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Simple, effective tech to connect communities in crisis | Johanna Figueira

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4.111.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The world is more connected than ever, but some communities are still cut off from vital resources like electricity and health care. In this solution-oriented talk, tech activist Johanna Figueira discusses her work with Code for Venezuela -- a platform that helps Venezuelans gain access to vital information and medical supplies -- and shares ideas for how it could be used as a model to help other communities in need.

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This TED Talk features digital marketing consultant Johanna Figuera recorded live at TED at Wells Fargo 2020.

0:42.8

I'm an immigrant from Venezuela and I've lived in the U.S. for six years. If you ask me about my life as an expatriate, I would say that I've been lucky, but it hasn't

0:55.3

been easy. Growing up, I never thought that I was going to leave my homeland. I participated in

1:01.7

my first student protest in 2007, when the president shut down one of the most important news

1:08.1

networks. I was getting my bachelor's degree in communications,

1:12.2

and that was the first time I realized I couldn't take free speech for granted.

1:17.6

We knew things were getting bad, but we never saw what was coming.

1:21.6

An economic crisis, infrastructure breaking down,

1:25.0

CDY Electrical blackouts, the decline of public health care and shortage

1:30.3

of medicines, disease outbreaks and starvation.

1:33.3

I moved to Canada with my husband in 2013, and we always thought we moved back home when

1:40.3

the crisis improved, but he never did.

1:43.3

Nearly all my childhood friends have left the country, but my parents are still there.

1:48.9

There have been moments where I've called my mom, and I could hear people screaming and crying

1:54.2

in the background as fear gas bombs exploded in the streets.

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