Life Apps - Global Broadcast

five-part series airs around the world on Al Jazeera

Monday 25th November 2013

Life Apps, tves innovative, five-part series on apps for development broadcasts globally on Al Jazeera from 26 November.

With an estimated six billion mobile subscriptions globally, it's now well and truly a cell-phone world. Whats more the smart phone revolution (a billion hand sets sold in 2013) is putting mobile internet and apps in peoples pockets across the world. But can mobile technology help the three billion people living in poverty on less than US$2 a day? The rural and urban poor, isolated communities and indigenous people? To find out we asked app developers in Africa, Asia and Latin America to visit poor and marginalised communities, find out what they wanted and needed and then try to design an app that could help improve their lives. The result is Life Apps, a groundbreaking series, produced by tve working with production partners in Africa, Asia and Latin America and now broadcasting globally on Al Jazeera. The films deliver a surprising perspective on technology and development, from the Himba nomads in remote northern Namibia who use cell phones but can't read or write, to William, the Kenyan subsistence farmer who realises that he is missing out on market opportunities.

For more information on the the Al Jazeera broadcast. For background on the series Life Apps:

Life Apps transmits at the following days / times (all GMT)

Life Apps: Silicon Savannah (Kenya)

Can Nairobi-based software developer Muniu Kariuki, create a mobile phone app to help Kenya s hard-pressed subsistence farmers like William Ojwang?

Tues 26 November 22.30; Weds 27 November 09.30; Thurs 28 November 03.30; Friday 29 November 16.30; Saturday 30 November 22.30; Sunday 1 December 09.30

Life Apps: Favela Farm (Brazil)

Brazilian digital design student Pedro Dias, explores Rio's largest favelas researching an app that could benefit the city's marginalised communities.

Tues 3 December 22.30; Weds 4 December 09.30; Thurs 5 December 03.30; Friday 6 December 16.30; Saturday 7 December 22.30; Sunday 8 December; 09.30

Life Apps : Mobile Harvest (India)

Software designer Sachin Gaur believes mobile technology can transform life for millions of India's poor farmers. Can he create an app to help them?

Tues 10 December 22.30; Weds 11 December 09.30; Thurs 12 December 03.30; Friday 13 December 16.30; Saturday 14 December 22.30; Sunday 15 December 09.30

Life Apps: Once a Nomad (Namibia)

Namibian tech entrepreneur Dalton Ashikoto goes on a journey of discovery to meet the nomadic Himba people to see if an app could enhance their lives.

Tues 17 December 22.30; Weds 18 December 09.30; Thurs 19 December 03.30; Friday 20 December 16.30; Saturday 21 December 22.30; Sunday 22 December 09.30

Life Apps: World of Apps (UK and South Africa)

From Soweto to London Life Apps meets young developers working on apps for social good and looks back at what designers from the series have achieved.

Tues 24 December 22.30; Weds 25 December 09.30; Thurs 26 December 03.30; Friday 27 December 16.30; Saturday 28 December 22.30; Sunday 29 December 09.30

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