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right in between Belgrade and Budapest to the border of the countries there's a camp here called whore gauche very few very little running water absolutely no electricity here there are lights solar lights they charge throughout the day and then they can keep some light at night but they don't work very well they can also charge phones but they can only get like 10 percent and that's useless and there's no Wi-Fi here there's connectivity if you can buy a SIM card then you can connect and you can talk to people but other than that there's no Wi-Fi here you have to walk about an hour to get someplace where there's Wi-Fi you know it was really an interesting contrast for me kind of realizing you know how essential these devices are and also how worthless they can be at the same time depending on what you're able to do with it the people that are migrating now not exclusively but tend to be poorer they're less educated and they have had less access to technology there was essentially no tech in this camp and it's basically because the government both Serbian and Hungarian don't want the people to be there they don't want them to be comfortable so they're not really doing anything to make it hospitable you have over 600 refugees and asylum seekers waiting majority of them women and children and living there in dire conditions that's not a place for human beings to beat earlier today we saw a newborn baby six days old in one of these tents and it's just incredible to think that there's an infant living here so I took this 360 camera with me to the camp and a lot of people came up to see what it was they really didn't understand what was going on but for them the box that it was sitting on was much more important than the actual camera in these camps like they're these possessions these phones are basically worthless like they're less valuable than a brick or a box because you can't even use them for housing when refugees get to Serbia they find that the border is closed and they really have run out of options they don't have anywhere else to move forward to so they come here they come to a center called info Park and technology has seemed to be as much a curse as a blessing to these people it's a way for rumors to spread someone started a rumor that it would be open for three days and so a bunch of people went to the Hungarian border for that three day window when people would be allowed in but never existed we always think of technology as this huge tool that connects us to the rest of the world most of us we would rather like give up like our shoes then give up our smartphone there's nothing that's really happening there to change the situation to to help these people with technology you