you to an employer. So once we have your details in there, we, the system will automatically match you to the deserving opportunities that you have in.  The system will screen you and you can receive an offer within 24 hours. Now, you also have on here where I thought was really cool, particularly in the architectural firms, because I'm more familiar with that than the engineering firms. There are 40,000 architectural firms in the US, only 11% are known. Make your firm count. And there is no doubt about that.  Exactly. That's what our goal is, you know, in the US alone, people just know the top 25 or 30 firms, but there are actually 40,000 architectural firms and 700,000 architectural engineering construction firms which are doing great work off the radar and people don't know them. And, you know, that's where we come in to diversify the workforce innovation platform, diversify the companies that are there on the platform and create an identity for the firms that are working off the radar.  I mean, because they just, you're just not set up for it. In fact, you couldn't afford it. That's what it really means. Yeah, right, pretty cool. So let's talk about the engineering aspect. Now, when we're talking engineering, are we talking about like engineering, software engineering, construction engineering? What are we talking on the engineering front? So we are talking everything in the building industry. So we are talking about site engineers. We are talking about civil engineers. We are talking about site supervisors, general contractors, everything that's related with the building slash infrastructure industry. So because architecture engineering construction cannot function without each other, they are all interdependent. Yeah, oh, there's no doubt. I mean, yeah, engineers are really important. Where's that water runoff? I'm telling you, I know. Well, listen, this has been a pleasure. We really appreciate you coming on. Appreciate the education. 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map you will see there's a lack of red points. I just Disappeared the developer world. I mean a United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan, Australia. Australia too. Okay. Yeah Sorry Yeah, yeah, I mean this is more or less the world doesn't as the Again as most of the people see it So so well, why do we have such a low? density here, maybe because Most people don't have even access to technology We have over half of the countries in the world don't have a single deviant developer In many points in the world you can walk 1,000 kilometers in any direction you will have find no deviant developers at all Especially now that we're all in the single point a Africa as a whole continent has 13 deviant developers I could find seven of them live in the only developed country Okay, yeah, I think there's at least one in Senegal. I'm sure of yeah, he's mentioned but Sorry How many developers in each country in which country are the other developers that the other six of the of Africa? I think there is at least one in sorry. We have the map. Yeah, there's one in Nigeria, apparently One in Egypt one in Egypt To be one in Somalia. Yeah, I don't know with the I don't know if the points are real because there's one person also in Middle, Greenland and one in Antarctica, but There seem to be one in Madagascar and well, there I think three or some Spanish developers living in Canarias, which is well technically it's Spain. So I forgot to block it But it's in Africa Yeah yeah, and Okay, another blocking point is that most third-world countries Well, people care about speaking the official language of the country at most. Yeah, because many people speak minority languages a English is quite required to contribute to free software and Well, it's a very important barrier for many Many potential developers. Yeah, I may have an example for that I was mentioning this talk I gave up in Chile and unfortunately for me I don't speak Spanish at all and When you go to Chile and I guess to all over Latin America when you only speak English I'm afraid it's not very well received You are There's a kind of Yankee problem, you know, so Only speaking English is very handicapping things and we had to translate very quickly my slides about Debian So I think I have quite good slides in Spanish now about the Debian project by the way with bad Spanish The work although they say Happening instead of successes or things like that. Yeah, but the most important I have met a few geek people over there and that didn't speak English at all So it's completely fake to assume that each and every people in Involved in the Linux world speak English. That's completely false So well, you all know probably that translating everything is a kind of Thing I'm always talking about of course When we are back to topic of Latin America, this is very very important because the feeling about the language Either Spanish or Portuguese in Brazil is very important I think that most of you were in Porto Allegra or already felt this and I think this is even stronger in Spanish speaking countries. I should say Castilian speaking countries by the way You wanted to say something okay, so the question was That's very good you obey the rules. I'm a good speaker. I repeat the question. Okay Okay, and well, this is not Debian specific the low population in most of the non-developed world Is common to most free software. I think to any free software big project now Yes, he has a Strong outsider motivation to talk about Latin America because he was just involved in the in this initiative. I My main motivation to do it was because well when I was accepted in Debian this map Which is quite sparse was even sparser and Well, one of the tasks I've said to myself is promoting free software all all over the continent Last year I was also also to Chile. I was in Bolivia to Peru and I'm going to Colombia on August so well, I've been trying to get more people in a Joining free software projects Because well, it's a part of the world I live in I think well as the saying goes that you should they think globally at locally, so that's That's why I chose to give this now There are some very strange very specific things about this continent a Distances are not what you are used to if you are your Europeans. I mean for example when I went to Chile a Martin Michael Myers was also invited and well He was trying to arrange He asked me to check with the