 Yeah, thanks a lot for the invitation. It's definitely not much time of the day. So excuse if I'm a little bit Right next to the track I'm always really happy to speak in front of People who are dealing with it and stuff because I'm so much not an IT person You saw it. I wasn't even able to start my presentation alone I'm from Carlos Carlos is in Humitarian material and NGO that was founded three years ago in Berlin and it was founded out of a kind of subculture that is strong related to the CCC but to the musical and festival subculture as well and Yeah, what I want to talk about today is our crisis response maker space in Berlin Holger invited me after we Saw each other again. It's a data garden in Berlin and he asked if I can make the presentation in English as well My English is shit. So please excuse if I have to you search some words from time to time Do you have an idea what this is it's a huge truck it's a medical sign on it So this is the kind of mobile hospital Mobile hospital which you can use if other hospitals are broken down if there are no hospitals Do you have an idea? How much such a mobile hospital would cost you to buy? three millions two millions three millions four millions This is a picture of a destroyed hospital in Syria, so you all see a lot of Pictures in the TV and stuff like that Can you relate these three to four million mobile hospital to this destroyed mobile hospital? Do you normally see in the media that if a hospital is destroyed that these fancy stuff is Deployed to there Do you have an idea why it's fucking expensive? Something more who's going to pay for that? Huh is help wanted more It's a question of safety from time to time, but on top you have to imagine Syria war country dust heat No supply chain nothing like that So bringing there with four million mobile hospital might end in two weeks of working and after that Nothing is working anymore because you don't have the technicians who can Repair this kind of stuff for example Next example, I'm sure you know what this is a pretty fancy firetruck You have them in Germany in all the bigger villages and all the cities stuff like that if you take a look inside these firetrucks You see plenty of fancy stuff. I love this stuff. There's stuff to put out fire There's stuff to lift things with hydraulics. There is a normal stuff like shovels and stuff like that But if you relate this to pictures in disaster areas, this is from my E.T. Then you'll see that you have a plenty of people, but no equipment at all or Pretty clear because normally After in disaster people from all over the world come as fast as possible to the disaster area the so-called Urban search and rescue teams. They are coming by plane So all the fancy stuff that we have in our society stays here and a few people that typically White Knights of Humanity every night go to the disaster areas to help the poor people You understand this was cynical And there's a third example. Have you ever seen what this is? This is a tourniquet Basically a tourniquet is one meter of nylon strap and a little bit of plastic Tourniquet is the best way to stop severe bleeding immediately We know this since the Second World War at least it's 20 years. It's totally clear and it's validated This is the best way to stop severe bleeding Spoiler you won't see this in the media if you see like people in Syria getting hurt like losing the legs after explosion stuff like that Do you have an idea how expensive is such a thing one meter of nylon a little piece of plastic? Not so expensive, but it goes in this direction $55 for one of this $55 for fucking one meter of nylon strap and I don't know less than 10 gram of plastic And the last example, I don't know if you have a pet. I had a dog If I would like to I could add GPS To my dog and this GPS will say when my dog is sleeping where my dog is where I can find my dog if it's gone stuff like that but Again, if you went to Haiti directly after the earthquake People searched for other people and collapsed building with their bare hands So obviously we have a lot of technical solutions for everything I can look for my fucking dog in Hamburg where it is via my Apple my iPhone But on the other hand in a disaster area, it's not even possible to search people who are buried in collapsed buildings There are several reasons for that One reason your material and work your material in aid is a market This is a little bit perverted, but it is a market. It's always a question. It's not like who wants to help But who pays for the help? Who gets his share out of this help? and You can imagine we have I don't know every two or three years a major earthquake So the market if you compare it to a normal business market is pretty small who cares for the Thousand two thousand three thousand people who die in the earthquake every three years The next thing access to the market Is it possible to bring things to Syria? Why should I develop as a businessman and capitalism? Why should I develop something if I can't reach my market easily? so to make my share and The third thing who are the players on the market and you material in aid most players are NGOs NGOs are not really interested in developing new things because If I have an NGO a classical NGOs and I like this thing how they are if there is a disaster I send my people I make some nice pictures for the media and I get a lot of donations I'm not interested in changing things If I would like building capacity in local communities so much that they don't need me anymore after disasters Then there's no need for my nice white NGO anymore. So these three things together Make a situation where you have a lot of solutions in our communities and our societies But you have no possibility to