And we are live. What's up guys? Welcome back to another show. It's been a while, but we are back I got my good friend once again. He's been on here before and that is at it. Addie Creezy Quick little buy of who he is. He is a former CMO of Cointelegraph and current CEO of Block Show run by Cointelegraph. Addie, welcome to show Hey, I'm here and it's a pleasure to be here once again You are one busy person, you know you bit you're in India now and You were in China not too long ago. Hence why we're having this video call During your time in China, obviously the Chinese news came out with Bands on ICOs and you had the opportunity to speak with many individuals in the crypto slash blockchain space Currently in China. So my question to you since the title of this We know webinar, whatever you want to call it is that you know China ICO ban What did you learn when you were over there? What was the consensus? What was happening during this time? Yeah, okay, so we're getting all this China ICO ban, right? So when it just arrived to China, it was like I guess one day after the actual ban and That was Beijing, you know, so Beijing is the is the capital So it's the political capital and everything is happening there, right? So and the first thing that Happened all of the all of the conferences were late and they were canceled So I actually came to visit one conference, but it was moved to Hong Kong So everyone was scared That was the first thing so even even private meet-ups that were held in China at that moment They were really private. So it was not like I don't know. They were not privately Promoted they were all sent only via I don't know even not via WeChat, but via telegram so now it was like It was really crazy stories. I was I was looking for the first meet-up It was like around 30 or 40 minutes, I guess because it was really like far far far in Beijing so that's that was my first emotions and I even was like, I don't know firstly. I was thinking of even What will they do if they know that I have bitcoins or something so that were crazy times and everything everybody was scared but At the very beginning everyone thought that it's just like I see oh bad, right? So everyone thought that they are doing that in order to remove fraud You know how China is Cautious about its citizens and investors and how they do politics. So everyone thought that they're just removing fraud, but When they actually stopped some trading I talked to I Wasn't I wasn't Shanghai at the moment or yeah, it was Shanghai and I was like, you know I was meeting with some guys and the month these guys was bubbly and I saw his face because like before he actually Announced that VCC stopping trading in China. So just it was pretty strange, you know, so no one really understood that it was so serious Right because stopping trading is really really serious. I visited different offices. For example, Huobi Bixin Bixin, right? So this is one of the biggest mining pools and all of the Chinese founders and businessmen at that moment They were really worried about and actually the community was pretty positive The founders themselves were negative because they understood they understand how how it can be, right? And I won't be surprised if for example, I don't know in a couple of weeks or something Even Bitcoin or crypto will be bad, but there is one thing here After around a few weeks, I guess after I came to China And ICO were banned also exchanges were banned, right? So they Do their operations in China? People understood that what I understood is that that maybe it's happening year by year So what is crazy about Chinese government is that before their main summit, I mean the Summit of the party, right? So they have their own annual party summit, communist one Before each one, all of the stuff that is not under their control, they just ban, only ban So maybe After their summit, it will be like in the middle of October someone around one to weeks Everything will change and they will just like you know Come with some regulation on that So yeah, that were my first emotions and That's actually what was happening When I came to China at the very beginning And it's been two weeks since that a couple of weeks since that Has anything changed has anything changed within these couple of weeks? Actually, no nothing changed So it's becoming more serious even more serious everyone understands that it's real ban and that right now You can't you really can't do For example, ICOs or something like that in China, right? So I talked to many projects there that were raising funds Just in China. I won't tell the names of the projects, but for example, one of them raised 50 million They didn't know at all Before this ICO ban that like they even can't go to international market So they were targeting only Chinese one and what we met the first question that I was asked is like Eddie Do now any crypto international crypto exchanges where we can list our tokens or where can we Put up the limits, right? So how we can find investors. So now they are targeting international market So that's what changed actually since this two weeks, right? So all of them are holy. They went they sent their money back It's really so it's not a joke. It's not I don't know media bars or something. They really send all of their money back all of this millions of money went back and Chinese investors now they really have lots of that money and They are focusing right now on the international market. So what we see is that Chinese projects they They are now focusing on international market and some of them They create two projects out of one. So one of these projects is like a foundation somewhere in Singapore focusing international investors and another company is a Chinese company that is Working very closely with the government and regulators in order to create a project for Chinese audience So that's what I can't say changed just like the process that has begun, right? So the Asian market and the Chinese the biggest market is now wholly open to the global and Chinese investors are targeting international projects and Chinese projects that are getting international investors. So that's the process that has begun and Yeah, that's why right now we can see a lot of we will see a lot of agencies opening that are doing some business for I mean consultancy and so on for Chinese investors and projects That's what we will see and that's really cool because you know the initial idea of the blockchain is no borders, so I Guess that thanks to Chinese government now they did that and They opened the borders for was so such a big amount of really great projects, you know these projects that are in China They are enormous. They are magnificent. They are far away far away from what we see for example in Europe Or even in US. They are already doing such things like blockchain in the official intelligence, right? So even even this subject if we if we discuss it can be like one one to two hours But they already raised money for that and already like built the project a real product So the projects that we will now see So they are absolutely great and So, yeah, that's what changed and I assume that like in two or three months New money will be coming to all of this ICO bubble as you as you usually say in your Facebook and YouTube so that's that's what what is happening right now. They are just preparing for that now So for example at our conference, we will also have this stuff. So Yeah, yeah Something like this Do you think this will actually affect Any cryptos in China? Do you think this will actually affect like for example the new Legislation of the laws put down by the Chinese government. Do you think this will affect the other decentralized cryptos as opposed to just ICOs? You mean will this ICO bad effect or the fact that the Yeah So do you see the do you see the Chinese government putting more bans on their exchanges in China? I think that it will be the following. That's what I discussed actually in China. They will take like two three exchanges now Like I guess the biggest one Will wholly show on their example how you need to be regulated So I guess it will be