Well, hello everyone, a good afternoon or good evening depending on where you're joining us from today. Welcome to Engineering for Change, or E4C for short. Today we're very pleased to bring you a special segment in E4C's 2016 webinar series focusing on mobile data collection. My name is Yana Aranda and I'm the Director of Engineering for Change Programs located here in the SME headquarters and I'll be the moderator of today's webinar. I'd like to take a moment now to tell you a bit about the mobile data collection series. The wide spread availability of mobile communications offers international development researchers, practitioners and students new tools and techniques for collecting field data and determining successive projects. So we've partnered with the Development Impact Lab at UC Berkeley, or DIL, to introduce a sample of survey software tools and demonstrate how to implement each tool in practice. 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He will share details on Engaged Spark with us today, and I'm very excited to turn it over to him. Thank you, Yana. Hope everybody can hear me. Good morning, afternoon, evening, wherever you are. I'm Avner, and as Yana mentioned, I'm a lawyer by background. Let me just tell you about my co-founder, Ravi. He is a tech entrepreneur. We met in Uganda while he was volunteering at Grameen Foundation, and I was doing some anti-corruption work. And we were having lunch one day, and he told me about this idea he had for Engaged Spark for building a really easy-to-use self-service web-hosted tools for non-profits and businesses and government agencies to use to engage those people who didn't have access to the internet, but do have mobile phones in developing countries. And I said, oh, that sounds interesting. I'd love to get involved. I could see NGOs using something like that to build their own anti-corruption reporting tools, which is something I'm very passionate about. And I said, I'd love to get involved. And little did I know I'd be starting a company and building something. So we've been working on this since the end of 2012. We have a really strong team, we're based out of Cebu, and we're not-for-profit social enterprise, which means that our goal is to help NGOs maximize their impact, and we're mission-aligned with NGOs. We're not here to get rich off of this. We're really here to help alleviate poverty. So these are some of our customers and partners. Just as an FYI, I'm going to be going to this presentation rather quickly so I can spend most of the time demoing the actual platform for you all so you can see how it works. So one of the key things here is that we are leveraging the power of dumb phones.  But the UN actually just came out with a report in late 2015 that still 65% of people living in developing countries are offline. And in the least developed countries, it's even more than 90%. So the internet is not ubiquitous. But mobile phones are old school, what we call dumb phones, meaning not smartphones, just phones that can be used for text messages, for SMS, and for phone calls. And most people in the world do have access to a mobile phone. And so that's what our platform leverages. It allows you to engage them in a medium, in a way that you can via mobile phones. So what we do is we make it really easy for non-technical people to do that, to build different kinds of interactive SMS and voice campaigns. And I'll walk you through the platform soon so you can get a feel for it. But this is just sort of an overview of the different kinds of features and things that we have. One of the things we can also do is airtime transfer, where you can send airtime to anybody's phone as an incentive or award, or compensating them for participating in a survey, for example, or just in a campaign. So I'll continue along. So just to give you a quick idea of some of the programs we've worked on. So we worked on a big project in the Philippines with Mercy Corps, around Typhoon Haiyan, the big typhoon that devastated parts of the Philippines a few years ago. And they worked with 20,000 survivors of the typhoon and did something very innovative in a financial literacy program where they were trying to encourage people to become more resilient for the next typhoon. And they wanted to basically encourage people to save more and budget better and so on and so forth. And so they created a soap opera series about this married couple Ben and Joy. And the recipients would receive a phone call from our platform twice a week and they would hear this married couple having a discussion in their local language, of course. And the married couple would be somebody that the beneficiaries could relate to. And at the end of the call, these were short maybe one-minute episodes that were fun and engaging, and they each had a lesson. And at the end of the episode, there would be a quiz. Press one, if you think Ben and Joy should do this with the money, press two, if you think they should do that with the money. And if they press one, then they would hear, yes, that's correct. And here's why. If they press two, they would hear no, that's incorrect. And here's why. Stay tuned for next week's episode. And it was a huge hit. The beneficiaries loved the stories. In fact, one of the beneficiaries actually, this was part of a cash transfer program as well. What they did with the money was bought some pigs for a piggory and named the pigs Ben and Joy. So it was a real hit with the people and it also had a lot of impact. So just to give you an idea, a 106% increase in the use of savings products among people who received the voice soap operas. And if you look at this chart here, the storyline went so well that they ended up doing another one around a couple Anna and Juan. And these are real savings rates where it went up during the Ben and Joy storyline, sort of maintained itself almost, and then spiked up again during the Anna and Juan storyline. And people actually putting cash into their bank accounts. So just an idea of the impact from a program like this using voice, which can be very engaging and entertaining for people. Another quick showcase is in Jordan. We're working with the International Rescue Committee on a program for refugees, of course. And they're helping women who are Syrian refugees in Jordan who are living refugee camps and are abused and want to get help 24 by 7. And so through our platform, they've set up a hotline where women can make a missed call to a local phone number. And missed calls are something that's very powerful in developing countries and used frequently. A missed call means somebody calls a local number, maybe lets it ring once, hangs up, and that's the signal. And so in our case, we use it to trigger a message back or a call back to the person. So in a lot of countries, they call this flashing or beeping. And so with our system, you can literally in seconds add a missed call into a campaign that you build so that you can allow people to miss call a phone number and then that triggers our system to call them back. And it's really powerful because it's free for the beneficiary to do that missed call to trigger information. So if they want to retrieve something, they can do it for free because it doesn't cost anything to let a phone ring once and then hang up. And so in Jordan, women are doing a missed call to a local phone number and that triggers a call when they're having an emergency situation. That triggers a call back to them where they hear an IVR that says, press one if you're having an emergency in Camp A, press two if you're having an emergency in Camp B, so on and so forth. And if they press one on the call, that automatically triggers a text message to go to the field officer who's in charge of Camp A at that point in time and says a woman with this phone number and then it includes her phone number in the SMS just reported an emergency, contact her immediately. So women can get help when they need to and building something like that on our platform literally takes five minutes. So I'll then go ahead and switch my screen over for the demo. And I guess at the end, I will answer questions about all this. Let me share my screen now. And OK, I hope everybody can see my screen. OK, so this is what the EngageSpark platform looks like. The idea is you have SMS and voice. And what you see down here are what we call engagement types. And these are essentially three-step wizards to help you create what you want to do in minutes. So I'm going to start out by showing you the curriculum engagement types. These are essentially templates to make it easy for you to build your campaign. So curriculum is an SMS campaign where you create a series of messages that go out over a schedule that you set in advance. So this could be for an educational purpose. Let's say you want to send people messages on best practices in farming or something. You can just very easily say here is message one in your farming educational curriculum. Obviously, you would say whatever you want. And you can personalize these really easily. So you can say hi first name. And so what that means is Jane will get hi Jane. Here is message one in your farming educational curriculum. And John will get hi John. Here is message one. You can put in any personal data about a contact that you've added into the system. And I'll show you how to add contacts into the system in a little bit. So then you would add another message. And so now we have message two and you would just say here is message two. And you can schedule this. So you could say, oh, this should go out, you know, five days after the previous message. You can then schedule the next message. And this is here is message three. And of course, all of these can be personalized very easily.  