TITLE: MISSING MAPS SCRIPT
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COMPANY: DOWDY FILMS LTD
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DATE: JUNE 11
2018
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CARD In 2017 aid agencies and NGOs spent £27bn responding to emergencies around the world |
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CARD But raising funds is only half the
battle |
ASTON RUPERT |
RUPERT In any
disaster, the most important thing is to get the right resources to the right
people on the ground RUPERT Without a map that can be almost impossible RUPERT Let me give you an example. 2014, the Ebola outbreak. Aid agency Medecins Sans Frontiere are trying to deal with this massive influx of patients who are all presenting with these Ebola symptoms. They’re asking questions, ‘where’s your village and how far have you travelled?’ They’re hearing three days and they’re hearing the name of a village, but they don’t know where on earth it is. There’s no map of Sierra Leone that’s even remotely up to date. |
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RUPERT Today
around a billion people on this planet don’t exist on a map or in any kind of
universally understandable way. |
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RUPERT We’re In
Northern Uganda here close to the Congolese border, in an area that’s never
ever been mapped before. We’re
looking into the villages here for the first time and putting them on a map. |
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Really
we’re creating the first comprehensive map of the world that’s ever been
made.
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CARLY I’m
Carly. I live in London, and I
volunteer with Humanitarian Open Street Map.
CARLY I’ve just
finished work, I’ve come along to a mapathon.
It’s essentially an event, it’s a group of people getting together to
put people on the map. |
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CARLY So the task
is for us to just draw outlines and trace over buildings and roads, things we
can see. CARLY Something
like this is so easy to do. I just trace around the corners of each building
and I’ve added it to the map. Then
community mappers on the ground can go in and say exactly what that building
is and what it’s used for. |
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CARLY For me, the
reason I got involved is I take maps for granted, so if I want to get from a
to b, I’ll just get out my phone and there’s a map there. But actually there are parts of the world
where people aren’t on the map and these are parts of the world that are
really vulnerable to humanitarian crises, disasters, and disease outbreaks as
well. CARLY The value
of having a map is huge. |
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RUPERT What I’ve got
on the screen here is I’ve got a map.
The London mapathon has been mapping this area. It’s got shapes on it, but we don’t know
what those shapes are. They might be
hospitals, they might be schools, they might be churches and we’ll go in
there and tag them with the characteristics that can be useful for emergency
response |
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RUPERT I’ve got a
team of surveyors out here on motorbikes and they’re going through the bush,
and going to every outpost and every village. |
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RUPERT Each time
these guys do a survey in a village or a community they ask certain questions |
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SAMUEL CHAIRMAN SAMUEL How many
teachers are in the facility? CHAIRMAN Two only. SAMUEL Two
teachers. |
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RUPERT |
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SAMUEL Thank you
so much CHAIRMAN Thank you |
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RUPERT What’s
getting created is an operational map, whereby if there’s a massive flood or
an epidemic that breaks out in a community then agencies and charities can
get into disaster situations effectively and precisely. We can |
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RUPERT Thanks for
sending me the position. What’s he
saying about it? DAYAN He’s
telling me this water point here, they started using it three years back RUPERT |
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RUPERT So in our own humble way, we hope that we’re changing the world. |