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From the Ted Talk by Jack Dangermond: How a geospatial nervous system could help us design a better future

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Jack Dangermond: So it is a company, it bdlius software ptudrocs that are used by millions of people. Kind of like a platform technology, but not literally paoftrlm. It builds tools that help plpoee do their work better. And that's a very general statement, but helps them do their work better using gaoephrgy as a science and visualization as a science and technology to help them make better decisions, or help them be more efifecint or help them communicate what they're doing better It's kind of mapping. I mean, the way normal people would think of it as map-making. So this organization has 350,000 organizations that we support. They're our customers, you might say. And they range from NGOs, thousands and thousands of them, working in conservation or humtariaiann affairs, to large cronpiotoars, but our majority of users are in the public sector, in ceitis and counties, in national government agencies, and they're basically running the world, that's the way I would say it.

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Jack Dangermond: So it is a company, it ______ software ________ that are used by millions of people. Kind of like a platform technology, but not literally ________. It builds tools that help ______ do their work better. And that's a very general statement, but helps them do their work better using _________ as a science and visualization as a science and technology to help them make better decisions, or help them be more _________ or help them communicate what they're doing better It's kind of mapping. I mean, the way normal people would think of it as map-making. So this organization has 350,000 organizations that we support. They're our customers, you might say. And they range from NGOs, thousands and thousands of them, working in conservation or ____________ affairs, to large ____________, but our majority of users are in the public sector, in ______ and counties, in national government agencies, and they're basically running the world, that's the way I would say it.

Solution

  1. builds
  2. people
  3. cities
  4. efficient
  5. corporations
  6. geography
  7. platform
  8. products
  9. humanitarian

Original Text

Jack Dangermond: So it is a company, it builds software products that are used by millions of people. Kind of like a platform technology, but not literally platform. It builds tools that help people do their work better. And that's a very general statement, but helps them do their work better using geography as a science and visualization as a science and technology to help them make better decisions, or help them be more efficient or help them communicate what they're doing better It's kind of mapping. I mean, the way normal people would think of it as map-making. So this organization has 350,000 organizations that we support. They're our customers, you might say. And they range from NGOs, thousands and thousands of them, working in conservation or humanitarian affairs, to large corporations, but our majority of users are in the public sector, in cities and counties, in national government agencies, and they're basically running the world, that's the way I would say it.

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