like two three biggest exchanges. Maybe yeah, but I don't know something all of us know what are the three biggest changes so they will take them and Holy show on their example how to regulate what? What are the limits and so on and so forth because when I visited some of their offices? I mean on the exchanges in China all of them shared me with the with me the info that they were already already Before these dads were working really closely with the government and now It will be totally different. So they will have very strict limits. They won't be able to trade like Demounds that they are doing now and what I also predict is that you won't be able to With the draw BTC directly to you one for example. It won't be it will be impossible. So what they are planning to do I think so Is creating their own crypto currency which you can use only And exchange to you want so in order to to do any crypto stuff You need to have like BTC you want or I don't know if you want call it whatever you want And they will begin for for sure with the exchanges. So I see oh, that's one thing They just blocked it because it's hundreds of millions of dollars going out of China But they know that right what they need is keep everything inside like they want like they used to So of course right now they will firstly block the biggest exchanges create their own crypto and start practicing that so start looking how it works But what do you know really? Yeah, do you think they're gonna be creating like economic zone like Macau or Guangzhou for blockchain? I don't think it's me. It's actually necessary. They already have Hong Kong where actually everything is happening all of the conferences that were Declined they went to Hong Kong most of them. So they already have a Help right which they they can use and Through which they can actually send money outside. So I guess it's Hong Kong But even even even they don't need that help You know if you can't if they create Their own crypto. It's done. They don't need any help It's so how do you think the price would be affected you think that would actually re-effect the global price and supply of everything That's an interesting thing because when I was in China and talking to all of the guys and after the first Actually, oh, I was in Kuala Lumpur at that moment. It was one day before I entered Beijing and Crypto exchanges were banned. I guess it was like that. Yeah, and the guy the guy from I Don't remember from which probably from waves I guess came to me and said, okay That's that's a that's a disaster right and I also thought okay. Yeah, that's really a disaster What will be the what will be the price now God? I have all of my savings in Bitcoin what it's happening Yeah, that's really so with my minor and BTC most of them and When I looked at the price, I thought that it will be like one two thousand But it was it felt like I don't know three or four hundred So I looked at the price like in the three hours and it you know At that moment and stood that it's not it won't be affected at all. That was a surprise for all of the Chinese Founders and the exchanges as well, you know, the price is now stabilized. It's it's at the same level as before That was a surprise for I guess so governments to because Before any any single event can influence the price now. It's totally different the interest is so big that Nothing will change and even with more regulator regulations coming. I mean structured and logical ones The price will will be going up because you know, the more regulations come the more rules come I mean in terms of investments into the skin and into the industry the bigger investors are Like looping in because they see the rules. They see that they were But don't you think like for example, let's say I'm an exchange or a minor one of these big mining pools in China And I can't switch my BTC to let's say the rim and B That's just gonna increase OTC.  So how how do you think why it will so usually influence the price. Yeah My whole point of the regulation doesn't even matter because me as a note as an OTC me as a minor I'll just go to OTC broker. So actually OTC. This is actually good for OTC brokers For them for sure. I mean for them. It's like a new huge amount of commission. Yeah Yeah, but for you know Actually the regulation I continued telling that like during the last one month and At all of the meetups we have regulation It's cool.  They won't come they won't invest in any industry where they don't see the rules So if you want the market cap to go to trillions We definitely need Chinese government Japanese government Russian you ask any of them to regulate them to say how What's the process look like I think we'll we'll see this we're gonna have two different worlds We're gonna have a regulated crypto world and a deregulated crypto world And it's all on laissez-faire capitalism if you want to use a regulated system by all means use a regulated system But if you want to use a decentralized unreal unregulated no KYC no AML True form of free expression of speech me doing business with you then you have the option So it's not and most people say either or has to be regulated. I'm like no there's room for everybody That's a good point. But what I would like to add to this is it's not like two different worlds I guess anyway the world that you mentioned the second one I mean which is decentralized. It's inside the regulator the regulation one Because if you want if you actually want to come to the real world with all of the with all of your BDC or tokens and some you need to pass the KYC procedure or whatever right, so I Totally agree with you, but with only one addition that I guess it's not too Parallel worlds. It's a world inside another until Bitcoin becomes so mainstream that I don't have to switch it for cash So that's that's what will kill that's what will happen as well But I don't know when and that's a good point because I was I'm discussing this stuff So when we won't eat cash or electronic money or something and no one knows Only my coffee, maybe no, so you know because I always follow his Twitter where he says such crazy things like I don't Bitcoin will be 50,000 or my tennis so we should ask we should ask him I guess yeah, he's an interesting character. We got to get him on the show for sure. Oh Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's I guess he's pretty reachable. So it won't be a problem Why don't you get him for block show at the conference? Actually, yeah, we can try the only thing is that for black show for black show We are looking for more like blockchain solutions founders and so on but my coffee is more more like More like an investor. I guess now or something Yeah, we're more looking for founders like for example you to neo metaverse eos or something like that, you know people that can actually Present their solutions for now.  Do you think United States is gonna follow or they're just gonna do their own thing? Actually because because SEC just made a they made a public statement about going after ICOs and they just went after a couple of them last week You mean they have this they banned you mean they are banned one after another or you're going after fraudulent ones scammy ones. Yeah Okay, no, but you know in Korea did the same. So it's like Of course, of course I see so if we if we discuss ICO particularly Of course, everyone will will ban ICOs in a in a way. They are done now, right? So all of the all of the countries like like you asked or or China and I guess Russia will do the same Because it's because it's crazy, you know, it's I guess everyone has already Said so much about that and though we don't need to go into detail because Absolutely, my opinion is that it will be the way it is done now must be banned everywhere and It will be regulated So for sure US will follow China or China will follow US Korea will follow China You know, so it's done right now and then for example You've heard about all of this closes of The bank accounts of different projects I Mean in Singapore in Malaysia and everywhere in China So that's that's one of the ICO echoes, you know, so until they are unregulated it will happen and so To crown it all I still already attracted a lot of interest Bitcoin prices up and dollar tokens are up and so on and so forth But now it should be should be regulated Because in other way the negative effect will be rising and rising So how do you think you're right like how would the regulation work? Like let's say like how would that model work like if I'm a Canadian investor and I want to invest in ICO and Like an IPO you have a lottery. You can't just buy as much as you want. You're limited on the shares you can buy What's what's the KYC and AML? System for that then for a regulated ICO like how would that actually play out? That's actually a very good question and the question that is not answered. So it's like Actually in China as well.  