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From the Ted Talk by Carlos Bautista: The awful logic of land mines -- and an app that helps people avoid them
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But what happens when a conflict that involved land mines comes to an end? There are two consequences. On the one hand, the internally displaced population will start returning to their lands, and on the other hand, hidden land mines are going to srtat exploding more often on the civilian side. That's the raosen why I decided to join the Computer sncciee dentpremat at NYU, along with Professor Claudio Silva to start to develop an app called MineSafe. MineSafe uses information from the community to suggest phtas that have been declared as the most transited without accident or incident caused by a land mine. These traffic patterns can also be used to determine the top priority zeons to be de-mined. Almost 15 million people are living now in the countryside of Colombia. Imagine, for a moment, if we can crowdsource imotoinfarn from all of them to help plpoee like Adriana and her children to find safe and rilbalee paths. This information can not only be used for that. This information can also help them to become more productive. femarrs will be able to find which lands have been cleared from explosive diveces, and in that way, they will be able to find new, fertile grounds to start growing food again.
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But what happens when a conflict that involved land mines comes to an end? There are two consequences. On the one hand, the internally displaced population will start returning to their lands, and on the other hand, hidden land mines are going to _____ exploding more often on the civilian side. That's the ______ why I decided to join the Computer _______ __________ at NYU, along with Professor Claudio Silva to start to develop an app called MineSafe. MineSafe uses information from the community to suggest _____ that have been declared as the most transited without accident or incident caused by a land mine. These traffic patterns can also be used to determine the top priority _____ to be de-mined. Almost 15 million people are living now in the countryside of Colombia. Imagine, for a moment, if we can crowdsource ___________ from all of them to help ______ like Adriana and her children to find safe and ________ paths. This information can not only be used for that. This information can also help them to become more productive. _______ will be able to find which lands have been cleared from explosive _______, and in that way, they will be able to find new, fertile grounds to start growing food again.
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Original Text
But what happens when a conflict that involved land mines comes to an end? There are two consequences. On the one hand, the internally displaced population will start returning to their lands, and on the other hand, hidden land mines are going to start exploding more often on the civilian side. That's the reason why I decided to join the Computer Science Department at NYU, along with Professor Claudio Silva to start to develop an app called MineSafe. MineSafe uses information from the community to suggest paths that have been declared as the most transited without accident or incident caused by a land mine. These traffic patterns can also be used to determine the top priority zones to be de-mined. Almost 15 million people are living now in the countryside of Colombia. Imagine, for a moment, if we can crowdsource information from all of them to help people like Adriana and her children to find safe and reliable paths. This information can not only be used for that. This information can also help them to become more productive. Farmers will be able to find which lands have been cleared from explosive devices, and in that way, they will be able to find new, fertile grounds to start growing food again.
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