My social innovator to follow is Jeremy Rifkin. Mr. Rifkin is an economist working on resolving the energy problem worldwide. His theories such as “The third industrial revolution”, the “Empathic Civilization” and the “Hydrogen economy” are really revolutionary ideas that could mean a breakthrough to the way we see things today.
I’’ve been following Mr. Rifkin reading his books, attending to his conferences (He attended one in Madrid on March 2011), also I’ve followed his conferences…
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Added by evoke_madrid on March 30, 2011 at 9:19pm —
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If there's some thing I have learned from all my jobs and all my life experience is that you can do great things with very little if you are innovator & creative. If you listen to people and if people listen to you, we all will realize that every one has something interesting to say and some valuable opinion to take in consideration, the problem is that people are afraid to defend what they believe on and others are afraid to open their minds to others opinions. People need to believe in…
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Added by evoke_madrid on March 30, 2011 at 9:03pm —
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If there's some thing I have learned from all my jobs and all my life experience is that you can do great things with very little if you are innovator & creative. If you listen to people and if people listen to you, we all will realize that every one has something interesting to say and some valuable opinion to take in consideration, the problem is that people are afraid to defend what they believe on and others are afraid to open their minds to others opinions. People need to believe in…
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Added by evoke_madrid on March 30, 2011 at 8:58pm —
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Listen to the right people. - I think our society still have to learn which people we should listen to. We can see the problems day by day in business concerns, politics and inter human relations.
In concerns manager are deciding problems they have no idea about. Politicans are deciding thinks without asking the human society. And in inter human relations we are often going to ask the guy how gives us less resistance.
I think we can get more innovative, when we are asking the right…
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Added by Arndt on March 30, 2011 at 7:43pm —
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Well what I'm going to write about is people shouldn't judge other people because what the cook it on and how they cook it. I think just because your a different culture than the other person you shouldn't not like them because of what they do and how they do it. An example is; Mexicans,Blacks, and Whites cooks on a stove. And Africans cook outside in a big pot with a little fire on the bottom. People shouldn't talk about howe they cook because I don't think that… Continue
Added by keihanna mccullar on March 30, 2011 at 7:10pm —
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This is a experiment I would like to see how it goes.I would try this for a week and see what happens. It would save money, but probably cause you less fun, food , and etc.With two dollars you would need to get three meals for a day, and anything else you would need.I would try another way though.I would get the money for the week, which is ten dollars, and buy supplies for the week.
Added by Ivan Ramirez on March 30, 2011 at 6:38pm —
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In my opinion one of the biggest problems is, that help for developing countries come through to much technologies without teaching them the necessary things about it . The people must learn essential skills for a technology before using it. Often they do not know what they have to do in a special siutation because no one told them ever. Above all people are more motivated when they develop things together, when they involved in solving a problem. If someone comes with a complete solution the…
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Added by Wagner Dietrich on March 30, 2011 at 4:14pm —
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The following list describes some of the things I will be doing, ways I will be living, and contributions I will be making to the world in the year 2021.
In ten years, I will be:
- researching how emerging technologies can be used to improve learning
- writing books that communicate my research results to broad audiences
- writing articles that communicate technical skills to broad audiences
- designing and developing games that improve…
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Added by John M. Quick on March 30, 2011 at 5:04am —
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Looking over the list of social innovation tips, one jumped out at me.
Don’t fight culture
(If people cook by stirring their stews, they’re not going to use a solar oven, no matter what you do to market it. Make them a better stove instead.)
I have seen this phenomenon at work in my own experiences, but it didn't really solidified until I saw this tip in the list.
As a technical artist, and general…
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Added by Scott Foust on March 30, 2011 at 4:25am —
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Sometimes, when we are asked to help somebody, the issue to be solved is one in which we are not very used to. This is a problem because we don't know the real magnitude of the problem and what exactly the other part needs from us.
