ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Chris Sheldrick - Entrepreneur
Chris Sheldrick is providing a precise and simple way to talk about location, by dividing the world into a grid of three-meter by three-meter squares and assigning each one a unique three-word address.

Why you should listen

It's a fundamental logistical problem: not everyone, or everywhere, has a traditional address, and GPS coordinates can be tough to use. While working in the music industry, Chris Sheldrick noticed that bands and equipment kept getting lost on the way to gigs, and he took up the mission to create a better addressing system for the world. He worked with a mathematician friend to devise the what3words algorithm that has named every 3-metre square in the world. Started in 2013, the system is being used by eight national postal services, and has a range of integration partners across the world in fields as varied as humanitarian aid, logistics, and in-car navigation.

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TEDGlobal 2017

Chris Sheldrick: A precise, three-word address for every place on earth

Chris Sheldrick: Precizna adresa od triju riječi za svako mjesto na zemlji

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Uz pomoć what3words ("koje3riječi"), Chris Sheldrick i njegov tim podijelili su cijeli planet u trometarske kvadrate i svakom dodijelili jedinstveni identifikator od triju riječi, poput slavan.splet.pisci ili blokovi.jednako.vrsta, čime su podarili adresu milijardama ljudi diljem svijeta koji je nemaju. U ovom kratkom govoru o velikoj ideji, Sheldrick objašnjava ekonomske i političke implikacije toga da svi dobiju svoju adresu - od izgradnje infrastrukture, preko slanja pomoći u područja velikih nepogoda, do dostavljanja vruće pizze.
- Entrepreneur
Chris Sheldrick is providing a precise and simple way to talk about location, by dividing the world into a grid of three-meter by three-meter squares and assigning each one a unique three-word address. Full bio

