Hi, how's everybody doing today? Today, I am your host Rich here on behalf of Rich TV Live with our very special guest. It is Wayne Root, a director with Go Green and the CEO of Vegas Winners. How you doing today, Wayne? Hey, Rich, how are you? I'm doing very well. I'm very excited to have you on the show. You've been very, very successful in so many different fields and let's get right into it.  They call you America's odds maker and the king of Vegas sports gambling. Why did Vegas Winners become affiliated with Go Green Inc? Well, we want to go public. It's that simple. We wanted a public vehicle. Go Green was really just a vehicle to take us public. It's kind of an empty shell that now is our company. It's kind of Play Doh that we could mold in our image to do what we want to do and we've turned it into the ultimate, I think the ultimate premiere, sports handicapping, sports advice, sports research analysis, and sports gaming company in the United States of America. That's my goal. That's where we want to take this thing is number one, the United States are providing the information and then eventually once we're solidly in that position, number one globally, adding in some international sports like soccer, cricket, rugby, Formula One, et cetera, et cetera. Right now, my eyes are on the prize and the prize is the United States of America Sports Gambling has been legalized by Supreme Court decision in May of 18 and so now it's legal in 22 states plus the District of Columbia. It's operating physically. I think it's 18 states, but it's legal in 22 and there's legislation in place to make it legal in over 40 states in the next probably in the next 12 months to 16 months to 18 months. You'll see illegal in 40, 44 states somewhere in that vicinity. And by the way, the reason why Rich is kind of obvious because of COVID and because of the economic shutdowns, everyone's broke. Every state is broke. Every municipality is broke. They have no money. They have no sales tax revenue, no income tax revenue, no property tax revenue, no payroll tax revenue. They're desperate to find new avenues of money. So this is all going to go much faster than anyone ever imagined.  It's terrible, but it did two incredible things for my business. Number one is most people don't want to gamble anymore in a casino. They don't want to touch money with their hands. They don't want to be around lots of other people. Online sports gambling is the future of gambling. That was huge. And number two, because the states are broken desperate for money and they're looking for new sources, they're all eyeing sports gambling. And this is going to happen much quicker, the legalization, than anybody ever imagined. So look, COVID's horrible, COVID's terrible, but there's always winners and losers. No matter what happens in life, I'm sure during World War II, there were winners and losers. During the Spanish food, there were winners and losers. The winner of the COVID sweepstakes happens to be online gambling and online sports gambling. They're both set to explode.  And some good developments are in the works. For example, you are just about to file a reg A for five million to expand operations. Can you please tell us how those funds will be utilized? Well, look, number one thing in my industry is marketing and sales and promotion. And to be honest with you, my whole life is marketing and sales and promotion. And my belief in life is to be successful. It's all built around marketing and sales and promotion. And if you don't believe me, take a look at some of the books in the background, including my new one that comes out November 10th. It's called Trump Rules. And I'm friends with the president of the United States. And it doesn't matter if you agree or disagree with his politics. If you love him or hate him, it doesn't matter. Everyone's got to admit there's something to be learned from President Donald Trump. I mean, here's a guy that even if you hate his guts, you have to admit he went to number one in the world in real estate. And certainly one of the top guys, a billionaire, one of the top in business in general, number one in branding, number one in celebrity brand name recognition, number one in TV producing celebrity apprentice and host of that show. And hundreds of millions came in. And then he became the president of the United States commander of the military and leader of the free world. So I think he has a theater to teach us. And so I've studied Trump. He's been my mentor since I was literally 18 years old. He's 15 years old to me. He was in his 30s and I got it to Columbia University in New York. And he was building a skyscraper right around the border from Columbia. And that's when I noticed the guy and said, I want to be like him. So I've studied the Trump rules, as I call them, for literally 40 years, about 37 years to be exact. And it's really changed my life. And the number one rule is promotion, right? Promotion, marketing, sales. And also I think you'd argue free media. The more media you can get, the less money you have to spend. So anyway, those are my rules in life. And when you ask what we're going to do with a fundraise of about $5 million, number one, build the premier sports handicapping firm. Number two, brand ourselves in sports television in the United States. I've already got ad campaigns, exclusive and semi-exclusive, where I'm the only one in the country allowed in my industry or one of two. And they're with the biggest sports networks in America. We just signed and we haven't even announced yet. So I can't say the person's name. But someone to be our basically our brand spokesman and peer and all the TV ads are made and he is a household name. And we will start together in the TV commercial. So really the money goes for branding, marketing, promotion, global expansion. And then the number one point of this business is to build the number one database in the world of sports gamblers. Because that database will be so valuable to be leased out or to be sold or the company to be sold potentially in the future to a gigantic sports gaming company. We don't take the bets. So anybody who takes the bets has one thing they need, customers. And we're going to have all the customers, that TV ad campaign with that superstar and me will bring in all the customers that any sports gambling company will ever need. And so we believe we would be a buyout candidate in the future. That's our hope. Just like Penn National, just cut a deal. I'm trying to remember the name. I've got it here. A Barstool Sports State Port Guy. Barstool Sports really is just a blog, an online video blog. And it puts out videos that are of interest to sports fans and to some extent sports gamblers. And they built a beautiful blog, one of the best in the world at what they do. And Penn Gaming came along and said, we need customers. You've got all the eyeballs we need. And they bought them one third of Barstool Sports at a value. They valued Barstool at $450 million. And so I think within two to three years, we're going to have a database that blows away Barstool Sports. They just got people watching videos. We're going to have people who check in for research analysis and advice and scores and odds and weather and injuries for sporting events because they are specifically sports gamblers, sports betters, sports gambling enthusiasts. It is the perfect database for anyone from Wynn to Venetian, Las Vegas Sands to MGM to Caesars to Penn National. We're going to have all the names of all the specific sports gamblers in America in one database. And I think we'll have a very valuable company. Now, I understand that Vegas Winners has quite a bunch of expert handicappers. Can you go through the team with us and what each person brings to the table? Yeah, well, let's say there's no point going through the whole team. I mean, I'll give you the highlighted team because some of them have been on TV with me for many, many years. Back in the early 1990s, that's when my career began. I was in the late 80s. I was the lead anchorman for the network now known as CNBC. In those days, it was called Financial News Network. And I hosted five shows and all of them were sports gambling related on the weekends. And I left to become the star of a national TV sports gambling show called Pro Live. And the stars of that show were Wayne Root, Jim Feist, Chip Turimbus, and Larry Ness. I've reunited the whole team. All these years later, 30 years later, it's Wayne Root, Jim Feist, Chip Turimbus, Larry Ness. I've added many other successful sports handicappers, all of whom are champions around the world or around the United States. Just one to give you an example, Big Al McMorley is a University of Michigan Law School graduate. He's an attorney who doesn't practice law anymore. He's full-time professional sports handicapper. And he does it in particular for us. And he's won multiple national handicapping championships. He is fantastic at what he does. So I've developed this team. If you're going to gamble on sports, you need a professional to guide you. Just like if you're going to make a bet, I call it a bet, but you call it an investment, on a stock, you'd probably want to hire a stockbroker or a stock analyst or read the research reports of a Merrill Lynch or hire a hedge fund or throw a dart at a mutual fund where someone else does the picking for you. Most people work. They have no time to study stocks all day long and that's what a professional does on Wall Street, study stocks. So in my business, you have no time to study sports all day long. So we've got a team, a lineup of great professionals and you'll watch their videos and you'll read their articles on my website, winningedge.com and you will decide who's the one that you're most comfortable with, who you like the most, who's the best fit, you'll hire them and you'll get professional advice from them. So if you don't like Wayne Root, you'll probably like Jim Pfeifst or Larry Ness or Chip Turembis or Big Al McBordier, Hollis Harvard, Barnhart, the list goes on and on. They're all fantastic at what they do. They all have different personalities that might appeal to different groups of people. And so that's what I tried to do, a real nice lineup of people rich who all have a different appeal and a different style of handicapping that someone may appreciate. And so I've covered the whole gamut. I love it. I think it's great. I think what you guys are doing is great. I understand that a lot of states are legalizing online gambling, which we talked about a little bit, which creates a lot of business opportunities for companies. Can you tell us how that brings opportunities to go green? Well, the one big giant opportunity is that everybody who now sees legal sports gambling, because remember, I was the dominant player in this industry. This is not something new for me. I was the dominant player in sports handicapping for almost 30 years, dominant. And the proof is that in the whole world, only one guy has a 180 pound granted star in the sidewalk in Las Vegas, on Las Vegas Boulevard in the Las Vegas Walk of Stars. You have Frank Sinatra, you have Jimmy, Sammy Davis Jr. You have Siegfried Roy, you have Wayne Newton, you have Liberace, you have Elvis. And then you have the one sports gambler, Wayne Oliver. My star is right in front of the Paris Hotel and Casino. Congratulations. Yeah, I'm very proud of that. Very, very great thing. Talk about brand new rights, right? I'm gonna at least say it, and he bragging if you can back it up. And so I've got the star on the sidewalk. You can walk right up my face on the sidewalk in Las Vegas. That's wild. So, you know, look, I'm good at what I do. And there's one big giant opportunity out there as each state legalizes sports gambling rich. It's obvious more and more people are then comfortable making a bet. They don't have to bet with a bookmaker. They don't have to bet offshore. They don't have to bet in England. They get to bet in Costa Rica. They get to bet in the United States.  