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Hi, my name is Elsa Marieds
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and I'm the founder and CEO
of Red Dot Foundation
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also known as Safecity
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Safecity is a crowd map
for sexual violence in public spaces
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and this is collected
as location based trends
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visualised on a map, as hotspots
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As you know, sexual violence
is a global pandemic
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we have received
a lot of international recognition
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for our work in crowdsourcing data
and technology to address it
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As a result, we've been invited
to speak across the world
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and share our work with several audiences
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I speak in English, but my audiences
may not know English
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as their primary language
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Therefore, translation is critical
because it helps share my message
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in the true context and meaning
that I intend it to be
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For example, I'm in Argentina right now
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and I've had several speaking assignments
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with over five hundred people
at each of these places
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Without the help of translators,
these people
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would not have understood
a word of what I said
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yet, they have appreciated my work
and they've got the context and meaning
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of what we are doing.
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So in this International Translator's Day
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I would like to celebrate
translators and translations
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And thank you very much
because language is so critical
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we have to find the bridges
to share our experiences with each other.
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Thank you.