bring this to disaster aid We started 2014 in northern Syria more or less by accident We were asked if we could come with a political delegation and make Yeah, an overview over the medical infrastructure and Ever since we were stuck in this region Because we saw no NGOs working there Because the states were not really willing to pay money for that because another north is Syria is ruled by Some Kurdish militias and these Kurdish militias are too lefty to get money from states. Let's say it this way so we saw a situation there and We still had an old for real driven truck here in Germany and we said This would be great if we just built out of this truck a mobile hospital. We had no idea how to do this We were really a little bit Naive in these times. We said just like it's a nice truck. So a lot of space in this truck So let's build it. We have an idea. We have a fantasy We will go with this truck to northern Syria Then we will give it to a local NGO and then they have a mobile hospital to follow the front lines in their fight against the so-called Islamic State and two years later We're half two years later. We really Were in northern Iraq not northern Syria so far, but in northern Iraq with our mobile hospital and this time it was Pretty hard to cross the border to Syria. So we had to stay in northern Iraq. So we are CWHO the World Health Organization What can we do right now? We are here. We have a mobile hospital Do you see any need for us? And they said yeah guys if you would like to then we would like to send you to Mosul and I don't know if you saw in the media the last year the battle of Mosul was one of the most bloody and the most shitty battle that we had in the past 20 30 years, I think with a lot of lot of civilian casualties And we said okay, let's try we built this mobile hospital. Let's see if it's working And we were able to work like one and a half two kilometers behind the front line of the Islamic State And we were really wondering because them We were really surprised because we saw like nobody else was working there because they just didn't had the equipment for that Because they had either to buy a mobile hospital for three four million dollars Nobody had that and other things were not available on the market. So we were the only ones working there And over the through a few months that we worked directly at the front line. We treated several thousand people with this and This was actually the moment when the crisis response maker space was born So it was not plans that we build up this maker space It was just like we had the workshop in Berlin where we fixed the truck where we renovated the truck and stuff like that and After we went to Iraq, we just said like this was a pretty good idea and it worked out pretty well We are sure there were more problems that have to be solved in humanitarian crisis And actually this first mobile hospital went over the border to Syria like one week ago So now it is in Rojava where it should have gone to what we're doing at the moment We have some lessons learned out of this first mobile hospital and we're developing a second mobile hospital Because the first one was based on all Trucks that we could get really cheap in Germany But our idea was always like we would like to Create open source blueprints for local NGO so that they can copy our solutions that we develop With these German trucks. It's not really easy We can't go to an NGO in the Middle East and say like hey look This is how we build it because they can't get their hands on these German trucks So now we use use C containers because you can get them everywhere in the world. They are unbelievable cheap You can get them for two and a half thousand euros and So it's a moment in Berlin. We are building on something like this It's not to work inside the containers, but to have an inflatable tent structure coming out of the container And then you have your 20 treatment places and we're working on different solutions that are not existing At the moment like this patient treatment places are based on flight cases and stuff like that so we try to bring together our experiences from the musical subculture from organizing festivals from building up structures Pretty fast and empty rooms and stuff like that together with these humanitarian problems Another problem that I had at the beginning was this fire truck when I said like no fire trucks in disaster areas and we thought like Although we can't get our hands on these fire trucks the fire truck is basically just a truck with a Good solution how to store your equipment so that you can use your equipment When it's still on the truck and you have your Engine running and you have your electricity and stuff like that So we were thinking like okay, you don't need this fire truck You just need a box system that you can bring with normal airplanes to disaster areas and then put it on normal pickups Because pickups you find them all over the world For this we would need a kind of box system that you can Connect in three angles and we took a look on the market and again It's not necessary normally to have something like this. So nobody developed this in a meaning that you can Load these boxes with up to 200 kilo. So We developed a new kind of box It won't have the name car box in the future, but we couldn't find another these boxes Like a modular system We try to work together with universities this was together with the HTW in Berlin And this is how things are Done with us. We have a first an idea just like how can we cut a fire truck in pieces? Bring it to a disaster area and put it together again and out of this process are coming more and more ideas And we saw like yes, perhaps it's not only like Connecting these boxes. Perhaps