Fifty years of armed conflict in Colombia has left the countryside riddled with land mines that maim and kill innocent people who happen across them. To help keep communities safe from harm, TED Resident Carlos Bautista is developing an app to track land mines — and direct travelers away from them. Learn more about how this potentially life-saving tool could promote peace in countries plagued by land mines once conflicts end.
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You can enhance your ability of observation if you step away from your computer, tv etc . if you get more involved in life, such as working on oversight of your government. Go outside and watch whats really going on around you in your communities. Whats how authority interacts with civilians, that's how you enhance your human behavior. You think your smart sitting in front of a pc all day and night, playing games that keep you distracted from reality, Brainwashed by the influence of entertainment. watching CSI , believing that, that's how real authority behaves in our society. You are blinded by electronics and technology and most ignore the unlawful treatment around them. Your a fool if you believe your free. Thomas Jefferson used said 'Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem" Tanslated "I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude". Think about it we are not free
My father was in Korea and Vietnam. I asked him just a few weeks ago how many unexploded shells and or mines were left. He said millions. The look of death in his eyes was so sad.
There are landmines in Great Britain?
How do u know if the path is unsafe though?
This guy deserves a Nobel Prize.
Amazing! Keep up this beautiful work 🙂
Just creating path though is for time being solution rather one should know to detect the path. I have just shared with my development team to work on detecting the landmines through smart phone with smallest possible detectors attached to it.
nice talking
How about the awful logic of that shirt bud. You trying to blend in?
Just wanna say I'm still in shock from the last video.
stares at the 3 shiney heads in the front row
Great job. I live in Ukraine, and almost every week I hear of a person killed or injured on a landmine. Hope your project becomes global and helps people in my region.
awesome way to safe you and your family …. Good use of technology .
What a crappy problem to have
Dude sounds like text-to-speech. 😀
Awful, but not untrue…
better name would be "Minesweeper Go"
What an amazing app!
I can't find it when I search for it in the app store…
Umm I live in Syria and there's no labdmines where did you get this info from?
Was that a real landmine he was holding?
Well, in Germany we find a lot of old Bombs that didn't blow up in WW2, at least once a year parts of our city will be evacuated. Though, this is nothing compared to columbia, I hope this problem will be solved in the future…
Even today Iran & Iraq still suffer from remaining landmines of 8 years Imposed war.😭
The programmers who made this must have had a blast.
3:09 ahhhh wut?
But I live in Iraq and I haven't heard anything about landmine for as long as I lived, I mean I was constantly reminded not to pick stuff from the ground because they probably have tiny bombs, but nothing about mines
My assumption is that this depend on the area of living or something but if anyone has an actual explanation will you please inform me about it because I'm kinda terrified now
2:33 cough cough
Haven’t anti-personnel landmines been banned by major powers (except China)? Just curious, not looking for a fight.
you think land mines are bad try a freaking lego
yes because villagers in Vietnam all have smartphones
I don't have enough faith in the internet to not troll this app
Finally, something good.
Couldn't sleep for hours… stumbled upon this talk. It inspired me to write a little poem. Thak you, Mr. Bautista, for your work and inspiration!
No Peace
Soldiers are gone
Guns silent
Air still
No explosions
Blood soaked up in the soil, dried, digested
Children play
People sow, harvest, live
Trade
Growth
One mine
No Peace
"Sins of our fathers"
land mines, cruise missiles, bullets, cyberwarfare tools, weapons in general are tools of the rich to control the poor
We NEED this app for potholes.
Oh.
I'm here because wengie likes this
So, basically wait for someone to blow up and then tag the place as unsafe?
I understand the Muslims have a fairly reliable way to clear mines.
nobody actually cares about being early on Ted.
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