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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Samantha Clark\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135669\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/aam-aadmi-party-india-elections-silicon-valley-ex-pats/img_3500/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-135669\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-135669\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/IMG_3500-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Parwaz Virk, left, and Dilawar Chahal volunteer for the Aam Aadmi Party, making phone calls to India to ask people for their votes from Chahal's office in Sunnyvale Friday, May 9. (Samantha Clark/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parwaz Virk, left, and Dilawar Chahal volunteer for the Aam Aadmi Party, making phone calls to India to ask people for their votes from Chahal’s office in Sunnyvale Friday, May 9. (Samantha Clark/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Monday, India wrapped up six weeks of voting in its \u003ca href=\"http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/08/a-primer-on-indias-parliamentary-elections/\">parliamentary elections\u003c/a>. Some \u003ca href=\"http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/lok-sabha-elections-2014/news/Highest-ever-voter-turnout-recorded-in-2014-polls-govt-spending-doubled-since-2009/articleshow/35033135.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">551 million people — 66.4 percent of the more than 800 million eligible voters — went to the polls\u003c/a> to choose 543 members of India’s lower house of Parliament. It’s been described as the largest democratic election in history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in the Bay Area, a large number of Indian expatriates are avidly following the results, which are expected to be announced on or by Friday, May 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And many are doing more than watching. Last Friday night, teams of Indian expats in San Francisco, Fremont and Sunnyvale worked all night calling voters halfway across the world to urge them to vote for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aamaadmiparty.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aam Aadmi Party\u003c/a> (AAP).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area Indians have poured a large amount of effort, money and technology into the AAP, even though \u003ca href=\"http://www.hindustantimes.com/specials/arvindkejriwalacommonmaninpolitics/spl3-lid.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">party leader and candidate for prime minister, Arvind Kejriwal,\u003c/a> is a long shot to win. The campaign is worth it, the party’s supporters say, because they are investing in a long-term effort to eliminate the corruption that has long characterized India’s bureaucracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Friday night’s calling marathon, a team of about 15 volunteers, mostly tech workers, gathered in a four-room insurance office in Sunnyvale, ate samosas and helped one another connect to a weak Internet signal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then they began making phone calls to voters in \u003ca href=\"http://www.lonelyplanet.com/india/uttar-pradesh/varanasi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the city of Varanasi\u003c/a>, where Kejriwal is running against Narendra Modi, leader of the powerful \u003ca href=\"http://www.bjp.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bharatiya Janata Party\u003c/a> that’s expected to win the national election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hello. Namaste,” they each said into their iPhone headphone mics as they paced around the rooms, gesturing as if the people they were speaking to were right in front of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have a script. It’s just us talking, not the party,” volunteer Parwaz Virk said. “When we tell them we’re calling from California, they listen because it’s surprising. What we have to say must be important if people from all the way over here are calling in the middle of the night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pro-AAP teams throughout California made nearly 7,000 calls Friday night, almost a quarter of the party’s total of 28,000 campaign calls that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the volunteers in Sunnyvale said they’ve had little or no interest in politics before this because India’s established parties offered no progress and no platforms they could support. They called the AAP a cause and a movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The revolution has turned it into a political party,” Virk said. “It’s just based on issues people care about. It’s heartening to see India become more democratic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anti-Corruption Movement\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kejriwal and the AAP (which translates as the Common Man’s Party) say they are committed to cleaning up a system polluted with graft, nepotism and other types of criminality. The AAP grew out of an anti-corruption movement that emerged inside India in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Indian expatriates have been leaving their jobs to volunteer for the party or even return to India to run on the AAP’s ticket. Others are using their technical skills to support the AAP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Indians who’ve come to the West, they see how politics and bureaucracy work,” said Pran Kurup, CEO and founder of e-learning company \u003ca href=\"http://www.vitalect.com/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vitalect\u003c/a> and a coordinator for the AAP Bay Area group.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Some Indian expatriates have been leaving their jobs to volunteer for the party or even return to India to run on the AAP’s ticket.