And so very simply, you can build out an entire, an entire curriculum or educational system over as many messages as you want. And it's all pre scheduled. You sort of set it and forget it. And it just, all the messages will just go out as, as you scheduled here. You then would just hit continue. And as an FYI, all of our engagement types are three steps. So they all have content as the first step and contacts. And then the last step where you confirm. So on this page, you would select your contacts. This isn't really where you're managing your contacts. You'll be managing your contacts up here in the contacts page, which I'll show you in a little bit. But while you're creating the engagement, you could just create a one off contact if you wanted to. You might want to do that while you're just initially testing, sort of going through the engagement types quickly. But you could just very easily select individual contacts or you could select groups that you've already created and we'll talk about those in a little bit. You can also, so these are selecting existing contacts that are already in the system. You can also just click on this tab and sort of turn on subscription as we call it, where somebody can, for example, do a missed call to join this campaign. So the way that would work is you simply check this box and you add a phone number to your account. Now, this is something very, very powerful that we have where you can just click on this button and add a phone number in more than 90 countries in the world to link to your engagement. And by a local phone number, I mean a number that can either receive voice calls, so in this case, missed calls, or receive text messages. And that's really important for two-way interactive campaigns, where you want people to text into a number or you want people to call into a number or do a missed call into a number. And so you can just search for your country, here I'm searching for Kenya, you can switch it into Indonesia, for example, just search. And these are real numbers that will be instantly in your account. So I'll just show you guys how to actually go ahead and buy a U.S. number, for example. And so I can just hit buy and it takes a second and that number has now been purchased and it's now in my account and you'll see it here in the drop-down. And so if you were to make a missed call to this number, you'd automatically be enrolled in this campaign. And what happens when you select, when somebody calls that number is, our system will let it ring a couple times and then it will immediately disconnect the call. So there won't be any cost to the caller because our system is not actually answering the call. So it's free for them to engage and register for a campaign like this. So as you see, it's really easy. You can buy numbers in more than 90 countries in the world instantly and they're automatically in your account. So I'll just hit continue now. So let's say we selected a contact, we turned on missed call registration, then you go to step three and you could specify a caller ID, for example. So I could say I want this to come from Engage Spark or whatever my organization name is. It depends on the country and telco, whether that will actually end up appearing on the recipient's phone as who that SMS is coming from. But in most countries in the world, we can register a caller ID for you so that your organization name would show up on the recipient's phone so they see who the message is coming from. So that's the curriculum. It's quite easy. You're literally just adding in your text messages. One last thing I'll show you, and this is true for all SMS campaigns, is we support any character sets and our system also automatically recognizes right to left languages. So if you just start typing, for example, on Arabic here, you'll see our system automatically just started displaying it right to left because it knows that Arabic is a right to left language. So that's really useful for practitioners working in countries that have right to left languages because imagine having to view that in a left to right way so our system just handles it automatically for you. So that is the curriculum. I'll show you a few more engagement types on the SMS side and then we'll jump into voice real quick. The BLAST is the most basic one. That's just a one-off message, the SMS that goes out to a bunch of recipients. We then have the SMS polls. So this is where you can do a survey, for example. So you can ask questions. What is your gender? Of course, you can always personalize. And then you can specify valid answers. So you can add invalidation because especially with SMS, a lot of the data that comes in tends to be messy. People don't always respond exactly how you want them to. And so having validation can help. So you can basically say, okay, and you can separate valid replies separated by commas. So you can simply say, these are the only valid replies. So if somebody responds with anything else, you can down here add in an error message essentially that says, that's not valid. Please reply M or F. And then if they reply hello, they'll automatically get this. They reply hello again, they'll get it again. And you can set how many times you want that to happen until you get a valid reply from one. Now, this is valuable because you're pushing people to give you clean data. And when you get the clean data, you can then filter those results by that clean data. So what I mean by that is all of our reporting or analytics is in real time. So as soon as somebody sends in a text message, for example, you'll see on the report dashboard, which I'll show you in a little bit, what they sent in. And you can download a detailed report with every single person, what they sent in, when our system sent them a message and so on and so forth. And so there'll just be a column called valid or not. And you can just filter by yes, so you only get the valid replies. And of course, you can look at the bad data as we might call it. But you can also very quickly filter by the clean data so you can just see the results that are valid more easily. So you can of course add other questions when they reply to the first question. They get the second question, quite simple. So from a validation standpoint, you can also validate by number. So you could say it has to be a number between 10 and 100 or whatever that's not valid, same sort of idea. So it's quite simple. You can add as many questions as you want and you're then interacting with them. You could just continue at this point, select your contacts or group, hit continue again. And then on step three, you'll actually need to select a phone number. So this is something that trips people up sometimes because people sometimes don't think about the fact that with an SMS poll, you actually need people to send a text message into a phone number, right? They're replying to your questions. So they need to receive the message from a phone number so that they can easily just hit reply on their cell phone and the response goes back to that number which is connected to our system. So just as we looked at it before, you'll want to buy a phone number to send from and receive SMS replies. You can easily just change this, add a new number here and so on and so forth. In countries where we don't have these local phone numbers available for purchase directly on the platform, we have an Android app that you can install just from the Play Store and there's some instructions on setting it up here. And the way that works is you install our app onto an Android phone with you locally in the country and have a local SIM card in it. And when you launch the engagement, our system talks to that Android app essentially and says, hey, go send all of these text messages to these phone numbers and then the phone numbers get sent, the SMS is get sent by the phone itself over that SIM card. And then from a recipient standpoint, they don't know it came from an Android phone to them. It's just the normal SMS that they received and they will just be able to reply to it. The reply will go into the Android phone, our app will capture it and pass it back to the server which will then process it and send the next question or whatever it is. And one thing I actually just to jump back to step three for a second on is, one thing I forgot to mention is our pricing. So all of our pricing is paid per use. We tried to make the system very easy in three ways. The first is the UI, hopefully it does look easy to all you. You think it is. Secondly is pricing. We don't have like set up fees or monthly subscription fees to use the platform at all. It's all paid per use which means per SMS or per voice minute and all of our pricing is at engagespark.com slash pricing. You can just search by country and it's all by telco. So one telco in a specific country might have a different cost per SMS or per voice minute than