Yeah, true true So the problem here is that yeah, it's The problem is that investors are coming from all over the world, right? So and what what what lawyers are thinking about now in each country is how they can Pass all of these procedures that you mentioned personally I I don't know for now. So when I talk to lawyers, they also don't know When I talk to government representatives, they also don't know What they all only know for now is that we should do that we should ban these decent that but they don't have any procedures for How how actually to build the regulations so if you want to hear I'm telling you we're gonna see pushback I think the more they regulate the more people will switch to more privacy currencies such as Monero Z cash More people we use decentralized exchanges to raise money Same thing like drugs you make drugs illegal. Well, guess what massive black market anybody. You don't even have connections Anybody can go buy drugs anywhere. So the more you make things Regulated or illegal or use telehuman being they can't do it the more they will literally push back at a sheer spite To make sure they can do that themselves Totally agree and in order not to have like this Stupid regulation right stupid bands and make it make it like totally illegal. You need to build consensus between The government and regulators in the community So you need to talk because what I hear now is that everyone is just totally gains that saying that okay We are getting back to all of this so totalitarian stuff everything will be regulated. They will be the black market and so on but Speak to the governments tell them how they should do that and just I don't know prove them But it should be done like that. So and they actually had to at block show. Sorry for speaking, but that's that's a relevant topic. We are Connecting government so we will have a government panel which will be discussing the actual regulation of crypto and ICOs and all of that stuff there and answering the Q&A from the Audience so that's how we think we can Try to build some consensus and try to find some answers, right? So that's what we will try to do And and answering your question. We think that yeah only only by building this dialogue between the community and the government We can find and we can build these structured and logical regulation right in order to avoid All this black market and so on and so on But the funniest thing the black or the biggest black market is American Greenback So let me ask you this You've been traveling a lot the whole year you went to China and India right now We've been talking about ICO bands been talking about regulation versus deregulation Do you have any predictions on where we're going to be in the ecosystem within the next six months? In the next six months, that's good that you asked about six months, but not two or three years like usually people ask Because for two three years, I don't know It's crazy to predict But in six months so in six months, so it's what's what's the month it will be I don't know November December January February March April oh April already Okay, so let's predict closer. So I guess up to up to the end of this year The price firstly the price will will go significantly significantly up Maybe up to ten thousand dollars because I Yeah, yeah, yeah, because I believe that after the quite a summit everything will be okay No major announcements will be made so everything will be the same Secondly Secondly a lot of projects are Opening announcing their Not only ICOs, but the fact that they are just announcing their great great projects And it maps into different industries and that will be a new a new amount of money coming into the industry and You know thirdly historically what are you from Bitcoin except? 2014 it was going up like by the end of the year as I remember So as for the crypto, yeah, I guess it will it will significantly go up because of the positive news around that But I can predict what will be what will be at the beginning of 2017 maybe by Q2 Or something like that. We will see some big crashes and Fails of the projects that raised money now Because you know I'm talking a lot to them and many of them don't have any team That is building the product any business planning. I guess you've discussed all that already a lot during your show, so No need to elaborate on that. So at the beginning of 2017 a lot of bails won't fall That's what I see for now and Regulators regulations and regulations it's coming and coming and coming, you know, I can't make like predictions on that. I don't know Some big stuff will happen. Yeah, we'll see a lot of new solutions really new products coming in Absolutely different industry is very interesting ones and that will grow Regulation will will come it will attract institutional investors If nothing urgent happens actually will just develop develop So it's like that so Coming up soon end of November you guys are having a blockchain show in Singapore. Is that correct? Absolutely right and you're speaking to Amir Yeah, I keep on forgetting about that. I Will be there so tell us a little bit about it Sure, so thanks for giving me the chance to tell actually about black show so I will be very short black show is powered by coin telegraph, which is like, you know, you know what coin telegraph is and Yeah, it's an event. It's a blockchain event focused on showcasing variety of blockchain solutions and this November 29 30 We are holding block show Asia for 1000 plus people Where we are Connecting the Asian and global market So the stuff that we have just been discussing will be discussed by real experts like founders of Chinese projects governments Investors really real ground breakers that will present their vision and Share their experience knowledge and so on with the with the audience and of course a lot of projects will Showcase start the RICOs and so on and so forth. So that's a great community event. It's a show It's a today event in Singapore So just imagine how cool that it will be and it's a big event I guess that in two or three years like that will be one of the main events for everyone to join Because yeah, I'm looking forward to it it's gonna be exciting and I was able for anybody listening out there for the blocky's family and for my YouTube channel me or Rosic I was able to Get an amazing deal for everybody to come over and to participate in the community. So if you're looking to save More than 35% just use a code block geeks 35. There's actually a link below this video So it took me, you know, I was pulling Addie's teeth out to get this was able to get to code for everybody Make sure you use that and I'll be it'd be really good to see everybody in Singapore together Yeah, thanks Amir and the one important note. We are very focused on startups that the I mean the blockchain startups and the ticket for startups is just one eight or one hundred and eighty nine dollars So it's really cheap and the price will go up on October 8th So for everyone who wants to come to find clients investors and so on Join us and join Amir join me and join all of the other people that are coming We'll be a cool show. Awesome. Well, I did just want to thank you so much We'll wrap it up over there if people want to find more information about you best website to reach you at is About me or about block show say both As for me, you just Google I mean at a crazy on LinkedIn or Google or somewhere At a crazy blockchain at a crazy coin telegraph and our website is block show Asia comm or Events dot coin telegraph comm so both both websites were and So Amir, thank you so much for hosting me for hosting me today. I hope it was valuable I like shared my insights on the Chinese stuff happening Sorry for the lights because I'm in the room and I hope it was cool. Awesome. Well, thank you brother. I'll see you soon Thank you. Bye. Bye