So all those people need someone to give them advice. That's the opportunity to be the Merrill Lynch or the Charles Schwab or the Goldman Sachs or the JP Morgan of the weekend. That's kind of what I call myself. You know, the Charles Schwab of the weekend. Everyone needs Charles Schwab Monday through Friday for the stock markets closed on weekends. Yes, what's open on weekends? Sports, betting. So, and I'll tell you what the edge is for us and for everyone in the gambling world. If you're going to watch a sporting event, you're going to bet on it. That's the fun. You watch the game for three hours, Rich, and you put $100 on it, and it becomes the greatest up and down adrenaline rush you've ever had in your life versus just watching it. So if you're going to watch it and you're going to have money on it, you might as well pay Wayne Root a little fee to get the advice on who has the edge. And that's what we do. Very good, very good. I think that's a great idea. And as someone who has won and lost on sports betting, I think it makes a huge difference when you have an expert that can say, pick the Cowboys in this game because of this reason or pick the Jets in this game because of this reason, this player's hurt, this player's hot.  We want to look into the experts similar to myself. People come to Rich TV Live because they know I do their research for stocks. That's why we're doing this interview today. And that goes to the next question. Now, Go Green also has an impressive roster of executives that have joined the team. Can you go through them and how they will help the corporate side of the business? Well, I think the number one person to focus on by far is not to distract everyone with 20 names. I think my whole team is fabulous. They're all fantastic execs. Many of them have been with me my whole life, my whole adult life in business, but the number one that I'm most proud of who has joined the team is Howard Lefkowitz. And if you look at Howard's background, he's just one of the most brilliant high-tech visionaries in the United States of America. He'll serve as our COO, chief operating officer and CTO, chief technical officer, and Howard's background, home shopping network and a majorly baseball team and Earthlink and the big one was Vegas.com. I mean, there were 20 of them who can remember all of them, but every one of them he helped to develop their back end of their website that is involved in e-commerce. And so as an example with Vegas.com, when he got there, someone else founded the company. He was not the founder, but he was there when there were like five desks and he became the CEO of Vegas.com. And that's how him and I became friends. We're next door neighbors in Las Vegas and he was running Vegas.com. And he took it from those five desks to a $400 million a year business and built the back end and turned it into the world's biggest one city travel site. That's saying something. Can you imagine being able to say in your resume on the day you die, I built the world's biggest fill in the blank. Doesn't matter what it is. If you built the world's biggest anything, that's a pretty good resume. Howard built it into the world's biggest one city travel site, $400 million in revenues. We've got him now. He's just a brilliant guy at designing websites, at designing e-commerce and operating e-commerce and making sure customers feel welcome and it's easy to navigate our site, easy to buy and then he's in charge of putting the software and all the text-based systems in place that allow us to go after those customers and hit them again and again and again and say, hey, how can we help you more? How can we add onto your experience? Eventually I think we'll get into the hospitality business meaning we've got all these people that love Las Vegas. We've got all these customers that love to gamble. How about we bring them into Vegas and we have parties every month involving major league sports stars, the biggest names, biggest quarterbacks in football, the biggest goalies in hockey, the biggest home run hitters in baseball, the biggest slam duckers in basketball and we have parties built around the Indy 500, the Super Bowl, the NBA championships, the NHL finals, the World Series and while they're in town, we get a piece of the bookings for the hotel they book, the airline they book, the money they gamble in the casino. That's kind of our vision for where this company will go eventually. So I think it's real exciting that I think Howard left which has been my buddy for 20 years, my neighbor for 20 years and a guy who I always thought was a genius. And I said someday I'm gonna start a business that will involve Howard. I'm gonna get him on board and make him the genius. I'm the front guy. I'm the guy who does the talking on TV. He's the guy in the back who kind of is the genius who makes it all work. That's, I think that's important. You need your guys at the front that do their work. You need the guys in the back to do their work. That's how you have a winning team and clearly you guys know exactly what you're doing. You guys are putting the right blocks in place. You guys are currently working with Prompt.io.  Yeah, you know, first of all, let me state that Prompt is run by Phil Gordon. He's another one of my great friends.  I'm sure no genius. I'm a connections guy, just like Donald Trump. I'm a guy who knows everybody. I try and meet everyone in the world and try to become friends with them.  And so I met Phil Gordon about 20 years ago. I would say right around the year 2000. He's one of the best poker players in the world. But a lot of people don't realize he's also a high tech genius like Howard Lefkowitz. And so I think he graduated college at the age of like, I think he got into college at 15 or 16, graduated in 18 from Georgia Tech, started a company, sold it for a fortune and then retired in the early 20s. He retired and traveled the world and went to sporting events all over the world in an RV. So that was his life. Then he went back into poker and made millions of dollars and became the star of one of the top poker shows on TV that covered poker tournaments. So he's synonymous with poker. And then he built this new company that handles text-based contact with people. Now, I'm not the right guy to describe exactly what they do, but his text-based system is really the number one of its kind in the world. And it will enable us to be in constant contact with all of our customers and our database. And every time they buy something, we'll know their favorite team might be the Dallas Cowboys. That's mine. You see my cowboy helmet in the background. I grew up around Roger Stawback, he's my hero. So if your team is the Dallas Cowboys, we'll send you information every day about the Cowboys. If your team's the Jets, we'll send you information everything about the Jets. If it's the New York Yankees and baseball, we'll send you information about the Yankees.  No matter what it is you're interested in, we'll have a way of contacting you all the time. And so we've got this system in place with Phil Gordon and his company that will enable us to be very close at all times with our customers. What more can you ask for, right? I mean, that's what business is all about. Can you kind of know in advance when you think your customers are headed, what they wanna buy, where they wanna spend money and then serve it to them, give it to them on a platter, on a silver platter, 24 hours a day via text on their cell phone. That's what Phil's company does and we've hired him to be our guy. So I think we have an edge that no other company in the gaming industry has. That's incredible. I love what I'm hearing so far. Now we have investors and viewers from all over the world that will be watching this video. If there was one thing you would want them to know and walk away with after this interview, what would it be? You know, I think I've already covered it. I mean, but I'm a guy who believes and you'll see my new book comes out in November 10th, Trump Rules. One of my most important rules and one of Trump's most important rules, repetition. You'll notice when he gives a speech, he's one of a kind. You know, first of all, there's no notes.  He's colorful. You notice, I kind of remind you of him. I'm a kind of bigger than life in New York personality because I've studied him my whole life. And you gotta hit the point again and again and again. And the point is obvious. Is that sports gambling is the new national pastime. It sports isn't, sports gambling is. If you're gonna watch a game, you're gonna bet on a game. If you're gonna bet on a game, don't you wanna win?   And what do you do with that 500? You take your wife or your significant other out to dinner tonight to the best restaurant in town or you buy her a new dress or, you know, if you win $10,000 the down payment on a new car lease. You know, that to me is what sports gambling is all about. It's fun, it's entertaining.  The meal, I just ate it, the money's gone. I can never get it back. When I buy a suit, I love nice clothes, but the money's gone forever. But when you bet $500 on a football game and you win, you not only don't lose the 500, you didn't spend it.  It's an investment. It's the only kind of spending that becomes an investment. It's the only kind of entertainment that pays you to entertain yourself. You watch a game when it's over, you made $1,000. It is the greatest form of entertainment in the world. So wouldn't you rather win than lose? Absolutely. So we're here to help you win. We give you a competitive edge. We give you guidance. We give you research, we give you analysis, and we give you the winning edge with winning expert advice about who's gonna win or lose against the point spread. Now that it's legal in so many states and becoming more legal and available every day, millions and millions of people will start to gamble on sports when they watch it. Rich, within a year or two, you won't be able to walk into a stadium anywhere in America to watch a sporting event without a betting kiosk being in front of you. Right, right near your row. There'll be hundreds of them inside each stadium and each arena.  