organizers that well, maybe now that he's in Chile He can just take a bus and go over Machu Picchu because it's very interesting thing in Peru Yeah, that would be from here from Valparaiso to here doesn't seem too far. It's two days of travel Yes, so Distances are not anything and and people cannot afford to travel by pain a Bolivian place for example, I took a plane from a Sugar to La Paz the two capitals of Bolivia. It was $60 and it was quite cheap for me, but people there a prefer spending over one night on a boss on a dirt road because there's only a dirt road and well a I saw some interesting things in this last year in Bolivia I Mean network network access lacks be a much behind what we see here to the The downloads rate I have here from anywhere in the world is more that than what I have in my university locally I mean from the same university in Bolivia very few people can afford a computer but Anyway, you anywhere you go in every medium-sized city. You have plenty of internet cafes and they're usually full and well People really use that resource a lot I know that well when you don't own a computer you cannot choose what to install in it And that's a severe handicap and you don't have a space of your own. So that's important task the Bolivian people must must See I don't know to to make some community area To have their their development hosted. Yep In Mexico, well, we have DSL coverage or in over 80% of the country But then again, we have a about 5 to 10 percent of people who can have a computer. So it's not really worth much Yep in Brazil. There are also community points everywhere. I think a Well, you know more or less these examples But this is the most important problem we have in Latin America Yeah, there's a story about these princess princess Malintin She was a princess of one of the pre-Hispanic People with the countries they had and well when when the conquerors when they go to Mexico She was offered as a bride to the conqueror and she learned Spanish and she served as the Translator well, then Erdan Cortes a couple of years later when he was already a Governing all of the New Spain that's Mexico more or less. Well, he got tired left her Gave her in marriage to someone else and they went away Yeah, and it still happens all the time. We call that Malin Chismo Yep, that's the reason for example, why Christian was invited. We have deviant developers in Chile Yeah, in you have one well three one one and a half really one and a half because another one is in new maintain a queue So that's very few in terms of number. It's it's quite high in terms of Comparing to other countries other surrounding countries Chile's really the the most advanced country the continent and Gunnar mentioned the development of connectivity So the supposedly poor development of connectivity, but things may change in the future because What's the main difference over there is they there seems to be I say there seems because this is a feeling for me to be a strong involvement of the local authorities to develop a local in the software industry I guess and improve connectivity I attended the few presentation over there about covering maybe half of Santiago with Free wireless connectivity over there in with the small boxes around the the streets This is funded by the the local government to give very very easy internet access So as long as you have easy internet access you have the first brick on which free software development can be built on but there is this is probably a difference with our Our country's I say our country's of our Europe of our United States, Australia and so on there is a strong political involvement of a strong need to To develop all these new technologies as a way to develop the country I Hope you all get the point and this is something I felt very hard and I Always mentioning this word political commitment Because this is for many many countries. This is a political choice For instance choosing free software is first a political action before being another type of action So we well, I know that among the Debian community. There are both people who think in Political things other people who think mostly in technical things So we are not only a technical community. We we make political choices in Debian I'm a right beloved DPL. Do you agree on this? but When people talk about free software over there and especially the conference I was at It was mostly about political involvement I'm I'm I used to to be kidding about this, but the way the presentation were held it sounded like I Don't want to be a caricature, but it's on it was very left-wing size University and I felt in the old days of the 70s in Chile, you know and And It was really different for me, but this is what makes free software advance in Latin American countries political commitments advance and stagnate also Stagnate probably. Yeah, there's another example for example About Venezuela. Yeah, when when Hugo Chavez declared that he's the government will only use free software solutions Well, many people in the free software community were against it Why? Because Hugo Chavez was had a weak support in those times. So It was almost a fact that he would be overthrown. In fact Couple of weeks after that he he was overthrown for two days. Yeah, so If what if one party says well, I'm committed to free software then the other party gets to power Well, they will be committed to proprietary software just to state. They're not the same. Yeah, it's a Or for example, what happens in Mexico? Well, we had a very strong impulse five years ago when What's this idiot's name and my president we sent the fox When he started his mandate a he was pushing for a Something he called a Mexico. I mean in the e-business Scheme. Yes, and well, it's a project that flopped because because of the people he hired to do that It was a very bad choice, but No, there were people who tried, you know, it's very strange Mexico has a and I think that did that is this is common to most South America as well in The bureaucracy is a form of life by itself so You make all kinds of government plans just to ensure the bureaucracy keeps living so I work in me in a Mexico for I mean I as a Consultant for them because they wanted to set up a LMS learning learning management system and I happen to work at that time in the pedagogic University and I happen to be a visible person in free software. So Well, I got contacted by them and they said