If we don't experience by ourselves the true nature of the problem, we won't be able to help in the correct way. Moreover, if we go and and try to solve it with the tools we know, and that we think are the best, we could make a big mistake and aggravate the…
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Added by Luis Wong on March 30, 2011 at 3:00am —
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The social innovator I've chosen to shadow is science fiction author, blogger, journalist, and activist Cory Doctorow. As an activist and writer (both fiction and non fiction), Doctorow often focuses on issues of copyright, access to information, freedom of speech, privacy, and scarcity economics. Science fiction is often political because it is the literature of ideas the literature of change, the literature of what if? In short, it is the literature that imagines the probable and explores…
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Added by John Walter on March 29, 2011 at 10:07pm —
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The idea of maintaining peripheral vision, on "keep a look out for other challenges or new solutions all the time," resonates with me. As I understand it, maintaining peripheral vision is an act of awareness of one's environment, an understanding that a fixed point of view honed in on a goal locks us in to a particular path, a singular way of thinking and doing.
We often don't know what we need to know when we tackle difficult problems. That's the point: if we knew, the problem…
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Added by John Walter on March 29, 2011 at 8:25pm —
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Food in 2030 will taste good and be both more global and more local than it is now. I think you'll see more focus on sustainable diets and local ingredients, but also more fusion cuisines and a lot of importing of "exotic" foods. There won't be much left that is exotic, though, because of the widespread shift even in fast food to global cuisine (this is already happening--witness the chipotle explosion). What will be really exotic are things we mostly won't touch now, like insects and foods…
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Added by Cynthia Davidson on March 29, 2011 at 7:11pm —
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Following my investigation of living on $2 a day, I decided to shadow and contact the social innovator who issued that challenge. Amy Smith, whose lab I followed on Twitter (@dlab_mit), has a history of designing simple and elegant technologies for developing nations as a member of the Peace Corps and MIT's D-Lab. Since I was intrigued by Amy's challenge to live on $2 a day, I decided to contact her…
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Added by John M. Quick on March 29, 2011 at 5:11pm —
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In the
Design for Africa blog post, which lists 33 secrets to social innovation in the developing world, I took particular notice of Amy Smith's challenge:
Try living for a week on $2 a day. According to Smith, one way to better understand how to design technologies for a population is to live under similar constraints. Her experiences living under constrained conditions have allowed…
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Added by John M. Quick on March 29, 2011 at 3:55pm —
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One little part to help Africa or other low tech regions.
I think one solution ist to prevent over engeneering. So you won`t have to teach everybody how to use a very complex machine, if you build it easily. I can see it at myself. It is the Determinants of Perceived Ease of Use. Sure we can build very high technologically machines but if only an engineer can use it, it isn`t a solution. So we have to build simple, cheap and very tough machines, which everybody can use.
Added by Hannes Wiedermann on March 29, 2011 at 1:39pm —
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Welcome class!
I would like you all to complete Quest #1 for next class. This is your story. Please read the Code of Ethics, and begin your first mission this week. I'll look forward to hearing about these both online and in class!
Happy Evoking!
Added by Karen Griscom on March 29, 2011 at 1:31pm —
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Don't be so arrogant to think that you know everything better and do not mistake your own beliefs for the beliefs of others. Keep on beeing curious and keep learning from your customers.
Added by Christian Baccarella on March 29, 2011 at 9:11am —
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I chose Derek Lomas, creator of PLAYPOWER, who uses gaming to teach in underdeveloped countries. HIs organization develops cheap computers (they have a $10 computer) and programs them. I've added him on Facebook and Twitter, and wrote him a note on Facebook telling him that I'm shadowing him as part of Urgent Evoke and that he does great things. I also joined PLAYPOWER.
Added by Cynthia Davidson on March 29, 2011 at 6:20am —
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Hearty Greetings
Welcome all Agents, hope you enjoy Season 1.5 while learning how to be Social Innovators.
Best wishes in your training here and we hope to see you at the finish line waving your special issue Urgent Evoke certificate along with ours. Game on!
Agent BuffyB
Team Leader
on behalf of the Monster Agents of the GUEM Team…
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Added by Buffy B on March 29, 2011 at 3:30am —
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