people here. I thought this was going to end at six but clearly you guys are really excited about what's happening here. So I'm going to be talking about you and me as citizens of the cyborg society. I'm a cyborg anthropologist and when I tell people about that, they ask, first they ask, what is a cyborg? And do you think you're cyborgs? Okay, who thinks that they're cyborgs? Right, I think that already if you have a mobile phone, you're augmenting yourself and if you're wearing glasses, you're augmenting yourself. Who now thinks that they're cyborgs? All right. Okay. And then people ask me, what's anthropology? And anthropology is something that I take items from some other times and I look at the items and I try to understand how did these items affect society? Like if you would take a wheel and then you would try to figure out what do people do with wheels and you need a wheel to be a taxi driver. So I would study, okay, how would the taxi drivers then use the wheel to earn their food? So I'm trying to take items and figure out how the society works around those items and I do that in the future in the cyborg societies. So my cyborg societies are great societies living because I've gotten to decide myself what I would like them to be. Because there's nobody to tell me anything else. So my cyborg societies are democratic equal societies where people are able to pursue their happiness and they're able to augment themselves to whatever they need more.  So my cyborg society idea is not like most of the Hollywood movies. It's more of a utopia. So I'm going to take you into this path how to study the cyborg societies. So you need to go underneath the society and figure out how it actually works. And the cyborg society is all about data. All the interconnected relations of data that comes from robots, from the humans, from IOT, from AI, all those streams of data and when those streams of data connect and interconnect they make out the rules of the society. What we nowadays think of laws and standards and regulations, those are the laws and norms and regulations of the future. Okay, so let's go into doing what anthropologists do. So I picked three, four artifacts and these are artifacts that we already have today in our society. But they're going to be really meaningful artifacts in the future in the cyborg society. Four different artifacts. So my first artifact and you have to remember that these are data artifacts. They have to do with data because data is what runs the society in the future. So the first one is about peer bosses and peer government. The second one is a transparency for safety and sustainability. And the third one is your ID and letting data work for you. And the fourth one is using social media as a crystal ball. So let's study these four different artifacts. The first one, peer bosses, is all about DAOS. These are decentralized autonomous organizations. And maybe if you are in the blockchain and Bitcoin, you've heard about the DAOS and examples of them how they didn't work. But actually, there are quite many examples nowadays of the ones that do work. I don't know if you have been to Steam.io. So that basically is a DAO. It's tokenized. And it's basically like a newspaper. And anybody can go and write articles there. But unlike Facebook, where you go and write something and you don't get paid, at Steam.io, you actually get paid. And you can vote on the rules of the newspaper on the journal.  And you get money from working on the internet. So that's our first artifact. And the same thing could also work for the government. We could all govern ourselves as a country or within or outside of groups of countries, come up with the laws and regulations and how we would like us to be governed. The second artifact is about sustainability and safety. And this is about blockchain making data transparent for us. So you can make all the data that is really important for sustainability to be transparent. And that will affect our behaviors. So what if we knew exactly where the food that you ate today for lunch, what did you guys have for lunch? Maybe some fish. Did you know that if the fish was sustainable fish? Not really sure. So what if we could know that this fish, you know, there would be some QR code and with my mobile phone, I could check where did this fish come from? Is it sustainable? If all that was transparent, that would affect how we would organize and what our behaviors would be, right? Our third artifact is new assets for you. Because I believe that I have a birth right to my data. I believe that what data I create, what data streams I create, I should be able to decide what to do with them. If I want to give my data stream to research for free or if I maybe want to sell it to somebody. I looked into this even in today's world and if I had some disease that would be interested to be researched, I could actually sell my data for about $1,000 a month. That would be a really nice universal basic income, right? So I truly believe that data is my own data and I get to make decisions. So my data is really a possibility and I really like my data because it's a Finnish concept. There are similar concepts in other countries but I think it's really important to start thinking about what are we going to do with the most important asset that there is in the future. Okay, then the fourth artifact is data science for governance. Right now the government is in a bit of a pickle because when they are looking at research, ordinary research, from researchers, scientists, it often is that scientists have to be quite vague of, let's say, on climate change. It's not really clear what is happening when and in that sort of situation, it's really, really difficult for politicians to make decisions because they don't want to look like fools if they make the wrong decision, right? But there are many other ways to come up with the data to know what's actually happening and one good way is just to follow our social media. So you can do data science on our social media data and actually figure out when people, when there's a conflict coming up or when there's migration or other stuff happening because of the climate change or something else. And it's so much faster to make decisions on that and so much less embarrassing for the politicians because you actually have the knowledge that it's happening now. So those are the four artifacts that are actually going to make a difference when we get to the cyborg society. They will look different at that point but we already have these artifacts here. So you get to choose. What are the artifacts that you want to embrace? What are the artifacts that we now have that you would like to have more of in the future? So it actually is your future, I believe. So have taken it upon me to do little things here and there for people to for people to see more clear how these little pilots that we do here and there are actually going to make a difference in the future. So if you're here in Finland on December 12th, I have a little hackathon where we're going to have bio hackers and my data people and blockchain people and we're trying to recreate wellness and health. So if you happen to be here 12-12 at 12 o'clock, it's at the other university in Helsinki. So welcome all. Conclude my bit but I would like to ask you guys before I go, how many of you would really like to impact the future and come up with a better future? I think that's why you are here. So I really think if you're out at slush, you do want to impact your future. And how many of you have taken upon yourself to do something about it? I want to see. Okay, that's a good start. That's a very good start. Thank you for that.