well, let's start studying the availability viability and the possibility of having this kind of studies And When we show them we have two working complete for free software learning management system solutions They freaked out because what they wanted was not to have the product the product They wanted to show there was enough work to justify their payment for the next three years and there was not Yeah, so so it was all spent in more studying the same and Well now we are about to finish the six-year term for for Fox and No project will get started until the new president is elected. So we have these three years of activity and three years of passivity periods and It's the same in all the other countries because everything is so political and You don't want to start a project that will end up benefiting someone else even if it's from your same party Benefit you go to you. I don't know other people from Brazil around here Please read and people's here It will be interesting to have your opinion about these Strengths or weakness about these political things in your countries or maybe in Argentina also What is your feeling about all this you want to share with us? I? think the the political side of things in Brazil With the PC connect Tardo is going to change somewhat the map of access to Computers to technology PC connect Tardo is a low a low-cost government project Which it basically will give as many people as possible access to to a Linux operating system. This is a government This is government funded to give access to Computers with Linux operating systems. Maybe not the end but the actual distribution has not been decided as yet There is some talk about it being current in which There's another other such similar projects in in Argentina if well, maybe Margarita would like to share with us, please Just throw the microphone just throw the microphone over I Try to take advantage of the few Latin American people around here Contrary to Brazil in Argentina This year a project was started to give people access to a cheap computer and The cheap computer was not really cheap Anything included windows. Yeah, so from the free software community. There was quite a movement to to stop this because It's like ripping people off The idea was first giving access to computers then we'll see later I think I talked with the Jalda yesterday about this They had such initiative in India to very low-cost computers and it finally turns out It seems to be of a fake good idea because in Low-developed country. I I don't think I can classify Argentina or Brazil as low-developed country, but Even if the computer is half the price The people who need it Can't really afford it anyway and the people who can afford the half Half price computer can also afford the full price computer So this is probably for sure a fake good idea to give access to low-cost computers Well, actually the thing is that these are Intel computers So they are at more expensive because they are Intel and no aim AMD and They are charging the windows license half the price, but it's they still are charging the window license So there are some businesses like Well No businesses normal businesses not nor related to the government who chose to sell AMD with Linux and The machines are cheaper than the ones that are government founded so our government is like going completely on the You see wrong way on the wrong way Yeah, I don't know if it's more or less like what I've seen a in Mexico one of those companies that started the promoting cheap computers is as mass which is the the technological arm of Televisa, which is well the largest TV Network in In Latin America So well, they started they say well, yeah, we want to hand out cheap computers. What is cheap? Well bad. Yes, I Evaluated one of those computers because well, it was very interesting to me that they were actually shipping a Sa no woody installations with a KDE backport KDE to something The thing is the computers that we're selling I don't know if any of you saw ever the Intel dock stations They are computers that look exactly like the first IMAC That have a 300 megahertz processor 64 megabits of RAM and Well, this was one year ago. I mean 64 megabits for KDE and the open office and the Mozilla Well, it just does not work and people the few people that bought one of those You have the option of buying it with Linux or with Windows Of course, the people that they bought it with Linux Got the Windows option because it really really sucked and the Windows option have more memory Yeah, no, really. Yeah, I think all these initially I'm not sure that all these initiatives are very very good targeted and the main hope for free software progress in Many countries including Latin America is probably through the education system for instance This conference I was at there were many people involved in the education system and there are a lot of initiatives for such such things Which basically look like Scholar Linux by the way So I think that the Scholar Linux people probably have to get closer to Latin America Because there is strong development area probably I probably also in Brazil too and Well, I just want to just don't want to forget to mention this. There is probably also a strong connection to develop between the communities and probably the Brazilian community and the Spanish speaking countries community and Connect together all the very small initiative you may have in all the countries you have Debian Chile you have Debian Peru You have a lot of organizations in Brazil, but now it's probably time to connect together, which may not be easy, but This is the thing to do that the organization are emerging country and The danger for me is to have all these things evolve Separately, you know, there's certain truth and certain falsity to what you say Because most South American countries are closely related between each other and of course closely related to the giant That's Brazil. Yes, I mean Brazil has a border with every South American country except for two and But on the other side Mexico it was very weird for me to go to South America because in Mexico we have a Really only one border with the United States. We don't care about what goes on in Latin America. We are not integrated in Latin America We only the only link we have with Central America is the Mara Salvatrucha That's a very violent kind of a gangsters and that are from Salvador, but I mean Central