1 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Thanks a lot for the invitation. 2 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's definitely not my time of the day so excuse me if I'm a little bit… 3 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Right, next the track. 4 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I'm always really happy to speak in front of people 5 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 who are dealing with IT and stuff because I'm so much not an IT person. 6 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You saw that I wasn't even able to start my presentation alone. 7 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I'm from CADUS. 8 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 CADUS is a humanitarian NGO that was founded 3 years ago in Berlin. 9 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It was founded out of a kind of subculture that is strongly related to the CCC, but 10 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 to the musical and festival subculture as well. 11 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 What I want to talk about today is our crisis response makerspace in Berlin. 12 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Holger (Levsen) invited me after we saw each other again at Datengarten in Berlin 13 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and he asked if I can make the presentation in english as well. 14 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 My english is shit, so please excuse me if I have to search some words 15 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 from time to time. 16 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Do you have an idea what this is? 17 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's a huge truck, it's a medical sign on it, so this is a kind of mobile hospital. 18 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Mobile hospital which you can use if other hospitals are broken down 19 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 or if there are no hospitals. 20 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Do you have an idea how much such an hospital would cost you 21 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 to buy? 22 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 3 millions, 2 millions, 3 millions, 4 millions, hum… 23 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This is a picture of a destroyed hospital in Syria. 24 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You all see a lot of pictures on the TV, stuff like that. 25 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Can you relate these 3 to 4 millions mobile hospitals 26 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 to these destroyed hospitals. 27 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Do you normally see in the media that if a hospital is destroyed 28 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 then this fancy stuff is deployed to there? 29 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Do you have an idea why? 30 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's "fucking expensive"? 31 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Something more? 32 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 "Who's gonna pay for it?" 33 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 "Is help wanted?" 34 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 More? 35 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It is a question of safety from time to time. 36 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But on top you have to imagine Syria, war country, dust, heat, 37 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 no supply chain, nothing like that, so bringing there 38 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 a 4 million mobile hospital might end in two weeks of working and after that 39 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 nothing is working anymore because you don't have the technicians 40 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 who can repair this kind of stuff for example. 41 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Next example, I'm sure you know. 42 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 What it is is a pretty fancy fire truck. 43 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You have them in Germany in all the bigger villages and 44 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 all the cities, stuff like that. 45 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 If you take a look inside this firetruck, 46 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 you see plenty of fancy stuff. 47 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I love this stuff, there is stuff to put out fire, there's stuff to lift things 48 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 with hydrolics. 49 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 There is normal stuff like shovels and stuff like that. 50 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But if you relate this to pictures in disaster areas, 51 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 this is from Haiti, then you see that you have plenty of people 52 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 but no equipment at all. 53 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 All's pretty clear because normally, after a disaster, 54 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 people from all over the world come as fast as possible to the disaster area 55 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 the so-called "urban search and rescue teams". 56 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They're coming by plane, so all the fancy stuff that we have 57 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 in our societies stays here, 58 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and a few people that typically ??? 59 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 go to the disaster areas to help the poor people. 60 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You understand this was cynical. 61 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And there's a third example. Have you ever seen what this is? 62 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This is a tourniquet. 63 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 A tourniquet is one meter of nylon strap and a little bit of plastic. 64 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 A tourniquet is the best way to stop severe bleeding immediately. 65 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We know this since the second world war. 66 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 At least it's twenty years it's totally clear and 67 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 it's validated, this is the best way to stop severe bleeding. 68 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Spoiler, you won't see this in the media if you see like people in Syria getting hurt 69 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 like losing legs after explosions and stuff like that. 70 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Do you have an idea how expensive is such a thing? 71 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 One meter of nylon, a little piece of plastic? 72 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Not so expensive, but it goes in that direction: 73 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 55 dollars for one of these. 74 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 55 dollars for fucking one meter of nylon strap. 75 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And, I don't know, less than 10g of plastic. 76 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The last example, I don't know if you have a pet. 77 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I had a dog, if I would like to, I could add a GPS to my dog 78 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and this GPS would say when my dog is sleeping, where my dog is, 79 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 where I can find my dog if it's gone, stuff like that. 80 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But again if you went Haiti directly after the earthquake, 81 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 people search for other people in collapsed building 82 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 with their bare hands. 83 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, obviously, we have a lot of technical solutions for everything. 84 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I can look for my fucking dog in Hamburg where it is via my app on my iPhone 85 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 but on the other hand, in a disaster area it's not even possible to search for 86 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 people who are buried in collapsed buildings. 87 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 There are several reasons for that.