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- It\'s a mobile world with
calls, texts, and apps to help

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make our lives easier.

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But not everyone\'s benefiting...

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yet.

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Can mobile phone apps
be designed to help

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make a better world?

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This series challenges app
developers from around the

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world to visit communities who
are missing out, and then come

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up with an app that
could help...

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a Life App.

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- Yes, yes, yes, yes!

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- This week, Life Apps is in
Brazil, a country that\'s in

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love with the smartphone, but
which remains deeply divided

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between the haves and have nots.

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- Rio de Janeiro, perhaps the
world\'s most beautifully

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located city.

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With business booming, Brazil
is home to a mobile phone

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bonanza, and it\'s fourth in the
world for its number of

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smartphones.

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For young people like Pedro, a
job creating apps for mobile

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phones is a dream come true.

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Like many young software
designers, Pedro wants to make

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a decent living.

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But he also wants to help
others who are not so

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fortunate and don\'t have
a college education.

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Despite its beautiful setting,
Rio has many problems: social

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exclusion, pollution,
and unemployment.

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So Life Apps has challenged
Pedro to design a mobile phone

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app to help Rio\'s marginalized
communities.

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Like many young Brazilians,
Pedro wants to help create a

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sustainable economy that doesn\'t
cause pollution or

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social exclusion.

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He calls it the green economy.

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Pedro has accepted the challenge
to come up with a

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mobile phone app that
could promote the

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green economy in Rio.

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But how can a mobile
phone app help?

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It\'s time for some on-the-ground
research.

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Here in Rio\'s North Zone, Pedro
meets Cadu and Dinho.

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They work on community projects
in the Mare and

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Alemao favela complexes,
two of Brazil\'s largest

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shantytowns.

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Cadu and Dinho are taking Pedro
to meet young people who

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can help him work on
ideas for an app.

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Pedro\'s never been in such
a huge favela before.

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The massive, uncontrolled growth
of favelas is a major

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environmental issue is Rio.

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There\'s little proper
sanitation, power, or water

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supplies, and hardly
any green spaces.

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(MUSIC PLAYING)

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Up on the roof Pedro meets
Thamyra, a young journalist,

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and Adair, who works
with ex-convicts.

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Both live in the Alemao.

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And student Gir, who grew
up here in Mare.

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The harsh reality of life
in the favelas is

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becoming clear to Pedro.

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However, his new friends are
already trying to promote a

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green economy.

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And they\'ve got some ideas how a
mobile phone app could help.

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Close by along the Avenue of
Brazil, an estimated 150,000

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people live in the Alemao favela
complex, one of the

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biggest in Rio.

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Pedro is taking a look around
and meeting up with Thamyra.

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He wants to see the kind of
environmental problems that

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could be helped by a green
economy app, and the kind of

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solutions people are
already working on.

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Next, Thamyra takes Pedro to
a project called Verdejar,

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\"Going Green.\" Verdejar involves
local people in

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sustainability projects
and campaigns.

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They use theater, video,
and artwork.

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Quarries next to the favelas
used to spew dust into the

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atmosphere.

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And despite many protests,
one is still active.

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[(MUSIC PLAYING]

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Next day, Pedro meets Cadu for
a walk around the Mare, a

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complex of favelas that\'s even
bigger than the Alemao.

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There\'s just one badly neglected
park for over half a

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million residents.

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Next stop in the Mare, something
almost unknown here:

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a vegetable garden.

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It\'s run by volunteers to
improve the environment and to

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provide people with an
alternative to junk food.

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After briefing them on all the
projects, Pedro decides to

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focus on the community
vegetable garden.

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The discussion continues
into the evening until

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they reach a consensus.

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- The plan is to design a mobile
phone game that allows

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people to plant and grow
virtual seeds.

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And for every virtual seed,
there\'ll be a real one planted

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in the community garden.

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Pedro and Yuri develop the app.

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It\'s an ambitious idea.

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Tomorrow, they\'re going back to
the Mare favela to explain

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how the app would work.

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(MUSIC PLAYING)

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Erivaldo has heard his project
has been chosen for

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Pedro\'s Life App.

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But will Pedro\'s idea be what
Erivaldo really needs?

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Even though it\'s only at concept
stage, Pedro and Yuri

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explain how their app, Plant
And Harvest, would work.

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First, you must register.

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After that, you get to know
about the social projects

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listed on a new screen named
Meeting the Projects.

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Once a project is picked,
a screen opens, and more

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information is seen along
with a short video.

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After donating to the project,
you can choose seeds from a

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list of several different
vegetables and fruits.

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These can now be planted, and
you can follow their growth.

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On the last screen, the harvest
can be delivered to

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you, or you can give it to a
family in the community.

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If you decide to donate the
harvest, you receive the

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equivalent seeds back so
that you can keep on

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planting and playing.

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Pedro will continue to develop
the Plant And Harvest app,

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whatever the technical
challenges.

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He\'s created a new network, and
amid the green forests and

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gray concrete, he\'s shown
another way mobile phones can

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help build a sustainable future
with another Life App.