nauru naru does not mean hello
naouss is a small island lost in
middle of the pacific where live
peacefully tens of thousands
of menard inhabitants or a secret she
hide a treasure
this treasure is phosphate is an art
or phosphate is a lot
so when in the 70s the
government decides to launch
the exploitation of this phosphate every
inhabitants are going to have the right to their
cake
in fact overnight
this little island will become one of
richest country in the world by
inhabitant then intrigued the review
American national geographic decides
to send in the mid-70s a
postponement on the spot and he brings back this
photo that pretty much sums up the
situation of the wheel at the time in
background the floor is completely
ravaged by operations
phosphate extraction and at first
plan a beautiful royce rolls up
for information we go around
the island of Nauru in half an hour the
rents holidays studies of
children abroad
at the time an art where all that is
free these countries by the government
with phosphate silver
but unfortunately a few decades
later phosphate by has more and
money but we took no more
beautiful imported luxury cars took
out of the whole world are now
piles of rust in the gardens a
vast majority of the population is at
unemployment
narbonne has more choices to find
his salvation
she has to turn or can
return to the sea and precisely
let me introduce you slade slade
he works at the Ministry of Fisheries
of now and his job every morning
it’s going to meet the
fishermen and ask them a whole bunch of
Questions
where did you get caught?
how many fish late to lead
which species the answers to these
questions there will come later
feed a database that
could be questioned by the
scientific community or
economists to answer to
questions like is security
food of such village is assured
or is the stock of such
fish species is in danger and
me my job in there eh ben it is
not complicated it’s design and and
maintain its databases
in fact I am a computer scientist I
am not at all fisherman and people
like slade there are some on most
of the pacific islands and to collect
this data they have to their
provision an absolutely tool
revolutionary pencil and paper
in fact nothing has changed since
70’s and this given there so much
that she is on paper in fact she
has no value
it’s even the reverse for now
it has cost time and she has
cost money
the first thing that will not do them
it’s getting it back into a computer
and when we start to grab several
time the same thing is where we do
errors but in addition to that some
observers work on what we
calls outer islands
that is, they can be at
several hundred or more
thousands of kilometers from where
give it and will be seized it wants
to say that we will put months to put
hands on these forms if he
happens and it cost me a fortune in
transport then you may have it
understood there are three problematic
main to all of this there is the delay
because peaceful is great there is the
blow because the fred is expensive and
then to the quality of the data to
because of the double entry then in 2015
and try to get into a project
developed a mobile app that
would solve all these
problems of a sudden our observer
instead of typing on a form
paper and ben they would seize
directly on a tablet
and then when he finishes his interview
well they will send us the information
directly in the cloud more than
deadlines more hits and more double
seizure
but in addition to that
I decide to add my touch
personal an interactive map that
will allow fishermen to support
directly on the tablet for us
will say I was touched at such a place
or I was caught
in law
and then I spend a lot of time
try to optimize the application for
operate on internet connections
very weak what I say good of
small islands in the pacific
internet it’s going to row after two
month I have my prototype
I’m pretty happy and I say good
it’s time to actually test him
just miss one thing to this
application it’s a name and decides to
call it is like the home of the fish
in English two days later I am
to now with slade which I told you about
just before there are three fishermen who
arrive at the same time then necessarily
there is the adrenaline that rises at the same time
time I’m hot potato because I
tell me I’m going to see what tales has in
the belly and obviously it’s not going to be
move as planned
slade can not do it with the application
it is extremely slow to grasp the
given is in front of us we have
fishermen it’s been five six hours that
are at sea
there all they want is sell
their fish and go home for
go to rest
then inevitably they get impatient then
after a while he gets annoyed at this
moment slate without it starting
to be tense he re draws his old
paper form that the fishermen
know and the situation is
calm but me at that moment I
that a desire is to take a shovel
to dig a hole and hide myself
in because the evening before
first time I met slide
I sold him a dream
I told him this not complicated tales
it’ll change your life instead of instead
to go grab a second time all
the data after having them
questioned the fishermen you could
go home directly hey it
will not be for today
and on top of that he passed for a
clown in front of the fishermen and
fishermen it’s people who are pretty
complicated it’s very difficult to have
their trust then we ask ourselves when
even for debriefing and I’m pretty
surprised he is rather positive on
the tool he sees there his interest
staff necessarily he says if that
walk that will make my life more
easy
so he puts naked sea all the stuff that
do not go in tales and there are many
all the buttons that go nowhere
all places where there is too much
information I take notes
and I say, listen, it’s not
complicated if you want tomorrow same time
same place we try again and then
I would integrate all your
observations a life ok there tomorrow I
starts to leave towards my moped and
there he made a time just something your
interactive map there it will work
never the fishermen when we
questions they do something else
they clean their boats they
clean their fish they are hyper
in a hurry there is never any fisherman at
world who at that time will take the
time to press your tablet
to tell you ah I was in such a place
or I was then let down
I say ok we do what
you take you put in the trash if you
knew the time that it taught me to
make this card
too bad the next morning I find
slade with a new tales and then I
said we change the rules of the game this shot
there I take the paper form
you take the application says me I
note everything the fisherman he is
like that there is no problem we will lose
no information are you trying to
to untangle and then tell me who is going
do not debrief the day again
i would have improved tales we end up
the next day and we continue our
ride for three or four days
and after three or four days
slide gets to grab in tales a
form as quickly as me on
the paper
when i say bah listen try to
send in the cloud that is
it’s going to work from the first
blow and weirdly it works we have
succeeded we had a lot of trouble
we then succeeded
frankly moped and then I think
at the Nauru Fisheries Ministry and the
first thing that tell me when
I arrive 10 by your side 300 g at his place
he finished his day’s work he did not
no need to come back to grab at
again these data and I’m going to you
show on the computer that everything