sending an SMS to another telco. By telco I mean what SIM card the recipient's cell phone, what telco that SIM card is from. So it's an AT&T SIM card. And that's an example then that the pricing you see for sending an SMS to an AT&T phone is the pricing for sending that person. So of course also you can schedule an engagement here in the start time category or start time drop down. So you can hit launch and it'll just go out. So the messages go out immediately or you can just say on a specific date for example and select your date and time and so on and so forth. The last area where we are tried to make things very easy is also on the telco connectivity side. So we've handled all the telco connections behind the scenes. So you can send out an SMS message or a voice call to any phone basically in the world any mobile phone in the world. And we've already made those telco connections. So you don't have to deal with the telcos. You literally just hit launch and the messages or the voice calls will be sent without having to integrate telcos at all. So I'll show you very quickly one last SMS engagement type and then we'll jump into the voice side. So the auto reply is an engagement where you have keywords and replies and you can use this to allow people to retrieve data when they want to. It can be like an information retrieval service. Let's say a keyword is like malaria and a response can be always sleep under a bed net to avoid malaria. Another keyword can be savings. Always save $1 a day or whatever. Of course you can personalize these. You can also do some cool stuff.  You can tell people to text in balance to get their balance at any time. So they text in balance and they get high first name, high first name, your balance is and then imagine so I don't have one here these are the columns in my account and I'll show you that in a second but imagine city with balance you would then you know Jane would get high Jane your balance is $500. I would get high after your balance is $200 or whatever. So you can add as many keywords as you want. You can upload a spreadsheet with keywords and replies. You can separate multiple keywords by commas. So if they text in either of these words they'll automatically get this reply. And of course you have an error message down here if they send in an invalid keyword. So you can just make this available, advertise, hey, text anything you want to or let's say it's a selection season and you want people to find out where to vote, text the name of your town to this phone number to find out where to vote. So the keyword would be the town, let's say New York, big town and the reply would be voting is in all schools between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. or whatever. So really powerful. You can allow people to retrieve data when they want to. So before I jump into the voice side I'm gonna quickly go to, I'm gonna quickly go to, this is the engagement list by the way where you'll see your list of engagements that you've launched or saved and so on and so forth and are working through. So I'm gonna quickly jump onto the contacts page just to show you all some things. So this is where you'll manage your contacts. You of course can upload contacts with some templates so you see the format to put them in Excel. You can create additional columns, so attributes. So all of the columns over here to the right of this column are columns that I manually added by either pressing add column or you could just add them in a spreadsheet that you upload. Just add the additional columns in the data and then just upload that spreadsheet and our system will automatically create those extra columns and they will be displayed here. Now, one of the huge benefits of these extra columns other than things like personalization is smart groups. So you can create a group based on rules. You could say something like, female Cebu. So you could say, I want all contacts where their gender is equal to female and their city is equal to Cebu. And so our system will then automatically create that group and you see it automatically populates because there are 112 contacts because there are 112 contacts who meet those rules. If I were to then, you know, change a contact from signed one real quick from Cebu here to Manila, they will automatically be removed from that group because they no longer meet the rules of that group and you'll see it's now dropped to 111. So you can, you know, update contacts very quickly and the groups automatically get updated for sending engagements to those groups. So let's jump into, I'd say, our most powerful engagement type, the IVR poll. So here you can do voice surveys, for example. You can ask a question. You would upload that question file here, for example, and it could say something like, press one if you're female, two if you're male and then down here you specify the valid key presses. So one and two are valid. You can add additional ones by clicking on add key press down here. So maybe three is I don't wanna say. And then down here, of course, you can have an error file if they press six or they don't press anything, whatever you upload here will play. You can also use this to disseminate information. So you can tell people, you can upload a file here that says press one to learn about hand washing. And then if they press one, whatever file you upload here will play. So press one to learn about hand washing, press two to learn about malaria, and so on and so forth. And so you can just upload those files here and the recipients will, when they press two on the call, we'll hear this and so on and so forth. You also can do spoken response questions. So these are where people respond by pressing a key. And also asking the question, what did you learn last week from the program? State your answer after the beep. And so they, ArcSystem will then record their actual spoken response on the call and make it available to you. So another really nice thing in here is languages. So let's say you're working in a country that has many different dialects or very different languages. You can just click on this and specify a different language per file. So you could say, this is the English version of that file. And then I'm gonna upload, let's say, a French version. As well. And so what that means is anybody who you have specified, let's say on the contacts page in the language column here, that their language is English, when they receive this call, they will hear the English version. But those who use specified speak French will hear the French version when they answer. And then when they press one, of course you'll have different languages for one and different languages for two and so on and so forth. And they'll throughout the call hear their language. One last quick thing is we have some settings down here and call retry settings is the most powerful one is a really important setting. It allows you to automate retries for people who don't answer the calls. So for example, many people will not answer the call on the first try, they're out of phone network, their battery's dead, they're busy, whatever it is. So it's really important to increase your answer rate to add in automated retries. So you could say, try them two more times that day waiting four hours between each try, do it every day for the next four days. But don't call them on Fridays. And so you can set whatever schedule you want and our system will just keep retrying them according to that schedule to get the call out to them. But of course we'll only retry people who actually, who don't answer the call. People who do answer won't get the retries. You can also add additional questions. I forgot to mention on a single call very easily. And so when they finish the first question, they continue the second question and so on and so forth. If the call drops in the middle of the survey, you can have the system call them back immediately and skip the questions they already answered. So that they, if the call drops for some reason, they're in the middle of question two, our system will call them back immediately and you can play a new start message. For example, it says, sorry, the call drops, please, we'll start where you left off in the poll. And so they'll automatically start that. So this is the voice IVR poll, but this is the simple voice IVR poll. There's a lot of power in it, but it's actually the simple version. Up here, I'm going to show you the advanced version. Advanced version is where you can do some really cool, powerful stuff. So for example, instead of just playing a file, an audio file after somebody presses a key on the call, you can have an action. So you can play audio as an action, but you can add additional action. So you could say, hey, I want to update the contact. So let's say your question up here is press one if you're female, two if you're male. So if they press one, you can say update contact gender to female. So now our system will automatically update the contacts profile, right? In the gender column here, the female if they press one to that question on this voice IVR poll that they've received. So this way, you allow people to automatically update their data, right? You can say press one if you live in Manoa, that's two if you live in Cebu. Of course, you can then update their city that way. But you can