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“And then they go back to India where people don’t have basic necessities like water and electricity,” Kurup said. “The Aam Aadmi Party is doing things that haven’t been done before in Indian politics. After seeing what Obama said about hope, people here saw there were opportunities to do similar things in India. It’s a powerful message that has had a, what we call in Silicon Valley, viral effect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135675\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/aam-aadmi-party-india-elections-silicon-valley-ex-pats/img_3506/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-135675\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-135675 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/IMG_3506-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Abhishek Goswami, right, explains to fellow Aam Aadmi Party volunteer Dilawar Chahal how the phone calling works. (Samantha Clark/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abhishek Goswami, right, explains to fellow Aam Aadmi Party volunteer Dilawar Chahal how the phone calling works. (Samantha Clark/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are about 400 AAP volunteers in California and 2,000 nationwide. Kurup helped run the more than 200-strong volunteer base in Silicon Valley, which at the start of the elections became the party’s unofficial technology team, working closely with colleagues back in India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tech workers are very involved because there is a lot of scope for technology to be applied,” Kurup said. “A huge chunk of the underlying technology platforms were developed by tech workers out of India. We can’t all be involved in the ground operations, but involved in cyberspace. We can apply our skills to a cause that matters to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Silicon Valley team built back-end systems using open-source software. The resulting social networking site, \u003ca href=\"my.aamaadmiparty.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my.aamaadmiparty.org\u003c/a>, connects supporters by listing them in a database and allows them to share information, such as news articles and blog posts. They also coordinate Google Hangout sessions between the party’s candidates and voters, and they built the infrastructure for a phone-calling campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But perhaps their biggest contribution has been the building of a fundraising system that promotes financial transparency. The name of everyone who donates and the amount are listed. So is how the party spends the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every penny that the party gets is accounted for,” Kurup said. “This is unheard of in Indian politics. The purpose of the AAP is not to grab power but to change how politics function in India. The first step was to change how funding works, so we stepped up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He likens the party’s emphasis on transparency to the open-source movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Overall, the open-source movement helps to move technology forward,” Kurup said. “So transparency is a huge part of what the party stands for. Linux was not to put Microsoft out of business. At some level, it was to keep Microsoft honest and to give people more options and move technology forward. That’s precisely what the AAP can accomplish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Priya James used to make marketing videos for startups in Silicon Valley, but she decided to quit her job to volunteer for the AAP. From her home and from the community workspace Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, she creates and edits almost all of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/user/indiACor2010/videos\">AAP’s political videos\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The AAP has peanuts compared to the other big parties,” James said. “I told myself I have to give at least one year of my time to the AAP.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From Volunteer to Candidate\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya Vishwakarma also left her job as a UCSF cancer cell researcher, working on leukemia vaccines and bone-marrow gene therapy, to work as an organizer for the AAP, after she founded the Bay Area group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaving San Francisco in January, she returned to her hometown of Hoshangabad, a town in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, to help the AAP find a local candidate for Parliament.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lived five years in the U.S. When I go back to India, I do not see any change — that bothers me. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Samantha Clark\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135669\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/aam-aadmi-party-india-elections-silicon-valley-ex-pats/img_3500/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-135669\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-135669\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/IMG_3500-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Parwaz Virk, left, and Dilawar Chahal volunteer for the Aam Aadmi Party, making phone calls to India to ask people for their votes from Chahal's office in Sunnyvale Friday, May 9. (Samantha Clark/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parwaz Virk, left, and Dilawar Chahal volunteer for the Aam Aadmi Party, making phone calls to India to ask people for their votes from Chahal’s office in Sunnyvale Friday, May 9. (Samantha Clark/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Monday, India wrapped up six weeks of voting in its \u003ca href=\"http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/08/a-primer-on-indias-parliamentary-elections/\">parliamentary elections\u003c/a>. Some \u003ca href=\"http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/lok-sabha-elections-2014/news/Highest-ever-voter-turnout-recorded-in-2014-polls-govt-spending-doubled-since-2009/articleshow/35033135.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">551 million people — 66.4 percent of the more than 800 million eligible voters — went to the polls\u003c/a> to choose 543 members of India’s lower house of Parliament. It’s been described as the largest democratic election in history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in the Bay Area, a large number of Indian expatriates are avidly following the results, which are expected to be announced on or by Friday, May 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And many are doing more than watching. Last Friday night, teams of Indian expats in San Francisco, Fremont and Sunnyvale worked all night calling voters halfway across the world to urge them to vote for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aamaadmiparty.