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When I was traveling in 2005 with a group of computer scientists from the University of Amsterdam and the Hogeschool of Amsterdam to establish relationships with computer science departments in
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Dinesh
Computer Scientist and founder of SERVELOTS
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Dinesh is computer scientist coming from Bangalore. He collaborated with Paul Klint at the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science in Amsterdam for several years. When he returned to India he
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When the Tsunami hit on the 26th of December 2004, Dinesh was taking some relaxed time close to one of the places where the disaster happened. After the first panic in the relief phase, coordination
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There was a lot of potential for somebody to make an impression. And, very important, a lot of money was dedicated to the Tsunami disaster. A number of international agencies, which specifically had
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A few months later, when the rebuild phase was getting into consolidation mode, the large Non Governmental Organizations had obtained a lot of money by that time from all over the world. Faced with
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Even in times of crisis reputation building is very important, more important than collaborating in order to solve the crisis, so it seems argues Dinesh. On the long term NGO’s have an identity.
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Dinesh and his team decided that because of these developments it did not make sense anymore to provide a portal for all since its capacity to show effort and deeds done had seriously been
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Dinesh argues that it is very hard to say that a system can be used during the relief; maybe personal calls, cell phones. It’s a loose network at such a time. If you can anticipate crisis, like no
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Dinesh,
Caroline
Dinesh,
Caroline
Full transcript including film fragments you find at: http://www.systemsdesign.tbm.tudelft.nl/witness
Hereunder the transcript in text.
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