also update people's languages that way. So let's say you don't know people's languages. They're doing a missed call into the system to trigger this IVR poll to get a call back to them. And so maybe your initial question up here that you upload can say press one for English and English, Puste pour Francais en Francais and so on and so forth. So if they press one, you update their language to English. Now that actually updates in the middle of the call live. So if you add other questions, you can, for example, then have languages for each of the other questions. So in question one, you update, for example, people's languages. So you say update the language to French if they press two. And then when they go on to question two, you'll have the different language versions of the files already. And they will then, of course, hear the correct language version for all of the other questions on the call. So the language updates in real time in that call. So that's a nice powerful thing. Another, so of course, you can update contacts profiles this way. You can also add in conditional logic into the survey. So if they are, let's say you ask press one, if you're female to if you're male and you wanna ask different questions to women than men. So you add another action and you add what we call jump logic or conditional logic. So you just jump to question three, for example, if it's female, they'll skip over question two and they won't get it. So you can basically allow them to jump all over the survey as you please. And another type of action we have in here is hang up. So meaning, let's say if they are a man, if that's true that they're a male, this survey isn't appropriate for them. So maybe you have an MP3 file that says sorry, have a nice day, goodbye, and then the call in. But anybody else, the call continues for them and so on and so forth. So we're gonna also over time be adding more and more actions, like add them to a group if you wanted to use a regular group instead of a smart group or send them air time and so on and so forth. There's gonna be a lot of really cool stuff in the actions over time, but already there's a lot of cool stuff in here. So the final few things I'll show you because I think I only have a couple more minutes before I open it up to questions. There are two more engagement types in here. The IVR poll is the most powerful. BLAST is pretty simple. Just a voice BLAST IVR menu is somewhere in between the simple IVR poll and the advanced IVR poll with a different sort of user interface. Just want to show you reports real quick. You access your reports from the Engagements dashboard where you click on, there's an icon that is a report icon and it'll take you to the report for that engagement. And this is just a sample one where what you basically see is aggregate data. So you'll see 10 people press one for this question, 36 people press two, you have a little pie chart and you see a breakdown. In here, if people had spoken in response, you'll also see, you just don't have a great example of it right now. Sorry, I probably should have prepared that, but you'll actually just see a play icon where you can, you know, if they had a spoken response where our system recorded what they spoke, you can listen to it and you can transcribe it. And then what you can do is you can download a detailed report where you get all of the data. So you get to see like what time the person, the call was made to the person, what time they answered the call, how, what time the call ended, how long the call was, what key they pressed, what time they pressed the key. You get all the data in a download in a detailed report per every contact. So you basically see every interaction you would want per contact. And you'll get the transcriptions in there. You can tag results. So you can say like one meant malaria. So you could type malaria in here. And that would tag one to say, oh, that means somebody wants to know that malaria. So there's a lot of detail and power in the reports. You can play around with it once you start creating your own engagements. These two, you can ignore because, I mean, my admin account, you can manage your phone numbers from the phone numbers section up here. We showed you how to buy them while you're in an engagement, but you can also buy them and manage them from the ad phone number section. And lastly, you can have multi-users in your account. So you were to just, for example, click on this. If you have an organization where you want to have multiple users working on the account, so you can just add their email address and then they'll get an email from our system inviting them to join and then they'll automatically be added to this organization. So you can both work on it, adding contacts, creating engagements and you can specify different roles for different users. If they already have an account, they'll automatically be added to your organization when you enter their email address. So multi-users, you can also add multiple organizations to your account if you have different country offices or different projects that you want to have separated within the system. Yeah, so that's just the platform. There's some more items in here, but I think that was probably a lot already and I guess I will open it up to questioning now. All right. Thank you so much, Abner. That was a very, very thorough demo and quite concise and speedy. So I do want to make sure that we hit some questions here from our attendees and we already have one that's come in. So the question here is it seems that organizations need to pay an amount for each missed call message or voice call, so it is very small. Could you please share how much was the cost for the Philippines project involving 10,000 people? Sorry, what was the, I missed, I just missed the first part about missed call. Oh yeah, no worries. Sorry, sorry. Yeah, no, no, do you want to ask me a good question? It seems that organizations need to pay some quantity, some amount for each missed call message or voice call, which is what you demonstrated to us with the payment options. Could you please give a sense of the cost associated with the Philippines project, which was for 10,000 people? Sure. So it, for missed calls, it doesn't matter what country you're in or what telco is being called to or fee is just half a US cent per missed call to the organization for every missed call that comes in. For voice calls or text messages, it really depends on the telco. So for example, in the Philippines, it's the same per telco. So all the telcos are 18 and a half cents per voice minute and two cents per SMS. I know those all cut my head just because we're here. I don't know all of them by heart, by country. But that program was in the range of about 20 something thousand dollars. They actually were interacting with 20,000 people between a mix of SMS and voice call. So some people received SMS, some people received voice calls. And yeah, so I guess it was about a dollar or so per beneficiary. Very good. And just, yeah, thank you so much for that. It's very good and kind of a sense of for the quantity. So that program had 10,000 people. So just a question on my front is, are there any limitations with respect to group size for the platform? No, not from our side. Obviously, some telcos have limitations on how many SMS you can send to them at once to deliver to recipients. But from our side, we don't have limitations. Fantastic. Great. Well, as I mentioned, this is quite a thorough demo. And we're not seeing too many questions come in because I believe that you've really demonstrated the power of the Engage platform. For anybody whose question hasn't been addressed, we certainly want to encourage you to reach out to us directly and we will share an email address via the chat shortly. In the meantime, I would like to invite everybody to join us for our next demo with Kobo Toolbox from the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, which will be on February 17th at 12 p.m. Eastern Standard. We'd like to thank all of you for participating in today's special webinar. And of course, for those of you who are seeking to receive professional development hours, the code is listed on the slide. We, again, did not address your question during this webinar. Feel free to email us at webinars at engineeringforchange.org and join us as an E4C member to get information about upcoming webinars. If, see, one more question came in. So just because we have one minute, we'll let Avner tackle that. Sure. I see somebody was asking, are these prices in addition to services like carriers? The answer is no. So we've already made those telco connections with the carriers behind the scenes. And all of our pricing incorporates is for use of the platform. And it includes use of the platform and the carrier services. So what you see on the pricing page is the only thing you pay, unless you're using our Android app, in which case you're just paying your own local airtime on the SIM card. But for just sending voice calls or SMS directly from the platform using the Engaged Work Network, what you see on the pricing page is all you pay. There's no other fees. Excellent. Thank you so much, Avner. All right, everyone, thank you so much for joining us. And we'll catch you on the next webinar on February 17. Take care. Bye-bye now.