and the Central America the Caribbean and Mexico do not have a bonds to the South American continent Which does have strong bonds within itself? I think we had a question. Yeah, it's not a question It's more an observation that Free software is not so much the fight now, especially in Brazil The fight now is free culture, which is the thing that is more important. Yes This is what I felt also about free culture. Yeah access to knowledge There is there's also another government project in Brazil Which is to install in poor communities throughout the whole of Brazil They're called Pontus de Couture, which is a cultural center which will have dancing have music But we'll also have multimedia workstations All running Linux, which will be Debian To enable people to capture their own culture a remix culture Everything will be released in a creative commons type license So so the whole point is that the culture needs to be free not just the software I think is the most yeah, this is an access entry We are I think we are the question over there. Oh, yeah Mika also me Mika Mika, how are you sitting in them? Mika Muka Saphir Saphir had one question, please Actually, it's not a question. It's just a Reflection on the situation in on in the Balkans Like I have a example Safia is from Bosnia for yes, I'm from Bosnia That's a country which borders With Serbia and Montenegro on its left and I mean on on east and the Croatia on the west actually From the Balkans standpoint the situation is as it is Microsoft succeeded in making contracts with the Croatian government For use of their products within the Croatian government institutions as well as in Serbia and Montenegro, but Due to our effort they haven't really succeeded yet in Bosnia because They were pushing for signing the contract with the Bosnian government officials About using Microsoft products in Bosnia and government institutions, but on behalf of our Linux users group and the associations of Computer users and developers of Bosnia and Herzegovina. We have made a strong case Against using the proprietary software and using the free open-source software So our government is has put the the plan for Informatization of their Facilities until the end of this year which leaves us a little more time for our case. It's just a now it's a concern for us because Our government has been known for corruption and the bribery is a Possible case for some Decision-making politicians, so We just hope and see that we succeed in our plan. I mean we are the only Unconquered country when it comes to Microsoft on Balkans. Yeah, I think that most most countries I would say emerging countries are a very good target for proprietary software vendors they they don't care now about Europe and United States their real target is in the so-called third world and This is something all the local people have to be very careful about and probably You you all can have some action and organize yourself before it's too late probably Yeah, one thing it's not Latin America, but I had some I was in Africa last year and spoke with some developers from Nigeria and They expressed a can I asked them why there's not so many free software developers in Africa and their opinion Was that for them? They're spending well for us in developed worlds We are able to work on free software as a hobby in our spare time and for them The problem was in their spare time if they're going to work on something They need to be working on something that's developing a skill they can use to make money and so unless they are using Or developing free software so that they see an obvious economic Benefit that can be made so they can make money for their family then they are Not wasting time with that because if there's not free software jobs in their country Then they're just spending idle time and it's dangerous for them. That's what they tell me For example looking back at what I was telling about Bolivia. Well, I know there are some like Internet cafe like solutions and Many countries are just like it There's a very special thing about a Bolivia that I didn't mention and it's I think it's a valid most countries a one of the main income of the main incomes of the country is that they export people yes a In Bolivia all the internet cafes are so crowded because you have the family living in Europe in Mexico for example, officially the first source of income for for the country is the Petroleum sales and the second is people working in the United States That send money over it's amazing and Yes, we have to find a way to develop what's going to be used Directly I have been trying to talk with people from the different levels of the government in Mexico. There are some people Making some advance. Yes trying to get the government to hire people to develop solutions but well many of the continents Governments are right now quite Economically right-wing yeah in the so they want the government to sell all all of its Businesses and to just buy products not buy people to make products So it does not fit our model because we all know that we are communist people, you know Yeah, I'd like to I think we will have to conclude at some moments As I told too much I will try to make first conclusion myself if I can give a Goal for you your old people post the people in Latin America would be to say to you Organize yourself a lot be a big important lobby you I know you are already but Develop all these connections probably try to set up conferences if possible and sort out the The funding problems because even was while being in Chile I was surprised that there were very few people from other countries only because there was no funding to bring them So this is already important and I feel for instance very important that next year if we have Depp conf in Mexico, and I really hope we will have Depp conf in Mexico We will make a big effort to bring as many Latin American developers over there Kind of Yes at the expense of bringing other developers maybe but this may be a choice our bill of DPL We have to make to authorize such funding. Thank you, Brian and Another thing I want to say is if you all Debian developers have opportunity To go and speak about our project about Debian about free software, but don't forget about Debian also Please take it. Please use this opportunity To speak about free about Debian about what makes Debian specific because there is not a such a strong perception of the