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AccordingPrema to the UNUN-A,
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Prema navodima UN-a,
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billionsmilijarde of people still liveživjeti
withoutbez an addressadresa.
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milijarde ljudi još uvijek
žive bez adrese.
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The economistekonomista HernandoHernando dede SotoSoto said,
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Ekonomist Hernando de Soto rekao je
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"WithoutBez an addressadresa,
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"Bez adrese,
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you liveživjeti outsideizvan the lawzakon.
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živiš izvan zakona.
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You mightmoć as well not existpostojati."
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Kao da i ne postojiš".
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I'm here to tell you how my teamtim and I
are tryingtežak to changepromijeniti that.
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Ja sam ovdje kako bih vam rekao da
moj tim i ja to pokušavamo promijeniti.
00:31
If you go to an onlinena liniji mapkarta
and look at a favelaFavela in BrazilBrazil
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Ako na digitalnoj mapi
pogledate favelu u Brazilu,
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or a townshipOpćina in SouthJug AfricaAfrika,
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ili naselje u Južnoj Africi,
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you'llvi ćete see a fewnekoliko streetsulice
but a lot of emptyprazan spaceprostor.
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vidjet ćete malo ulica,
ali mnogo praznog prostora.
00:40
But if you flipdrzak to satellitesatelit viewpogled,
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Ali, ako prebacite na satelitski pregled,
00:42
there are thousandstisuća of people,
homeskuća and businessespoduzeća
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vidljive su tisuće ljudi,
domova i trgovina
00:45
in these vastogroman, unmappedNepreslikani
and unaddressedne zadovoljavaju spacesprostori.
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u tom ogromnom, nemapiranom
i neadresiranom prostoru.
00:49
In Ghana'sGane capitalglavni, AccraAccra,
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U glavnom gradu Gane, Accri,
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there are numbersbrojevi and lettersslova
scrawledscrawled ontona the sidesstrane of wallszidovi,
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na fasadama postoje
našvrljani brojevi i slova
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where they pilotedupravljano addressadresa systemssustavi
but not finishedgotov them.
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gdje su sustavi adresiranja
provedeni, ali ne i dovršeni.
01:00
But these placesmjesta,
these unaddressedne zadovoljavaju placesmjesta,
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Ali ta mjesta, ta mjesta bez adrese,
01:03
holddržati hugeogroman economicekonomski potentialpotencijal.
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sadrže ogroman gospodarski potencijal.
01:07
Here'sOvdje je why the issueizdanje
of addressingObraćajući se stucku škripcu with me.
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Evo zašto me zaokupio problem adresiranja.
01:10
I workedradio in the musicglazba
businessPoslovni for 10 yearsgodina,
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Radio sam u glazbenoj
industriji 10 godina,
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and what you maysvibanj not know
about the musicglazba worldsvijet
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i ono što možda ne znate
o glazbenom svijetu
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is that everysvaki day, people struggleborba
with the problemsproblemi of addressingObraćajući se.
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je to da se ljudi svakoga dana
bore s problemom adresiranja.
01:18
So from the musiciansglazbenici
who have to find the gigsnastupa
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I tako od glazbenika koji
moraju pronaći gaže,
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to the productionproizvodnja companiestvrtke
who bringdonijeti the equipmentoprema,
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do produkcijskih kompanija
koje dovoze opremu,
01:23
everyonesvatko somehownekako always getsdobiva lostizgubljen.
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svi se nekako uvijek izgube.
01:25
We even had to adddodati someonenetko
to our schedulesraspored
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Čak smo morali u svoje
rasporede dodati nekoga
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who was the personosoba you calledzvao
when you thought you'dti bi arrivedstigao
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tko bi služio kao osoba koju zoveš
kada misliš da si stigao,
01:30
but then realizedshvatio you hadn'tnije.
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ali onda shvatiš da nisi.
01:32
And we had some prettyprilično badloše daysdana,
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I imali smo dosta loših dana,
01:34
like in ItalyItalija, where a truckkamion drivervozač
unloadediskrcali all the equipmentoprema
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kao u Italiji, kada je vozač
kamiona iskrcao svu opremu,
01:37
an hoursat northsjeverno of RomeRome,
not an hoursat southjug of RomeRome,
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sat vožnje sjeverno od Rima,
umjesto sat južno od Rima
01:40
and a slightlymalo worsegore day
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i malo gori dan,
01:41
where a keyboardtastatura playerigrač
calledzvao me and said,
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kada me klavijaturist nazvao i rekao
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"ChrisChris, don't panicpanika,
but we maysvibanj have just sound-checkedzvuk provjeriti
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"Nemoj paničariti, ali možda
smo upravo imali tonsku probu
01:46
at the wrongpogrešno people'snarodno weddingvjenčanje."
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na vjenčanju krivih ljudi".
01:48
(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
01:49
So not long after the fatedsudbina RomeRome eventdogađaj,
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Nedugo nakon sudbonosnog događaja u Rimu,
01:52
I chattedčavrljao this throughkroz
with a friendprijatelj of minerudnik
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razgovarao sam o ovome s prijateljem,
koji je matematičar
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who is a mathematicianmatematičar,
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i zaključili smo da oko toga
nešto možemo poduzeti.
01:55
and we thought it was a problemproblem
we could do something about.
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01:58
We thought, well,
we could make a newnovi systemsistem,
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Palo nam je na pamet
