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Emergency Cultural Heritage Rapid Response Team (ECHARRT)

A network of trained volunteers and AI-powered tools designed to locate, protect, and evacuate endangered cultural artifacts, historical sites, and living cultural practitioners during periods of civil unrest or environmental disaster, mitigating irreversible cultural loss.

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Future Scenarios that inspired this product idea

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