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aam Aadmi Party\u003c/a> (AAP).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area Indians have poured a large amount of effort, money and technology into the AAP, even though \u003ca href=\"http://www.hindustantimes.com/specials/arvindkejriwalacommonmaninpolitics/spl3-lid.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">party leader and candidate for prime minister, Arvind Kejriwal,\u003c/a> is a long shot to win. The campaign is worth it, the party’s supporters say, because they are investing in a long-term effort to eliminate the corruption that has long characterized India’s bureaucracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Friday night’s calling marathon, a team of about 15 volunteers, mostly tech workers, gathered in a four-room insurance office in Sunnyvale, ate samosas and helped one another connect to a weak Internet signal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then they began making phone calls to voters in \u003ca href=\"http://www.lonelyplanet.com/india/uttar-pradesh/varanasi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the city of Varanasi\u003c/a>, where Kejriwal is running against Narendra Modi, leader of the powerful \u003ca href=\"http://www.bjp.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bharatiya Janata Party\u003c/a> that’s expected to win the national election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hello. Namaste,” they each said into their iPhone headphone mics as they paced around the rooms, gesturing as if the people they were speaking to were right in front of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have a script. It’s just us talking, not the party,” volunteer Parwaz Virk said. “When we tell them we’re calling from California, they listen because it’s surprising. What we have to say must be important if people from all the way over here are calling in the middle of the night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pro-AAP teams throughout California made nearly 7,000 calls Friday night, almost a quarter of the party’s total of 28,000 campaign calls that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the volunteers in Sunnyvale said they’ve had little or no interest in politics before this because India’s established parties offered no progress and no platforms they could support. They called the AAP a cause and a movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The revolution has turned it into a political party,” Virk said. “It’s just based on issues people care about. It’s heartening to see India become more democratic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anti-Corruption Movement\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kejriwal and the AAP (which translates as the Common Man’s Party) say they are committed to cleaning up a system polluted with graft, nepotism and other types of criminality. The AAP grew out of an anti-corruption movement that emerged inside India in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Indian expatriates have been leaving their jobs to volunteer for the party or even return to India to run on the AAP’s ticket. Others are using their technical skills to support the AAP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Indians who’ve come to the West, they see how politics and bureaucracy work,” said Pran Kurup, CEO and founder of e-learning company \u003ca href=\"http://www.vitalect.com/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vitalect\u003c/a> and a coordinator for the AAP Bay Area group.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Some Indian expatriates have been leaving their jobs to volunteer for the party or even return to India to run on the AAP’s ticket.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“And then they go back to India where people don’t have basic necessities like water and electricity,” Kurup said. “The Aam Aadmi Party is doing things that haven’t been done before in Indian politics. After seeing what Obama said about hope, people here saw there were opportunities to do similar things in India. It’s a powerful message that has had a, what we call in Silicon Valley, viral effect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135675\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/aam-aadmi-party-india-elections-silicon-valley-ex-pats/img_3506/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-135675\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-135675 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/IMG_3506-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Abhishek Goswami, right, explains to fellow Aam Aadmi Party volunteer Dilawar Chahal how the phone calling works. (Samantha Clark/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abhishek Goswami, right, explains to fellow Aam Aadmi Party volunteer Dilawar Chahal how the phone calling works. (Samantha Clark/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are about 400 AAP volunteers in California and 2,000 nationwide. Kurup helped run the more than 200-strong volunteer base in Silicon Valley, which at the start of the elections became the party’s unofficial technology team, working closely with colleagues back in India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tech workers are very involved because there is a lot of scope for technology to be applied,” Kurup said. “A huge chunk of the underlying technology platforms were developed by tech workers out of India. We can’t all be involved in the ground operations, but involved in cyberspace. We can apply our skills to a cause that matters to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Silicon Valley team built back-end systems using open-source software. The resulting social networking site, \u003ca href=\"my.aamaadmiparty.