differences between maybe Debian read that and so on and so on we have a difference I think you all agree we have a kind of difference and Speak about it if you have opportunities use it if you talk the language Please be an ambassador. Please talk with the people people like when you you talk their language If you have to go to Latin America if you speak Spanish, that is a big big improvement Okay, if you and this is not only true for Latin America. I think so Good I want to enhance that Bringing things from the outside is not the only solution. I think this was your point This is the only way we have I Am outside Latin America. I can just make some lobbying to make things progress But at some moment the local people have to work on it also I want to add on this. Yes One of my main points in Latin America is to get the people developing for themselves But then again, I am pushing for that comes to be in Mexico then two years after that Well, if we keep the tradition of when you're in this side of the Atlantic one one year the other side It will probably be Argentina and I mean well We're not willing to have a deaf coffee in the United States. That's for sure a So we have to be in Latin America and but what I want you agree you agree just in Canada They had one. Okay. Okay, but one of my points in bringing the cough over there is to get the people to to see what What's it like to a large development effort?  I think it worked well last year in in Brazil I was very happy to see a lot of local people coming and just hack around in the hack lab I have a few pictures of this and this was this is how that comes should work. So if we have that come from Mexico Yes, I hope to see a lot of Mexican people with these big hats sleeping in the Yeah We don't like sleeping on cactuses We have another question Maybe I should just make a we are out of time we are out of time. So this is the last question Maybe okay Yeah, maybe I should just give a quick update about what happened after after dev conf in Brazil The dev conf in Brazil was in the south of the country, which is the most advanced part of the country It was very westernized, but there was quite a few people that came down from as owners from the Northeast about two months after We had Geodebian, which is a Debian day for Debian's birthday in Amazonas. We had the biggest The biggest event in throughout the whole of Brazil. This is directly as a result of the conference We had 500 people Come to a Debian day in Manaus. We were expecting 40 Yeah in Manaus. It's completely far from anything Manaus Yeah, they had to swim up to Manaus with the Piranhas, you're right Just like the Fin people jump out of the sauna and jump in the lake, you know So yeah, I think well it was time to conclude so it turned out to be kind of talk so I'm really sorry we would talk too much and Well, I think that Guna and I were very happy to see a lot of people attending this this is not a talk But thank you so much people


Hello, it's Rebecca. Thank you for joining me today. I have a big announcement to make. I have finally decided on my next big project. There's a little bit of a backstory to this. As you know, this entire year, the year 2020, has just not gone the way any of us could have imagined, much less planned for. At the beginning of the year, I was looking ahead at pretty full schedule, nicely paced with a mixture of giving talks at conferences and study days, a couple of hands-on sewing workshops, a bit of travel, several days in collections museums, studying extant garments, two markets planning to go to, so lots of things to sew and make a wide range of things, trying to think what would interest people, what people are looking for, what they want to buy. And somewhere along in there, I thought I should try to make myself a new pair of stays because the pair that I have that up to a year or so go fit fairly well. I'm afraid menopause changes, body shape and they no longer fit. So somewhere in there along the way, I thought I need to make a new pair of stays for myself, even though I really knew that I had no time to make myself any new garments, any new gowns. So it's going to be new stays, but only really if I could find the time in amongst all of my business paying work. Well, coronavirus and the subsequent lockdowns and closures of markets and museums and sites and schools and just everything aside from the personal impact that we all have felt in having to stay home and not seeing our friends and family and events that we're looking forward to enjoying being cancelled. Aside from that, it's been the personal impact and the business impact and overall, I think the uncertainty of it has been the most frustrating and most worrying for everyone. So when this all happened in March, I was in the US the beginning of the month, so looking forward to a full schedule for the rest of the year and talking with people about making more plans to add even more. And I thought, well, at some point I'm going to make new stays. So I was booked onto the stays pattern drafting and the construction course at the School of Historical Dress at the end of March. And anticipation of that, I had friends in Plenty of Williamsburg do my measurements for stays, got home from that trip and immediately everything went into lockdown and the School of Historical Dress had to close amongst many other sites and venues and institutions and businesses and small enterprises and people like me. Everybody shut down. So I didn't quite. I went with myself and didn't know how long that was going to last. And so I thought, right, well, I won't be making stays. So in my saviour at that point was Burnley and Trowbridge announcing their Sew a Long series. So I leapt onto that and made a lot of things that, you know, quite straightforward, not complicated fitting, just nice relaxing sewing. I have not made every project that's been in the Sew a Long series. In some cases, I've skipped certain ones. And then in other projects, made two. So for example, I've just finished two bedgowns as part of the B&T Sew a Long series. And that has been wonderful. This was also a time too, with no commitments, events to plan for. I took the opportunity to get moved into my new workshop space. This is a room at the back of my husband's business. So I'm the only one that comes in here, my husband occasionally. And it's big enough that once we're able to get together with people again, I will be