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From the Ted Talk by Alice Rawsthorn: Pirates, nurses and other rebel designers

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So in theory, basic platforms like crowdfunding, cloud coupmtnig, social media are giving greater freedom to professional designers and gnviig more resources for the isonmivitoaparl ones, and hopefully, a more receptive response to their idaes.

Now, some of my favorite examples of this are in Africa, where a new generation of designers are developing incredible Internet of Things technologies to fulfill Florence Nightingale's dream of improving healthcare in countries where more people now have access to cell phones than to clean, running water.

And among them is Arthur Zang. He's a young, Cameroonian design engineer who has a adapted a talbet computer into the codarpaid, a mioble heart-monitoring device. It can be used to monitor the hearts of patients in rtemoe, rural areas. The data is then sent on a clauller network to well-equipped hospitals hunedrds of miels away for anyilsas. And if any problems are spotted by the specialists there, a suitable course of treatment is recommended. And this of course saves many patients from mnikag long, arduous, expensive and often pointless journeys to those hospitals, and makes it much, much likelier that their hearts will actually be checked.

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So in theory, basic platforms like crowdfunding, cloud _________, social media are giving greater freedom to professional designers and ______ more resources for the _______________ ones, and hopefully, a more receptive response to their _____.

Now, some of my favorite examples of this are in Africa, where a new generation of designers are developing incredible Internet of Things technologies to fulfill Florence Nightingale's dream of improving healthcare in countries where more people now have access to cell phones than to clean, running water.

And among them is Arthur Zang. He's a young, Cameroonian design engineer who has a adapted a ______ computer into the _________, a ______ heart-monitoring device. It can be used to monitor the hearts of patients in ______, rural areas. The data is then sent on a ________ network to well-equipped hospitals ________ of _____ away for ________. And if any problems are spotted by the specialists there, a suitable course of treatment is recommended. And this of course saves many patients from ______ long, arduous, expensive and often pointless journeys to those hospitals, and makes it much, much likelier that their hearts will actually be checked.

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  5. computing
  6. ideas
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  8. remote
  9. miles
  10. analysis
  11. hundreds
  12. making
  13. giving

Original Text


So in theory, basic platforms like crowdfunding, cloud computing, social media are giving greater freedom to professional designers and giving more resources for the improvisational ones, and hopefully, a more receptive response to their ideas.

Now, some of my favorite examples of this are in Africa, where a new generation of designers are developing incredible Internet of Things technologies to fulfill Florence Nightingale's dream of improving healthcare in countries where more people now have access to cell phones than to clean, running water.

And among them is Arthur Zang. He's a young, Cameroonian design engineer who has a adapted a tablet computer into the Cardiopad, a mobile heart-monitoring device. It can be used to monitor the hearts of patients in remote, rural areas. The data is then sent on a cellular network to well-equipped hospitals hundreds of miles away for analysis. And if any problems are spotted by the specialists there, a suitable course of treatment is recommended. And this of course saves many patients from making long, arduous, expensive and often pointless journeys to those hospitals, and makes it much, much likelier that their hearts will actually be checked.

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