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my.aamaadmiparty.org\u003c/a>, connects supporters by listing them in a database and allows them to share information, such as news articles and blog posts. They also coordinate Google Hangout sessions between the party’s candidates and voters, and they built the infrastructure for a phone-calling campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But perhaps their biggest contribution has been the building of a fundraising system that promotes financial transparency. The name of everyone who donates and the amount are listed. So is how the party spends the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every penny that the party gets is accounted for,” Kurup said. “This is unheard of in Indian politics. The purpose of the AAP is not to grab power but to change how politics function in India. The first step was to change how funding works, so we stepped up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He likens the party’s emphasis on transparency to the open-source movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Overall, the open-source movement helps to move technology forward,” Kurup said. “So transparency is a huge part of what the party stands for. Linux was not to put Microsoft out of business. At some level, it was to keep Microsoft honest and to give people more options and move technology forward. That’s precisely what the AAP can accomplish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Priya James used to make marketing videos for startups in Silicon Valley, but she decided to quit her job to volunteer for the AAP. From her home and from the community workspace Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, she creates and edits almost all of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/user/indiACor2010/videos\">AAP’s political videos\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The AAP has peanuts compared to the other big parties,” James said. “I told myself I have to give at least one year of my time to the AAP.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From Volunteer to Candidate\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya Vishwakarma also left her job as a UCSF cancer cell researcher, working on leukemia vaccines and bone-marrow gene therapy, to work as an organizer for the AAP, after she founded the Bay Area group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaving San Francisco in January, she returned to her hometown of Hoshangabad, a town in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, to help the AAP find a local candidate for Parliament.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lived five years in the U.S. When I go back to India, I do not see any change — that bothers me. They always ask for bribes,” Vishwakarma said. “The roads are still bad. No hospitals, no access to clean water, people are illiterate. If we can have it in the U.S., why not my country?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she had no luck finding someone to run on the party’s ticket, so her AAP colleagues suggested she should run herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought, ‘Why not?’ If you are not part of the system, you can’t change anything,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vishwakarma then went door to door, asking people about their concerns and for their votes. She said this campaign strategy is unusual in India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I found a different India than what I see on the news,” she said. “For the first time, candidates are asking their problems. They were really glad. They feel like we don’t want their money. We just want to solve their problems. These kind of experiences, you get them not from reading a news story or watching TV.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vishwakarma said if she doesn’t win, she’ll continue to work with the party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area volunteers in Sunnyvale on Friday night said they know change will most likely come slowly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me, if Kejriwal doesn’t win, it would be a failure,” Virk said. “But out of 543 seats, even if we won 20, it would be a big success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said securing just a few seats might win more supporters. Just a year after the AAP formed in 2012, the party surprised people by beating the ruling Congress Party in Delhi’s state elections. 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After attending school in Mountain View and graduating from San Francisco State University, Jose Antonio Vargas had a successful career as a journalist. He worked at the Huffington Post, the New Yorker and the Washington Post, where he shared a 2008 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through it all, he hid a secret. He was in this country illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, Vargas revealed his status in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/magazine/my-life-as-an-undocumented-immigrant.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times Magazine essay\u003c/a> and has since become an immigration advocate. 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He’s also attracted many critics who contend he’s illegal, has repeatedly broken the law and should be deported. Vargas says he’s still here because “there’s been silence from the government. I haven’t heard from them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration reform is stalled in Congress, but the issue continues to make headlines. This week, the federal government rejected California’s initial design for \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/01/brown-signs-drivers-license-bill-for-undocumented-immigrants-vetoes-deportation-limits/\" target=\"_blank\">driver’s licenses that would be offered to undocumented immigrants \u003c/a>beginning next year. Meanwhile, Florida is expected to soon join 19 other states to make in-state college tuition available to undocumented youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas believes immigration reform will ultimately happen not through Congress, but state by state. 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And I flag down three friendly-looking teenage girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re hovering around a smartphone — not a flip phone. And I ask Rezina Gerba what kinds of things she likes to do with it. She gives me the universal look for “duh” and explains, “Like everybody else, I send text messages with it. I make calls. I listen to music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask the girls to play me a song. They take out “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1JPKLa-Ofc&feature=kp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drunk in Love\u003c/a>” by Beyonce. It’s the exact same song I’ve been playing — on repeat — since I left San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that moment it hits me: While the cabs of Dakar are more beat-up than the ones back home, the cabbies are texting-while-driving. While the wireless signal is way more shoddy, the kids are downloading songs whenever they’re connected. Our appetite for digital life is basically the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cell Phone Alley\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I turn the corner into a dingy, cluttered alley. It’s the gray market for mobile phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the entrance peddlers are selling diamond-studded iPhone cases, right by a classy statue of a busty woman on a bike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10140914\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/DemeCellPhoneAlley.