that we suffered this morning is already
available it’s already available for
you but in addition that we are connected to the
cloud directly so it’s already
available for scientists
it’s already available for
economists more deadlines more than
more double-entry shots
the contract is filled then it is
unfortunately time to leave slade
and leave now and debris is a bit
this mission and here I say to myself
first thing it was I had
a lot of luck falling on him
because he was very open very
honest he obviously saw it as his
personal interest
and then in addition the first day you
with the fishermen it was not good
gone at all good he stepped in and
I said to myself I’m still
stumbled upon a classy guy
but I realize that
I landed in Nauru I did not know
at all where I put my feet
I had a mobile app connected to the
cloud installed on tablets with
their internet that I think is
catastrophic
I told myself a small island of 10000
inhabitants is what they are going even
to know how to use it
so when I arrived they had
all smartphones now he or block
access to facebook but all
Young people use vpn to
geolocate in other countries for
still access facebook
good I took a huge slap and I
actually told myself I stayed too much
a long time in my office because
I did not really take two months to
do it in fact I put a month on
second month optimized for
weak internet connections and I did
an interactive map is necessarily if
I had been on the ground or and of a
months I would have realized that these
two things was completely
unnecessary then taking a little bit of
recoil I told myself that with a one
innovative project like tales
you have to keep in mind that if you
have to plant you do it fast because
from the moment we innovate it
must accept that we can plant ourselves
otherwise we do not innovate but if we can
to plant as quickly as possible
to pivot to something that is going
to operate or even completely
canceled
at that moment we can say to his
chief I tried that took a
month is not a disaster either
problem is when we are with them
for six months we do not go out of his
office and we realize that in
did what we did it was useless
there the budget it starts to be a
low for an error then
I was really happy not slogan
am I going to patent I’m going to do some
t-shirts i’m going to become a consultant
will be great
then I realized quickly
that actually it’s about ten
of years that the silicon valley there
develop software like that there
down they even have a conference that
is called the falcon or the spectators
pay to come and see
speakers explain to them all the
projects where they are planted and all
the mistakes they made like that
they learn from the mistakes of others and
not to make themselves actually
it’s a little what you do there
it’s a little my falcone right now
so if a computer scientist who looks at me
right now and that they are in my
fishing app I’m going to put a
card no you ‘re not going to do it because
it’s bad
and there I do not save you a
month buddy
hey it’s 18 months following I have some
plots and lg in many other countries of the
peaceful and slapping I took
full I remember this time where
I land in a country is actually there
had to hurry up because
the fishermen were coming so I
give the tablets to the observers
I say good guys by cons we get
dispatch has in addition not even the
fresh moroccan tablets on the bus
go hop hop hop on speed five minutes
after I turn around I fall on this
guy there I approach a little fair but
what are you doing he hands me his
tablet in five minutes
which had put his card 3g perso in
the tablet he had downloaded a
voip application and he was calling his
friends of his island one by one for their
to say that they had a guy who came from
spin him a free tablet effect them
pledges for it’s technically it was
there in the guys who are there they
know very well what they are doing
guys another time I was on a
small atoll lost in the middle of the Pacific
on the steps of my bed and breakfast
evening then a little young 12 13 years old who
approach me it’s a little timidly and
who makes me his white canvases that comes
to arrive who knows you in
data processing
gibeau was like that there is not
from there we saw each other we are there and he
asks the question that all
computer scientists testing is what you
can help me with my computer
we do not like to help you with your
computers
we do not like it stop me
ask but hey there I am on the spot
he looks nice I say ok go go ahead
shows a month he comes back five minutes
after with a laptop
rather pretty much makes sure next to
me he opened the margins look at a
little he under linux the kid has not hurt and
and then starts typing lines of
order there he takes their said ms lemay
on the cheek a girl watch it works
not I look on his screen he try
to solve a c ++ and c ++ exercise
it’s one of the programming languages
computer the most complicated they
exist then I say is already waiting
explanations what are you doing what there
he explains to me he signed up for
online programming course and in
the more he chose the language of
most complicated programming like
that to take the other languages this
will be easier
the intellectual approach of the good kid
and then me c ++ under linux
I have not done since the college I
look at the screen I do not understand anything
not complicated then in these cases
normal technique
we save time so I said good
listen if I give you the answer that’s
not like that you will learn
good result I tell him in my opinion your
problem
he is here then you look at you
search a little by yourself
1 and then I’m good in this
B & B all week
occitane if you can not find
come back and then I hope to be
explain a little bit better I do not have anymore
never seen again I was lucky
but hey he especially understood that
did I understand anything bright eyes in
all this and ben spies in 2017 has
replaced 90% of paper forms that
we manipulated before the hand and before
everything in fact is a feeling
of pride that I feel because
this application there it’s me who in
I had the idea it’s me who
develop good you understood it
I planted myself but
listening to people who know
well I managed to finally make a
application that works and know
that today somewhere in the
peaceful and observers like
slade who used this app
there to send us to give it in
live eh ben this is an extremely moment
proud but actually
the main ingredient of success
of this project bah it’s them
it is these women and men who
gathering to give it on the ground
every day and who by their return
helped put in the heart of taste
or their know-how and all their
knowledge and actually now
if they use this application as much
it’s because she looks like a little
Unfortunately this little tales that
to collect it will require
months maybe even years before
that economists or
scientists make this talk
given and turns it into information
and that’s the information that
will serve the government or the
regional authorities to take the
good decisions to perpetuate the
living in their family and in their
community
and if it happens
so I ‘ll know that not only have I
makes an application that works but
especially I would have made an application
useful for them and that’s I think the
best way for me to
thank for all they have
learned and everything they brought me
thank you
[Applause]
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