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From the Ted Talk by Paul Conneally: How mobile phones power disaster relief

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Young people living in Kibera in their coimmntuy, with simple handheld dvciees, GPS handheld devices and SMS-enabled mobile phneos, have literally put themselves on the map. They have caotlled crowd-sourced data and rendered the invisible visible. popele like Josh and Steve are continuing to layer information upon information, real-time information, Tweet it and text it onto these maps for all to use. You can find out about the latest impromptu music session. You can find out about the latset security incident. You can find out about places of wsroihp. You can find out about the health cenetrs. You can feel the dynamism of this livnig, breathing community. They also have their own news network on YouTube with 36,000 viewers at the moment.

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Young people living in Kibera in their _________, with simple handheld _______, GPS handheld devices and SMS-enabled mobile ______, have literally put themselves on the map. They have ________ crowd-sourced data and rendered the invisible visible. ______ like Josh and Steve are continuing to layer information upon information, real-time information, Tweet it and text it onto these maps for all to use. You can find out about the latest impromptu music session. You can find out about the ______ security incident. You can find out about places of _______. You can find out about the health _______. You can feel the dynamism of this ______, breathing community. They also have their own news network on YouTube with 36,000 viewers at the moment.

Solution


  1. community
  2. devices
  3. people
  4. collated
  5. worship
  6. living
  7. latest
  8. centers
  9. phones

Original Text


Young people living in Kibera in their community, with simple handheld devices, GPS handheld devices and SMS-enabled mobile phones, have literally put themselves on the map. They have collated crowd-sourced data and rendered the invisible visible. People like Josh and Steve are continuing to layer information upon information, real-time information, Tweet it and text it onto these maps for all to use. You can find out about the latest impromptu music session. You can find out about the latest security incident. You can find out about places of worship. You can find out about the health centers. You can feel the dynamism of this living, breathing community. They also have their own news network on YouTube with 36,000 viewers at the moment.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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mobile devices 2
aid effort 2
humanitarian good 2
invisible visible 2
digital technologies 2
big data 2
humanitarian world 2


Important Words


  1. breathing
  2. centers
  3. collated
  4. community
  5. continuing
  6. data
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  8. dynamism
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  13. health
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  15. incident
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  17. invisible
  18. josh
  19. kibera
  20. latest
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  27. moment
  28. music
  29. network
  30. news
  31. people
  32. phones
  33. places
  34. put
  35. rendered
  36. security
  37. session
  38. simple
  39. steve
  40. text
  41. tweet
  42. viewers
  43. visible
  44. worship
  45. young
  46. youtube