Igor Zerr's Blog (17)

Evoke is a Crash Course in changing the world based on a game platform. All agents are worldwide interactive players who are trying to find solutions for the worlds biggest problems and crisis. The members are people with creative, philanthropic and active personalities who think from different angels at the problems of the world.



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openminded for new opportunities

helpful to people in need

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Evoke 2011



Entworfen und erstellt wurde dieses Spiel unter der Leitung des Game Designers Jane McGonigal und erschien erstmalig am 3. März 2010 als Crash Course für die Veränderung der Welt. Ziel des Spiels ist es, alle Menschen der gesamten Welt insbesondere junge Menschen in Afrika ein Portal zu bieten um kreative Lösungen für soziale Probleme zu entwerfen. Evoke ist frei zugänglich und offen für jeden und überall.

Im Rahmen des wissenschaftlichen Seminars… Continue

"How do People React in a Pandemic?"



In a pandemic crisis people behave in extreme situations. Therefor Sandro Galead eveloped a framework that identifies five stages of reaction to a disaster to get a better overlook of human behavior.





Five stages of reaction to a disaster:



1. Self-Preservation: Humans primal instinct.. survival.

2. Group Preservation: We try to help the people (family, friends) close to us.

3. Blame Setting:… Continue

It's 10 years from now in the future and im 37 years old. I finished my college degree and raised a small family with two kids. After four years of struggling entrepreneurship I had a breakthrough in my algorithm for calculating the tendency of stock values leading to a small fortune.

After maintaining my families existence and preserving my retirement plan I started working as a humanitarian in Kazakhstan. Since that's my birthplace I took initiative in many local projects in my birth… Continue

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I studied the case of developing a system of activities for managing water use and controlling pollution sources in a small watershed in Russia. I believe that this case shows a lot of local knowledge about the water economy complex of the Kundruchya river basin. With the assistance of CPPI (Centre for Preparation and Implementation of International Projects on Technical…

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Maybe not the biggest threat but a possible threat that's always can happen is a health outbreak. The past shows as that viruses like the swine flu or the bird flu can spread everywhere and lead to a drastic crises. The mentioned outbreaks proceeded relatively smoothly, but a more aggressive form of the virus could lead to more casualties.

Eye witness accounts could constitute a… Continue

I investigated the working conditions of women in Latin American countries. The reality of women in Bolivian, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil etc., particularly in rural areas is discouraging. Many of these women face common development problems, including a lack of health-care and educational facilities and employment opportunities.

The health status of Bolivian women began to improve as early as the 1950s. However, health conditions at the time were so deficient that even today women are part of… Continue

My story shell empower those 100 football women coaches in Rwanda.

It's the womens semi-final game in the 2020 football world cup in Ghana. The underdog team of Rwanda got surprisingly in the semi-final games and opposes the women of previous world cup champion Germany. Most of the rwandas player are in an young age and benefited from an project called "100 football women coaches". Almost all girls have the same social background. They came from an poor, rural area and started taking… Continue

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Nobel price winner and founder of the Grameen Bank Prof. Muhammad Yunus declares, that through his organisation the poverty rate of Bangladesh has sunk to the lowest point in history of its country.

Yunus says:" We have lend over 30.000.000 microcredits in the past 10 years and thus created over 2.000.000 working places. Due to the increase of liquidity for poor people many… Continue

After I read through the description of KIVA I lend to Kulbara Ismailova 25 USD.

In this link you can see under the list of lenders my name (Igor, Braunschweig). I have choosen her, because I myself am born in Kazachstan and even so I don't remember whats it like there I feel compassion for Kulbaras situation. Im very happy to be part of a solution to help her.… Continue

An person that inspired me recently is Muhammed Yunus.

I attented an open dialogue between Nobel peace price winner Prof. Muhammad Yunus and the world-wide known writer Paulo Coelho in Wolfsburg about innovativ concepts called "social business".



Yunus is the inventor of microcredits and founder of the Grameen Bank in 1983. The bank lends money to poor people… Continue

Environmental education provides a responsible approach to environment and natural resources. How polluted water is purified? How does a solar car wok? How to make new paper from old paper again? All this explains the teaching staff of BS|ENERGY. The visit of the environmental expert is a free service provided by BS|ENERGY for schools and kindergarten in Brunswick and the region.

In sense of enviromental awareness I contacted following schools by email with a short writting to inform the… Continue

It's March 24, 2020. The world is about to see one of the biggest festivals called "Waterstock" (according to Woodstock) to tackle to problem of water crisis.

Water became the most precious resource of the world. After the breakthrough in 2015 for hydrogen vehicles it replaced oil as an essential resource. The leading technology drove the world to the biggest challenge of… Continue

During my investigation for solution of the water crisis I stumbled upon the non-profit, international, humanitarian orgnaisation Global water that was founded in 1982. Global water is focused on creating safe water supplies, sanitation facilities and hygiene-related facilities for rural villagers in developing countries. Global Water has worked on numerous water supply projects around the world in a variety of capacities.…

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After some research, the power player I want to tell you about is Harish Hande from Rourkela, India. He undergraduated Energy Enineering in Kharagpur and went to the U.S. to do his Master and PhD also in Energy Enineering. He is the co-founder of the company SELCO (Solar Electric Light Company) INDIA, a rural sustainable energy company which has over 25 retail sales and service centers all over Karnataka, a state in Southern India.…

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Due to the well-structured social system in Germany most people are supplied with food. But there are rare cases of undernourished families.



The organisation Braunschweiger Tafel e.V. tackles the social gap with families that can't provide enough food since 1996. It is not funded governmental but only on sponoring and donations. Over 100 volunteers provide all the logistic, gathering of… Continue

… in sense of living your life. Participate in the moment rather than just observe. Take actions beyond your own horizon and understand the reward of gratitude for yourself and others. Get involved with people, listen to what they say, ask questions and question what they say rather than wait for them to confront you. First step to complete actions is to convince yourself of their purpose. The more people endorse this secret, the more problems can be tackled.