Item number SCP-010 Object Class Safe Special Containment Procedures The objects comprising SCP-010 are to be kept in numbered lockboxes at Site-19. They are not to be worn except by test subjects. SCP-010 are only to be removed from storage for testing. Description SCP-010 consists of a series of six apparently identical cast-iron collars with numbered metal tags and one remote control. The control is SCP-010-1. The collars are SCP-010-2 through 010-7. The collars contain intricate electronic components and are powered by small 5mm diameter, 2mm thick, 100V batteries. These batteries are rechargeable. The remote is a heavy black box resembling an old-style handheld radio transmitter receiver with a primitive blue white cathode ray screen and a series of more than 100 unlabeled buttons as well as a frequency tuner. Through trial and error, the frequencies of all six currently found collars have been discovered. A label in Russian is stamped into the metal along with the logo consisting of workers building a pyramid. No official Russian corporation or government agency uses this logo or matches the word stamped into the metal. Placing the collar around the neck of a person and securing it allows one to control their every movement with the remote. It is also capable of producing an adrenal response and activating or deactivating the sympathetic nervous system. The most abnormal feature of the collars is the effect they have on the body morphology. They allow the user of the remote to reconfigure the shape of the victim to an extent that is apparently only limited by the knowledge of the programming language of the remote. Addendum 010-1. History SCP-010 was discovered in the basement of a lone man in the Midwestern United States after a local disappearance was connected to him. When the police raided the man's house, they found SCP-010 as well as several dead bodies. One of the bodies was identified to be the man. The others were several other missing persons. Cause of death seemed to be mass suicide, however, there were signs of significant struggle first. Addendum 010-2. Disassembled experiment. Test 1. SCP-010-2 taken apart piecewise. The parts labeled and several photographs taken, then reassembled. Result. After reassembly, SCP-010-2 continues to function. Test 2. SCP-010-A constructed identically the SCP-010-2, but with the closest approximations available to the unreplicated components. Results. SCP-010-8 fails to function. Test 3. Unreplicable components from SCP-010-2 placed in the proper location on SCP-010-8. Result. SCP-010-2 ceases functioning with removal components. SCP-010-8 begins functioning. Test 4. Components return to SCP-010-2. Replicable components in SCP-010-2 replaced randomly with replicas. Result. SCP-010-2 begins functioning with return of components. Changing replicable components for replicas does not significantly reduce functionality. Replacement of a damaged transistor decreased time from transmission to effect of SCP-010-2 response to commands entered in the remote by 12%. Test 5. SCP-010-2 has been demonstrated to work more effectively in creating unskilled labor than for any other task. The logo is apt. Dr. ████████ ██████████


Thank you for joining us on SuperUserTV. I'm wondering if you can tell us about the big question on everyone's minds, which is how the design summit might be changing. Can you tell us a little bit about some of the concerns or limitations going on in the current format for the design summit? Sure. So the main benefit of the summit event is that we have everyone around and we have people from all over the place. We have people coming from the ops community, people coming from user community, people new commerce to our community that are around and developers as well. And the big benefit of this event is to have everyone in the same place at the same time together. And at the same time, we organize a design summit, which is four days, where project teams need team time to do things and they're basically in their corner in a room and not exposed to the rest of the conference. And that's not necessarily the best use of their time. There's a lot of things going on as well and having so much contention during the summit week means the developers are not really available for presenting or for attending presentations or to listen to people asking for new requirements, new features. So the change is about freeing up developers' time so that they can actually be there for everyone else and engage with new contributors and learn new things, share new things without having so much work to do on the other side. Because this tension between the two sides of the event means there's always something on your mind, you should be doing something else so you're not really available for all that. So what could a split design summit look like? So we have the design summit here and we use it for two different things. One is to gather feedback from the larger community and some of it is to get work done as a team. And since I said earlier, something has to give. There's just too much things during the week to do everything. And what we think should give is the project team gathering, the project team work where you try to get things done with your team and you should benefit from having everyone around and be out there having discussions. So the way we envision it to look like is to still have developers, operators, everyone at the summit event and use that time to have community discussions around specific topics. So feedback from users, engage with new contributors, onboarding upstream university, having devs available to do project updates, conference talks, etc. And have a separate event where the teams are just the team together to get work done. And that actually makes a lot of sense when you think about it like this but it's trying to have everything at the same moment. We kind of worked around the problem by organizing separate events on the side and that kind of hurt all the cross-project work as a result and we hope that the change will really help in fostering new cross-project work at this developer-oriented event and have the devs available for the rest of the community at the main summit. Now Mataka was the 13th release of open-stack software and I'm wondering if you can tell me what you were most proud of that came out in the Mataka release? That would be very partial. I'm very proud of the work the release management team did under the leadership of Doug Ellman to automate most of the release work because with the big tent and all those projects being recognized as official open-stack projects we had a surge in requests for different release models, different release requests and without automation the job would just be impossible for a team of two or three people and Doug really worked to insert a lot of automation in the process so now it's almost painless to do a release and that really helped in passing that. So it's more of a process thing than a feature but that's the thing I'm most proud of. That's fantastic. And so I understand you've only been able to go to a few of the Newton design planning things so far but I wonder if you could talk a little bit about what are some of the big areas of discussion even if we're not yet to the end of the week with some final answers. So what are people talking about here? So we've seen a lot of discussions on stable branch and the time it will take. I mean how much time do we keep releases around due to looking at the user survey results on adoption and so we've been discussing what it would take technically to increase that stable maintenance period. So work on backward compatibility, work on automation again so that the quantity of work that is required to maintain those stable branches go down so that in the future we could better align the stable maintenance period with the expectations of our users and that's where I try to spend most of my summit time this week so that would be my early Newton peak there. Is there anything else that you want to add? Any takeaways from Austin that have been particularly important to you? So I think to come back to the original discussion on the split thing I think another consequence of the change will be to put the summit further away from the release date because we've realized that just two weeks after release we don't really have great feedback or products built on top of the release nobody has had time to actually experiment with it or deploy it or build products on top of it especially with the summit just around people just prepare for the summit and so the quality of the feedback we've been getting as a result is not as optimal as it could be so moving further away the summit event from the release gives time for people to experiment with it for products to be built on top of it and as a result the feedback that we would get at that event where we want the devs to be able to listen to people would improve so most of the feedback we got this week was liberty feedback and what we kind of want is Mitaka feedback as developers so moving that summit event further away from the release should get us that kind of feedback that we are looking for and that's another outcome of redesigning how we think about events in OpenStack Thank you so much for joining us Thank you