So don't you want Wayne's advice before you make that bet? That's what Vegas Winners is all about. And if you believe what I'm saying is true, and I know it's kind of hard not to believe it's true, because I did it for 30 years when it was illegal in 49 states. Now that it's gonna be legal, this thing is gonna explode. If you agree that it's exciting, it's gonna explode, then you wanna get in on vegaswinners.com on the ground floor. That's the message, simple as that. Now, if someone is looking at this interview, watching this video from all over the world, what's the best way for them to get in touch with you if they wanna invest, if they're interested in doing a joint venture, if they're interested in getting contact with the company about a potential deal, how do they do that? Well, I've got a nationally syndicated radio show, not about sports, but about politics. And I give out my email on that show every day and I get over 2,000 emails a week from my fans. They love to stay connected with me. And I'll do the exact same thing here. I love to stay connected with my fans, my friends, and in this case, even better, my investors. So if you're interested in anything I've got to say, just contact me, email me, wainroute at gmail.com, wain, w-a-y-n-e, root, r-o-o-t, like tree root, wainroute at gmail.com, it's that simple. And so there's always a way to contact me, or you could do it through the website, vegaswinners.com. Simple story. That's perfect. Well, thank you so much for your time today, wain.  Congratulations on all your success. Hopefully everything works out well for you in the elections too with Mr. Trump. We'll be watching very, very closely and very, very carefully. Thank you for joining us. Hopefully as Go Green Evolves and has big news, you can join us again here on Rich TV Live. We'd love to follow your story. And I know our investors will be watching very carefully and very closely. Thank you for joining us, wain. This is your host, Rich, from Rich TV Live, saying thank you guys for watching. Have yourself a great day, wain. Thanks, Rich. I'll join you again. You can bet on it. 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up Maria Vector Control? Okay, sorry. Okay, perfect. So the Maria Vector Control is a component of a more comprehensive Maria program that can be carried out by the Ministry of Health on different countries. In the HIS-2, in the WHO health data toolkit, we actually have two different types of packages you can see. We have a great one where you can find information and keep that information used on the malaria burden reduction and elimination strategies, the surveillance part, so two different tracker programs supporting case notification, case investigation, investigation classification workflow, and then the logistic part, so supply chain readiness and traceability of Maria drug test and long-lasting insecticide net down to point of service delivery. As well, very soon, three different packages will come and specifically on the vector control part. So the breeding sites monitoring will be a tracker program, the indoor residual spraying as an event and insecticide treated nets as events as well. So this will come in sooner on the June release. So what we are going to talk about today, so is the innovative use of the HIS-2 for malaria vector control intervention that is shared from malaria in any country. So we'll have experience for different countries alongside lesson learned implementation, control customization, and data use. So we will actually, for an example, so the HIS-2 Android application has been used to scale up entomological monitoring data collection in Ghana, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire, and Mali, and to optimize in the case of Zimbabwe, so to optimize the U.S. campaign performance. And as well, Tanzania will share, the East Tanzania will share his experience using the HIS-2 dashboard to integrate logistic and health service delivery data to optimize continued distribution of long-lasting insecticide nets to premium women and children under five. So I don't want to take more time. Just introduce the first speaker, Otias. Thank you very much. Okay. Thank you, Stefano, for the introduction, for the presentation. Can you hear me well? Okay. Thank you. So I'm going to make a presentation on a Zimbabwe scale study. I'm Otias Tafmani, responsible for data management within the National Malaria Control Program, funded by global funds, mostly. That's where we get most of our funding from. So as a country, Zimbabwe is in Southern Africa. This is just an introductory part. It's in Southern Africa, close to South Africa, Botswana, Malawi, and Mozambique, for those who might actually need to know the place. So that's the country in green, for those who are actually seeing. That's Zimbabwe. So our aim or objective was to integrate indoor residual spraying, that is IRS reporting into the DHIS-2, and improve quality and the data availability for decision making. So basically, generally, initially, as a country, we had a challenge in terms of accessing our data. So we had opted to use DHIS-2 as our source or as our data storage, since we are mostly relying on the paper-based system. Therefore, we had to make sure we integrate it into DHIS-2 for ease of accessibility and also for decision making by the decision makers. In terms of the description, use of DHIS-2 system for indoor residual spray, that's what we actually targeted to do. And in terms of the platform that we used, we had to use DHIS-2 web based, which is Android. The version that we used is 2.356. I think this should be the first country, we just done that. So we started this in 2020 as a pilot in one of our provinces, and it had about nine districts. So those nine districts started to report using the DHIS-2. Then we had to scale it up in 2021 to 30 more districts, these are high bedding districts, that is an incidence rate of five and above per thousand population. So generally, in terms of our data, it's reported as aggregates, meaning to say it's not tracked per entity, but it's consolidated for the district. The intervention that we're actually focusing on is indoor residual spraying. In terms of the indicators that we're actually tracking, they also included population protected, that's the coverages. Also we've got the room coverages. Then we're also even looking at the spray operator efficiency that we could actually follow the efficiency of each and every spray operator, the name spray operator commodity management, which include the fuel, insect size, and other things that could actually be tracked. So DHIS-2 was introduced to improve our reporting since we're actually relying on the paper-based system. So we had to introduce the electronic platform so as to enhance better reporting for the country. So previously we used to rely on the Excel WhatsApp at times to reporting data. Then after that we had to consolidate to come up with the report of which it was actually a bit of a challenge, but with the digitization now, it was actually easy for us as a country to improve in terms of our reporting. This is that's the Excel part of it which we used to try and actually consolidate our data that was reported by districts. So as you can actually see here to put some formulas and so forth so that you could actually give a better insight in terms of what they've been reported, but with the coming in of DHIS-2 now, we improved in terms of the palette of data that was being reported by the districts. So this is one of the examples of what could be produced through the electronic platform that we use. That's the DHIS-2. In terms of the completeness, those who were reporting the data on a weekly basis, but for those who were submitting the data from the district, it was being reported on a daily basis, meaning to say on each and every day, we're getting updates that were coming from the districts. Therefore, in terms of decision making and for management, it was easy to make decisions based on the data that is submitted on a daily basis. Therefore, in terms of planning and other things, you could actually rely on the data that was reported on a daily basis, but on a weekly basis would also come up with the reports, which could be used by the districts, by national level, by the province. They would rely on the reports that we're actually producing. So this is the architecture in terms of the design and in terms of how the data flowed from the campsites through to the nationals or the central server. So basically, we have the spray operator who is the one who is responsible in terms of making sure they collected data as they spray the rooms. So during the process, as they collected data, they will be able to call the spray operator notebooks. That's the one that they were actually collecting the data through. Then from there, they would go to the data manager or the DAO who is responsible for consoled dating at the end of the day. So each spray operator would submit data to the data manager at the campsite. Then the data manager would consoled date any capture in the DHIS-2 tracker capture. From there, the data manager would submit the data to the central server whereby all those who have got the access rights, a district level, that is at national level, a provincial level, from there they could actually make decisions based on the data that is submitted. So in terms of consoled dating and submission, it was done on a daily basis and would expect those reports every day. That is for the period that we're doing the spraying. Meaning to say, in terms of supporting supervision and core banks, we would actually rely on the data that is submitted on a daily basis. Therefore, what it means is for each and every action that was being taken, it was based on data that has been submitted. If for example, the targeted population or the targeted rooms to be sprayed is 2000 and they would spray let's say 500 or 700 or a thousand and the other thousand is not sprayed. A core bank would be required. This would be determined by the data that would be submitted. It was already for each word you'd be having the targets already set in the system of which that would determine in terms of your performance. Therefore, the data that would have been submitted will actually determine should we give a core bank or not. Meaning to say, our coverages would definitely improve. Therefore, in terms of the core banks that were being done, they actually improved in terms of the number of rooms sprayed and even in terms of the population protected for each word. And also again, the data would also determine in terms of where should actually support go or supervision should be done. And even again, in terms of resources, you could actually see the fuel that has been consumed, the mileage that has been traveled and in terms of logistically, you could actually rely on the data that was being collected and submitted