Carlos Bautista: The awful logic of land mines -- and an app that helps people avoid them
Carlos Bautista: Det fruktansvärda sanningen om landminor - och en app som hjälper människor att undvika dom
TED Resident Carlos Bautista wants to close the information and technology gap for people in developing countries. Full bio
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the place where you live,
och ditt område
och säker, eller hur?
and comfortable, right?
when you might step on one.
om du skulle kliva på en.
in my home country, Colombia.
i mitt hemland, Colombia.
internal armed conflict,
väpnad konflikt i landet
number of land mines
of the Colombian population.
av Colombias invånare.
not to kill their targets.
som är fruktansvärd,
caring for an injured soldier
att ta hand om en skadad soldat
who has been killed.
about five years ago
för ungefär fem år sedan
for the Colombian government
den colombianska regeringen
an abandoned house, not outside,
Adriana was forced to leave.
som Adriana tvingats lämna.
with the fear that she, or her children,
för att hon eller hennes barn
has been running for so long
har varat så länge
have seen our country in peace,
har upplevt fred i vårt land,
from all this suffering,
från detta lidande,
with all my heart.
that for almost 30 years,
when I met my wife.
så förändrades någonting i mig.
about the Colombian armed conflict.
been affected by land mines and by war.
av landminor och av kriget.
to the United States
in a fair way to our society,
på bästa sätt i vårt samhälle
really broad application
to deactivate land mines more safely.
deaktivera landminorna på ett säkert sätt.
the only country in the world
det enda land i världen
with any sort of explosive device.
med någon sorts explosiva anordningar.
Syria, Ukraine and Yemen,
Ukriana och Jemen,
are trying to get rid of land mines,
bli av med sina landminor,
that involved land mines
som involverat landminor
som varit internflyktingar
will start returning to their lands,
to start exploding more often
börja att explodera oftare
called MineSafe.
from the community
as the most transited
som anses säkra att färdas på
caused by a land mine.
orsakade av landminor.
can also be used to determine
in the countryside of Colombia.
på landsbygden i Colombia.
crowdsource information from all of them
and her children
can not only be used for that.
i andra syften.
to become more productive.
from explosive devices,
to find new, fertile grounds
att finna ny bördig mark
with the Colombian government
med Colombias regering
with Cambodia and Somalia as well.
med Kambodja och Somalia.
by private money
av privata finansiärer
to every single place
is finally coming to an end,
går äntligen mot sitt slut,
are still buried under our feet.
ligger ännu begravda under våra fötter.
to help both people and land
både människor och länder
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Carlos Bautista - Entrepreneur, creative technologistTED Resident Carlos Bautista wants to close the information and technology gap for people in developing countries.
Why you should listen
Carlos Bautista is working to develop MineSafe: a crowd-sourced information system for people in landmine-affected areas around the world. MineSafe aimsto analyze and deliver safe paths and reliable information for their daily commutes.
Bautista in an entrepreneur and creative technologist who has collaborated with other professionals to create a number of companies and research projects, ranging from a tailored shoe company to an augmented reality app that helps military personnel to deactivate landmines. He's worked with start-ups in New York City, helping them to develop and implement technological tools to enhance their educational services, using human-centered design methodologies.
As a professor, Bautista coached a team of young women during the summer of 2017, guiding them through the design thinking process at the Cornell and CUNY Women in Technology in NY (WiTNY) program. This experience allowed students to experiment with the use of empathy to develop successful technological products. Bautista has also taught classes at the Politécnico Grancolombiano in interactive design, 3D design and animation, web design, augmented reality and descriptive geometry. Bautista led the process of opening the Industrial Design program in Politécnico Grancolombiano, which opened in 2015.
Bautista is based in NYC working as a research associate at Tandon School of Engineering's computer science department, under the supervision of professor Claudio Silva, Interim Director of Center for Data Science. Together they are working to develop MineSafe to help people in rural areas of the world to move freely and safely without worrying about landmines.
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