it's an idea to make it in a modular way because then you can define for every side of the box a special use like for example photovoltaic and Now we have a box developed that you can put in a normal airplane Bring it to disaster area. Just turn around the boxes the side of the boxes and you have electricity and for example inside a Water pump or something like that When we then thought about Okay, but how can we get into the disaster areas if the roads are blocked stuff like that? We saw this in the pile over the earthquake. We saw this on Puerto Rico last year after the typhoon that the help couldn't reach the island We thought about it's not so difficult to throw things out of airplanes So again, we took a look at the market and said like wow No civilian solutions to throw huge payloads out of aircrafts the solutions on the markets are military solutions, so the UN can use it, but normally it's up to the National military you can use it the only solution we could find was a box system coming from an English company and With this box you can throw out I think up to 70 kilo But only like yeah things that can't break you can't throw out medical instruments with this So what we did? Because again, we looked like who could be the best person to talk with us about something like that And we thought it's not the military obviously because they think in bigger scales they think in Endless money they think in endless logistics. So we got together with power gliders from Switzerland who we met in the refugee response in the Mediterranean and told them We would like to throw things out of airplanes. What do you think about it? And they said them Why not we are jumping out of airplanes all the time. So why should it be? So difficult what came out is that every paraglider who goes down a mountain in Switzerland like Frequently daily has an emergency Parachute in his power glide and this emergency parachute has to be renewed every three years not because it's broken But because we're living in a rich society and insurances say like if you don't do this, I want to insurance you so you have Plenty of hundred thousand of used Power shoots that are totally okay and you can hang obviously more than 100 kilo on them Then you have these tandem power shoots. You can obviously hang more than 250 kilo gum on them So what we did Totally legal We tried it out and threw some things from really high bridges in Switzerland with his power shoots And then we saw yeah, it's functioning so Next thing was that we developed a kind of Absorption with with carton and The funny thing when we went to Switzerland and said to the to the officials and said like yeah, you know, we have bunch of Punk rock idiots working in you material in eight But we have this idea we could throw things out of normal power shooting machines because you can find them all over the world Because all over the world people do the sport and it's pretty cheap and we could reach like valleys that are non-reachable Yet they said like do you know what the problem is every country has to have these air drop capacity this is like a like a I don't know regularly from the International air travel Something something and they said we in Switzerland We solve this again with the military we have to pay like 24,000 euro an hour to do this because we do it with big helicopters You offer us a solution that if it's working out. It's working with like two thousand euro an hour so they said if Your system is working. You will be immediately assigned as an official Humanitarian air drop capacity in Switzerland So this is like we started right a half years ago in an old What's called a spawnbogen? building in Berlin to Renew old trucks to bring them into another Syria and then we thought like let's use the space let's look for solutions for humanitarian problems and The idea was in the beginning just to bring together nerds geeks people out of the field Refugees who knows best what will help them in the crisis specialists Universities stuff like that and what what started like? Let's see if it could happen Comes out as this year in July We will throw out some boxes with parachutes out of airplanes and will perhaps have the first worldwide airborne emergency response unit So yes, we saw there was a big need for the things at the moment We don't have a lot of it projects. We have some ideas and we would like to Yeah, to grow our network because we have Nerds from the CCC sitting around there, but at the moment they love to do something with wood So it's the moment it's a But these Makerspace is a maker space like you like you know it you have an open space Everybody could come in with only the regulatory say we say like everything that is developed Should be with a focus on humanitarian aid and everything that we develop has to be open source so that people Can use it worldwide If you would like to get in contact with us www.Cardos.org and we have all this fancy stuff like the Facebook Twitter and That you can find it on the homepage Yeah, thank you very much for your attention and This was it talk Thanks a lot for a great talk other questions Hi, thank you for the talk I'm not sure if you know about an organization. It's I think it's only French at the moment Which it's called hand which is hackers against natural disasters and it's basically an Non-profit which tries to help local populations in case of natural disasters. So mostly they were in They went for the typhoon last year in French islands in the Caribbean and they try to set up Some kind of infrastructures IT infrastructures So there are home radios and they try to set up internet and stuff like that. So people can actually use communications and try to set up like 3g networks and they I think