through the central server. Then even again in terms of feedback, we also try to make sure the reports that we produced would send them back again to the districts and also to the province so that the managers would want to make decisions, would actually rely on the data that is being collected or submitted through DHS so that they could actually easily make decisions based on the data that is collected, of which that was one of the greatest strength that I would say the digitization of IRS in Zimbabwe actually helped us a lot in terms of improving the quality of spray and even also the quality of management and also even the quality of resource utilization of which that was actually an advantage to the country. In terms of the quality or the performance that would get at the end of the day, these are some of the results which we actually try to automate this way, the dashboard that we're actually using, the greens, that's where we're actually having a good IRS coverage, the yellow, that's where we would have a low IRS coverage. So in terms of decision making, it was actually easy to say where should we put more resources, where should we put more support, which districts would require more support. Then even in terms of performance, you could actually see where you've got population protected that was low or where it was actually high. Then you also have got the dashboard again in terms of the impact, that's for the targets, where rooms protected, rooms sprayed, the population protected, it was actually easy through the dashboard you could see on a daily basis. So it improved in terms of how we do things or in terms of how we're actually analyzing our data because it was done on a daily basis. So those who did failed to report you could actually easily follow up to see if they could actually submit their data. I'm actually being told my time is actually up. Then in terms of the benefits, one of the benefits was actually increased data completeness and timeliness resulting in better visibility by management and by those who are responsible for vector control. Then improved data quality is one of the greatest advantages. Then also again, there was also capacity building in the districts and even at MOHCC. Then in-country technical capacity and support in-country capacity in terms of using the DHS2 and also in terms of customization and everything else, it was done locally. There was no external support that was actually sourced. Then one of the challenges in terms of using the system, of course as we know most of our African countries, we've got challenges in terms of internet connectivity. So it didn't spare us as a country also. Then the other issue was also to do with the staff rotation. Then in terms of the future plans as a country, we're actually looking forward to take advantage of the digital decision that we have already done. So we are going to tap in in terms of the experiences other countries have gone through in terms of digitizing most of their reportings. Therefore as a country, we're also even looking forward to include the endomological data. Then we're also looking forward to also include the length, long lastingness data into DHS2. I hope I'm still within the time frame. Thank you so much. But I was too having a lot to say, but due to time I've tried to compress so that it fits within my time frame. Thank you so much. Back to you, Stefan. Thank you, Stefano. So we're moving from IRS to entomological data. I will be talking about how we used, can everyone hear me all right? Okay. How we've used Android capture app to collect entomological data in four countries. I am a monitoring and evaluation specialist for Apped Associates and I work with the U.S. President's Malaria Initiative funded project, PMI Vector Link. In the project we work in 25 countries. We have three main aims. We equip countries to have a plan for vector control interventions, which include bed net distribution and indoor residual spray campaigns. And then we also conduct robust entomological monitoring. So what is the mosquito doing? Is it transmitting malaria? And then all of that with the main goal to build capacity in how to use all of that data. Among the countries we use a global DHIs to dashboard called Vector Link Collect. In 2018, we started using, we built an event program for indoor residual spray data. We're now up to 17 countries. And then a year later, we rolled out five event entomological programs. And now we're up to 19 countries. In both of these datasets, we use mobile data collection and paper data collection for IRS. We use ODK. And for entomological data, we use the DHIs to Android capture. So some of the things we had to think about when we were considering mobile as a solution for entomological data. It's super technical. We, I work with PhD people all the time now. And it requires the actual data collector to know WHO recommended and SOPs to be able to effectively collect the data onto the phone. It's also, we have five different programs. Each program has very distinct data workflows. So some data is collected hourly, some data is collected monthly, some annually. And all of them require multiple data points of collection and different people at different physical locations. We also, each country, as we all know, this is very different. So there are different security concerns or internet connectivity concerns to take into account when you're planning out a mobile data collection system. And then also a lot of the Sentinel sites, so where the actual mosquitoes are collected, can be super rural. So we have to be able to have the capacity to collect data offline. So we, because we had in-house experience with ODK, we did do a landscape assessment of other softwares. But we primarily compared DHI through Android Capture and ODK as our two main solutions. Primarily, the biggest advantage was that we wouldn't have to recreate our programs onto the phones if we use the DHI through Android Capture, as well as we have the ability to sync automatically into the system without using an ETL, which has proved to be challenging in the past. We are using 2.4.3 right now. We're hoping to upgrade in the near future. These are some of the other criteria we took into account. It wasn't everything. It was a very comprehensive list, but these were some of the things that we considered essential for mobile data collection. So last year, we did, we piloted DHI through Android Capture in Ghana. We did a very comprehensive, well-documented pilot of three phases going through all the programs. And based on the successes and lessons learned in Ghana, we moved pretty rapidly into Nigeria, starting of March of this year, and then Cote d'Ivoire and Mali. Nigeria was one of our newest country add-ons into our system, so they went straight into mobile. They never had to do paper data collection. Cote d'Ivoire did the full transition from paper to mobile, and then in Mali they've done a smaller rollout. So we've been able to really have great success in rolling out the application, and we are confident we can move forward with several other countries. So now we'll go through the four countries in a little bit more detail, just highlighting some lessons learned that we've had. In Ghana, we did have existing, we had in-house experience with mobile data collection, so it was fairly easy to roll it out in Ghana. We did discover that users have the ability to edit categories in using the DHI through Android application. Our event programs have a lot of categories, and so this discovery actually made our database managers life a lot easier in terms of data quality management, because they are able to use the phones to catch those errors sooner in the data workflow. Because Ghana was the first country that we introduced mobile, we've actually already seen improvements in terms of team's efficiency. They're able to decentralize their mosquito selection, so now within two hours of synchronization, the database manager can see which mosquitoes have been collected, communicate with the entomologist, and then disperse information back to the Sentinel site teams and tell them this is the mosquitoes that need to be processed for molecular analysis, and they all love mosquitoes. I just saw this process not too long ago. It is infectious, the passion that entomologists have for mosquitoes, so it was a lot of fun to see. Then we moved on to Nigeria, and with Nigeria, we learned really about how unique each country is. The process of mapping out your workflow should spend a lot of time on this process. We developed some tools that help us facilitate what questions to ask our teams to really understand, okay, where does the mobile phone need to be if this person needs to collect this information and then sync it at this point for technical review. We're lucky that we work directly with the field team so they know the reality of what happens in the field, and they can inform us, okay, this is what happens here, so then we can say, okay, well, then the phone needs to be in this location or transferred. One of the things that has helped us greatly to be able to roll this out in different countries is the ability to edit, open and edit saved and synced events. One thing that DHIs to Android capture offers is this ability to sync at multiple times, so it minimizes your data loss. This is not something that's available with ODK because of the ETL, so we're able to have multiple points of syncing to save data, but then also multiple points of technical review of the data. So with Code2Var, we recognize some connectivity issues that made it necessary to do a more comprehensive connectivity assessment in all of the sites. This really pushed us to look more into what happens when we restrict the programs per device and what happens when we restrict the organization units per device. Minimizing the metadata that's needed to be synced on each device actually lowers the need to have fast internet and can greatly improve the ability of the user to make configuration differences on their device. All right, and then Molly, last one, is when we really recognize the need to have hands on multiple practical training sessions. One of the interesting takeaways was that the field technicians were afraid that by using the mobile device, all of a sudden they were going to be collecting different information, and so it was necessary for them to see, okay, here's the paper form, it's going to be the same information collected on the tablet or the smartphone, and having them get really used to all the validations because yes, they know maybe the SOP, but they don't know maximum number of mosquitoes that can be collected at a certain point, whereas the person entering the paper data collection into the browser would know that really well. It was repeating this in the office and then repeating it in the field really helped roll out mobile. Some challenges that we've had. One of the things that we're working on is ideally we would want for a supervisor to go into the field and use their