able to hold small sewing workshops here. But meanwhile, it's been a fantastic opportunity to go through all of my sewing supplies and all of my fabrics that were all stored in plastic crates and get everything kind of an idea of what I had and how much of what I had and sift through, you know, they kind of allocate fabrics to fabric, to projects, and think about when I get the time. And at this point, when I was doing this, it was starting to look like all the time in the world really. So yeah, so April moved into the new workshop, sewing along with Burnley and Trowbridge, and giving thought to launching YouTube channel. So I was trying to learn video filming and editing, you know, what you do with setting up and scripting videos and how you film them and then post production editing and getting it all nice and pretty and coherent for you. That's been a huge learning curve. So that's kind of how my second quarter, April, May and June have gone for 2020. A little bit of sewing, moving, filming. But somehow in there, I took my eye off the ball with some sewing and got a flare up of tendinitis. So in some ways, this gift of time couldn't have come in a better time to be struggling with strength and soreness and issues with my hands. But that's getting better. And things must move forward. So I now have a beautiful workshop that I'm looking forward to sharing with you and you're going to see a lot of filming happening here, I think. And somewhere along the way, looking ahead, I took a poll on my Facebook and Instagram pages saying, next big project, what would you like me to do? And the answer came back loud and clear to Deborah Sampson dress, which you may or may not be familiar with. This is in the historic New England collection. It was worn in, I believe, 1785 by Deborah Sampson. It was a kind of a hand me down or second hand goods dress. It was not new to her, but it was apparently altered to fit her. So this is very intriguing. So I thought, okay, great, this will be a fantastic project. But meanwhile, yeah, I think if no one steps forward and asks me to commission that to fit them, I will end up making this for myself, which comes back to the I need new stays issue. So, sorry to look like, okay, it won't just be a gown and exciting, you know, reproduction, recreation, reconstruction project, but also involve stays. Okay, lovely. And then I thought, well, to cover things off, as I'm not going to get a chance to see this gown in person at any point, I should see if I have enough information really to do it justice. So I emailed the curator thinking museums closed, I'm sure she's probably working from home, but we'll see, you know, response, no hurry. And in fact, she did reply and she said, I am working from home. I have a lot of information on this dress in my files, in my office, which I'd be happy to share with you once I get back off. Once things have reopened enough, I can go do that. And I know that this will not be top priority for her when she does return. And meanwhile, discussions on Facebook prompted someone to private message me saying, I've seen this gown in person and have noted a few things. I'm really excited about you possibly making a version of this. Shall we all put our heads together once you've got further details in the museum? I thought, yes, there is no point in rushing ahead and reinventing the wheel and making a lot of guesses that do not be wrong. If the information if people have already looked at it and can help make this make this a good project. So sad to say, yes, I did say that I would be starting this in May or by the end of May. It's on hold now. And meanwhile, more information, more I look at the fabric, I'm kind of questioning the fabric that I have in my stash, whether it's really the right thing. So I'm going to keep looking for some better fabric for that. So what to be making? That was the one that was voted for. At the beginning of the year, thinking that I was not going to be doing any sewing for myself, but knowing that if and when I did get a chance to make a new gown for myself. I knew which one I wanted to make. I didn't think it would be this year. I didn't think they'd be the time. And there's also the issue of stays. I still need to stay. But again, I really, really been wanting to make for myself. And this is very selfish. This is not something I have been thinking, I wish someone commissioned this or I hope someone I wish someone would come to me saying, please make me this gown. This is really for me. And it's this. This is in the National Museum in Munich in Germany. It is a 1760s long sack. But some of you will know as Ero Allah Franças. Excuse my poor pronunciation pronunciation. It's quite a straightforward one. I don't believe there are any significant alterations or updates to it. It seems to have been made in the 1760s to a very classic 1760s style with a compare. Some of her front classic robings, classic trimmings for that era. And I've never made a long sack before. And I think this would be a fantastic one to try to copy or to learn from and learn how to make one based on this. And I have the right fabric for it. And this is complete chance. This dress had been on my radar for a little while and but not really on my make list. And at some point, some point quite unrelated, I in on a trip on a trip in the Netherlands, I obtained two meters, this might be three meters, two meters of this fabric, which is a glazed reproduction chance fabric, not quilting copper. And it has been, I believe it's a heat pressing process they use for glazing, not something that's been painted on. But the motifs are not exactly like this gown. But the right colors and the right color proportions, the right amount of pinks, right amount of blue, for example, I felt was quite critical. So I had this fabric, but it's quite expensive fabric. And that was another reason why I didn't have any immediate plans to make this.  So I hadn't applied, hadn't acquired. But as a US citizen, even though I've lived in the UK for 21 years now, I qualified for the payments being made out to all adults or all taxpayers, $1,200. And that was out of the blue, actually a check literally in the post, opened my post box and there's a brown envelope saying from the US Treasury, open it up and there is a check for $1,200. Took it round to my bank and they said, yep, fill out a form here for the currency conversion, no problem. And suddenly, yes, I spent the money on bills and all the things that you have to, you know, wasn't just going to splurge on fabric. But suffice to say, corona has paid for more fabric to make this.  