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From the Ted Talk by Paul Conneally: How mobile phones power disaster relief
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The ____________ _____ has barely changed since the early 20th _______. Its origins are firmly rooted in the analog age. And there is a major shift coming on the horizon. The catalyst for this change was the major earthquake that ______ Haiti on the 12th of January in 2010. _____ was a game changer. The earthquake destroyed the capital of Port-au-Prince, claiming the lives of some 320,000 people, _________ homeless about 1.2 million people. Government ____________ were completely decapitated, including the presidential palace. I ________ standing on the roof of the Ministry of Justice in downtown Port-au-Prince. It was about two meters high, completely squashed by the violence of the earthquake.
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Original Text
The humanitarian model has barely changed since the early 20th century. Its origins are firmly rooted in the analog age. And there is a major shift coming on the horizon. The catalyst for this change was the major earthquake that struck Haiti on the 12th of January in 2010. Haiti was a game changer. The earthquake destroyed the capital of Port-au-Prince, claiming the lives of some 320,000 people, rendering homeless about 1.2 million people. Government institutions were completely decapitated, including the presidential palace. I remember standing on the roof of the Ministry of Justice in downtown Port-au-Prince. It was about two meters high, completely squashed by the violence of the earthquake.
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