device and open up whatever events to be able to to review the data. Right now we're not able to pull up events on multiple different devices. Working theory right now is that we have so many categories that might be inhibiting this action, and then we also we're not able to start with the 2.5 version of the application at the beginning of this year, because we do have one of our programs has about 1,400 data elements, so it was causing delays in terms of data registration when they were going through the program, so that's why we opted for 2.4.3. And then some of the some of the successes or the reasons why it's been such a success, we've really been able to streamline the the data workflow across all these five distinct workflows. It's you know it's increasing the availability of data in in our system. Let me go through all these here. Here we go. And it goes straight into our dashboards. So our dashboards are pretty pretty standard right now, so people are very used to how the data works in the how it looks in the system. And so there we have technologists that are able to review the dashboards and make ad hoc recommendations to the National Malaria Control Programs and getting this data faster and cleaner into the system allows them to do that. And then I think this is my last slide. I just wanted to round it out with giving maybe the the audience a little bit of info of why we use entomological data because maybe not everyone knows, but we do a lot of data collection on what does the mosquito do, how does it behave, and what hour of the day. And this informs all this informs how to make vector control control decisions in the country. We also collect data on resistance. So if there's resistance in a certain area, does that insecticide need to be rotated out into a different a different type of insecticide or in a different location? And then all of that, we also monitor whether vector control interventions actually reach the demographic area demographic people population targeted population. So all of this informs National Malaria Control Programs in deciding what is the best vector control decision for a certain location and a given in a certain time and taking seasonality into account. And all this is available on our dashboards. We do share regularly with PMI National Malaria Control Programs as data is cleaned and ready for for use. Thank you. Service delivery data to optimize continuous distribution of all long lasting CPC bennets through entomological care and immunization. Thank you. Thank you, Stefano. I hope I'm audible. Yeah. Good afternoon, everyone. So as introduced, I am Ismael Colleni from East Tanzania. I'm going to be talking about more on the data use side of things as far as the LLIN distribution is concerned in Tanzania. So East Tanzania has been working with Tanzania Vectoral Control Activity. This is a PMI USAID funded project, which is mainly targeting to improve evidence based vector control approaches in Tanzania. So it focuses on a couple of things, but for the purpose of this presentation, I'm going to be talking more about the insecticide treated nets ITNs. So this activity covers both Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar so it involves working very closely with the government and all the implementation is done through the National Malaria Control Programme for the case of mainland and Zanzibar Malaria Elimination Programme because these two parts of the country are in different stages of malaria control. So for the purpose of distribution of ITNs, the target of the focus is to pregnant women who are attending the ANC first visit. So that's one of the core first distribution area. And then the second one is the children who are receiving measles one dose of vaccination. And then the third is community distribution which is done through coupons and they go to the health facility to receive the alliance. And of course on demand there is some campaigns which are done from here and there depending on the needs and on specific interventions in different areas. So all of this data across distribution, all the data is collected and managed through different systems by the government. The core one is DHS2. So there's HMIS which collects data, all the service delivery data and part of the data that is being collected at these two programs. They also collect the distribution or the services as far as the ITN is concerned. So we have supported building up this dashboard mainly to focus on the again as the keyword is evidence-based decision-making is to focus on providing the necessary information so that they can be able to act or to perform different and monitor the performance of the program across the board. But also another keyword is accountability. From the previous implementation there was a lot of bed nets being lost and you would find them being sold in the shops. So one of the key also focus as part of the design of this dashboard is to make sure that it fosters on transparency and accountability so that you can easily be able to detect whenever there is lost or potential theft of bed nets and they end up being sold in the market from the private sector. Another key crucial component as far as this dashboard is concerned is it combines data from two main data sources. So the HMIS service delivery data which is already in DHIS2 but also logistics data which is from LMIS system and this is based on an open LMIS in Tanzania we call it ELMIS platform which is not DHIS2. So we managed to do this by having the two systems DHIS2 and ELMIS interoperable but of course all the data analysis visualizations and all the outputs as far as this dashboard is concerned are done and accessed through DHIS2 dashboard interface. So again the key aspect of this dashboard is to be able to support the program implementation and performance monitoring and this is of course giving access to the required data to different levels as you know the program is implemented by different levels and each level looks at different levels of data so the district level would have some specific information which targets them but also it goes higher level up all the way up to the national program and of course there is a lot of data driven action decision making and strategies across the way. So this is one of the example of the visualization which shows the trend of distribution of bandwidths over different months. So the blue bar is the ANC visits for that particular month and the red bar is the ANC visits that were actually received L Alliance and then the green line is more of the expected number of pregnancies which is derived from the population. So you can clearly see that from the ANC distribution point the bars are pretty close to each other but on the other hand this is another chart which looks at the another level of distribution point which is distribution through measles one vaccination and here you will see the gap is a little bit higher meaning that there is a lot of children who are actually vaccinated and they are supposed to receive bed nets but they don't actually do that. So this is one of the things that through the use of this dashboard it was kind of noticed this is the one of the district but if you go to the high level national level you see the actually gap is quite high so the national malaria control program had to find the best strategies to actually intervene and make sure that the children are also receiving L Alliance and you can clearly see of recent months this gap has been slowly reducing over time. So this shows how also the use of dashboard can actually make the program managers, the implementers, re-strategize and over time you cannot expect in one month the gap to be clear but you can clearly see over time that the gap closes and hopefully soon it will be at the same part as ANC distribution point. As I said earlier on one of the key interesting functionality is it also provides an opportunity for the system or program users to triangulate data across two different data sources that is HMI service delivery based data but logistics data which is coming from another system and there are a couple of visualizations that we made that to compare but one interesting one is this one so this looks it's a scored manner but it kind of compares and calculates the difference and actually there are some color coding and this helps the program to by the use of colors of course like red and then they can prioritize it means that there is a big gap between what is shown on the LMS versus what is shown on on HMIS and that triggers a question of why because ideally if you provide of the facility distribute 20 LLINs in a month to maybe 20 pregnant women and then the logistics the stock status and the data should show the same so through the triangulation of this kind of data and then it also able to provide opportunity for the program people to pick up these triggers and actually either give feedback or intervene because it's also a potential that there could be some some leakages of LLIN over time and of course the last column which is blue this is a month of stock it's more of a logistics space indicator which predicts how many months the facility would be able to last with with that stock that they have yeah so this is also a bar graph which kinds of compare again the the distribution of LLIN from from HMIS source and then from logistic source you can see there are some months that they are very close to each other but you can also identify that there are some months which there is a big gap so this also because again ideally this this numbers should match very closely to each other of course we do understand that there are some some data quality issues that can lead into into discrepancies but this kind of very high discrepancies rises a lot of questions that the program people will need to find ways to identify what is the problem and and and actually act on them yeah so challenges are part of the experiences or challenges they they are quite diverse amount of challenges the biggest one has been through the interoperability process and and it's because of the mismatch of reporting period so ELMIS is designed and done in Tanzania on a quarterly basis currently it's in the transition to from quarterly to bi-monthly and the HMIS based service delivery data is monthly so now you're kind of looking at data monthly level data versus quarterly level data so that's one of the biggest challenges that really lead into into some gaps in terms of the use of the data another challenge is maintaining the interoperability as these two systems are supported implemented by two different departments within the Ministry of Health but also two different technical teams often the interoperability breaks and at the end of the day DHIS2 has a receiving end and at the dashboard as the program people uses the dashboard there is quite a lot of gap in terms of the data is not coming as expected for so many reasons it could be some upgrades and there are changes in in the systems across each other and oftentimes