Season 2 Episode 1.
choose an Alchemy !.
The concept is 5 evoke agents ( i am thinking how to chose them, can anyone think of it? ) will get to become form a team which will take place of alchemy.
Now,the next evoke will be given by those 5 agents.
This is How that can be done:
Now Each agent chosen to be an alchemy suggests a challenge. so total there are 5 proposed challenges..
Now all other agents vote..the one that gets the maximum votes is the…
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- WHICH great challenges and social problems should the EVOKE Network tackle next?
1. Education to all ( Badly needed in developing Countries like India )
- WHERE in the world should the network try to build up new EVOKE communities?
1 .India
2. mexico
3. Austrailia
4 Africa
5 China
6 developing south east Asian countries
7 Developing European Countries
- WHO would you encourage to play Season 2?
1.…
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Added by paras on May 8, 2010 at 7:51am —
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It's 2020. the hungrychildrens.org has been wildly successful. it now has multiplayer platform. it generates 2000$ monthly, which is used to feed hungry childrens in India and Abroad.
Today, it's 10th anniversary of the site. so a mega donate camp has been organized. Tommorow, its a food security workshop and a Nobel prize laureate of India has agreed to come and deliver the keynote speech.
Added by paras on May 8, 2010 at 7:42am —
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it's 2020. i am working on the latest human-computer interaction project that my lab had taken up to help Indian army's disaster management arm. This project can change the way army is deployed. When a disaster strikes a particular place, the force that specializes is last to come and they are also last to go. Now, when they come last, minimizing the impact of disaster becomes difficult. It becomes hard to deploy many army men when there is chaos and unrest. so the army came up with the idea of…
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check out freerice.com
Added by paras on May 8, 2010 at 7:30am —
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a few days back, i had written on how middlemen exploits the farmers of india. if farmers had knowledge of the market scenario they can ripe lot's of benefits. they could earn more and this will stop young farmers who leave agriculture and aim to settle in cities. they forget the fact that people in cities dream to live their life in villages and the fact that ' being simple is extra-ordinary'. that's why rich people have farm houses.
here's a initiative by one of the indian…
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i read this in a times of india today, i was really happy to see such a work being done a media house. they have this campaign in which well to do people adopt girl child of poor people..they are suppose to look after the welfare of the girl child. this is the perfect way to solve the issue of gender inequality. in India, it's a disgrace among poorer ma**** to have a girl child and hence they tend to stop accepting the girl as their child. in many cases the mother and daughter are both banished…
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Added by paras on April 11, 2010 at 6:29am —
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About seva cafe : ( content taken from their website, link given below )
Seva Café is an experiment in the shared joy that comes from humble giving and selfless service. Our wh***some meals are cooked and served with love by volunteers and offered to our guests as a genuine
gift paid for in full by previous guests.
As more…
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Added by paras on April 10, 2010 at 7:00pm —
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this will be really fun..
let's guess the next evoke..
till now we had
1) social innovation
2) Food security
3) power shift
4) water crisis
5) Future of money
6) Women empowerment
i think next evoke will be on " education"
what do you think ?
Added by paras on April 10, 2010 at 5:07pm —
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it's been a week at evoke. i feel lucky to have found such a network where i can share my views on social innovation. i am pursuing computer science and a year back there was one question that i had...that was what will i love to develop using my knowledge of computer science if money was not involved in that activity? invariably answer came to giving back to society. somehow i forgot to develop on the urge. Now, a year later when i discovered this fantastic concept that urge has risen..now it…
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Added by paras on April 10, 2010 at 5:00pm —
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i live in India. India is said to be the land of farmers. we have lot's of folk songs that praise the work of farmers. Unfortunately, this farmers are exploited by middle-mens. this is so because majority of farmers are illiterate. this situation has grave implications. one is youth is gradually losing interest in farming and their goal is now to migrate to city and take up some petty job.
Our servant has lot's of land in his hometown.. he can be prosperous if he has little knowledge…
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Added by paras on April 8, 2010 at 7:30am —
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i recently saw a doc**entary titled ' zeitgeist addendum '..it was mind boggling to see the doc**entary unravel the secrets that our present financial system. this doc**entary's content was supported by
http://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/abouthere is what is stated on the above link :
The Venus Project is an organization that proposes a…
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Added by paras on April 7, 2010 at 5:18pm —
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i am from india.
i would like to totally abolish the caste/sex/creed/religion based reservation that we have in India.
what change you want to make?
Added by paras on April 5, 2010 at 4:06pm —
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hey,
we all are different background, culture , culture..
so here's my effort to welcome all of you to share what you like the most about your country..
i'll tell you mine :
i like india because it the world's biggest democracy and top of it, it's functioning democracy !!
i like the secular status of India.
This is why i like my country..
State here, what you like the most about your country..
Added by paras on April 5, 2010 at 4:02pm —
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it was exhilarating to see how nelson mandela ( morgan freeman ) in the movie INVICTUS motivated the rugby team of South africa. They were underdogs for the tournament and went onto become the champions.
the movie shows that evoking the spirit of nationalism with positive influence can create wonders.
Now, here's my idea:
why don't we encourage socially underprivileged to take part in sports. Goverment selects best of the lot and provides them training. They are…
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Added by paras on April 5, 2010 at 12:02pm —
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My social hero is Dr. Anil Gupta.
you can view his profile on :
http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/~anilg/his videos on ted.com :
http://blog.ted.com/2009/11/the_buzzanil_gu.phpi had the privilege to hear him speak last year at one of the ceremony. his ideas on grass root innovations is what we are seeking here at evoke network. i strongly recommend to go through and…
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Added by paras on April 4, 2010 at 7:21am —
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From the list of 33 secrets, i picked ' think like a child ' secret. i sincerely believe in this. ' think like a child ' means to think out of the box, think imaginatively/creatively. the phrase is not to be confused with think foolishly .
You might have noticed this, often spiritual leaders tell you that to be happy you need to behave/think like a child!! i believe to come up with innovative ideas we need to have peace of mind. our mind should be free from complex/incoherent thoughts…
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Added by paras on April 4, 2010 at 6:43am —
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