it's only French, but they have a great I don't know a lot about them, but I think they have a quite hacker spirits and might be Cooperation This would be perfect and thank you very much There are actually a lot of groups like this Right, for example, we are now part of the gig that's called global innovation gathering Which are like 50 maker spaces all over the world. So there are small organizations that are really interesting The problem is it's hard To find your space in this you mature in the world because the big organizations really closed down The access to this the access to bigger amounts of money and stuff like that. So Contacts are always welcome because I think we can only reach something if we form better and bigger networks in Areas of crisis and especially in war. It's hard to understand which interests are on which side or Are there any goods in this? How do you avoid to become a useful idiot? I? think I Don't avoid it and Humanitarians are a kind of useful idiots in the humanitarian sectors. There are two main pictures about Humanitarian aid it was Henry to know who founded the Red Cross Who said like yes, there is a war yes, obviously these are assholes that they shoot at each other But in the end they're humans. So once they're laying down on the floor. They deserve to be treated like humans I know that if I treat him and he's fit again Perhaps he goes out again and shoot again and there was the other a person Florence nightingale in the same time She said like humanitarian aid should mean only these people get humanitarian aid who? Bond themselves to these humanitarian principles. So a soldier that got shot down I won't treat him if I'm not sure that you won't go out again in The meanwhile, I think the humanitarian world Stuck totally to this to the to the model of do not and for us It's the same I treated people who fought for ISIS in Mosul definitely Because in my opinion if I go there and say like I am the medic and the judge and the same time Then it's really strange. I have to be other people to judge over this So as a humanitarian aid worker, you are a little bit a helpful idiot all the way the other discussion is definitely a question about If Humanitarian aid brings anything or if it's just like a machine that tries to run itself again and again and again Like this hype industry This we try to avoid With not playing after the same rules. So we are not into I Don't know every two or three years. There is a New theme that you that you have to serve like for example now its capacity building in war zones We think it's pretty easy. We don't have to to follow these rules of the Humanitarian sector in the time in market. We stuck to the humanitarian ideals and we always try to work together with the locals and Yes, for sure. You always have locals So try to have their share out of this crisis But if you talk to the locals talk to different locals to work with several organizations together You will see who is really working on the ground just to help the people and we try to support these and Like I said, we don't Produce or develop solutions that we can sell it's all open source. So I Hope this helps to avoid a little bit to support the wrong people and Any further questions? Hi awesome work. Have you considered 3d printing to maybe come up with spare parts or let the community again Have you considered 3d printing? Yes There are actually organizations who are doing this There's one really cool organization. It's called field ready They're developing a database with a lot of things like the small thing you need to Stop the connection between a mother and the baby I don't know what the what's the name is in English and they Develop a database so that people can print these medical devices in disaster areas. What's pretty cool We at the moment we tried like few months ago to get our hands on 3d printers but then so expensive at the moment and We are just more experienced with metal and steel and stuff like that We looked into this and it's a more in the moment. It's just like we are always doing too much unfortunately. I Wanted to buy one and then Our colleagues from ccc said don't do that. You're not clever enough. So You will destroy it waste money But actually for the tourniquet for example, there is a solution as well for 3d printing I just read an article a few days ago So I think 3d printing is a kind of Really be close connected to the future of humanitarian aid definitely Any further questions? It's last question more comments. So because you showed that yeah, we have these cool sexy solutions for technology for finding dogs and in less developed countries we have problems, but it looks like we have problems with Disasters in all the world look at what happened in New Orleans looked what what is still happening in Puerto Rico Which is supposed the first world country, but it's still have problems with electricity So it's it's not that there are good countries and bad countries, but we have problems with with all those global solutions to To recover, but that's I think that's thanks. That's good approach that To get local people to organize and to try to solve because they know what what is needed most. Yeah Totally, I think this is a factor thing about capitalism if I live in a nice decent city like Hamburg and I have a dog I'm will easily spend 10 year old months for an app to find my dog But I don't relate to the thing that I could be under some rubbish as well. So I won't pay for a Disaster app or something like that because it's not part of my daily life So no company will be willing to develop something like this. It's just like the rules of the market silly, but it is like it is Okay, thank you very much for your attention. Yeah, thanks a lot