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/DemeCellPhoneAlley-400x514.jpg\" alt=\"Tidjane Deme, the head of Google's office in Dakar, buys the latest Samsung Galaxy in this gray market because it's not yet being imported through official channels. (Aarti Shahani/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"514\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10140914\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tidjane Deme, the head of Google’s office in Dakar, buys the latest Samsung Galaxy in this gray market because it’s not yet being imported through official channels. (Aarti Shahani/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This looks nothing like the Apple Store. But the narrow stalls, squished side by side, are stocked with the latest phones. They’re not all coming in through official channels. Vendors here fly to Europe, pack suitcases and bring them back. There’s also a lot of Chinese knockoffs that go for 70 bucks US — about what a teacher here makes every week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vendor Aziz Abdou Salam Sy has had his stall for years. He tries to hustle me. We all know technology loses value as soon as you buy it. But smartphones are so hot, he says, they make a great investment — just like gold!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have extra cash and you don’t want to burn through it, you can buy a phone and store your money that way,” Sy says. “Then if you need cash, you can always sell it again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Silicon Valley on a Humanitarian Mission?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mobile explosion in sub-Saharan Africa came as a surprise. 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He’s also the founder of \u003ca href=\"http://internet.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internet.org\u003c/a> — a nonprofit he started last year to spread the Internet around the world. He describes the mission as a humanitarian one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean here we use things like Facebook to share news and catch up with our friends,” he recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8N3wGjiPYg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told CNN\u003c/a>. “But there, they’re going to use it to decide what kind of government they want, get access to health care for the first time ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not every tech titan buys his philanthropic intent. Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder who funds African health and education initiatives, has said of the Internet campaign: “\u003ca href=\"http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/dacd1f84-41bf-11e3-b064-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2jXaraByW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As a priority? It’s a joke\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://profiles.ucsf.edu/eric.goosby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Eric Goosby\u003c/a>, a public health expert at UCSF, is less critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m happy that they’re rising up and saying how are they relevant to this burden of disease on the planet,” he says. “”But I’m prepared to say they’re not going to get anywhere without aligning it with knowledgeable people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goosby has been on hundreds of missions to Africa. He welcomes all hands on deck. And even if the motivation is commercial too, that’s OK. But, he says, the digital superhighway doesn’t bypass the need for real roads, real schools and real experts on the ground. “The connectivity doesn’t replace the interaction with a person at a moment of crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Google Guy: Let’s Leapfrog\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question now is not if Africans will use mobile more, but how.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google has a tiny outpost in Senegal. Tidjane Deme is the head of it. After studying abroad and running a failed startup, he returned to his native Dakar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early days of this office, he’d call his colleagues in Mountain View and they’d kind of hang up on him. ‘”Hmmm you say you’re from Dakar. We have an office there? Let me check,” Deme recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10140916\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/SyCellAlley.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/SyCellAlley-400x538.jpg\" alt=\"Longtime vendor Aziz Abdou Salam Sy says Africa's growing middle class loves their phones; and he has creative sales pitches. (Aarti Shahani/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"538\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10140916\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime vendor Aziz Abdou Salam Sy says Africa’s growing middle class loves their phones; and he has creative sales pitches. (Aarti Shahani/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Silicon Valley, tech companies have gated campuses. Here, IBM and HP are in the same downtown office building. The scene is so small, they’re literally next-door neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deme shuts the door, sits on a giant beanbag chair, and lays out his theory about mobile growth. In sub-Saharan Africa, \u003ca href=\"http://www.unicef.org/french/adolescence/files/ADAP_Learning_Series-5_Africas_Young_Urbanites.