I am Priyanka Bidla from Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering and today we are going to solve the example based on delta 2 star conversion. This is the learning outcome of this video lecture. At the end of this session students will be able to analyze and simplify complicated circuits using delta 2 star conversion. These are the contents of this video lecture specifically we will be concentrate on what is delta network, what is star network, expression for delta 2 star conversion and at the end of the lecture we will see example based on delta 2 star conversion. Based upon we will see use of delta connection in electrical circuit. So what is the use of delta connection? So delta connection is generally used in distribution networks since insulation required is also less. It is used for shorter distances and in applications which require high starting torque. What is the importance of delta 2 star conversion? Here both actually star 2 delta and the delta 2 star conversion allows us to convert one type of circuit connection into the another type. In such a way that we can analyze the circuit easily. In some complicated circuits we cannot be analyze the Ohm's law, then KVL law or KCL law. So at that time using star 2 delta or delta 2 star conversion we can analyze the circuits. Let us move towards to the delta network. So here this is the figure of delta network, here the circuit elements are connected in such a way that they form a shape of triangle or delta. Here A, B and C are the nodes of the network and R, A, B, R, B, C and R, A, C are the connected in between these 3 nodes. Then this is star network, here you can see in this figure the circuit elements are connected in such a way that they form a star shape. So its name is star network. Now let us see delta 2 star conversion. So this is delta network, we want to convert in star network. Now we will see the procedure for the conversion. So here the first step is what you have to draw the star network into the delta network. So if you have to draw this star network into the delta network it looks like this. Before moving towards for the conversion of delta 2 star network pause this video for few seconds and you have to recall formulae for conversion of delta 2 star network. Yes you have to observe the figure and then you have to write down the equations for this. So first is R, A plus R, B. So R, A plus R, B are the elements of the star network. So R, A, B is parallel with the R, B, C plus R, C, A. So here these 2 connections are in parallel. So you have to apply the formula 1 upon R, A, B plus 1 upon R, B, C plus R, C, A. So after doing the cross multiplication we are getting R, A plus R, B is equal to R, A, B in bracket R, B, C plus R, C, A upon R, A, B plus R, B, C plus R, C, A. So this is equation 1. So similarly you have to write down the equation for R, B plus R, C. So R, B plus R, C is equal to R, B, C in bracket R, C, A plus R, A, B upon R, A, B plus R, B, C plus R, C, A. So this is equation number 2. Then write the equation for R, C plus R, A. So here this is the R, C plus R, A is equal to R, C, A in bracket R, A, B plus R, B, C upon R, A, B plus R, B, C plus R, C, A. This is equation 3. Now adding equation 1, 2 and 3 we will get this equation. So after simplification we will get R, A plus R, B plus R, C is equal to R, A, B into R, B, C plus R, B, C into R, C, A plus R, C, A into R, A, B upon R, A, B plus R, B, C plus R, C, A. That is total resistance. So this is equation 4 and this is equation 2. Now subtract equation 2 from equation 4 then we will get this equation, yes. Now you have to do the calculation and some terms are cancelled out. So after cancelling the terms we will get the final value of R, A. R, A is equal to R, C, A into R, A, B upon R, A, B plus R, B, C plus R, C, A. Then by subtracting equation 3 from equation 4 we will get the value of R, B. So R, B is equal to R, A, B into R, B, C upon R, A, B plus R, B, C plus R, C, A. Similarly by subtracting equation 1 from equation 4 we will get this equation that is R, C is equal to R, B, C into R, C, A upon R, A, B plus R, B, C plus R, C, A. Now if we want to find any arm of the star network from the delta network, so this is the standard equation. So with the help of that we will find out the any arm of the star network. So any arm of the star connection is equal to what product of two adjacent arms of delta upon sum of arms of delta. These are the standard equations we have calculated already. So these equations are used for solving the problem. Let us see the example of delta to star conversion. So here find the equivalent resistances of star network which are equivalent to that of delta network as shown in this following figure. So this is delta network and the value of the elements are given. So you have to convert into the star network and find the arm values of the star network. So this is the solution. Here these are the standard equations. So with the help of this we will get the values of the respective arm of the star network. So the actual values means the given values of the delta network you have to put into the equation and then we will get the values of the star network. So here we are getting the arm values of the star network that is rA is equal to 30 ohm then rB is equal to 18 ohm and rC is equal to 6 ohm. So in this way we have to convert delta to star network and with the help of that we have to find out the values of the arm values of the star network. And this is the last step of the delta to star conversion. So at the end of the example you have to draw the diagram, draw the network. What is delta network and after calculation you have to draw the star network. These are the references of this video lecture, thank you.


Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends this year marks the 21st and annual anniversary of the Crystal Awards. It was our late friend, the great violinist and conductor, Lord Yehudi Menuin, who inspired Klaus and Mai to start this award. It has always stood for leadership, vision and compassion. We want to honor personalities who are not only outstanding artists, but who contribute to positive change. Here are the three awardees. Kate Blanchett. She received the award 2018 for her leadership in raising awareness for the refugee crisis. Kate Blanchett was born in Melbourne, Australia. Already as a small child, she used to imagine stories. Today she is an internationally acclaimed and award winning actor and director on stage and screen. She has received two Academy Awards and three Golden Globes. Her contribution to culture has been globally recognized and today she is considered one of the greatest actors of our times. In 2016 Kate Blanchett was appointed UNHCR Global Goodwill Ambassador in recognition of her commitment to refugees. She has traveled into numerous countries to Lebanon, Jordan and also to her home country Australia to advocate for increased solidarity and sharing responsibility for the millions of displaced people across the world. She is committed to raising awareness on issues of forced displacement and in particular of statelessness, which affects millions of people worldwide, denying them basic rights, access to education and health care and the ability to work and travel. I would like to ask Kate Blanchett now to join me on stage. Secret out, I'm as blind as a bat. Thank you, Mrs Swab and Professor Swab and the World Economic Forum for honoring me with this award. I'm deeply grateful for the recognition it gives to the scale and severity of the global refugee crisis, along with the acknowledgement that we all have a stake in identifying and enacting solutions. So we hear the alarming statistics, 66 million almost human beings forcibly displaced around the world and we see the fallout from continued failure of world leaders to secure peace. Whilst in many quarters there's divisive and polarizing language being used for political gain that gnaws away at our empathy and our compassion and we sense the geopolitical, the social and the economic and the environmental threats that will drive yet more human flows and we understand that lost generations of uneducated disenfranchised and displaced children not only represents a vast loss of potential but also a threat for future global security and prosperity. So surely we must now accept our role in finding new ways to respond to the refugee crisis both in the short term but also across the years and years of exile to ensure that refugees are less victim and burden and more actors and participants alongside their host communities to the benefit of all. Now in Davos this week there will be full of talk of disruption, the fourth industrial revolution, shared solutions in a fractured world but nowhere is the fractured world more humanly embodied than in the refugee. It's a person who's uprooted from all that they hold dear force to flee, often resented and reviled in the country where they settle labeled as an economic burden or a terrorist threat and this is the narrative that we truly need to disrupt. Since when do we lose our focus on the human, on our commonalities, on our shared bonds, on there but for the grace of God? Now I feel incredibly privileged to have been had the opportunity to work with UNHCR the UN refugee agency as a goodwill ambassador and to get into the field and meet refugees firsthand and in Jordan in Amiga's shelter in Azraq camp I met Shadi and Shadi had been twice displaced first from Syria and then from Yemen and his heartache was clear as he showed me these very fragmented worn much-loved precious photos of his parents and his brothers long since separated and perhaps he was never to see them again and Shadi had left behind when he fled his own ambitions of becoming a scientist like his heroes Pierre and Murray Curie and Albert Einstein but ever resourceful he challenged his energies instead into the future of others and he worked as a volunteer teacher in the camp imparting his knowledge and his love of science to refugee children building in them both the skills but also the desire to one day return home to their country to rebuild it because Einstein had been a refugee too so if we can just drop for one moment the labeled refugee the label loaded label of refugee just to see the person behind it Shadi an aspirational technically gifted resilient generous man father husband teacher and we can begin to move him from them to us because it's very very easy to turn our backs on the abstraction of the enormous numbers of those in need on the others but standing face to face with just one human being staring them in the eye hearing their story and experiencing our common humanity it's much harder to do nothing because once you've born witness you cannot turn away now in this room and over the course of the week there's an incredible opportunity to reconnect and start transformative thinking and turn this thinking into transformative action and whether your lens is one of sustainable profit or business integrity or competitive advantage innovation creativity or security please consider the incredible opportunities that come from