Ivory Coast food documentary. English African accent.
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Welcome to Ivory Coast. Every region of the world has their carbohydrates here it is play calling a typo and attack from the arms, anyone around West Africa would recognize the dish. We are heading to a remote village in southeastern Ivory Coast, 60 kilometers from the capital to explore the country's engine for their staple dish. This is the main road that leads to bourgeois village. It is submerged due to heavy rainfall, forcing us to track for the remaining four kilometers. This busy homestead is an industry in itself. It is dominated by many women who add value to cassava and suppliers who supply the products to customers hundreds of kilometers away. Coffee Delfin is among the thousands of women entrepreneurs in rural areas whose business is impacted by her limited access to mobile phone services due to illiteracy. According to the World Health Organization, about 300 million people in Africa have special needs. Most of them have no access or have limited access to mobile phone services 70 km away from the village we visit. The Ivorian visually impaired football team that recently took part in the 2022 blind football African championship in Morocco. Most of these players have more challenges away from the football pitch which include limited access to smartphones. Most smartphones with assistive technology are not available in local languages to enhance mobile phone penetration and inclusivity. Elaine Capo chichi, the founder of Open G Smartphone, has developed a smartphone and programmed it to over 70 local languages spoken in Ivory Coast. The smartphone is configured to respond to simple one word voice commands. It has a simplified interactive interface that can be used by an illiterate person. Even with the availability of the technology, the users still need to be trained on the usage To solve the problem of the high cost of smartphones. The company has invented a virtual phone that costs about $1. It consists of a simple card that resembles a debit card. It carries all user data on it. This makes the smartphone to be just a hardware advice which can be used by multiple users to use it. A user runs the virtual cards, Q. R. Code on the mobile phone device. The phone configures all your personal phone data on it including register and records and it's ready to be used. Other companies investing in the voice operation filled in Africa include more bobby which has created a three language voice assistant in Ghana called Ai. While Mozilla is working on an assistant in Kiswahili which has an estimated 100 million speakers in East Africa. Men's of theory is a technology expert based in Abidjan at least on this day in history. I can say that I sat shoulder to shoulder so and experienced the culture of the people of Ivory Coast. I also witnessed how access to mobile phones are key to economic development, how they connect people to the jobs, business opportunities and services. They need to escape poverty