Carlos Bautista: The awful logic of land mines -- and an app that helps people avoid them
Карлос Баутіста: Жахлива логіка мінних полів - і додаток, який допоможе їх уникнути
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.
internal armed conflict,
number of land mines
of the Colombian population.
not to kill their targets.
caring for an injured soldier
who has been killed.
about five years ago
for the Colombian government
an abandoned house, not outside,
Adriana was forced to leave.
with the fear that she, or her children,
has been running for so long
have seen our country in peace,
from all this suffering,
with all my heart.
that for almost 30 years,
when I met my wife.
свою дружину.
about the Colombian armed conflict.
been affected by land mines and by war.
to the United States
in a fair way to our society,
really broad application
to deactivate land mines more safely.
the only country in the world
with any sort of explosive device.
Syria, Ukraine and Yemen,
are trying to get rid of land mines,
that involved land mines
will start returning to their lands,
to start exploding more often
called MineSafe.
from the community
as the most transited
caused by a land mine.
can also be used to determine
in the countryside of Colombia.
crowdsource information from all of them
and her children
can not only be used for that.
to become more productive.
from explosive devices,
to find new, fertile grounds
with the Colombian government
with Cambodia and Somalia as well.
by private money
to every single place
is finally coming to an end,
are still buried under our feet.
to help both people and land
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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