Digital Planet

· Who (or what company) produced the documentary?
Digital Planet, BBC World Service

· Who narrated the documentary?
Gerick Mitchell


· What was the length of the documentary

26:29


· Describe the documentary.

The documentary is discussing a major breakthrough that a lot of Arabs were waiting for. That breakthrough is that “the internet can now speak Arabic”. In Sharm El Sheikh, a meeting was held and the BBC reporter Jonathan Charles was there to report in Egypt where the Internet Governance Forum took place. The reporter mentioned that he had to stand outside the building to talk on the phone and report more about the event as mobile Phones were not allowed indoors.



In the meeting it was said that a new era of internet will launch introducing to the whole world a “.Masr” organization that is all in Arabic leading to more Arabic archives on the internet as there are 300 million Arabic users but those users need their language to be part of the internet as it will be a lot simpler for them. “Typing will be so much easier for them and they will feel more belonging” as one of the members of the digital planet said. This kind of project will help a lot of people because many people have problems typing and reading. This is a mobile-internet breakthrough that will change a lot in technology.

· Why was the documentary interesting?

The documentary was very interesting such a breakthrough in technology will help a lot of people from blind people to dyslexic readers. That device can scan a whole book and read it out loud. For me I would love to have such a device because I do not like reading. Not only that, it is MP3 format and will be useful and its life span is more that 6 years. The story was very catchy will informative sound bites about the details and options of the phone.

· Quality of the narrator’s voice?

The voice was very clear and the Nat sound as well was very influential to the story especially when they used the sound of the actual phone while reading a scanned book.
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Was the documentary too long? Too short?

The sound bites very just right with the specific information needed. The whole documentary was a bit short for the amount of information that was being stated. However, If I was to do this piece I would have divided it into two parts. Overall the story was interesting and that breakthrough is worth that kind of focus.