Carlos Bautista: The awful logic of land mines -- and an app that helps people avoid them
كارلوس بيوتيستا: المنطق الشنيع للألغام الأرضية، وتطبيق يساعد الناس على تجنبها
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,
and comfortable, right?
when you might step on one.
in my home country, Colombia.
في وطني، كولومبيا.
internal armed conflict,
number of land mines
of the Colombian population.
not to kill their targets.
caring for an injured soldier
للعناية بجندي مصاب
who has been killed.
about five years ago
خمس سنوات
for the Colombian government
an abandoned house, not outside,
وليس خارجه،
Adriana was forced to leave.
التى أجبرت على مغادرته.
with the fear that she, or her children,
في خوفٍ دائم،
has been running for so long
لفترة طويلة جدا
have seen our country in peace,
في حالة سلم،
from all this suffering,
with all my heart.
من صميم قلبي.
that for almost 30 years,
when I met my wife.
عندما التقيتُ بزوجتي.
about the Colombian armed conflict.
been affected by land mines and by war.
الألغام الأرضية والحرب.
to the United States
إلى الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية
in a fair way to our society,
في مجتمعنا.
really broad application
تقنية الواقع المعزز
to deactivate land mines more safely.
على تعطيل الألغام الأرضية بأمان أكثر.
the only country in the world
with any sort of explosive device.
Syria, Ukraine and Yemen,
وأوكرانيا واليمن.
are trying to get rid of land mines,
من الألغام الأرضية،
that involved land mines
استخدمت فيه الألغام الأرضية
will start returning to their lands,
في العودة لأراضيهم،
to start exploding more often
في الإنفجار أكثر
إلى دائرة علم الحاسوب
called MineSafe.
يُدعى ماين سيف (MineSafe) .
from the community
من المجتمع
as the most transited
كأكثر المسارات عبورًا
caused by a land mine.
عن الألغام الأرضية.
can also be used to determine
لكي تحدد لنا
لإزالة الألغام منها.
in the countryside of Colombia.
في ريف كولومبيا.
crowdsource information from all of them
من كل واحدٍ منهم للحصول على المعلومات
and her children
can not only be used for that.
على هذا الأمر فقط.
to become more productive.
في زيادة إنتاجيتهم.
from explosive devices,
to find new, fertile grounds
أراضي جديدة وخصبة.
with the Colombian government
مع الحكومة الكولومبية
with Cambodia and Somalia as well.
مع كل من كومبوديا والصومال.
by private money
to every single place
is finally coming to an end,
إلى نهايته أخيراً،
are still buried under our feet.
مدفونة تحت أقدامنا.
to help both people and land
كلٍ من البشر والأرض
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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