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Violence against women in Kenya, a real solution.
Educating women about their rights is all well and good, but in certain areas of the world, it is not nearly enough, if not useless.
Women in the area are constantly raped and abused, and having workshops about their rights will not stop a man from raping and abusing them further, creating only a temporary and ultimately futile empowerment. These women do need the education, sure, but the help they desperately require is of a more tangible kind. Additionally, I am normally…
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Added by Julio Cesar Corona Ortega on April 16, 2010 at 11:45pm — 3 Comments
Citizen X is leaking
It was early in the morning. First day of April and things appeared to promise a very interesting day.
Codename: Hiryu had just finished his breakfast and was looking forward to a very important meeting in the evening. A Citizen X had figured out his identity as an EVOKE agent and had been pestering him day and night for information on the organization and any leads EVOKE may have on current events. Needless to say, Hiryu was more than a little…
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Added by Julio Cesar Corona Ortega on April 12, 2010 at 8:00pm — 9 Comments
The true currency
I kept trying long and hard to think outside the box for this assignment. I looked at Mark Mulkerin's inspired post about the First Bank of Evoke and thought I'd try that, but I wanted to come up with an original idea.
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In my quest to find the answer, I looked up the definition of currency, and I found these nuggets:…
Added by Julio Cesar Corona Ortega on April 12, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments
The new way of banking
Okay, so I am stealing this one from Evo, simply because of how shocking I still find it.
There are some new ideas flowing at Unified Field Bank that are nothing short of a slap in the face to established methods and traditional banking.
In a nutshell, Unified Field wants to create and promote socially conscious banking by supporting local…
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Added by Julio Cesar Corona Ortega on April 12, 2010 at 6:09am — No Comments
Water Day 2020
January 26, 2020
It was a Sunday like any other. Codename: Hiryu had gotten up late, read the news online, played some online games with his wife and daughter and was getting ready to set up the grill on the backyard to greet some friends later in the evening when a very special phone started ringing. Due to the high activity from Citizen X and the mounting leaks everyone was experiencing, it had been agreed all EVOKE agents would have a special, untraceable,…
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Added by Julio Cesar Corona Ortega on April 11, 2010 at 3:44am — No Comments
Keeping up with the best water purification products.
My definitive and absolute pick for somebody to follow and promote is http://www.lifesaversystems.com/.
Not only is their filtering technology portable, efficient and easy to use, but it is also incredibly simple to bring into destitute areas of the world.
I know I will be recommending their products to anyone willing to listen, regardless of their water situation. The more this system…
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Added by Julio Cesar Corona Ortega on April 9, 2010 at 6:26pm — No Comments
Happy Holidays and a Great 2021!
December 23, 2020
Okay, so me and my family are getting ready for X-Mas tomorrow. I am extremely glad we got done with all of the shopping over a week ago, as we usually do every year. However, this year I was not spared the holiday last-minute shopping craze.
As some of you know, my brother and sister came with their families and my mom to spend the seasons with us, and last week we setup the lights outside the house and we all set up the tree…
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Added by Julio Cesar Corona Ortega on April 9, 2010 at 6:01pm — No Comments
Michael Pritchard and the magical water bottle.
This is simply amazing.
Just think of how this same technology would work when implemented into current city water filtering systems and processing…
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Added by Julio Cesar Corona Ortega on April 9, 2010 at 6:00pm — No Comments
Redesigning Evoke as a game
One of the things that have struck me the most since I joined EVOKE about a week ago is how much it does not look like a game. The only game-like mechanic here are the EVOKE Powers System, and it feels a lot more like a tweaked "like" button on any run-of-the-mill online community/blogosphere application.
EVOKE; indeed, resembles an online community rather that a game, with the people who are a part of it and why they joined it being the only thing setting it apart.…
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Added by Julio Cesar Corona Ortega on April 8, 2010 at 6:00pm — 5 Comments
EVOKATION: Society-changing MMO disguised as a gory, commercial game? You betcha.
The Place
The entire world where a decent computer and an internet connection is available. As many people as can be reached, primarily young ones, with a main focus on the lowest common denominators residing in industrialized…
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Added by Julio Cesar Corona Ortega on April 8, 2010 at 7:00am — 98 Comments
EVOKATION: Solar power with a twist
The Place
Anywhere in the world where there is sufficient sunshine, targeted primarily to consumers in industrialized nations and subsidized projects in developing countries. Anyplace a user friendly solar solution is needed.…
Added by Julio Cesar Corona Ortega on April 7, 2010 at 4:00pm — 19 Comments
Rwandan toilets and the potty time of the future
Yes, I know other EVOKE agents have mentioned this one before, but it definitely bears repeating for it's simplicity, elegance and great use of waste matter.
Gilbert Twizere, a Rwandan student from the ETO Gitarama Secondary School, and over 30 other students from his school developed a bio-gas chamber that allows to turn methane and other waste-related gases into energy.
Now, this idea is far from new. It has been discussed many, many,…
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Added by Julio Cesar Corona Ortega on April 7, 2010 at 3:27am — 1 Comment
A meal from the future
April 4th, 2020.
Being in your 40's is always fun. 40 is the new 20, they say, and given our current life expectancy, it is not too far from the truth. Only in the early 20's century, the average life expectancy was between 30 and 45 years. Today, in the first quarter of the 21st, it's shot all the way up to 75. Advances in science, medicine, nutrition and genetics have allowed us to get this far.
Nutrition... the buzz word of the new century. We…
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Added by Julio Cesar Corona Ortega on April 4, 2010 at 7:00pm — No Comments
Food security, farmpunking and floating food gardens
How to create food security. Too big a goal for just one person to tackle, even from the design standpoint.
After looking through posts on the ACT2 assignment, I realize how many struggle with this one. It's too big, too complex and much larger than any one person. How could one person possibly develop food security for their region in 10 weeks, let alone 1? Furthermore, with scientists all over the world stumped trying to solve this problem, how could one without their…
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Added by Julio Cesar Corona Ortega on April 4, 2010 at 6:30am — No Comments
Food security or food wasting?
Mexico has a long history of agricultural innovations, both that started here or were fully developed here: the introduction of the tractor truck, land roturing, hybrid vigor in corn, tissue micropropagation, etc.
Right now, however, due to budget cuts and low political interest in the issue, innovations are rare and far between in my country, now. One organization still working on these issues however, is the UN-sponsored P.E.S.A. Recently, they worked on a damn project in…
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Added by Julio Cesar Corona Ortega on April 3, 2010 at 4:00am — 1 Comment
Imagine your future self.
2020, best case scenario? Interesting proposition.
My best case scenario is actually quite modest. I only wish to stay happily married with my current fiancée, see my future stepdaughter having a fruitful life as a college graduate and have a steady income. Perfect conditions would be me owning an online entertainment/web design firm with my wife, serving browser-based comic books and adventure games that go beyond what current attempts offer and creating web sites for…
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Added by Julio Cesar Corona Ortega on April 3, 2010 at 3:00am — 2 Comments
Choose a hero to shadow.
Added by Julio Cesar Corona Ortega on April 3, 2010 at 2:53am — No Comments
Social innovation and cultural penetration
"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.)"
The reason I signed up for this game was Jane McGonigal's equal parts inspiring and naive talk about online gaming as a way to resolve the world's problems. For all her unbridled optimism and good points about the virtues of online games, she also…
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Added by Julio Cesar Corona Ortega on April 3, 2010 at 1:00am — 2 Comments
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