engaging in this issue and with organizations like UNHCR and perhaps the longer term risks of not doing so but beyond that as people as parents sons daughters effective leaders inspiring role models and people who understand the value of legacy consider why this is important to you and i ask you to be reinvigorated by your moral compass now the new york declaration has given a huge opportunity to us this year to the states to the private sector to civil society to UN agencies and NGOs to develop a template for a more sustainable solution to the displacement scenarios and by marrying humanitarian and development action and drawing on business acumen and resources and technological capabilities of the private sector we can achieve far more effective and genuinely shared solutions so we think not just of sheltering and feeding refugees that's incredibly important but also connecting them and developing their capacities and welcoming their skills their resilience and their hope so alongside some inspiring business leaders who are already making huge and innovative contributions and who actually made it here tonight in the smoke Filippo Grande who's the UNHCR high commissioner will be here unfortunately not tonight he's still in his way but with he'll be here with you all week and he is a remarkable man he's an innovative and compassionate strategist so I urge you to take the time to engage with him and with the UNHCR team to see how we can best work together on those shared solutions this award is far much more for him than me and it's an honor to work with UNHCR and definitely Professor Schwab I'm here with myself thank you very much Shahrukh Khan received the 2018 crystal award for his leadership in championing children's and women's rights in India Shahrukh Khan was born in daily India when his school teacher asked him what he wanted to be in the future he said he would become a Bollywood star though his teacher tried to explain to him that his dream was unrealistic his mother's response was if Shahrukh Khan says it will happen it will happen so the story goes today with the following that runs into the billions and the series of films that speak of his tremendous talent and intense work Shahrukh Khan is an icon who entertains and inspires his fellow countrymen and women and who is loved by film audiences around the world across languages and cultures Shahrukh Khan has also been one of India's leading philanthropists he has been instrumental in funding and launching several charitable courses in India in October 2013 he founded the non-profit organization MIR Foundation named after his beloved father Mirtaj Muhammad Khan it provides support to women who are victims of attacks and suffer major acid attacks and suffer major burn injuries the foundation provides medical treatment legal aid vocational training as well as rehabilitation and livelihood support Shahrukh Khan has also helped create specialized children's hospital wards and has supported childcare centers with reboarding for children undergoing cancer treatment I would like to now to ask Shahrukh Khan to join me on stage I'm genuinely and deeply grateful for this honor and it is indeed a privilege to be in the company of two phenomenal and extraordinary human beings and talent Kit Blanchett and Sir Elton John she's of course a lady who commands the wind and you sir command the song of a billion hearts including mine so I'm really really touched that I've been chosen between these two just a special request before you go can I do a selfie now there I've embarrassed my children actors are renowned narcissists no matter how much we pretend not to believe in external beauty we tend to be obsessed by it one way or another and perhaps being surrounded by the succession of beauty a few years ago I came across a lady who had been brutalized by an acid attack and it kind of changed my life or the perspective of it at least to disfigure a woman by throwing acid on her faces to me one of the basest crudest acts of subjugation imaginable at the source of it lies the view that a woman does not have the right to assert her choice to say no to the advances of a man or a group of people and yet each of the women I met I'd found within them the courage to move on with their lives and to reject the idea of victimhood what struck me most about them was this that what was done to them only made them braver and stronger and more able to free themselves to make the choices everyone around them was telling them they could not make couldn't make or should not make from them I have learned how courage can catalyze victimhood into heroism how solidarity rather than charity enables the human will to overcome how equality is not a concept but a truth that encompasses all living beings and how the service of others is not a choice of choice anymore for any of us it is a duty that all of us must fulfill in the name of humankind when I journey through the lives of these heroic women and children through the work of mere foundation I experienced a complete reversal of perspective I stumbled upon the truth that they are no benefactors and no beneficiaries between living beings anymore there is just a vast pool of resources natural spiritual economically technologically that everyone is equally entitled to but only some have gained more access to it either by accident as in my case or by design and talent and hard work as in the case of all of you present here standing here before all of you who constitute perhaps the most powerful group of human beings in the world dare I say that power is one of these perspectives we like to maintain a certain way but power actually needs a complete reversal more than any other thing in the world today I was sitting with my five-year-old son baby sitting him just before I came here and suddenly he screamed my eye went into my hair can you get my eye out of my hair he didn't say get my hair out of my eye like we all believe they do it's a bit like that when you have power I think you think things get in its way but actually it's the power that is getting in the way it gets in the way of universal access to resources because it seeks to control and enclose them so we the powerful need to get out of the way I think to pick the barriers apart the ones that give us names and races and colors and hierarchies we need to get out of the way and into the work of breaking open access for each and everyone with the true sense of ourselves not as more powerful or less privileged but genuinely as equals that is what I have learned from my beautifully scarred women I'm grateful to these brave women and children who I work with for all that they have done for me to the world economic forum and all of you present here today for recognizing their heroism by conferring this award and this reward upon me also I want to thank my sister and my wife and my little daughter for bringing me up well and teaching me the value of requesting sometimes imploring and if I may add sometimes even begging a yes from a woman instead of forcing it upon her thank you so much professor Schwab for having me here and thank you mr. Schwab's thank you Davos Namaskar and Jehin thank you sir Elton John receives the 2018 crystal award for his leadership in the fight against HIV AIDS sir Elton John was born just outside London at three years old he decided that he wanted to be a musician after hearing Elvis Presley's music he taught himself how to play piano when he was only four years old and at the age of 11 he won a junior scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music where he attended classes on weekends sir Elton released his first album in 1970 which made him an instant international star and launched his monumental career that's had spawned more than five decades today he is one of the top selling solo artists of all time with 35 gold and 25 platinum albums and 29 consecutive top 40 hits he has sold more than 250 million records worldwide at the height of his fame he met the young man Ryan White who had contracted HIV AIDS through a blood transfusion through Ryan's eyes or Elton witnessed firsthand the pain and suffering inflicted by society on those affected by HIV AIDS in 1992 he established the Elton John AIDS Foundation which today is one of the leading non-profit organizations in that field it has raised more than 400 million dollars to date to support hundreds of programs around the globe for prevention service and advocacy I would like to ask sir Elton John to join me on stage a ridiculous pair of glasses to another no I would love to thank the World Economic Forum professor and Hildesh Wab for this incredible honor good evening everybody and thank you so much for this award I am also I should say very lucky I've been able to spend my life following a passion and that pursuit has led me to a second passion which has led in turn to this award to be given prizes for doing what you have always wanted to do anyway is more luck than any one person actually deserves music was my original passion and I was fortunate that it became my life but I found in time that this is not enough in my case passion led me into some very dark places I wasn't a great person for a long time I lost who I really was and I didn't like who I had become I lost my humanity my connection and my respect for myself yet the fame and the recognition I had acquired was a blessing as well as a curse because it led me towards philanthropy the second aspect of the work you have recognized this evening I started the Elton John 8 Foundation because I wanted to reclaim my sense of who I was I wanted to reconnect I wanted to be a decent person as I look back now on how these two passions have defined my public life I've come to realize that in both cases it is the link to a common humanity that really matters everything that we do that counts involves a connection if there had been no Elvis probably to inspire me I would not have made music all the people who work to produce what I do help me to find an audience and without the listening public there is no audience to reach I am described as a solo artist but nobody is truly a solo artist and the price of being connected is that we must never turn a blind eye