Carlos Bautista: The awful logic of land mines -- and an app that helps people avoid them
卡洛斯柏提斯塔: 地雷的可怕邏輯──以及一個協助人民避開地雷的 app
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.
你會不會踩到其中一個。
in my home country, Colombia.
很多人的生活就是如此。
internal armed conflict,
number of land mines
of the Colombian population.
哥倫比亞人口。
not to kill their targets.
caring for an injured soldier
who has been killed.
about five years ago
阿德瑞娜羅德里奎茲,
for the Colombian government
an abandoned house, not outside,
廢棄的房子裡面,不是在屋外。
Adriana was forced to leave.
也是類似那樣子的房子。
with the fear that she, or her children,
has been running for so long
have seen our country in peace,
我們的國家有和平的時候。
from all this suffering,
with all my heart.
that for almost 30 years,
when I met my wife.
about the Colombian armed conflict.
been affected by land mines and by war.
及戰爭的影響有多深。
to the United States
in a fair way to our society,
來對我們的社會做出貢獻,
really broad application
to deactivate land mines more safely.
更安全的方式解除地雷。
the only country in the world
with any sort of explosive device.
一些國家的戰爭情況加劇,
Syria, Ukraine and Yemen,
are trying to get rid of land mines,
that involved land mines
will start returning to their lands,
會開始返回家園,
to start exploding more often
called MineSafe.
(直譯:地雷安全)的 app。
from the community
as the most transited
caused by a land mine.
can also be used to determine
in the countryside of Colombia.
住在哥倫比亞的鄉間。
crowdsource information from all of them
能向他們全體收集資訊,
and her children
can not only be used for that.
to become more productive.
變得更有生產力。
from explosive devices,
to find new, fertile grounds
找到新的肥沃土地,
with the Colombian government
哥倫比亞政府合作,
with Cambodia and Somalia as well.
及索瑪利亞有了一些連結。
by private money
to every single place
is finally coming to an end,
are still buried under our feet.
仍然埋在我們的腳下。
to help both people and land
在努力協助人民以及土地
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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