 This is the way to do it. This is the way to do it. Welcome to Youth in Action. In today's program, we have Dalvin Machuka to offer us better solutions for our internet. Dalvin Karibusana. So what is Dalvin Machuka best known for? Dalvin Machuka is best known for one, integrity. Two, love of human, humanness also. And a lot in terms of how you engage and value people that you are involved with. Interesting. Yes. And so what is your professional background and what inspired you to follow that path? My professional background, one is on information technology. Being inspired by a lot of things. One is how you engage people. The platform that you use to engage people. How do you communicate with your loved one? Two is in terms of information. How do you access information? In terms of learning, how do you access information and learn using technology? Technology is very wide. But also it can help you in a lot of things. What do you do? How do you impact the society using the information technology? Like now also, like in terms of farming, I know most of young people who don't like farming because it's a tedious work. You have to wait. So yes, I'm very interested in farming. I do commercial farming. Yes. Wow. What kind of farming? What things do you do? Do you plant crops? Yes. Or just poultry and other things? I do farming that is maize and beans currently. But also in future I want to now go for land scale in terms of the avocado. And how long have you been an IT expert in farming? In my farming, I've not yet started using technology. It's in progress. IT currently I'm doing it in terms of my profession. But now in future I will go back to now full scale on farming. And then that's when now maybe I'll start using now the technology. And there is a lot of bands when it comes to information technology but more often it's termed technical and difficult. How can you enlighten us on this? Yes, information technology is technical. But also it involves which type of devices that you are using. What exactly are you doing? Let's say for example you want to communicate with your loved ones and maybe you have grand kids at home and you want to communicate them and you are not together. So yes you can use information technology and access to maybe a video call or have a call with a loved one. Okay. And so on that department you said that IT is broad. Yes. Which specific areas do you handle? We handle fixed data. Currently supporting in terms of our sales the whole of Greater Western Region. And so when you talk about fixed data what is that? So fixed data is basically internet solution. Like now fixed data is the one that we use cables like fiber optics then we have wireless also which now uses now the radio waves that you can use to now engage and maybe access information on internet. Okay. So what is the importance of wireless internet or fixed data in the current world as we live? The importance is broad. One, like now the farming that I have spoken about you can use internet to do farming through the use of technology. You can do learning both the young ones and the old. You can do entertainment. The old can use that one. You can see like now the time COVID came in most of the companies went back to working from home and you could see the access of internet enabled most people to work from home without being affected with the COVID. So yes. Okay. A thing that you offer internet solutions what does a person in the rural areas how can they benefit or why should they deem it important to them? It's important in the rural area. Let's say for an example your grandkids who are maybe in urban areas and your parents are at home how do you make sure that they communicate and even have that close bond of interaction through using maybe conference calls which have videos, they can have an engagement talk with their grandparents and even put a face of maybe their grandkids as they grow up. Another one is even in the rural areas how do you make sure that things like now farming happens mostly in the rural areas how do you make sure that you also involve technology in the rural areas you can use technology and even start marketing your products start marketing how you even do farming in your rural areas. Yes. That is one of the things that we also encourage even the young youths that currently are maybe focused on TikTok, entertainment to go back to now farming because there is huge potential also in that area. Okay. And does this apply also to other areas maybe entrepreneurship, innovation and such like things? Yes, yes it does. Let's say for example if I've done my farming I've invested my crops what next do I do engage a different corporation different organization to look for the market for these products so yes through the use of internet you can actually reach out wider market by just posting or just sending one message you can reach the whole world at once. Okay. And when it comes to the internet you tend to hear things like 3G, 4G, 5G what is that? Basically I would find that there are two aspects one is the amount of data that you want to send and two is in terms of speed how fast do you want to send information to someone or receive information from someone and which amount of data do you want to send? Yes, so three two, three and four is basically the speed how fast do you want to relay that from one place to another? Okay. And this is literally technology changing and you know as fast as possible. Juzi 2 it was 4G now it's 5G how do you assist especially the people in the rural areas to have a smooth transition and adapting these different speeds of the internet? I look at that one one is through education do more of education especially for the old one because I know the young one you are