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In the next season of evoke the network should address more specific topics, e.g. sustainability management or saving raw materials. Herewith the network could create more realistic solutions for urgent problems. And I'm sure that more experts would join the network if they would get the chance to share their specific expertise.



Changes in season 2: Specific missions, adapted to recent environmental and political issues (hot button for extremely urgent missions)

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Covering risk is very important factor in successful and effective change management. If you want to change something big you have to take a lot risks. But more important than taking risks is covering them to absorb possible failings. Such failings could effect huge financial social problems, which could destroy your idea of changing the world.

The particular condition that triggered community initiatives was an alarming increase in fishing with dynamite. Villagers resenting the dynamite reckoned that politically influential people in Dar Es Salaam were financing and protecting dynamite fishing networks that indirectly employed opportunistic local youth pursuing a get-rich-quick strategy at the expense of the environment and the local economy. Dynamite was cheap, often sold under market price, and the initial returns were high, while… Continue

A big problem local farmers all around the world, especially African farmers, are faced with are the assymmetries and deficits in information they have about basic methods of farming, such as fertilization.
I think with a network like Ushahidi you can minimize these deficts in information by connecting these farmers and letting them exchange their experiences.