da stvorimo novi sustav,
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but it shouldn'tne treba look like the oldstar systemsistem.
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ali on ne bi trebao ličiti
na stari sustav.
02:03
We agreeddogovoren that addressesadrese were badloše.
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Složili smo se da su adrese loše.
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We knewznao we wanted something very preciseprecizan,
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Znali smo da želimo nešto vrlo precizno,
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but GPSGPS coordinateskoordinate,
latitudeZemljopisna širina and longitudeZemljopisna dužina,
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ali GPS koordinate,
geografska širina i duljina
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were just too complicatedsložen.
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bile su prekomplicirane.
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So we dividedpodijeljen the worldsvijet
into three-metertri metra squarestrgovi.
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Zbog toga smo podijelili
svijet u trometarske kvadrate.
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The worldsvijet dividesdijeli into around 57 trillionbilijuna
three-metertri metra squarestrgovi,
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Svijet sadrži oko 57 bilijuna
trometarskih kvadrata
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and we foundpronađeno that there are
enoughdovoljno combinationskombinacije
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i shvatili smo da postoji
dovoljno kombinacija
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of threetri dictionaryrječnik wordsriječi
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triju riječi iz rječnika
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that we could nameime everysvaki three-metertri metra
squarekvadrat in the worldsvijet uniquelyjedinstveno
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kako bismo svakom trometarskom kvadratu
svijeta mogli dati jedinstveno ime
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with just threetri wordsriječi.
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uz pomoć samo triju riječi.
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We used 40,000 wordsriječi,
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Iskoristili smo 40 000 riječi,
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so that's 40,000 cubedu kubu,
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dakle, to je 40 000 na kub,
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64 trillionbilijuna combinationskombinacije of threetri wordsriječi,
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64 trilijuna kombinacija od triju riječi,
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whichkoji is more than enoughdovoljno for
the 57-trillion-odd-trillion-odd three-metertri metra squarestrgovi,
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što je više nego dovoljno za cca.
57 trilijuna trometarskih kvadrata,
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with a fewnekoliko sparerezervni.
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uz nešto rezerve.
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So that's exactlytočno what we did.
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Pa smo upravo to i učinili.
02:45
We dividedpodijeljen the worldsvijet
into three-metertri metra squarestrgovi,
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Podijelili smo svijet
u trometarske kvadrate,
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gavedali eachsvaki one a uniquejedinstvena,
three-wordpet riječi: identifieridentifikator --
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svakome nadjenuli jedinstveni
identifikator od triju riječi
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what we call a three-wordpet riječi: addressadresa.
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koji zovemo adresom od triju riječi.
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So for exampleprimjer, right here,
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Na primjer, upravo ovdje,
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I'm standingstajati at mustards-coupons-pinupsenfove-kuponi-pin-ap djevojka,
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stojim na adresi senfovi.kuponi.pinup,
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
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but over here ...
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ali ovdje...
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I'm standingstajati at pinched-stegnut-
singularly-tutorialneponovljivo-priručnik.
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stojim na stegnut.jedinstveno.tutorial.
03:09
But we haven'tnisu just doneučinio this in Englishengleski.
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I nismo to napravili samo na engleskom.
03:11
We thought it was essentialosnovni that people
should be ableu stanju to use this systemsistem
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Izrazito smo važnim smatrali to
da ljudi ovaj sustav mogu koristiti
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in theirnjihov ownvlastiti languagejezik.
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na vlastitom jeziku.
03:15
So fardaleko, we'veimamo builtizgrađen it into 14 languagesjezici,
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Za sada smo ga prilagodili na 14 jezika
03:18
includinguključujući Frenchfrancuski, Swahilisvahili and Arabicarapski,
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uključivši francuski, svahili i arapski,
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and we're workingrad on more now,
like Xhosaxhosa, Zuluzulu and Hindihindi.
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i sada radimo na još njih,
kao što su xhosa, zulu i hindi.
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But this ideaideja can do a lot more
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Ovom se idejom može postići puno više
03:27
than just get my musiciansglazbenici
to theirnjihov gigsnastupa on time.
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od toga da moji glazbenici
pravovremeno stižu na gaže.
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If the 75 percentposto of countrieszemlje
that struggleborba with reliablepouzdan addressingObraćajući se
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Kada bi 75 posto zemalja
koje se bore s nepouzdanim adresiranjem
počelo koristiti adrese od triju riječi,
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startedpočeo usingkoristeći three-wordpet riječi: addressesadrese,
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there's a stackstog of fardaleko more
importantvažno applicationsaplikacije.
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postojala bi hrpa puno važnjih primjena.
03:40
In DurbanDurban, SouthJug AfricaAfrika,
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U Durbanu u Južnoj Africi,
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an NGONEVLADINA ORGANIZACIJA calledzvao GatewayPristupnik HealthZdravlje
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NVO pod nazivom Gateway Health