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most young people live in cities\u003c/a> now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are really cosmopolitan. They’re watching premiere league soccer games or the last Beyonce clip,” he says, “but they’re also watching comedy, film TV series made by a local creator. So they really consume an interesting mix of local and international content. And Internet should not just be about half of their life. It should be about all of their life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means they need way more local content — especially video content. When Deme compares the written word — typed or SMS texted — versus the video form, “I know without doubt that video form will win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given illiteracy in Africa, visual makes more sense. And also, much like the rest of the world, Africans like to see themselves online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This will require much better \u003ca href=\"https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Regulatory-Market/Documents/IIC_Africa_Final-en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">broadband connection\u003c/a>, not just 2G and 3G signals. So the mobile operators have to step up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are more likely to leapfrog in the digital age if we go straight for high-quality Internet bandwidth rather than if we go and build crappy Internet as we have crappy roads,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google data show there’s pent-up demand. So Deme says, each company investing in mobile stands to cash in big time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His theory has a provocative edge. I ask him if it’s unethical to push an Internet connectivity strategy in which people who do not have clean drinking water are paying for digital life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says without pause, “We should definitely not be telling people you’re too poor to get the benefits of Internet. I think that would be ethically wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Local YouTube Celebrities\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A growing number of local artists agree with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the stars of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLaem52jXY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Journal Rapp\u003c/a> — an edgy news show that’s kind of like the “Daily Show,” except they rap the news. They’re capitalizing on the mobile economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years and years, host Xuman Mactarfal says, he’d see corrupt politicians squandering tax money. “They’re buying luxury cars. And without even hiding. All of that was on TV. 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(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roughly 300 people showed up at Fremont City Hall Saturday night to see Rep. \u003ca href=\"http://honda.house.gov/\">Mike Honda\u003c/a> face off with the candidates vying to unseat him. As they lined up to get inside, \u003ca href=\"http://www.rokhanna.com/\">Ro Khanna\u003c/a> supporters wearing orange and green face paint waved signs bearing his name, and yelled “We want Ro!”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Forum features a surprise performance from a left-leaning Republican and glosses over a major issue in the race: the candidates’ ages.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The event, put on by the League of Women Voters of San Jose/Santa Clara, was the first, and possibly only, opportunity to see Honda and Khanna in the same room. Khanna (and local papers) have called repeatedly for debates, but Honda’s campaign has refused, following a fairly traditional political strategy for long-term incumbents. Why take a chance on making a public gaffe or showing up poorly against a rival trailing in the polls?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honda did seem uncomfortable, sometimes fumbling over his phrasing and running up repeatedly against the time limits in the forum, tightly moderated by \u003cspan class=\"st\">\u003ca href=\"http://sjsc.ca.lwvnet.org/Message.html\">Gloria Chun Hoo\u003c/a>, president of the local LWV. But if audience members were unaware, walking in, of Honda’s 14-year tenure as a progressive liberal in Congress, they would have known a lot about Honda walking out.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had results,” he said, “and the results I’ve brought to this valley, was for everybody and not for a few.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocating for the “voiceless” was a theme Honda hit on throughout the evening. He has championed human rights and civil rights during his time in Washington, and he’s also been known as a reliable ally of the valley’s technology interests. But now that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/CA/17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">17th District\u003c/a> has been redrawn to hug Silicon Valley more tightly, simply being pro-tech may not be enough for voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a series of easy re-elections since first winning the seat in 2000, Honda finds himself facing a tech-tastic challenger bankrolled by Silicon Valley titans, including Eric Schmidt of Google, Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook and Marissa Mayer of Yahoo, to the tune of $3.7 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ro Khanna introduced himself thus: “My background as an economics teacher at Stanford, as someone who has written a book on manufacturing, as someone who’s worked at the Commerce Department on economic issues, makes me uniquely suited to address the challenges.” Later on, he noted he has developed a “detailed, \u003ca href=\"http://www.rokhanna.com/jobsplan\">seven-point plan\u003c/a> on how to create jobs” in the 17th District and across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honda countered that he brought the region $900 million to fund building a BART extension to San Jose. “That is what people want,” Honda said. “They want results, and that’s what I’ve done. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134982\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/ieeemilestone-1-of-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/ieeemilestone-1-of-1-640x452.jpg\" alt=\"Plaque honoring Gary Kildall, who developed pioneering operating system for personal computers. (Krista Almanzan/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"452\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-134982\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plaque honoring Gary Kildall, who developed pioneering operating system for personal computers. (Krista Almanzan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The quiet seaside town of Pacific Grove is a long way from Silicon Valley, but recently, it was recognized as the birthplace of a significant tech innovation. It’s where Seattle native Gary Kildall invented the first personal computer operating system called \u003ca href=\"http://www.techopedia.com/definition/3343/control-program-for-microcomputers-cpm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Control Program for Microcomputers\u003c/a> or CP/M. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CPM did something we all take for granted now. It made it possible for users to run any application on any personal computer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> “When I was growing up you had to buy a computer program and it would be compatible for a machine. And now you can buy a computer program and they run on any machine,” said \u003ca href=\"http://theinstitute.ieee.org/briefings/election/howard-e-michel-is-ieees-2014-presidentelect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Howard Michel\u003c/a>, president-elect of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ieee.org/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers\u003c/a>, or IEEE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the IEEE formally recognized Kildall’s contribution to computer science by unveiling \u003ca href=\"http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestones:The_CP/M_Microcomputer_Operating_System,_1974\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Milestone plaque\u003c/a> outside the former headquarters of Kildall’s company, Digital Research Inc., in Pacific Grove. IEEE Milestones honor significant achievements in a wide range of fields, from early experiments into the nature of electricity — \u003ca href=\"http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestones:Book_%E2%80%9CExperiments_and_Observations_on_Electricity%E2%80%9D_by_Benjamin_Franklin,_1751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Benjamin Franklin\u003c/a> is the earliest researcher to be recognized with a Milestone — to bioengineering. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> “We recognize things like the telephone, the invention of the battery, transistor, so things that are really outstanding, things that really change the world,” said Michel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kildall died in 1994, but his adult children, Kristin and Scott Kildall, were on hand for the unveiling. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/148074556&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Watching everybody gather round and take pictures like it’s a celebrity or something, it shows me how important this is to so many people. It makes me tear up,” Kristin Kildall said at the ceremony. “I feel a real sense of satisfaction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her satisfaction comes from that fact that she feels her father is finally being recognized for his contribution to the personal computer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, Gary Kildall’s invention has been overshadowed by one business decision he made back in the early 1980s. The story’s been \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2004-10-24/the-man-who-could-have-been-bill-gates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told, twisted and retold again\u003c/a>, but it all comes down to this: When approached by IBM to use his operating system on the first personal computer the company was bringing to market, Kildall didn’t immediately seal the deal, and that left the door open for \u003ca href=\"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/exec/billg/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another Washington state native — Bill Gates\u003c/a>, who was pushing another operating system. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>IBM eventually signed a contract with both Kildall and Gates, allowing the consumer to pick the OS they wanted. But IBM charged customers $240 for CP/M and just $40 for Gates’ PC DOS. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> “That was such a shock,” said Tom Rolander, who also attended the Pacific Grove ceremoney. “I expected IBM to be fair.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rolander worked at Digital Research. He was Kildall’s college friend, best man in his wedding and business partner. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rolander said that price differential marked the end of CP/M, but not Gary Kildall’s business ventures. He went on to start other companies. Rolander says Kildall was not haunted by the end of CPM, but that other people just couldn’t get over it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had to keep going over and over that story and then that story turned from that into ‘Wow! if you’d gotten the IBM contract instead of Bill, you’d be the billionaire, so how do you feel about that?’,” Rolander said.. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he hopes this IEEE Milestone will change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t believe there’s going to be a bronze plaque anywhere near Microsoft for Bill Gates for a creation of a technology. I think this is something that Gary truly invented and did, and so I think it’s the legacy for Gary and it’s the appropriate one,” Rolander said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristin Kildall has even broader hopes for how her father will be remembered. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we often have this idea of making money at any cost is valid and worthwhile, but he really taught me how important it is to be a good human on top of that,” she said. “Somebody who can be a great innovator and a success, and still be a great person, personally, and somebody people can love personally, aside from that. I think that’s something that’s really rare. I think that’s something we can all strive to be.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Milestone plaque is embedded in the sidewalk at \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/801+Lighthouse+Ave/@36.623322,-121.923635,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x808de1480922795f:0x8d99524a3ad6dbe8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">801 Lighthouse Ave.\u003c/a> in Pacific Grove. Kristin Kildall likes the permanence of it all. Her father’s legacy may fade from memory, but this Milestone is forever. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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