CADUS: redefine global solidarity

Thanks a lot for the invitation.

It's definitely not my time of the day so
excuse me if I'm a little bit…

Right, next the track.

I'm always really happy to speak
in front of people

who are dealing with IT and stuff
because I'm so much not an IT person.

You saw that I wasn't even able to start
my presentation alone.

I'm from CADUS.

CADUS is a humanitarian NGO that was
founded 3 years ago in Berlin.

It was founded out of a kind of subculture
that is strongly related to the CCC, but

to the musical and festival subculture
as well.

What I want to talk about today is
our crisis response makerspace in Berlin.

Holger (Levsen) invited me after we saw
each other again at Datengarten in Berlin

and he asked if I can make the presentation
in english as well.

My english is shit, so please excuse me if
I have to search some words

from time to time.

Do you have an idea
what this is?

It's a huge truck, it's a medical sign
on it, so this is a kind of mobile hospital.

Mobile hospital which you can use if
other hospitals are broken down

or if there are no hospitals.

Do you have an idea how much
such an hospital would cost you

to buy?

3 millions, 2 millions, 3 millions,
4 millions, hum…

This is a picture of a destroyed hospital
in Syria.

You all see a lot of pictures on the TV,
stuff like that.

Can you relate these 3 to 4 millions
mobile hospitals

to these destroyed hospitals.

Do you normally see in the media that
if a hospital is destroyed

then this fancy stuff is deployed
to there?

Do you have an idea why?

It's "fucking expensive"?

Something more?

"Who's gonna pay for it?"

"Is help wanted?"

More?

It is a question of safety from time
to time.

But on top you have to imagine Syria,
war country, dust, heat,

no supply chain, nothing like that, so
bringing there

a 4 million mobile hospital might end in
two weeks of working and after that

nothing is working anymore because
you don't have the technicians

who can repair this kind of stuff
for example.

Next example, I'm sure you know.

What it is is a pretty fancy fire truck.

You have them in Germany
in all the bigger villages and

all the cities, stuff like that.

If you take a look inside this firetruck,

you see plenty of fancy stuff.

I love this stuff, there is stuff to put
out fire, there's stuff to lift things

with hydrolics.

There is normal stuff like shovels and
stuff like that.

But if you relate this to pictures
in disaster areas,

this is from Haiti, then you see that
you have plenty of people

but no equipment at all.

All's pretty clear because normally,
after a disaster,

people from all over the world come
as fast as possible to the disaster area

the so-called "urban search and rescue
teams".

They're coming by plane, so
all the fancy stuff that we have

in our societies stays here,

and a few people that typically
???

go to the disaster areas to help
the poor people.

You understand this was cynical.

And there's a third example.
Have you ever seen what this is?

This is a tourniquet.

A tourniquet is one meter of nylon strap
and a little bit of plastic.

A tourniquet is the best way to stop
severe bleeding immediately.

We know this since the second world war.

At least it's twenty years
it's totally clear and

it's validated, this is the best way to
stop severe bleeding.

Spoiler, you won't see this in the media
if you see like people in Syria getting hurt

like losing legs after explosions and
stuff like that.

Do you have an idea how expensive is
such a thing?

One meter of nylon, a little piece
of plastic?

Not so expensive, but it goes in
that direction:

55 dollars for one of these.

55 dollars for fucking one meter
of nylon strap.

And, I don't know, less than 10g
of plastic.

The last example, I don't know if you have
a pet.

I had a dog, if I would like to,
I could add a GPS to my dog

and this GPS would say when my dog
is sleeping, where my dog is,

where I can find my dog if it's gone,
stuff like that.

But again if you went Haiti directly after
the earthquake,

people search for other people in
collapsed building

with their bare hands.

So, obviously, we have a lot of
technical solutions for everything.

I can look for my fucking dog in Hamburg
where it is via my app on my iPhone

but on the other hand, in a disaster area
it's not even possible to search for

people who are buried in collapsed buildings.

There are several reasons for that.