some some aspects that are happening in either of the system and they do not inform the other one and then of course one of the other biggest challenges data quality issues still this is a very cross-cutting generic problem not only for malaria or in the land but it's still causing a lot of challenges as far as the use of data because you would set up these triggers and color coding but you get reds and you realize that it's a lot of data quality issues and of course there is still some distribution of bed nets that are happening from non-facility based in other in other distribution points and this data is not properly recorded within the health facility system and that again causes a little bit of leakages as far as when you're looking at the holistic distribution information so thank you very much I hope I am on time and I'll pause for me thank you so thank you very much we are very on time for 20 so just a logistical information there will be from 4 30 the expert lounge just here where there was the pizza yesterday and if there is any burning question maybe we could take a bunch of two minutes yeah okay so we repeat the question for the ones online also I was asking if the data from the from a massive distribution was always also captured as well on this dashboard or not no no did you respond to this thank you so yes the system design massive mass distribution or any of the community distribution is supposed to be done and the data is supposed to be collected by specific facility because at the end of the day the health workers that are distributing these airlines are actually coming from the facility so there is a like by system design it's supposed to be captured under the community distribution within the health facility but in reality that does not happen it's very controlled within the facility but once they go out and then they would hand over the nets and they don't report back to the facility so that's the challenge but yeah it's more of an operational issue than than the system design but yeah perfect thank you very much so now we run out of time in case you have any other question please say you can write on the community of practice and for the ones on lives if you have any question you can just catch our presenter in the coming hours coming days thank you very much


Hello everybody, Andrea here. So let's talk about your dental hygiene, oral care, and what your dental hygienist really loves it when you do. And the answers may surprise you. So flossing isn't the be all end all. It's truly not. I'm a very realistic dental hygienist.  I'm just not going to do it. When a patient even tells me that they don't brush every day, I'm not gonna yell at them and tell them they should. I'm going to help them and really figure out how we can make their teeth and mouth as healthy as possible. But let me tell you in a perfect world, what I would love everybody to do and what I do in my own mouth. So what I really love to talk to patients about is the basics. So eating, drinking, anything, you can have sugar, you can have candy, it might not be healthy for you. It's not good for your teeth, but you gotta live your life. But what I would love everybody to do is have water. So if you drink juice, alcohol, pop, if you're eating anything, have water with it. Because what water does is water helps to neutralize any acids in the mouth.  Not to mention what it's doing to your health depending on what you're eating or drinking, but that's another video for another day. I don't eat the healthiest either. So I can't really preach you guys on healthy eating.  And I don't just drink water, but when I'm done my eating or drinking whatever else, I'm going to take a big sip of water and use it kind of like a mouthwash. So I take a sip of water and I do that for 10 seconds.  Better yet, if I'm home, I'm going to brush my teeth, but we don't always have that luxury of working from home or being at home. If you're eating out at a restaurant, you can't brush your teeth, right? So just have a sip of water, a drink of water, swish it around your mouth, and then that will really help you limit those acids in the mouth, protecting your teeth, protecting the gums, all of that against cavities. So I love everybody to do that. I tell that to kids, adults, it doesn't matter with brushing. Yes, ideally I want you guys to brush every day twice a day once in the morning after breakfast and then once at night just before you go to bed. I say in the morning after breakfast because you're eating something and then you're probably not going to eat for at least a couple of hours, if not more after that.   So even to be even better, I suggest brushing in the middle of the day to when you get home. So even if you come home from work, brush your teeth. After lunch, if you're home, brush your teeth. That's what I do just to really help to limit any bacteria, any causity, cavity causing bacteria. And yes, I do like toothpaste. Some people ask me, can I just brush without toothpaste? Well, you can, but toothpaste really has those therapeutic benefits. It's like your hair. Shampoo conditioner has benefits for your hair. You can wash your hair with just water, but are you really washing your hair? Not really. You can wash your hair with just shampoo for us ladies, but we need conditioner to really do a good job. So toothpaste is the same. You can brush your teeth with just water. That mechanical removing of the plaque is getting that plaque off, but you're missing the therapeutic benefits such as a fluoridated toothpaste that can remineralize any little microscopic cracks in the tooth, wearing away, thinning enamel, little cavities. I love toothpaste with fluoride, but that's my personal opinion. I'm not telling all of you guys to use a toothpaste with fluoride. If you don't like fluoride or it's just against what you wanna do, that's fine. But pick a toothpaste that works for you. If you're asking my opinion, I tell all my patients, kids, adults, two years old, doesn't matter, use a fluoridated toothpaste. The benefits are great. You will have better teeth, stronger teeth if you're using fluoride. To be even more specific, I like a toothpaste that also contains xylitol in it. Xylitol helps to reduce the bacterial load. What fluoride does is that helps to remineralize, so adding things to the teeth to make it stronger, whereas xylitol helps to limit the bacteria in the mouth as a whole, so that way the fluoride on top of it just really helps to cleanse the mouth as much as possible. But be careful, xylitol is very toxic to pets.  Very toxic to pets, so please be careful. Do I suggest a mouthwash? Yes, I do. So a mouthwash is that extra step. It really depends on patients. If a patient has severe gingivitis, so they have severe gum disease, I'm going to tell them the whole shebang. I'm going to tell them to brush twice a day to use a waterpick. I love waterpicks. I talk about the waterpicks more than flossing and to use mouthwash, the very last thing you're going to do. If you really need the sequence, I say use the waterpick first to clean in between the teeth, all of the teeth, just spray the water in there and then use toothpaste and then use mouthwash afterwards to keep that mouth as clean as possible. But not all mouthwashes are made the same. I don't like to mention certain companies, YouTube doesn't like me to do that, but look for a mouthwash with fluoride and a neutral pH and to be even better, xylitol in it. That's hard to find. Mouthwashes with alcohol in it, they do really kill the bacteria, but they also dry out the mouth too much where it's easier for bacteria to come in again. So I prefer a mouthwash without alcohol, but to each their own, let me know if you guys have questions about that, but it truly, I can't give too much advice without seeing your mouth in person because I suggest different mouthwashes for different people. But again, this video is just a good recap of in a perfect world, what do we love you to do? So in a perfect world, I would say use the water pick first. I love them. I will leave a link for you guys down below on a cordless water pick that I like to use because they can be messy sometimes once you're getting used to it. I use the cordless water pick in the shower. So if you're making a mess, who cares? Then I use toothpaste, a fluoridated toothpaste with xylitol to be specific. I use a mouthwash after that, same thing, a fluoridated mouthwash with xylitol, no alcohol in it, and the toothbrush. Either electric or manual, that's up to you. I like them both, which everyone you prefer to use. When you go see your dental hygienist, at least every six months, he or she will let you know if you're doing a good job with your brushing. If you're brushing every day twice a day using the water pick, the mouthwash, yet you go to see your hygienist and they say to you, oh, you have a lot of plaque on the teeth, a lot of tartar. That might mean you need a different toothbrush. You need a toothbrush that works better for you. So talk to your dental hygienist, but just a recap of what you guys need and what we love for you to do. If you're not flossing, that's okay, but use the water pick instead of flossing. It's easier, quicker, it's more fun. I use the water pick multiple times a day when I'm home. There's always something stuck in there, but I'm that person where I eat multiple times a day, like every two hours. In fact, I'm hungry right now.  I'm always eating. So when I'm home, I love to just quickly use the water pick. It takes less than a minute in between the teeth that cleans everything, splashes the water.  Even, let's say you have severe gingivitis. That gingivitis can be helped. That gingivitis can be reversed with regular use of the water pick, toothpaste, toothbrush, and mouthwash. If your gums are bleeding with regular use of toothpaste, water pick, mouthwash, the gums can stop bleeding. It doesn't happen overnight. Be consistent. It might take a couple of weeks. It might take longer, depending on how bad the gum disease is, but it will get better. I use the analogy a lot of cleaning your oven. If it's been five years since you've cleaned your oven, can you imagine how hard that's gonna be to clean? You have to scrub, you have to get in there. If it's been six months, you might just have to touch it up a little bit and then you're good to go. It's the same with your mouth. If you've had severe gingivitis for five years, the gums have been bleeding for five years, it's not going to take a day to reverse that. It might take a month. It might take two months, but do it. Comment below, let me know how you guys are doing. I'm so happy to help. If you haven't yet, please click like because that really does help my channel. I do appreciate it so much. And make sure to click subscribe because we're almost at 19,000 subscribers, depending on when you're watching this video. So that'll be exciting to see 19,000. Thank you guys so much. Comment below. I'd love to hear from you guys and I'll talk to you guys in the next video.