Welcome to the Well Summit on the Information Society 2017. I am delighted to be joined by Aruna Sundararajan, Secretary, Telecommunication and IT Government of India. Thank you for joining us. Thank you Charlotte, it's a pleasure to be here. Thank you. So you have ambitious targets for India to become a digital society by 2022. How far advanced are you to deliver this target? Well, first of all, let me say what the vision of the Government of India is. For India, digital technologies are absolutely key. One, because we have a very youthful demography. We have fully 65% of Indians being below the age of 35. So it's an aspirational society. Second, we have large access deficits and service deficits, which we have to address. There's a lack of traditional infrastructure, whether it's healthcare services, whether it's educational services. So both infrastructure and services, there's lots to be done. And digital technologies are vital for us because they provide us the most scalable way of providing these services at optimal cost. So that is the objective of the digital vision of the Government of India. Now how far are we advanced? Well, in the last three years, ever since we launched the Digital India program, there's an umbrella program, which involves both the federal government and regional governments. I'd say that we've had a fair measure of success in terms of one access. We today have one billion people who have access to the mobile phone, which is large. Second, we have one billion people who have digital identities called Aadhar. So that enables everyone to join the digital economy and transact with the digital economy. And third, we now have one billion people on digital payment systems. So I think that in short, and we have 450 million people who today have access to the internet, which we want to take up to 750 million. So I'd say that there's been a fair amount of progress. So why do you believe that being a digital society will help create a more equal and fairer India? As I mentioned, India has already seen the benefit of digital technologies. It's been the number one job creator in the economy. It's been the growth engine that has driven India's growth for the last 15 years, both the telecom industry and the ICT industry, which is we today export 110 billion USD of software. So for us, ICTs are a great leveler. You know, it's a tool of empowerment because for the first time, there's a promise that we can deliver quality healthcare, quality education, quality governance, and we can give voices to people who have never been able to be heard. You know, before we had Aadhar, the digital identity, fully 500 million Indians, you know, were denied access either to financial services or other government services. For the first time, all of them are now able to transact. So I think that is probably the best indicator that we have, that digital technologies indeed hold the promise of a fairer and more equitable society for us. And can you give us some specific and practical examples of projects or programs where you have linked ICT and SDGs? Well, first of all, you know, one of the biggest problems in India has been, you know, the fact that we have so many people in poverty, right, and financial inclusion and the lack of access to credit and services, which is so essential to livelihoods. This has been one of the key problems. In the last three years, 280 million people have become financially included because of the project that we call Jan Dhan Yojana. This is a very practical example of how, you know, we've been able to bring in people. The second example that I want to give you is the direct benefit transfer program that we've launched through ICTs. So because of ICTs, you can actually get your entitlement transferred into your bank account. Today, we have 340 million people who earlier had to go through layers of government bureaucracy to get their entitlements, and they often didn't get it. You know, the leakage was expected to be anywhere upwards of 50, 60% of the money was being taken away by the intermediaries. So I think these are two big examples that I can give you of how, you know, ICTs have really started helping people come out of poverty. Aruna Sundara Rajan, thank you very much. Thank you Charlotte, it's been a pleasure. Thank you.


So let's talk about the statistics of liking things, because I think a lot of new YouTubers when they see their video has 20 views and 2 likes, they get kinda sad because 2 is not a big number. And you have to understand that the average success view to like ratio on a video is 4%. So if 100 people watch your video and 4 of them like it, you are a success. Like f***ing chill. 2 out of 10 is 10%. You're killing it, bro. So relax. You're doing good. Just keep it up. And just try to understand the reality of how things work. Unless someone really wants to do something, they are probably not gonna go out of their way to do it. Even if it's one extra click, I know from the YouTuber perspective it's a little hard to understand why one extra click is such a huge ordeal to ask. But you have to understand the reality of any time you are asking for someone to go out of their way they wouldn't normally do for other people, you are asking for a lot. I mean, think about it. You know when your teacher asks you to write your name and date on an assignment before you turn it in? Well, it's like adding the date to your homework each time. It's free. It's easy. You know what helps the teacher and you know it only takes 3 seconds to do. But you really just don't want to do it because it's just more work and you don't get anything from it. It would be different if each time you added the date the homework gave you an extra bonus point, but that's not how it is. It's extra effort required from you with virtually no reward. This is what liking a video is for most people. They don't gain anything out of it. And the fact that it takes any effort at all makes it too much work for most people. So don't take it personally. Just keep at it. And just remember that 4% is success. So hope that helps. And as always, hope you have a fantastic day and I'll see you around.