to suffering it was that fellow feeling which inspired the Elton John 8 Foundation and over a quarter of a century we have tried to help millions of people to heal and to feel human again in doing this I have discovered that something is worth doing only when there is a purpose and that we can be proud of there is something that applies to everyone here all the leaders who come to Davos are big figures you've all made it babies but what are you making what worth does it have if it does not strengthen the bonds of a human humanity if we are not seeking to change the world for the better through our work what is the point of coming here yes there is glory perhaps fame and prestige there is wealth too but for what good work gives you something bigger than fame richer than wealth finer even than prizes I know this to be true when I founded the Elton John 8 Foundation 25 years ago AIDS was a death sentence there was no treatment to prolong life let alone to save it today there are 20 million people the world over who are on lifesaving HIV medicine incredibly we are now contemplating the end of AIDS by 2030 as a real possibility there is no prize to rival that and it is important to reflect on how it was done how we have come so far against one of the most lethal diseases the world has ever known in just over a generation of course the science the money and the know-how are essential but truly it was done by giving every single person due attention by recognizing their humanity by leaving no one behind the failure to treat people with equal respect is what fueled AIDS the moment we began to respect the moment we chased out shame was the moment we started to fight back I will continue being part of this work till the day I die it is what connects me to my humanity and as you explore creating a shared future in a fractured world this week I urge you to use that sense of human connection and your amazing talents to change the world it needs to be changed the equality in this world is to be honestly to be honest with you disgraceful finally I thank you I'm deeply honored to be recognized by you today thank you very much and make changes thank you this concludes our 24th crystal award ceremony please join me one more time in congratulating our three awardees it is now time for the opening performance we are delighted to present a world premiere developed in collaboration with Theatrala Scala many thanks to Mr. Alexander Pereira who is with us tonight this would not have been possible


Amidst all of this Adam Levine drama, one thing I'm sure we can all agree on is that things aren't always what they seem, especially when it comes to celebrity couples. Adam Levine and his wife Victoria's Secret Supermodel Bahati Prince Luwet in 2014 went on to create quite the charmed life together. Not only do they share two children, they have a third on the way and the family has also lived in some of the most gorgeous homes Los Angeles has to offer. Also Michael and I have dropped our own house tour of our new home that we moved into this year, so go ahead and subscribe to our personal channel if you want to see where we're living and more of what we're up to. In these videos we don't reveal any addresses and even though I've done a house tour of my own place, please do not show up at any private residences because it's not safe for anyone. With this Adam Levine affair scandal swirling around the web, we all can't help but wonder why. The Maroon 5 frontman and his model wife seem happily married with a growing family and living in luxury, but it appears that Levine can get a little restless. Take for instance his real estate portfolio. This superstar couple have a habit of buying and quickly selling multi-million dollar mansions, including a $33.9 million home in Beverly Hills. They sold only a year later for over $42 million to Ellen DeGeneres, making a profit of $5.8 million on another home they only own for about three months and most recently selling their beloved Pacific Palisades estate. Levine and Prinslew were sure to grab another trophy property before letting go of their other home though, dropping $52 million for a custom estate in Montecito built in 2009 for actor Rob Lowe. Hey everyone, it's Care the Vampire Slayer and today on Famous Entertainment we're checking out Adam Levine's extravagant family homes. Now let's get into this video. In March 2022, Adam Levine and Bahati Prinslew embarked on their latest real estate adventure when they dropped a whopping $52 million on their current Montecito mansion. If the pass is anything to go by though, the pair always seems to make a major profit when they flip their homes back on the market. This sprawling estate is called Oakview and was custom designed and built in 2009 by Don Nalti for actor Rob Lowe and his family, but Rob had already sold the place in 2020 to a bigwig in the healthcare industry. This mansion, which is built in a somewhat East Coast style, offers a large motor core out front of the main house and towering columns before stepping foot inside. Interiors offer a massive 10,000 square feet with six bedrooms, eight bathrooms and three powder rooms and that's only in the main residence. Property also holds a guest house with two beds and two baths as well as a pool house with a bed and bath. While the home was built in 2009 it was redone and modernized as recently as 2019 and you'll find the spaces are chic yet relaxed. There's a large formal living room with fireplace that opens up to the outside via large glass doors while a similar layout can be found in the other family room. These common spaces along with some of the others feature rich wooden floors underfoot and high ceilings. Over in the family kitchen there's a massive center island with bar style seating and commercial grade stainless steel appliances. There's also a casual dining nook off to one side and what looks to be a large butler's pantry. Other rooms in the new Levine family home include a second floor games room which also served as a library and a top-of-the-line home theater. One of the nicest looking spaces in the mansion might just be the outdoor living room which is completely covered boasting a massive white brick fireplace, plush sectional seating and a flat screen TV. Home offers multiple patios in fact, many with views to the ocean and shaded spaces to eat and lounge. Also out back there's a sprawling rolling lawn, a Zen water feature, a swimming pool and a sunken tennis court. All in all the property stands just under 3.5 acres and is situated in Montecito an area in Santa Barbara County of California between the mountains and oceans and it's much loved by celebrities. While Adam and Bahadi invited architectural digest into their Pacific Palisades home only last year in August 2021, since then the couple has already listed and sold that place. They bought this home for just under 32 million dollars back in 2018 from former couple Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner and proceeded to customize it to suit their tastes. Located in the exclusive Riviera neighborhood this Hollywood pedigreed spread sat on three acres of land and offered a 9,000 square foot main house with a total of 10 beds and 14 bathrooms. In fact, the total square footage added up to a whopping 16,000 square feet because there was also a four bedroom guest house with full kitchen and living areas as well as a separate structure with a yoga, gym and office inside. Listing materials from when the space was formerly for sale explained that the multi winged single level main home was originally designed and built in 1940 by architect Cliff May who's a man behind the California Rancho style which is a classic reportedly this was also a draw for Levine who's a self proclaimed fan of architecture. There was an airy and nearly all white great room one stepping foot inside with high beam ceilings overhead and a built in fireplace home on wall. This modern and chic space also had large French doors leading to the outside and nearby there was a den with large flat screen TV that doubled as a bar room also offering a marble fireplace. Their spacious kitchen boasted a neutral color scheme top greed appliances and opened up to a large dining area with built in buffet and space to entertain while there was a second and even larger dining room nearby. Walls of glass throughout many of these common rooms allowed you to flow between the indoors and outdoors seamlessly in true California fashion as well as offering views from LA to the ocean. Adam and Bahati's former master suite was a definite oasis offering up dressing room style closets one for him and one for her as well as an attached bath decked out in stone with double vanities a sauna and private wet room with soaking tub and shower. Another bonus in the home which the family loved to utilize was a large games room that doubled as a movie theater. This space was furnished with a large sectional with room for everyone as well as Dolby brand home equipment and a handful of arcade games outside aside from the fully stocked guest house in the wellness building there were of course other amenities in the grounds including a basketball court chicken coop and a handful of walking paths amongst the picture perfect lawns. This swimming pool and spa back here were fit for a resort and elsewhere you would find multiple patios and terraces including one with a sunken lounge built around a fire pit. While the couple hoped to get over $57 million for this home they settled on selling it for $51 million still turning a healthy $19 million profit on the stunning property. We know that Adam Levine and Bahati Prince Lou are fickle when it comes to real estate but let's hope that their shared passion for flipping Los Angeles mega mansions keeps their marriage going strong throughout these scandals. I also wonder how long they're gonna stay put in their current Montecito spread. Well that's gonna bring this house tour to a close. Let me know what you thought of Adam Levine and his family's homes in which you preferred out of the two that we saw. Thanks for tuning in hit that subscribe button if you haven't follow me on Instagram to chat and I'll see you all in another one. Bye