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Welcome to this episode of Door Hardware Nerds. I'm your host, Mia Merrill. Today we're going to be doing a special interview on design and I have two guests with me. Can you please introduce yourselves? So my name is Paela Munoz. I am the Global Head of Product Design. I'm based in Sweden in our headquarters in Stockholm. And my name is Joe Marton. I'm the Senior Manager of Industrial Design for North America. I'm headquartered here in New Haven, Connecticut. And I have a small team of industrial designers here to help support our efforts. Perfect, well, welcome. Thank you. Thank you. All right, so you both have design in your title. Can you tell me what the difference in your roles is? Yes. So I am based in Sweden working with all the divisions in my subloy, which means all the brands and all the colleagues worldwide. And I work with our businesses in North America to help all of the different groups develop the best products in our region. So how can design help a company get to market faster with their products? I mean, there are actually many ways that design can do that. The first is to help to align the company, their strategy with what our end users and our customers are looking for. So, although we may not be doing a lot of the research directly, we help to ask questions about what people's needs are. And then we take that feedback combined with our capabilities for manufacturing to create a solution, again, that will be appealing and profitable for the company. And just understanding the needs makes everything more simple, not only for us working with design, but with the teams working with the product development and the product management. So as long as we understand customer needs, everything is smooth and design is a part of that. Absolutely. Okay, so what skills would a designer need to bring to an organization? So typically, somebody who has been to a school for industrial design has learned about mechanical systems, how machines work, how to design those things, similar to an engineer, but maybe a little bit with a less focus on all of the physics and so forth. But that's also combined with the ability to do some market research, the ability to create illustrations and designs, both manually with paper, but also using digital formats like touchscreens and illustrations. And CAD systems to conceptualize solutions to those problems. So again, a student will come to us or a new employee would have to be able to visualize new ideas, communicate those new ideas, and be able to collaborate with engineers and teams within the company to create a focused solutions. A designer can be involved in many aspects of product development. Can you give an idea of some of those things? The designer will collaborate with a team of engineers to understand like our capabilities are the limitations of a system. In the case of hardware, there are a whole set of government regulations about how something must be designed for the safety of all of our community. So a designer will take their understanding of the aesthetic, okay, as well as the needs of these mechanical legal systems and combine those together. And in a company like Asa Abloy and in all of our brands, the designer also needs to consider how to apply our brands in a consistent way so that when people do have a positive experience with our products, they can then associate them with our brands. Which is very, very important when it comes to customer experience. So understanding the brand, what the brand stands for and understanding even how to translate an idea to, for example, a physical product with all what it means, the legal requirements, but also the needs from a customer wanting to have something either appealing, functional or both, it's very, very important. Can you give an example of a time where a company didn't value design properly? I think as a designer, that seems to be the way we feel a lot. But in reality, design is largely about compromise. You're trying to create the best solution that you can in the context of these other limitations. And so rather than give you an specific example, I'd rather say that an effective design team tries to cut the best compromise that satisfies the consumer desires, needs, legal requirements, maybe even excites them about that new product and its association with the brand, but that also leverages our strengths as a company in our manufacturing capabilities in the technical nuance of digital communication and things that help to achieve our goals. I think as a designer, we need to know that we have deep expertise in creating a user experience, but that we all, there are many people with deep expertise that we need to leverage in order to be successful and to create the best solution. And I think that sometimes people value design, but they are not realizing that it's design they are valuing because there is not an understanding about what design is. That's true. And as to follow up on this, usually when things are very well designed, they actually kind of disappear. Exactly. You don't recognize design until it's bad and until you've had a negative experience. If things just work well, you're just a happy customer. And depending on who is talking about a product, design can get other names, many names. It could be something that is engineered or it could be something that, because design, first of all, design is not only the aspects. Design is everything related to a product, a product touch point in how the customer or the user perceives that. That's right. Design is about the user connection to our company and in all levels. And I should mention that, although we're talking about industrial design today, design is executed in many, many ways, even at an artistic point of view in our graphic communications and print and online exercises like this today, Mia, with our video capabilities, those are all things that need to be, we need to be thoughtful in how we execute them and to the best of our ability, kind of be aligned in speaking with one voice as a company so that when we execute something with excellence, we're doing it together. Well, thank you both for coming on today. If you wanna see examples of design, I will put a link below for the Good Design Studio. I'm also going to include links for Asa Aboy Global, as well as some Asa Aboy local sites and some industrial design links if you wanna learn more, if you're curious about what you've heard today. Thanks for watching.


For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Pegasus basically has two things. Once it is targeting essentially smartphones. Now smartphones are much more commonly used and of course they go with us wherever we go and Pegasus not only infects the phone but what it does it also gets access not only to your data but also to the mic on the phone and also the camera. That means even if you are not doing anything with the phone it can actually record a conversation if the phone is there. So that's the level at which it is able to monitor and then of course what is called X-Filtrate means send it out to what would be called the Pegasus service which is generally deployed by the agency which buys the software. Examples that we gave fishing meaning that you click something and the malware gets installed.  This particular thing is supposed to be what is called zero click installation. That means something has been sent to your phone. You have not done anything. You have not looked at it. You have not clicked anything. Even then it is able to install itself on the phone and normally the belief was the iPhone was a safe phone. iPhone has also been cracked. The security experts were asked what can we do to protect ourselves against this and the answer was virtually nothing. That means we as individuals we cannot do it. Long term solution is the world has to accept that unless it is willing starting with nation states to stamp out this kind of snooping software and weaponizing of software. I think we are entering very dangerous territory. So like we banned chemical weapons like we banned biological weapons at the time has come to ban cyber weapons and this is actually weaponized software. If you take what it really does.


So if you've been hanging around in track one all day like I have, so far we've learned how to overthrow a government and cause mass anarchy. Then we learned how to create survival tools after you've created the anarchy. But just speaking more generally, I think we're going to learn something here that is practical, which is bypassing captive portals, which very clearly people have some interest in. So let's give Grant a big round of applause and our laptop loner. All right. Hello, everybody. I'm going to have to go pretty quickly as I've only got about 15 minutes here. So first of all, a bit about myself, but not very much. I've been hacking and coding for a long time, and I like giving talks at DEF CON. I'm a generalist in security. I've done various programming infrastructure, etc. I also have perimeter grid, which is my security blog and personal consulting. A few disclaimers. This is my own research. I have an employer. This talk has nothing to do with them. Also, this talk was submitted to DEF CON 101. They put me in the big room because they thought a lot of people would be interested in looking at this room. It seems they were right.  This is not dropping great new attacks. This is showing you how to use some existing tools. And finally, in the United States, doing any of this stuff on a network, you are not authorized access is super illegal. So captive portals. Captive portals are a very primitive type of network access protection. And they consist of an open network, either Ethernet, DOCSIS, or open Wi-Fi, usually open Wi-Fi. And on initial join, you can only go to one website, the captive portal, and it doesn't let you into anything else. And then that limited website can authorize access to more. So you've seen these everywhere. Every store, office, restaurant, Wi-Fi, hotel, and airline internet, guest networks at corporations, and even some telecom networks like subscription hotspots. These are not real network access protection. They're not using 802.1x. They're not using real cryptography. They are attempting to put a small barrier in front of you that they hope you don't know the way around. And as a result, they don't have a real security boundary. And they're pretty easy to circumvent. They rely on obedient network clients, network clients that are going to behave the way network clients normally do. They use, they're either an authenticated proxy or Mac filtering on the gateway, usually Mac filtering on the gateway governed with IP tables, tables rules. There's very little variety in these. They may look all different, but there's a piece of open source software called ChiliSpot. It's built into OpenWRT. It's available in most Linux's package managers. It requires you to have a web server and a radius server if you want to authenticate users. It's fairly easy to set up. And basically everything's just ChiliSpot. WorldSpot.net, hotspot systems, Sputnik, hotspot express, Wi-Fi soft, SkyRove, they're all just ChiliSpot. If they're not ChiliSpot, they're for all intents and purposes a ChiliSpot clone to the point where I can't tell the difference just looking at the software from outside. In addition, even if it isn't ChiliSpot, it basically still is. It's still a website writing IP tables rules. So if you want to be able to get around this, you actually