Hello everyone. Ross at Teacher Talkit. I've got five ideas for you here. This is from a lovely little book called The Decision Book which I've had for about a year and there's 50 ideas inside and they're really good ideas for thinking strategically so really good for middle leaders, want to be kind of school leaders or people who might work with schools. So I'm going to just share five of them so you've got the graphics on the screen. So this one is great for coaching, for providing feedback whether that's to a child and an appearance evening or a child in a lesson or if you're working with other teachers and you're pushed for time it particularly looks at how can we move away from giving an emotional piece of feedback to rather than just advice or a compliment which might just be superficially pleasing but how can I provide a suggestion that might elicit more thinking from you as the individual, so student or teacher context is key here, but where I draw out your own solutions rather than me give you advice or something that feeds your ego. So the feedback box is an idea in the book. It's also on my blog I want to read out more details. It's an idea that I'd recommend checking and if you've been to my teacher training sessions and Mark Planteech I talk about the flow model. So this comes from Mihal Cheek-Zemmahai he's a Hungarian psychologist and what this looks like in the classroom are when Bryce or Ross or Sarah or Ahmed or whoever if I pitch the work too high they're over challenged and they burn out so they would essentially opt out sir Mr. McGill I'm not going to do this. The work's underpitched not at their level I'm bored and it's under a challenge it's under challenge so I'm not meeting the challenge of their abilities and what I need to do as Cheek-Zemmahai describes is move the student from apathy to flow. In the lesson this might look like so you might be doing an activity and a student at the end of lessons will say Mr. McGill that lesson went really quickly. That's a good hallmark that they were immersed in their learning and that often comes from this an intense focus on activities that line in the middle where I provide the students with a choice but they it's both linked to a clear objective and I give them immediate feedback and when this happens so Cheek-Zemmahai calls this immersion and I get the right pitch of work and I can move a student from not enjoying the subject not engaging to getting immersed and getting lost in the learning. The next idea is the cognitive distance model so this kind of goes back to the feedback if you're providing someone with feedback and they might not like what you say whether it's a conversation with a colleague or an observation or someone visiting your school. How do you know if someone's experience in cognitive distance? Now at the top we've got if I said to you your teaching's under par and if that was their attitude and someone said to you well I'm not paid to teach you are that's a good cue or signal that that person is experiencing cognitive distance they don't want to engage in your dialogue and they think your teaching's weak and they are paying you to be the teacher and they're coming to give you that advice so often leadership responsibilities people that don't teach as much in the classroom that's an indication that you're the person you're working with is experiencing cognitive dissonance thinking about disagreements that's essentially what it means. However if you are working with someone where they are more consistent with working out the differences between the things that you say in your disagreements someone might say your teaching's under par Ross but I understand why XYZ so then they would model this through their behaviors when I talk it was XYZ but let's work out some solutions so that happens then you're probably working with someone who's not experiencing cognitive dissonance they're not finding it difficult to disagree with you but they're offering some suggestions that's a nice way to look at that. In terms of you want someone to make a decision for you on this here's another idea this model shows the extent of consequences for your decisions now you might often have someone who doesn't want to make a decision I think it's important here that the person says I'm not going to make a decision but I will get back to you with a decision and that essentially at the extent of that choice so we've got a positive and a negative here over a period of time I need to find out and make that decision for that knowledge but if I don't make that decision and I just leave it to linger there's a consequence if I don't make a decision that's just as bad as sorry let me articulate that again if I am not ready to make a decision it's helpful to say let me get back to you with a decision by X period of time and that's very good for the other person to know that the kind of conversation you're having or the problem will be kind of actioned there's more of a blog to explain that I want that one's quite an interesting model and the last one now this is probably a good idea to use in any context but the difficulty is with schools that are in high accountability models to evaluate other team members I think this is something needs to be done openly the challenge is for us all with someone else saying oh Ross your person number two we've rated you down here so what we're looking at here is what's the critical threshold the critical limit where you want everyone to be performing you may do this yourself as a manager the challenge is then to share this with the people that you work with or ask them to do that of yourself now these are largely business strategic leadership models they may not all apply in a school setting so don't take them as these are the things that you must do but there's some things that you might want to consider that you can use in your own place of work so get in touch at teacher toolkit or email me at support at teacher talk it dot code UK and something for the summer to read the decision book and it's worth checking out so thanks for watching


And then I had a minor in marketing and core concentration in graphic design. But I was thinking, today I can kind of just walk through my experience at home. I was lucky enough to start working just a month back to graduation. Which is like good, but at the same time now looking back I kind of wish I needed myself to summer off. But I was definitely anxious to start working. I just wanted to give you guys a little background on me, what I do. And if you think it's like super casual, if you have any questions or if you want them away, let me know. So this is going to be kind of silly. But like I said, how I got from here being in PRSSA over to the photo on the right, which is a picture from the publicity club of New England every year. They have these really big bell-ringer awards and all different agencies. Not just Boston where I'm from, but all around New England. And there are different case studies. So once you get into that class, that'll definitely set you up. Although I know that was definitely a challenging one. But it'll definitely set you up for success. So I did a lot of different things on campus. I think the really great thing about Roger Williams being so small, that I know SP and I will hit you over the head with this, like get involved, spray away the ultimate leadership skills, have some fun, make new friends. But what I found super helpful, of course, was just internships, experience along the way. How many of you guys have done internships? Everybody? Good. I mean, if you have one, that's great. Two, three, three. I mean, I think of whatever you can do to get experience along the way is super helpful. But where have you guys been in training? Just brought it up there. Anybody? Actually, I'm sure it's at a corporate level. So, yeah. Nice. Anybody else? Yeah, I'm sure there are. I've been there for a while. Are you guys finding, I think, personally, I was able to do a couple of different things in different industries. So, the internship here was on campus over in the law school, where they used to have the Office of Marketing and Communications for the school overall. So, kind of doing, like, internal communications and stuff like that. My second internship was at Gray's Homeland Wedding Stuff, which was a luxury wedding item thing, just down the street in Warren. So, that was really cool to get some, like, creative writing, and adherence under my belt, and then allow us to, at RGW Group, and definitely a shampoo or two, agencies based on profits. So, I think, in training at those last weeks, this really gave me good exposure to what I might be doing as an entry level, but I'll sometimes just open my eyes to what it means and what it might be like, and I found that I liked it. So, I'd like to come. Any questions, comments? Cool. So, now I can give you guys a little bit of background about come. So, we have about 100 employees based in Boston in New