accessing a lot of information we are able to read and adapt to this information or this changing technology but for the old one I do a lot of education in the rural areas so that you can also you can also explain to them the importance of this technology that is changing because if they are lagged behind the young ones are moving fast and they need to come to a place there where they can also understand even let's take an example like nowadays during when you are growing up maybe you couldn't be able to do even entertainment and sale and living from that but nowadays through the use of technology young ones are earning from this entertainment through the use of technology but now when you talk if the old one doesn't understand that the young one can also use that and earn a living they will either deem you like you are not doing the right thing but through education you are able to advise them that this is the right content this is the right thing that I am doing and it can enable me to make a living or earn a living and since you deal with installing the fiber optic cables and stuff like that is there a criteria you use to assess that this area I will do this or this area we will need to do this or it's just you can generally put them anywhere basically it's like a business you want to start your kakiosk there are things that you check when do you want to start that kiosk there are people that you can sell maybe whatever you want to start as a kiosk so yes when you start when you want to develop a market in terms of internet solution yes there are things that you check like in terms of are there people who can use internet in terms of costs for you to be able to provide the service and be able to reliably support the service you check the costs how much you spend to roll out that people are getting connected and using the service another one is the development of the market are people interested on what you are providing do you need to educate them before bringing that service so you have to look in terms of the market check on those aspects before actually providing also the service you spoke about educating the older generation in terms of the internet and its advancement how would they benefit seeing that they are still in the same position it's not like they will move to the urban areas how would they benefit in the long run with such technological opportunities they will benefit in quite several areas one is the the product if you let say for example you are in a rural area so one of maybe the service provider you can provide platforms for them where they can advertise their products you can provide platforms for where their kids can go and study where they can get good content in terms of studying and also entertainment entertainment is big also they can also use the platform too entertainment so years like now for example in the rural areas like now you can read a bible nowadays you can read a bible even on your phone your device and maybe the old doesn't know that not necessary you have to carry a bible to charge as long as I have this device your phone here I can actually go into it whenever I'm sitting and read something and I would love to ask now that you're on the field of this they have freely adapted it quite well one is through the sales teams that we have they are able to now educate them explain to them the contents the areas that they can engage also the internet also are there any other things that maybe mentorship have you played roles such as us yes yes we do quite a lot in terms of activities in terms of visiting children in terms of visiting the ones who are sick in the hospital and also we have a forum like now I'm the chairman for the group that I'm currently leading for investment and projects so it involves the youths and you guide them in terms of what are the current opportunities actually access like now the youths what can we do now that can actually secure our future and other people's future maybe we're growing up would you mention the different opportunities you're talking about there are many maybe I'll mention a few one that I've been actually mentioning entertainment you can start it from any point you can start in a living to its farming which I'm passionate about it's also can help you in terms of marketing your product in terms of even how you are doing the farming one and we'll be able to help you actually improve even the production through the use of technology you can be able to even monitor your your farming or your cows at home also monitor that another one even on healthy health is also another important aspect yes can help you also one may decide to ask if I introduce this internet solutions where I'm working what about the digital security am I safe there are malpractices and hackers how do we handle that technology as it grows everyone grows malpractices also those people are involved on that they are also growing whenever you develop something that is preventing that they also always come up with something but yes there are things that we are currently doing we currently have an executor so this will guide you to block maybe sites that you want you don't want to access this will help you to prevent even your kid at home in terms of what time do you want them to access internet what time do you want them to read maybe it will also help you for your kids to for you to be able to secure the platform that you don't want even your kids to visit yes so there are so several ways which every day technology is evolving and as it evolves we also come up with also come up with means of making sure that the security privacy of data is also protected in terms of understanding that the security and privacy of data is catered for this information is