From the rice belt of India’s north to Uganda’s urban slums, a revolution is quietly underway. Small ideas that are tackling some of the world’s biggest problems and transforming lives.
In the tea gardens of Bandapani, India, the Digital Empowerment Foundation is bringing light to internet dark regions, using low-cost solutions to connect the unconnected. It is also training women in IT skills, empowering them to become digital entrepreneurs.
In India's Haryana state, Boomitra has enlisted farmers to adopt regenerative farming practices, in a green revolution that also allows carbon to be sequestered in the soil. The NGO has also found a way to connect farmers to the global marketplace for carbon trading, creating a sustainable, virtuous cycle to remove carbon from the atmosphere.
And in Uganda, in one of Kampala’s biggest slums, an urban farm is teaching jobless youth how to become vertical farmers and build start-ups, a potential lifeline in a place where typical incomes are less than a dollar a day.
00:00 Opening titles
00:15 Connecting remote Indian women to the internet
06:01 Tech support in the village
08:13 Using technology to farm better
11:32 A new income stream
15:27 Farming in the slums
19:01 15-year-old dreams of being a farmer
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