York, Boston. It's our headquarters, where most of our employees are, but we also do have a small agency in New York. We do have global capabilities, because common communications is a part of a larger global Omicom Group, so we get to work with different sister agencies throughout the U.S., over in Europe and the U.K., so it's a really great place to collaborate. I think one of the things that really made to come was first, the people there. I found that a lot of people are, like, young. They don't discriminate against young college grads. Everyone's super smart, really passionate about what they do and they're more coordinated. So, a couple things about what we offer. We have several different pillars here, but we're fully integrated. PR and marketing, communications agency. So, we have a couple different areas of expertise. Brands communications is the largest department, if you want to call it a department. That's what I do. A lot of businesses with PR. We have a team of digital media experts. Account planning, insights and research. We have our own in-house creative team, which is super helpful. And then we also do a lot with CSR corporate responsibility. Has anyone taken any studies class yet? So, you probably started hearing about the different types of PR. I'm curious what you guys are interested in. Or if you've kind of felt strongly about one over another. What do you think? Crisis communication. Why is that? Matter of fact, I feel pretty good at crisis management. And do you organize in that kind of situation? I will. Anyone else? Well, I'm one of those brands of consumer PR, consumer publications. Just because I thought it was one of the most relatable things. Because, you know, we all are consumers of different things. So, I just was drawn to that, which led me to the brand communication service. So, speaking of clients, this is just a sampling of our current client roster. We have tons of different brands, global brands, national brands. We do smaller regional and local projects from time to time. But we really do have a great depth of industries. We have food, fashion, tech. You can see for yourself, we definitely have. We dabble in a lot of different industries. So, a couple things that I've been working on over the past two and a half years have had brands in fashion, food, fitness, and health. So, again, one of those things that's really cool about working in an agency is that you'll wear many different hats and you'll get to, you know, become an expert in several different industries. We are expected to, you know, stay in the know and always be aware of what's going on in the news and if there are any opportunities for your clients to jump on a trend. So, typical day, surprise is that there really is no typical day, at least when working in an agency when you're working on three or four different counts a day, each scope will be completely different. So, again, very fast-paced, but you get to do a lot of really cool things. So, these are just a couple different categories. You need a relationship that's huge, no matter where you go. Social media strategy, of course. Event planning and management can be fun, but stressful. Celebrity partnerships. For me, working on the ortho-light to move down to sports, professional sports, partnerships, cause from a CSR perspective, advertising and of course, some external communications on the client side. Any questions there? This slide is just like a couple different of my favorite things that I've got to work on. Top left is a photo. We did a media event for my barber client. We took local New York media and online editors up to shooting grounds. We did a whole day of immersion day where we had clay shooting lessons, live fishing. The brand also has a partnership with the Land Rover, so we did the off-road course. So, that was really cool. There's a picture of Julie Woodley, I think her name is. So, we'll do a lot of product placement and spending product celebrities. Done stuff with the color on Boston Marathon, the SMT. So, the next few slides, I'm not sure if anyone came to call and read Boston Wars, but I just, before that group came in, just kind of surveyed my office to see what's something you wish you knew when you were first starting one as your first ampere or first day at home and I just wanted to share a couple things that are both serious and funny. We can take a sec to read. I think on this page, one that I wasn't expecting to get back, was to contribute to your 401k as soon as you get your first job, which I feel like is something that you don't really talk about much in school but definitely something very important. You know, when you're looking for different jobs, you want to make sure that you do have good benefits included and 401k is definitely a huge thing to talk about with HR. I also have some news for children here but NPR formatting definitely matters for all of our communications and visual communication if anybody's taken that class here is of course as important as written communication to NPR. You will always think something might be, you know, client ready and good to go but I'm sure once the team starts circulating things around, you'll find that people have different styles different ways of wording things so don't be discouraged when you start getting lots of edits or different feedback. One thing I think everybody should do is to at least don't memorize the AP style but definitely be familiar with it when you're writing especially when it comes to press releases or any media piece and documents you definitely want to have everything in AP style. A lot of things. When you do get your first job don't be afraid to ask questions don't be afraid to speak up and share your own thoughts and ideas because I think sometimes when you get your first job people might tend to be a little more reserved they don't want to sound unintelligent but good ideas can come from anywhere so don't be afraid to speak up and ask for help. One thing I think we talked about a lot when Pierre was dressing for the job that you want not the job that you have and something that I found at least at my agency home it's very casual like we can wear jeans every day but of course if you have a client needing a spider to dress up it's a little more professional but at the same time it's fine to be like that but if you do put a little more effort and be a little more polished then people do take you more seriously I had to put Brian's ass line in here but yeah working in PR VR, servicing agency you might think something's perfect and I think I touched on this a few minutes ago but you might be all aligned internally but clients tend to have their own perspective and sometimes they have their own vision and you can of course provide strategic counsel and try to get them in the direction you want but ultimately you have to go and please the client other things be in the moment but it's definitely important just because we have our cell phones, we bring our laptops to meetings whenever you're at your first job even if you do have to take notes sometimes I like to just take notes like old school and a notebook just so I can be more focused and engaged and if you don't have enough PR you have to be nimble because working as an agency things change so, so, so fast like I'll try to make it to NULIS at the end of every day so once I come in the next day I'll be fully prepared but sometimes I'll come in and have a couple emails and my whole day's changed so just being able to be nimble and flexible is huge and again we work in PR not the emergency room I think a lot of teams or clients or even like professors like Shelton like you can think that you know it's end all be all but at the end of the day if you're ever getting stressed out like take a step back and be like alright you're not saving lives in the emergency room this is public relations it's fine but always make sure you're paying attention to details someone's asking who to send a file make sure it's part one for a format, all that jazz and a couple of these I think might be a little harsher but I think Shelton actually does a really good job of preparing us for the real world trying to strive for that balance I think anybody in college already does a really good job of that especially if you're already taking classes and juggling an internship or a work study or you know clubs and orgs on campus definitely a good skill to have and you have to have a thick skin like I touched on there's always going to be multiple rounds of edits someone else might have a better idea than you but like I said it's PR not PR as long as you learn not to take things personally it's still fine and of course it's still oriented so that's all I have I figured we could spend some time doing some Q&A if you guys have questions about my experience here at Fratch Williams or how I started looking for my first job or anything at all I'm totally open so let me know how did you start looking for your first job so good question