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EVOKE - a crashcourse in social innovation in the form of an online game.

But why an online game? Because "Gamers are willing to work hard all the time if they're given the right work," (CNN Tech)



Players from all over the world earn points and power-ups by completing real-world tasks like… Continue

1. Which positive experience have you gained while you played EVOKE?

• I have noted that I have thought more often and more intensely about social problems generally, and about the fact which solution possibilities or approaches there are already and how these could be enhanced.
  
  
• With my friends I have often talked about the missions and my assignments and, besides, I allowed them to participate in my acquired knowledge, as well as from them have got…

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It's 2011 and the next pandemic flu has reached my part of the world.

I have to organize one group of people online to do something that matters.



One important thing is: reach as many people as possible - use a pyramid scheme and spread the word.



First of all, I will create a dark site where people can compare notes with each other and organize in sub-groups like: medical help, acquisition of food and water, secure places....



The next step is to advise… Continue

When people initially become aware of a risk, they overreact. They have a temporary short-term overreaction. People pause what they're doing, become hyper-vigilant, check out the environment more carefully than they normally would and—this is perhaps the most important characteristic of the adjustment reaction—they take precautions that may be excessive, may be inappropriate, and are certainly premature. (Peter Sandman on… Continue