need to do some advanced preparation. You need to have an endpoint that you can tunnel your traffic to. And so tunneling is just moving one protocol via another. Usually you use an encrypted protocol, but you wouldn't have to. You can use a completely clear text tunnel. But you need some server to act as the other end of your tunnel. And that means you need a port or protocol that the captive portal isn't blocking. So sometimes HTTPS and SSH are unblocked on specific ports. In addition, DNS is basically always unblocked because of DNS recursion. You can reach the local DNS and it will then proxy your DNS queries out to the internet. So we need to set up a server. Any internet accessible server, any cheap VPS that lets you control all ports will use. So it will work. So you can't use like a shared web host account because you usually only get 80 and 443. You could even use your own home PC if you want to open these ports to the internet on it, which I don't think is a great idea because you can get a cheap or free AWS or Azure node from and just let Amazon or Microsoft provide you your endpoint. So some end points we want to set up. HTTPS proxy, SSH and iodine, which I'll talk a little more about. And also be sure you open the ports you set up on your server's firewall. So any decent VPS will come with SSH enabled. So go ahead and add port 3128 to that as well as any other ports you might think is useful to connect to. Depending on the specific captive portals you're after, the ports available may be different. While you're at a disabled insecure log on SSH, just because you should do that anyway. And ensure you have a public key available so you're not doing password login. So Google App Engine, Google uses a front door service. All Google services are behind the same IPs. So if a captive portal allows access to Google, it also allows access to Google App Engine, which means you can run your proxy behind Google's front door. And the same access the captive portals using the download ads will also let you get to your tunnel.  Just go ahead and put that in there. And you can now browse to yourappid.appspot.com and get to your own proxy. Then there's a piece of software called Iodine. Iodine is IP over DNS. And there are several IP over DNS packages. I like Iodine because it's actually still supported and it works on Windows, which is not the case for most of them. So on your VPS, you install Iodine and then you run it as a root with password you make up and a subdomain that's going to be used to forward DNS queries to you. On your DNS server, you need to create a custom record for the subdomain and for the name server. So like mine is t.parametergrid.com. So I create a DNS record for ns, the nameserver.tparameter grid.com and then I create a name server record pointing back there. So now DNS queries on the internet to t.parametergrid.com will go to my Iodine install. And if you don't have a DNS server, namecheap free DNS is free. Amazon route 53 isn't free but is also configurable so you can use those. Finally, you may want to set up an HTTPS proxy. It's kind of low value. Most captive portals are too smart to fall for this. But if you have a network that allows web traffic and not other traffic, this can be useful as a way to tunnel other protocols. So then you need to prepare your client. The laptop you're going to actually use when you're wanting to do a bypass. So on a hostile network, you're not going to have internet. So that means you have to set all this stuff up before you're on a restricted network. Ideally, you're going to use Linux or Cali but Windows will actually work fine for most of these. The only thing it won't is potentially Mac changing. Most Windows drivers don't support changing the Mac address of your card but there are some USB network cards with great support for Windows. Like the Alpha Networks cards with real tech and atheros chipsets which by the way you can get down in the Defcon vendor room. I bought a lot of them there. And you can always run Linux or Cali in Hyper-V or Virtual Box and make use of it that way. Pre-install tools. You need an SSH client. Linux has it built in if you're on Windows. I like MOBA X term but you can use Putty or whatever you want. A copy of Iodine, a wire shark on Windows or Air Crack NG if you're on Linux. Nmap and an HTTP debugging proxy would be nice. None of the bypasses I go through in this talk use that but sometimes you can actually take advantage of the captive portal itself. They have bugs in them. So then we get to, okay what are we doing? We want to actually exploit this. So you're on a network with a captive portal. First thing you want to do is use IPconfig or IFconfig on Linux. See your current IP and find out what the gateway is. So once you know what the gateway is, go ahead and use Nmap to see what's on your local subnet, see what's on the gateway. You're looking on the gateway for proxies. TCP 3128 which is the default port for squid is always promising. But there are, it could be on any port really. They could have it to whatever they want. Also look to see if there's DNS. They're almost certainly is. And any other unknown ports that you might want to try sending traffic to in case they're proxy. So try connecting to possible proxy ports. Try connecting to your server through them. Overport numbers open on the gateway. Now admittedly that should never work just because the port's open on the gateway doesn't mean it should be open to anything else. But sometimes it does work. It was well known for a while that this worked on go-go in-flight. They have fixed that. But that was a vulnerability in a well-known hotspot service. So then try setting your proxy to your App Engine endpoint. If the Coptif portal is ad supported, this will probably work. If it's not ad supported though, this doesn't always work. So then try DNS look-ups. This is the most reliable method. And if a DNS look-up works, then try looking up your iodine domain. So if you have a route to a working proxy, whether App Engine or your server or the gateways, you're done. Configure your browser and you're out. Otherwise if you can SSH to your server through any of those ports, do that and then do an SSH-D, which creates a local SOX proxy on your computer that routes through that tunnel and configure your browser to go through there. If you can look up your iodine DNS, then you just run iodine with the appropriate password and subdomain and now you've got a tunnel out. And through that tunnel, you SSH and do the proxy. So you're using your own tunnel to get out. And I'll demo this one. And then finally, you need to fix your routing to point through the new tunnel. If you're using SSH-D, that's actually the easiest way to do it, just point to the SOX proxy and do it that way. Alternately though, you can actually edit the route table on your computer to make your new default route, go through the tunnel and at that point everything works through it. Alright, if nothing else fails, or nothing else works rather, ChiliSpot is just configuring MAC filters. So our last ditch way through is use AeroDumpNG to watch the traffic and look for a MAC address that is in use for a while then stops being used.  So you just clone your MAC address to that MAC address and jump on the network and you're already allowed through the IP filters. You want to look for a network someone stopped using because if you and someone else are both using the same MAC address, every time one of you transmits, you'll de-off the other and so your network connectivity will be absolutely horrible. It can work, but it's going to be really slow. On Windows, you can use Wireshark instead of AeroDumpNG and you can look in device manager and try to change MAC addresses. So mentioned earlier, most Windows adapters don't support that. So I'm going to give quick demos of these and hopefully have at least a couple minutes for questions. So, I hope that this will play. It will. Okay, so I get on my Wi-Fi at the super expensive hotel and I want to go and Google for food. But the super expensive hotel has state of the art blistering fast 256 kilobit 802.11b for only 29.95 per 24 hour period, limit two devices. Just give them my mobile phone date of birth, mother's maiden name, credit card number, social security no, I don't think I want to do that. So I'm going to go over to my command prompt. I do an IF config and I see I'm on a 10 dot network and check the routing table, gateways 10-001, just like I'd expect. So I'm going to end map 10-001 and see what's on the gateway. They've got 22, 23, 53, 80, 52, 80. So I would try SSHing or just set or HTTPSing to my local server or my app engine through those various ports first. That's the easiest way. For the sake of the demo, we're going to say those failed. The proxy is not configured that badly. So, since we can't get through it that way, our next option is running iodine. So we're doing IP over DNS. So I run iodine, I use the password I specified earlier and I specify a DNS packet size just because it makes it run faster and I give my domain t parameter grid com. Now it will attempt to connect. Normally you wouldn't use that dash M, I just used it to make the demo run faster. It will auto guess the size, but it takes it a couple minutes to do it, so that speeds it along. And I do an IF config and I now have this new interface, DNS 0, which is pointing to 172.16.02. So I'm going to ping 172.16.01. That is actually my server being accessed through the tunnel. Because remember, I'm on a 10 dot network. I shouldn't be able to get to 172.16. So I'm going to do an SSH-D, set up port 5000 and I'm going to log in to my own server using the tunnel address 172.16.01. And now I'm on my server. I'm going over, completely over DNS. So since I've got that SOX proxy set up, the next thing I want to do is reconfigure my local web browser and I'm going to tell it manual proxy config. Give it SOX v4 proxy 127.001 port 5000. And now when I go back here and I back out of this captive portal and I look for food, I have found food. So thank you. Now if that hadn't worked, we do have one other option and that is Mac spoofing. I'm running this one on a Kali VM because my Windows driver will not let me get away with these tricks. So I've got this one using a USB wireless adapter on Kali. So WLAN 1, I'm going to grab the Mac address of the access point. This is the hotspot network that I'm connected to. I'm going to run airmonng and turn on monitor mode on my wifi card. Monitor mode is now on. So I will run aerodumpng and I will pass it in WLAN 1mon and I will pass in the Mac address of the hotspot. That just makes it not show me any other networks in the area and only show me the network I want. And I look, oh look there are clients just connected, 98, 5F, D3, et cetera. Normally I would wait, see other clients connect, see if one of them drops off. In this case once again for speed I'm going to just break out of there. And on Linux it's really easy to change your Mac address. It's quite trivial. You just down the interface and then run macchanger-m and specify the new Mac address. And then we're going to up the interface again. And now we give it a good 30 seconds because this seems to confuse most of the Linux networking GUI tools. Try connecting again. Okay, now it thinks it's connected. So we're going to go back here and we're out. All right, I'm at 1 minute left so I can take like a question but otherwise I will be in the hallway on the right to answer any other questions people have. Got anyone? Okay, thank you.