I was very crazy and started looking for jobs in January for my senior year which made me feel better but definitely not necessary the way I did it was first of all I narrowed down my city I'm from the Boston area I was kind of new that I wanted to start working there so I actually made an Excel grid and listed all the different PR agencies, major companies that I was interested in and started going online to see if they had any relevant positions based on my little experience for those empty level jobs I started doing some bone screens I think over my spring break I didn't do like the crazy like anything but I ended up going on some in-person interviews some initial test cases just so I could start getting my name to HR to start networking a little bit just so when I knew when it came time to graduate to May I already had my name listed so I would have been just like filming cold but actually I think they started happening really fast after I graduated to May once I was officially not a college student anymore How many do you work on multiple accounts a day or how many do you take at the same time? I think I could vary by agency but in my experience I combed a checklist that would keep people on three teams so three different client accounts at any given time some months depending on if you get a new business win if you win a new client if you win a small project you might be pulled in for more or depending on the client's scope if things tend to quiet down in the summertime or in the wintertime you might go down a little but I've been typically on three or four teams at a time I combed You said you're part of a larger agency Are you in constant contact with them? So personally I'm not but Omnicom is more of a network of global TR agencies so Cone's part of that Fleischman Hiller's part of that Ketchum is part of that so there's a lot of different agencies that all kind of fall into this parent company so from a day to day we don't really do much with them like a HR and benefits perspective if you want to share I think more internal resources but like in my position that's kind of effective I don't talk to anybody there When you're like getting on a lot of these presentations especially like for a country level do you really just want to talk about the importance of larger clients so like I want to know what does that mean I work with this level brand before does that something that is going to be more appealing to the agency especially not in an entry level or is it more appealing to say if you help develop and start your own business show that more of a creative entrepreneurial state That's a really good question I think it totally depends on what company you're applying to if it's an agency if it's like an in-house major brand that you're looking at I would totally recommend listing some of the different pieces of work that you've listed on but I think what's even more important than just name-dropping would be to show your results like we've talked about quantifying your resume as much as possible like what did you do at the start what did you do during your experience like did you help draft a press release did you do any media pitching and outreach and from where are you able to secure any blogger coverage any social media pose you can translate that into impressions and more tangible results for HR and the interviewer just to prove that this is what I've done I can at this place is what I can bring to you guys but yeah I think you know if you're working at Zappos and you're looking to go into a fashion agency like totally let them know that you have experience in that industry I think that can only help you yeah Has anyone ever asked you to use your graphic design knowledge because I'm a graphic design partner and I never know if I should bring that up as like an important thing that I can have so I've always wondered if people have used it I personally have not used it I mean when I was applying for jobs I definitely mentioned it in interviews you know just having an eye for design having a basic like Photoshop and design like those different skills in your back pocket I think is definitely a good edge to have over someone else who might be applying for a design team but at least in this instance at home we actually have our own team of like in-house graphic designers so they'll help you know our team on like say or fully do some ads or they might be working with Ben and Jerry to do something else so I wouldn't be the one even though like I know how to do some graphic design I'm not going to be the one really doing that stuff but yeah I think totally worth it I'm like favorite pieces but you want to like show an interview like totally valid Well thanks guys if you want to stay in touch I have some business cards don't be afraid to like ever shoot me an email I'd be happy to look at a resume and if you're ever in the boxing area let me know I'd be happy to meet up Thank you


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Alrighty, more exciting news, I guess we could call it somewhat exciting news, obviously nothing is certain or confirmed, and with this specific area I have absolutely no idea what it's for, I have not heard any rumblings in terms of it, but I'll go over what I think it could potentially be but definitely take this video with a huge grain of salt and view it as an extreme reach. I definitely pride myself on presenting only facts to my audience now, or things that I genuinely know something about or have strong feelings towards, and this is one of those things that I have absolutely no idea nor was I expecting to see markers, but yeah, I guess I'll go over a few things there are markers around the entire perimeter of the parking lot as well, and this specific area seems to be in a specific shape that would suggest that they're going to cut it out and put pavement here, that would be my ultimate guess, which is extremely interesting considering for any of you who have been to Canada's Wonderland this season can vouch that Front Gate can no longer handle the crowds, yes, there is social distancing, and yes, the entire midway area to get into the park before you go through security isn't being utilized to its full capacity, but regardless, Front Gate at Canada's Wonderland can no longer handle the crowds. With that being said, Wonderland might be doing a very small construction project in order to help with these crowds in 2022, they might be potentially moving I guess guest services and ticket sales out here into this area, like they could do that very simply or have even self-serve kiosks where you can purchase your tickets or season passes, that could be a potential reason as well as to what's going on here. I do suspect they are going to extend the pick-up and drop-off area, again I do want to say that is a reach and unconfirmed, but I do see signs that the pick-up and drop-off area might be getting extended and this might be a small temporary relief until Wonderland is ready to spend the money on a huge Front Gate overhaul, but I will say I am starting to think that Wonderland's Front Gate Renault could be getting bumped up and happening sooner. I do know for sure that Wonderland has been waiting on a Front Gate Renault for a while now and that when they utilize the guest services area as second entrance into the park, that is temporary. When we have spoken to someone at Wonderland that was confirmed and that they are waiting on a Front Gate Renault for Canada's Wonderland and Cedar Fair is just waiting for the right moment to do it and I do think it's getting pushed up every year that Wonderland opens, it's getting pushed up even more and with all the houses being built around Wonderland, they definitely need to utilize better crowd management, exactly why we see construction in Kingswood. I think that Wonderland is definitely rapidly developing the park to be able to handle crowds better, there's lots of condos being built, lots of people moving into the area and Wonderland each year as they add more roller coasters and additions and upgraded steaming and food is going to re-attract guests that maybe don't go as often, they're going to attract new guests across the border, it's becoming a destination and with that you're going to see infrastructure upgrades and this might be one of those. Anyways I just wanted to quickly touch on this and show you guys what I was talking about on our Instagram story, there is construction everywhere in the park, in the Whitewater Canyon area there's signs of construction, Kingswood there's construction, Vortex Hill for the Harmony Hall, there's construction and now there's construction markerings in the drop-off and pickup area and this specific location near Frangate, so definitely a lot happening and super excited about the future at Canada's Wonderland, I think we're going to get exactly what we deserve. Anyways, thanks so much for watching the video, hopefully you had an amazing Thanksgiving, have a good one guys, bye.