not everywhere where can we find such information to make sure that we are protected information is it's everywhere actually I go to youtube you can learn a lot of it go to nowadays you can access and go to different platform on even your google just google you will find how you can actually prevent and even learn the simple simple things that you can avoid doing like now sharing information over the internet you are able to know which type of information I can share which one is quite sensitive that I cannot share and who are the people that I can share this information with I understand your department IT is normally male dominated how can women embrace technology and actually be the big dogs in the IT department actually as we speak currently where work or the people that I am working with actually 60% are women yes I have a team that is actually around 60% yes so yes it's good to encourage especially the women to measure into IT previously some time back we used to view that IT is for the male but no it's for everyone IT is upon us to now encourage also the women also to actually join and and be part of also the rest and where do you see a future in terms of the internet space and IT I think we are moving away from mechanical works to artificial intelligence that is where the future is heading actually and you know a few intelligence will be doing a lot the marketing that we are doing the simple things that we are doing you are able even to automatic demand be done by robots so where does that leave our jobs? no it means that we have to change our perception the jobs that we are currently not doing something like farming why don't we go back there because people will still eat whether there is internet you go back and need food right? so the young one we need to change our perception this internet that is developing this technology that is changing how can we use it and take it back today to farming let's farm and produce more so that people continue eating as they continue developing more technology you've spoken a lot about farming being a young person farming industry how can you also bring in other young people to join the industry while remembering this technology that can help make work easier farming is a process and it needs a lot of patience sometimes you you can do something it doesn't come the way you want so you have to believe you have to have passion and you have to have that patience of waiting so yes, encourage the young people let's go back to farming let's go back and do good farming farming is a profession you can earn a living from it you can make even you can even break through your life through the use of farming so encourage them to come learn if you don't have someone to learn all to learn from use internet go to YouTube look for mentorship people are doing farming just you can learn a lot from them and are there any challenges you've encountered through this process that you have manuvered and how you did that quite a lot mine is funny so I do farming at the same time I'm working at the same time I'm studying working sometimes I use technology to deliver education I'm using full time technology to deliver and farming now so you have to you see how it has you don't need to really move like now if I need to go to school I don't need to travel all the way to schools to go there and run just to access my machine and read whatever I want some simple stuff you can do like now in terms of maybe engaging and doing maybe even doing a team meeting you can actually do it online nowadays right in terms of now the last one on farming which now I'm going actually I'm doing farming also on online because if if you have to engage your staffs who are working at the Shamba you need to call them sometimes you even tell them just take a picture then you are able to understand what exactly these people want for them to deliver whatever you wanted at the Shamba what about the challenges I've not had you speaking of them the challenges I think in terms of farming is the cost cost is really a big one second one second one is in terms of even the climate nowadays something that you don't have control over sometimes you might plant in your maize then no rain, what happens all of them rise up you have to go back do again because you have to do it for you to get these these crops at the end another challenge is in terms of marketing when you get these let's say for example our seasons in terms of farming they are the same so whenever you harvest everyone has harvested so the cost that you used and when you want to sell the produce is not even meeting the cost that you used so sometimes you have to wait until maybe the prices goes up so that you can actually sell but in the process sometimes they spoil what do you do that's a loss that you've made but it will need you to have that passion and that patience every time to keep doing until you get it right and so what is your advice to the community and the youth as an expert in IT and also as a youth farmer what can you tell other youths out there I'll tell the youths that believe first in what you do if you are good in farming do farming and do it with passion if you are good in entertainment do it like the other day that you love so yes believe in what you do also have patience with yourself believe in the process nothing comes immediately you have to believe in the process and also trust trust in the living awesome thank you so much Dalvin I have appreciated the time taken to come here and thank you for the nice insights of believing in ourselves as you have heard it believe in yourself believe in what you do believe in the process and also believe in the living God this has been Youth in Action I am Nyongwesa Grenis see you next time