Translator: Abdulatif Mahgoub Reviewer: Mualla Salah
I will talk about how --
first of all, I'm so happy that most of the attendees to this TEDxKhartoum conference
are from the youth.
And this is a sign and indication of a good future for this country.
I want to talk about how a young journalist,
with limited followers, can serve his community
he can change a lot of things,
and I will try from my speech right now to make an invitation
for the famous journalists, and the TV commentators to find other unusual ways
that have difference from the normal classical writing method to serve the community among us.
actually, I'm very thankful to autumn.
Because it was the first thread that I've written about,
I was in the third grade at the primary school.
The thread has been welcomed by my lecturer.
And I give her the credit for her contribution to build the personality that writes,
and speaks in front of you right now.
She's Ms. Laila,
the first way I've used the writing to serve the community
that was I writing to my brothers and my neighbors,
the messages of their girlfriends (Laughter)
maybe one of our sisters attending here, have read one of the messages I've wrote, I'm not sure.
in my early days of writing, my approach was to respect the people who read my writings.
and by the bless of God, in a very short period.
I was able to make many readers who read my articles,
this is one of the websites, one of my articles has reached before two years more than 11,000 readers.
Many websites have started to talk about a journalist called Altayeb Ali Farah, like Sudaneseonline.com,
and I've started to think how can I serve the young people who are used to be on the Internet.
In 2000, the Internet users in Sudan were 200,000 user,
now, the Internet users in Sudan are more than 5 million users,
there's one Arabic writer, unfortunately I don't remember his name,
he has done a research on Google insight, and he found that the word "culture"
is mostly searched by Sudanese users.
(Applause)
And the people who were searching for other words, like "sex" were from other Arabic countries close to us.
And I've thought of how could I serve this big number,
and then my story started with the TV, in a recent TV channel which is GOAN TV,
and then I've started to link between Facebook which has became very influencing on our life.
This is a photo of Tahrir square in Egypt.
And it was the spark that started from Facebook,
I've tried to discover what was my community importing from Facebook,
it was "LOL" the most famous used.
Guys are using it in their homes.
I was afraid that the word sex might be used more than the world culture in Google insight,
that made me tried to make the Goonbook in Goan TV.
I've trying to send a message through it, to the youth that there's a better usage for this biggest social website in the world,
Which it has been used by more than 500 million
And I've tried through this TV show to see, if the young people in Sudan can get attention to these new ways of communication
to ways communication, not that I write and they just read. No!
They are associating, talking with their stars, and the people they like, and they discuss about a cases that can benefit the community.
And thanks to God, the people who commented in more than 10 episodes, has reached a total of what you're seeing (Laughter)
314,900
And this indicates that we just need to find something beneficial.
What you will see next, is a statistics on how the people have interacted with the idea,
and when I speak about youth, it's between 18 to 24 years old, whom their percentage reached 42% out of the contributors.
And I've discovered that our media has a very boring & silly TV program.
that's why we go to watch MBC and MBC4,
and thanks to God, a lot of people from many different countries were interacting with the website.
And with the TV program, taking in knowledge that the TV program is being streamed on a recently established TV channel.
Thank you
(Applause)