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have distributeddistribuiran to 11,000
three-wordpet riječi: addressadresa signsznakovi
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podijelili su 11 000 adresa
od triju riječi
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to theirnjihov communityzajednica,
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svojoj zajednici,
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so the pregnanttrudna mothersmajke,
when they go into laborrad,
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kako bi trudne majke, kada osjete trudove,
03:50
can call the emergencyhitan servicesusluge
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mogle pozvati hitnu pomoć
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and tell them exactlytočno
where to pickodabrati them up from,
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i reći im točno gdje da dođu po njih,
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because otherwiseinače, the ambulancesvozila hitne pomoći
have oftenčesto takenpoduzete hourssati to find them.
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jer su kolima hitne pomoći inače
često trebali sati da ih pronađu.
03:58
In MongoliaMongolija, the NationalNacionalne PostPost ServiceUsluga
have adoptedusvojen the systemsistem
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U Mongoliji, državna je pošta
usvojila ovaj sustav
04:02
and are now doing deliveriesisporuka
to manymnogi people'snarodno houseskuća
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i sada u mnoge domove rade dostave
04:04
for the first time.
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po prvi put.
04:06
The UNUN-A is usingkoristeći it
to geotagGeotag photosfotografije in disasterkatastrofa zoneszone
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UN ga koristi za geografsko označavanje
fotografija u područjima katastrofa,
04:09
so they can deliverdostaviti aidpomoć
to exactlytočno the right placemjesto.
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kako bi pomoć mogla stići
na precizno određeno mjesto.
04:12
Even Domino'sDomina PizzaPizza
are usingkoristeći it in the CaribbeanKaribi,
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Koristi ga i pizzeria Domino na Karibima,
04:15
because they haven'tnisu been ableu stanju
to find customers'kupaca homeskuća,
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jer nisu mogli naći domove mušterija,
a zbilja im žele dostaviti pizzu
dok je još vruća.
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but they really want to get
theirnjihov pizzapizza to them while its still hotvruće.
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ShortlyUbrzo, you'llvi ćete be ableu stanju to get into a carautomobil,
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Uskoro ćete moći ući u auto,
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speakgovoriti the threetri wordsriječi,
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izgovoriti tri riječi
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and the carautomobil will navigateploviti you
to that exacttočno spotmjesto.
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i auto će vas navoditi
upravo do tog mjesta.
04:29
In AfricaAfrika, the continentkontinent
has leapfroggedleapfrogged phonetelefon lineslinije
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U Africi, kontinent je preskočio
fazu telefonskih žica
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to go to mobilemobilni phonestelefoni,
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i prihvatio mobilne telefone,
04:34
bypassedzaobići traditionaltradicionalan banksbanke
to go straightravno to mobilemobilni paymentsplaćanja.
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zaobišao tradicionalne banke
i direktno usvojio mobilno plaćanje.
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We're really proudponos that the postpošta servicesusluge
of threetri AfricanAfrička countrieszemlje --
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Vrlo smo ponosni na to što su se poštanski
operateri triju afričkih zemalja,
04:43
NigeriaNigerija, DjiboutiDjibouti and Côtete d'IvoireBjelokosti,
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Nigerije, Džibutija i Obale Bjelokosti,
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have goneotišao straightravno to adoptingusvajanje
three-wordpet riječi: addressesadrese,
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direktno opredijelili za
usvajanje adresa od triju riječi,
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whichkoji meanssredstva that people in those countrieszemlje
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što znači da ljudi u tim zemljama
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have a really simplejednostavan way
to explainobjasniti where they liveživjeti, todaydanas.
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imaju vrlo jednostavan način
da objasne gdje žive, već danas.
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For me, poorsiromašan addressingObraćajući se
was an annoyingdosadan frustrationfrustracija,
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Za mene, loše adresiranje
predstavljalo je iritantnu frustraciju,
04:58
but for billionsmilijarde of people,
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ali za milijarde ljudi
05:01
it's a hugeogroman businessPoslovni inefficiencyneučinkovitost,
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ono je ogromna mana za poslovanje,
05:03
severelyteško hampersKoči
theirnjihov infrastructureinfrastruktura growthrast,
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ozbiljno ometa rast njihove infrastrukture
05:06
and can costcijena livesživot.
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a neke može stajati i života.
05:08
We're on a missionmisija to changepromijeniti that,
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Mi smo u misiji da to promijenimo,
05:10
threetri wordsriječi at a time.
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tri po tri riječi.
05:11
Thank you.
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Hvala.
05:12
(ApplausePljesak)
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(Pljesak)
Translated by Jelena Grobenski
Reviewed by Sanda L

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Chris Sheldrick - Entrepreneur
Chris Sheldrick is providing a precise and simple way to talk about location, by dividing the world into a grid of three-meter by three-meter squares and assigning each one a unique three-word address.

Why you should listen

It's a fundamental logistical problem: not everyone, or everywhere, has a traditional address, and GPS coordinates can be tough to use. While working in the music industry, Chris Sheldrick noticed that bands and equipment kept getting lost on the way to gigs, and he took up the mission to create a better addressing system for the world. He worked with a mathematician friend to devise the what3words algorithm that has named every 3-metre square in the world. Started in 2013, the system is being used by eight national postal services, and has a range of integration partners across the world in fields as varied as humanitarian aid, logistics, and in-car navigation.

More profile about the speaker
Chris Sheldrick | Speaker | TED.com

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