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Good morning.  My name is 
Amit Arora and   thank you for

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this opportunity.  As a 
GIS ambassador I'm   excited 

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to be a part of the GIS days. 
Getting engaged with 

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students and share experiences
and ways of using   GIS.  I 

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would like to start with this
talk with a   question.  What

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do you think most used app on 
your phone   today? Some of 

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the apps that come to mind is 
Facebook,   TikTok, whatever. 

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Just think in your head, what 
does the   most common app.  

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The answer is google maps.  In the   past 
year, (2) 342-0000 downloads.

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Also knowing that this comes preinstalled on most 
nonapple phones.  Just be amount of downloads, it -- 

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things you were thinking. Something on how maps are valued and why 
do we use it. It helps us to go from point A to point B.

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Helps us find out our favorite store, restaurant, pizza place, route,traffic.  
Anything that is visible with the naked eye is what maps can do.  How about 

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something that we can see   
which above the surface of 

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land, below the surface of   
water, so that's what you GIS 

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is all about.  It's much   
much more than just a map.  It

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helps us capture visible,   
invisible and air, water, and 

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(indiscernible) and   
analytical capabilities, it

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helps us speak into fast,   
CREATE simulations and also

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predict future.  And the list 
just goes on.  Today in the

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next give minutes, I'll be   
sharing some examples which

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will be representative of   
real world problems

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and will see how GIS is been 
used to   address some of

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these issues. What comes to your mind
when you see this   picture? 

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Maybe, you know, some third 
world country with poor access to water. This is

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a state of water with (78)000-0000 people are world wide
are forced to drink.You'll see this is a third world

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country, it's actually
in the United States.

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Around 400 thousand people die
of contaminated water and this

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is a problem because of --
the picture you are seeing is 

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the water turning red.    
These number of Americans die 

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because of led poisoning in   
the water alone.  How to

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figure out how to prevent this
. Several ways we can address this.

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Maybe stopping the   mining
operation, replacing led pipes

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, but it's not   simple answer
.  We can -- it's

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-- needing information   from 
different variables which can

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help us understand   differe
interventions.  It's a complex

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landscape and   that's where 
GIS comes in with the decision

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processes.    Here's an 
example of GIS analysis helps

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us and this is a   case of 
North Carolina.  As you can

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see, it gives us   
visualizations of the source

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of contamination.  This kind  
of visualization helps

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residence know what the state 
is.    This kind of

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visualization helps us connect and communicate with
 different audiences.  Issue advisors, risk potential

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exposure and it's just how the
power of   GIS can be used as 

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a visualization too to 
collaborate,   communicate and

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address immediate issues.  It 
gives us   incites on how

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complex systems are and how well it works. 
Maps can save lives, yes.  How does it do it?Everybody

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remember this hurricane
Matthew devastating Haiti.There was

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a resource distribution on how to get the resources.  
So the challenges of the (indiscernible). It was 

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difficult to reach in certain 
areas.  That's where   GIS 

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helps us address some of these
issues.  Access to   services

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was one of the challenges with
the state of, in   the state
 
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of devastation, there was not 
access to these   facilities.

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That's where GIS help
to reallocate resources.

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Provide immediate relief
for the communities   and GIS

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mapping helped us allocate 
where to provide those

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mobile health clinics.  Again,
GIS helps with in disaster 

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management.Let me share 
another example.  Traffic

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injuries.    1.3 million die 
each year from world traffic 

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related   conditions.  In 
addition, there's 20 to 50 

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million, they   suffer 
nonfatal injuries everyier.

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year.  How can GIS help   us? 
Mapping.  Identifying hot spot

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, creating, looking at   
trends and patterns

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and help us with investigation
for   possible interventions

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to prevent crashes to happen 
in   the first place.  It can 

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help us save if we identify
safe   routes around schools.

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GIS is so powerful in this   
application.  It can help save

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for all ages and all   
availabilities and that's

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where GIS helps us to achieve 
this.  Here's another example.

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Do you know Canadians   wast
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capita every year. 
2.94 million metric household 

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food waste.  How can GIS   
help? It can help us by 

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identifying food (
indiscernible).    How can we

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can we distribute food to 
places where it's not 

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available, meaning t not 
accessible.  As you can see,

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we   can identify the local smaller

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grocery stores, superer   
markets, which residence are

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being served.  This is   
accessible to all, so these
 
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kind of incite from GIS helps 
us decision makers and in 

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largest operations and make   
sure that this has been food 

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is accessible to all   
populations.  GIS helping with

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mapping and demographic.    
And insuring food access to 

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all.  It helps identify the   
gaps and also guide policy and

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interventions. So what we talk

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about is just four issues. 
Water   contamination, food 

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waste, traffic injuries, these
are   just some of the issues 

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that is not only local but 
these   are global issues.  

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And these are all part of   
SUSTAINABILITY.

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All of these represent one 
goal in the   United Nations

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Government goals.  What i
SDG? It gives   us the /

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TKPWROEBL issues which impacts
millions of lives each day. 

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I would encourage to look into these
17 goals,   we all have a role

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to play in addressing each of 
these   goals.  Learn about these goals

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and look at ways where   you 
can make a difference and use

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GIS to address these   goals 
in your communities.

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Together, we can work 
toward   creating sustainable 

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and healthy planet.  Thank you
very much.