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演讲简介：
海地的大地震给全球带来了意想不到的的一课, 让人们意识到手机、通讯的力量可以让人们带来慰藉。在这个演说中, 保罗.康奈利让我们看到了社会媒体以及科技的力量, 以及它们是如何成为救援计划的核心资源。
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- The humanitarian model has barely changed since the early 20th century.
- 人道主义的模型自从20世纪初期就几乎没有改变过
- Its origins are firmly rooted in the analog age.
- 它的起源在模拟时代就根深蒂固了
- And there is a major shift coming on the horizon.
- 海平线即将发生重大的改变
- The catalyst for this change
- 这个的催化剂是
- was the major earthquake that struck Haiti on the 12th of January in 2010.
- 发生在2010年1月12日的海地地震加快了海平线的变化
- Haiti was a game changer.
- 海地地震改变了环境的规则
- The earthquake destroyed the capital of Port-au-Prince,
- 这次地震摧毁了海地首都太子港
- claiming the lives of some 320,000 people,
- 导致32万人丧生
- rendering homeless about 1.2 million people.
- 120万人无家可归
- Government institutions were completely decapitated, including the presidential palace.
- 政府机构包括总统府均已倒塌
- I remember standing on the roof of the Ministry of Justice in downtown Port-au-Prince.
- 我记得我站在太子港市中心司法部大楼的屋顶
- It was about two meters high,
- 屋顶大概有2米高
- completely squashed by the violence of the earthquake.
- 已经被地震彻底粉碎
- For those of us on the ground in those early days,
- 对于我们这些地震后早期达到现场的人来说
- it was clear for even the most disaster-hardened veterans that Haiti was something different.
- 很显然对于那些救灾老手来说海地的情况有所不同
- Haiti was something we hadn't seen before.
- 海地的情况是我们未曾见过的
- But Haiti provided us with something else unprecedented.
- 但海地也为我们提供了前所未有的经验
- Haiti allowed us to glimpse into a future of what disaster response might look like
- 海地让我们了解到，人们在未来高度相连的世界里
- in a hyper-connected world where people have access to mobile smart devices.
- 如何应对灾难，去帮助他们逃离灾难
- Because out of the urban devastation in Port-au-Prince
- 由于城市之外的太子港被摧毁
- came a torrent of SMS texts -- people crying for help,
- 大量的手机发出短信--人们呼救，
- beseeching us for assistance, sharing data, offering support, looking for their loved ones.
- 寻求帮助，分享信息，提供支持，寻找他们爱的人
- This was a situation that traditional aid agencies had never before encountered.
- 这种情况是传统的救援机构未曾遇到的
- We were in one of the poorest countries on the planet,
- 我们身处全世界最贫穷的国家之一
- but 80 percent of the people had mobile devices in their hands.
- 但是80%的人都拥有手机
- And we were unprepared for this, and they were shaping the aid effort.
- 我们没有预料到，他们塑造了援助工作的模式
- Outside Haiti also, things were looking different.
- 海地之外，情况也不一样
- Tens of thousands of so-called digital volunteers were scouring the Internet,
- 成千上万所谓的“数码志愿者”在网络上搜寻
- converting tweets that had already been converted from texts
- 将短信信息转换成推特信息
- and putting these into open-source maps,
- 然后放到开放资源的地图上
- layering them with all sorts of important information -- people like Crisis Mappers and Open Street Map --
- 把它们和其他各种重要信息结合--这些人就如同危机地图和公开街道地图的绘图者--
- and putting these on the Web for everybody
- 然后把这些信息放在网上供大家
- the media, the aid organizations and the communities themselves to participate in and to use.
- 包括媒体，救援组织和社会群体本身让大家参与使用
- Back in Haiti, people were increasingly turning to the medium of SMS.
- 在海地，人民越来越倾向使用短信
- People that were hungry and hurting were signaling their distress, were signaling their need for help.
- 那些饥饿和受伤的人们发出遇难的信号，发出求救的信号
- On street sides all over Port-au-Prince,
- 在太子港的街道边
- entrepreneurs sprung up offering mobile phone charging stations.
- 涌现出很多创业者提供手机充电站
- They understood more than we did people's innate need to be connected.
- 他们比我们更懂得人与生俱来的互相连接的需要
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