But meanwhile, the question stays, hasn't gone away. I'm going to need stays. Thank God here for fashion five mentioned already. And the stays that was the subject basis for the course that I did, the School of Historical Progress last year on pattern drafting is a 1760s style and construction. It is very similar, in fact, to the stays that I need to replace anyway. So I'm already sort of leaning the these are the kind of stays that I want as my go to stays. They are fully bound. They are strapless. They are beautiful in fact. And I already have some wool satin, which is what the extant originals were made from as the fashion fabric. And having already in my class on the ARC method, these were the stays that were used. As our basis for learning that method. So even though I was not able to attend a workshop this year to solidify, consolidate my knowledge, my understanding of that pattern drafting method, I think I've got enough knowledge to at least get started. I will also need for this gown some sort of wired some sort of wired skirt support in patterns of fashion five. There are possibly three different extents that would be suitable for this time period and for this shape with the volume being in the hips. But I think for flexibility or use of the gowns just as an addition to my wardrobe, I'm going to go with the pocket hoops. Another factor in that decision is the fact that I have the right materials in the supplies list for this with lots of synthetic whale bone. I want to I want to use this learning experience to get as close to a reconstruction to really learn from this research as much as possible, not just as a nice idea. I'll do my own version, you know, do a riff of that using whatever materials. I really want to do as close a replica as I can in the circumstances without hands-on study and without exactly the original materials. But the other the large pooped petticoats involve steel or iron. And I don't have those supplies. And in this time period, I don't think it would be quick, easy or cheap to source those materials. So the pocket hoops is what we're going with.  We have a fairly large project involving stays, pocket hoops and a long sack gown with a certain amount of whale suitable for the period trim we've got. And I have not yet determined whether that trim all involves hemming and whether that is going to be a problem in terms of my hands after the stay-making as well, which at this point I do hope to do entirely by hand. A marker, I will machine stitch the boning channels but that's who we're at. Stays, pocket hoops and a big gown. And I have just been offered a place at Oxford University starting in September. So if I'm going to do this, I need to do it now. I need to get started now and I need to finish by the middle of September. It's just scary. So my plan at this point is, as far as sharing this with you, I want to share everything, the process. You know, you be a fly on the wall here in my workshop. While I figure things out, do things, screw up, do them again, do them better. Thank God for erasers on pencils and seam rippers and all of those things. I can't promise that there won't be furrowed brows and under my breath swearing and tears and blood and all those things that go with doing things for the first time. But there you go. This is sort of three months to do all of this. So video-wise, filming-wise. I'd like to do a weekly video, but the way this is going to get started is next week I have ready for you on Monday, and this will be in the CosTube guide, is a presentation that I've prepared about the Isabella McTavish Trasure Project from last year. So that's really exciting. I'm really, really proud of that project and in putting this presentation together for you. Then I'm going to do a short video, short. Then I'm going to do a video about my workshop, setting up and how I've got it laid out and what my priorities were for what I wanted from my workspace in terms of ergonomics and fabric storage and bits and pieces. Everyone is different. I think we all enjoy seeing what solutions people have found for the things that they want out of their productive working space. So I am working on a video for that and that will be ready not this coming week, but the week after that. That's the first week of July. Goodness, July already. Then the week after that I should have a video ready that is about the stays that goes through all of the pattern drafting and making a mock-up and getting through the first fitting and finding out how successful that pattern draft is or has been and what tweaks might be necessary. But hopefully at that point ready to then go straight into construction of the stay so that then the video the following week or possibly might be a two-week gap. I might alternate a couple of other topics in there. We'll see how we get on to then have the second video about construction stays to see that through making the stays using patterns of fashion 5 and all of the layers and the construction features that you see in there and then pocket hoops. So if I can get to the middle of August with stays and pocket hoops complete, I have some thoughts to share on how to approach fitting in gowns like this, whether you're using a pattern, a commercial pattern or a gridded pattern or you cut your shapes, the period method and then fitting issues and how to deal with fitting yourself, how to be your own manager maker as I call it. So I'll have some thoughts to share on that too. The dress making itself, the gown won't take that long. The trim will probably take longer than it does to make the gown. We'll see how that goes. But that's the plan. And now that I've committed it to you, shared it with you, I am now accountable to you to stick to this plan and try to get this all done by the middle of September. If you have any comments or questions, even if it's you're crazy, please put them in the comments below. Please click like on this video. And if you're interested in following along and seeing how this goes, do click subscribe and click the notification bell that will let you know when I release a new video. So here we go. Thanks for joining me. I'll see you next time.


