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Genèse d'une invention technologique humanitaire | Abdo Shabah | TEDxYouth@Montreal

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2016 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Comment la technologie peut aider dans des situations de crises humnitaires.   Dr. Shabah completed his medical specializations at the University of Montreal, and then undertook a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from McGill and HEC Montreal. He is currently associate professor at the University of Montreal, at the School of Public Health.
 Captivated by emergency medicine in austere environments, he has completed several missions in Haiti since the earthquake in 2010, mainly with the Canadian Red Cross. His great interest in new technologies led him to focus on the problem of the “digital divide” in crisis, defined as the economic and the social inequality with regard to access to, use of, or impact of information and communication technologies. 
His recent work has focused on creating a distributed cloud-like computing ecosystem on smartphones replacing the Internet in austere environments. 
 This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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