It is both a pleasure and an honor for me to address you at the launching of the West African Police Information System as well as the inauguration of WAPI's data center. I bring you greetings from the president, all of our commissioners and the staff of the ECOWAS Commission and extend our congratulations for this great milestone. We thank the government of the Republic of Ghana for the warm reception and its usual hospitality that has been extended to my delegation since we arrived in today's city last night. Our minister, distinguished ladies and gentlemen, the dynamics of globalization has made the fight against international criminality more challenging for law enforcement agents around the world. This challenge is even more greater in our region where we have limited human and technical capacities to effectively control the wider frontiers that we have within the West African subregion. Our capacities to share and to exchange information or exchange intelligence, to reach and research new ideas and research on new crime areas, to conduct job training as well as the operations of our men and women in arms, and to anticipate to plan and prevent criminal activities before they are committed a week. Our current capacity to do these things are weak and they therefore need to be strengthened. One of the main areas of weakness in managing transnational organized criminality in our region is the provision of accurate statistics and data on reported occurrence. In an attempt to address this weakness, ECOWAS in collaboration with Interpol through the funding of the European Union launched the West African police information system. We all call it WAPIS. This was done just as you may know in 2012, just recently. WAPIS, as we were told earlier, is designed to build the needed capacities in our member states through the setting up of data centers, primarily to assemble, process, and share information on community issues at national, regional, and global levels. Our 2012 initiative had its roots in the memorandum of understanding that was signed between ECOWAS and Interpol in August 2004. This engagement was aimed at enlarging our capacities. It was also aimed at permitting us to adequately respond to the fight that we were faced with in all forms of national and transnational crimes. Which I will be reminded that the need to mount an effective fight against criminality in our region was fully recognized and translated when the heads of state and government of West Africa adopted a protocol in October 2005 for the establishment of an ECOWAS Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Bureau.  Your Excellencies, the distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, the 2005 protocol gives WAPIS the political cloud to serve as a data collection and coalition platform. It empowers the system as to serve as a direct response mechanism to allow the criminal intelligence and investigation bureau to carry out its mandate. The need for programs, the need for programs, and I think that was alluded to, let's now get to the implementation stage, the need for programs to support effective coordination in the field of crime prevention and the administration of justice between members states of ECOWAS and the international community cannot be over-emphasized. The regional integration goal of ECOWAS is to raise the living standards of its people and to ensure economic growth and regional development. We will all agree that as the environment for peace is secure and the community is free of crime, these will provide the fundamental building blocks to the achievement of those goals. The establishment of the West African Police Chiefs Committee, WACO, and its transformation to an ECOWAS specialized institution has consolidated the platform for regional cooperation or criminal matters within a broader security framework. The WACO Secretariat, which is done itself at the ECOWAS Commission in close collaboration with Interpol, specifically our regional office in Abidjan, has continually been engaged in the reinforcement of capacities of law enforcement agents. The focus to date have been placed on understanding and addressing the dynamics of transnational organized crimes in a programmatic manner and the sharing of best practices in the field. More programs in these areas and in other areas will be mounted in the years ahead. At this junction permit me, our minister, ladies and gentlemen, to find the European Union on behalf of the entire ECOWAS citizens for funding the pilot project phase one. This is a very important initiative. Let me stress our hope that the generosity will be extended to support the takeoff program of the remaining 11 countries within our subregion. We look forward to the useful cooperation with our partners in general towards the installation of the program at the regional level within the ECOWAS Commission. May I also thank our co-implementing partners, the Interpol specifically, Mr. Pierre Roulin, who is the special representative of Interpol to the European Union in Brussels who played personally, attached himself to this program to get us to where we are today. On the whole we sincerely appreciate the collaboration with Interpol. We also note with deep appreciation the presence of other chiefs of law enforcement agencies such as the Ghana integration and customs services among others without whom the essence of today's program will not have been achieved. To the Inspector General of Police who would like to say thank you, Mr. Mohammed Admin Al-Azham, not only for your dynamism and hard work as the immediate past chairman of the West African Police Chief Committee, but also for providing the necessary requisite technical support for the hosting of the Ghana WAPI's office. Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, we have come a long way since 2005. Today, 10 years later, we gather to launch and inaugurate WAPI's data center. This is indeed a milestone. Not only should we be proud of this achievement, but the ceremony calls for rededication of ourselves and our respective institutions to fight. That is before us. That fight that is before us. We fight to make sure that our subregion and beyond our subregion is free to provide the kind of environment we need for national development. Playing this role individually and collectively is our way of contributing effectively to the achievement of the Gold Original Integration and Cooperation in West Africa. Best wishes to the center and may God bless all of us. Thank you.