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Junior International Summer Service Corps
Junior International Summer Service Corps (JISSC)
An Evokation of Service & Development
The Name
Junior International Summer Service Corps (JISSC)
The Place
It’s global. It initially starts in the US but the students work overseas. Eventually overseas students will also be able to work in the U.S.
The Idea
Develop an international summer service program for high school students in the US, especially those from low-income neighborhoods, to… Continue
An Evokation of Service & Development
The Name
Junior International Summer Service Corps (JISSC)
The Place
It’s global. It initially starts in the US but the students work overseas. Eventually overseas students will also be able to work in the U.S.
The Idea
Develop an international summer service program for high school students in the US, especially those from low-income neighborhoods, to… Continue
Added by Victor Udoewa on May 20, 2010 at 7:00am — 4 Comments
Viral Resonance Therapy
Viral Resonance Therapy (VRT)
An Evokation to Remember
The Name
Viral Resonance Therapy
The Place
It’s global and especially for places with high incidence or prevalence of HIV/AIDS.
The Idea
Research and develop a product that uses resonance biophysics to provide a cure for HIV/AIDS.
Innovation
It’s completely innovative and unique: there are no known cures for HIV. Moreover, there is no known cure for any virus. Most of the… Continue
An Evokation to Remember
The Name
Viral Resonance Therapy
The Place
It’s global and especially for places with high incidence or prevalence of HIV/AIDS.
The Idea
Research and develop a product that uses resonance biophysics to provide a cure for HIV/AIDS.
Innovation
It’s completely innovative and unique: there are no known cures for HIV. Moreover, there is no known cure for any virus. Most of the… Continue
Added by Victor Udoewa on May 20, 2010 at 5:45am — 4 Comments
END of CONFLICT
Alpha - plans to destroy EVOKE, found EVOKE network when dark site went up
Quinn - Kenya (Nairobi)
Eureka - South Africa (Cape Town)
Ember - Ghana (Accra)
Alchemy - Senegal (Dakar)
Cipher - New Agent, joined ranks in Episode 1
Season 2
Episode 1
Alive we live in the same house or under the same roof. Dead, we rest in the same tomb.
--- Madagascarian proverb
PAGE 1
PANEL A
A view of a street in the city of Jerusalem,… Continue
Quinn - Kenya (Nairobi)
Eureka - South Africa (Cape Town)
Ember - Ghana (Accra)
Alchemy - Senegal (Dakar)
Cipher - New Agent, joined ranks in Episode 1
Season 2
Episode 1
Alive we live in the same house or under the same roof. Dead, we rest in the same tomb.
--- Madagascarian proverb
PAGE 1
PANEL A
A view of a street in the city of Jerusalem,… Continue
Added by Victor Udoewa on May 12, 2010 at 3:25pm — No Comments
Changemaking Manifesto
EVOKE is a network of agents who use social networking, social innovation, and social entrepreneurship to change the world. They challenge the global crises of the day producing creative solutions through civic engagements that are resilient, adaptive, and usher in new ways of thought and practice.
Simple put, EVOKE is a network of changemakers. An EVOKE agent is a person who changes the world each day, just like a teacher. Wherever you find a social ill or a world crisis, you find an… Continue
Simple put, EVOKE is a network of changemakers. An EVOKE agent is a person who changes the world each day, just like a teacher. Wherever you find a social ill or a world crisis, you find an… Continue
Added by Victor Udoewa on May 12, 2010 at 4:50am — 1 Comment
Snow Emergency Site
I created the beginnings of a Snow Emergency Website for the East Coast of the US around the nation's capital. It's a dark site and as more information is needed and created more of the secondary pages can be developed. It provides information for citizens and families, first responders, and extra links to redundant emergency preparedness groups in the city.…
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Added by Victor Udoewa on May 12, 2010 at 4:23am — No Comments
Calling ALL CRISIS COUNSELORS!
I'm a counselor, a crisis counselor to be exact. And I usually deal with HIV/AIDS cases and crisis pregnancy cases.
I know how important it is to managing psychological impact of disasters. I would asemble a group of trained counselors
and therapists and psychologists.
CALLING ALL COUNSELORS, THERAPISTS, and PSYCHOLOGISTS
It's 2011 and we're in the midst of an uncertain flu pandemic. We don't know the future and we don't know how dangerous it…
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Added by Victor Udoewa on May 11, 2010 at 9:34pm — No Comments
Outbreak Communication is Vital!!!
Outbreak communication is the one area that is really involved in all areas.
Outbreak communication must deal with uncertainty and communicate in an environment of uncertainty.
Outbreak communication must cover and manage risk or at least communicate with people in a time of crisis
which is one type of message in covering risk.
Outbreak communication must be used to manage panic and really eliminate it.
Outbreak communication seeks to…
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Added by Victor Udoewa on May 11, 2010 at 9:30pm — No Comments
EVOKE 2.0 - Team Projects and Seed Funding For Proof-of-Concept
Evoke 2.0 should be more practical and give more time. Here are the steps it should follow.
1) It should other global crises: Lack of adequate housing, lack of universal primary education (to start), global health, economic development, and conflict.
The choice of what issues to cover is difficult because many times we're only dealing with symptoms and not the root causes.
If we could deal with root causes (the future of money is one) it would…
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Added by Victor Udoewa on May 11, 2010 at 9:16pm — No Comments
Myth of Knowledge Objects??
I just wanted to take a moment and let people know about opposing views. This particular author advocates the aural tradition and the face-to-face tradition as opposed to saving, preserving, and conserving knowledge through or in objects. I definitely understand what he is saying especially as sometimes it's hard to pass knowledge through a knowledge object without explaining the knowledge object, what it means, and how to use the information.
I hope the article is enlightening, at… Continue
I hope the article is enlightening, at… Continue
Added by Victor Udoewa on May 11, 2010 at 4:58am — 2 Comments
Alternative Energy Designs with Kids!
I got together with my students and we worked on wind and solar power projects.
Solar Powered Fan1
Solar Powered Fan2
Solar Powered Light Bulb
Windmill Powered Bottle Lift… Continue
Added by Victor Udoewa on May 11, 2010 at 4:54am — No Comments
Letter from the 1st Mars Astronaut
Letter from Indigenous Earth Dweller and a Real Live Old-Time Astronaut,
Dear Space Colony 73-C2,
It is the year 2077, and as a Milky Way elder, I wanted to share my knowledge from my life as an earth dweller and a real life astronaut, the first astronaut to travel to Mars before people lived there.
First, both capitalism and communism failed my birth planet. You need something between them. Regardless of what currency or financial instruments are used, you need a… Continue
Dear Space Colony 73-C2,
It is the year 2077, and as a Milky Way elder, I wanted to share my knowledge from my life as an earth dweller and a real life astronaut, the first astronaut to travel to Mars before people lived there.
First, both capitalism and communism failed my birth planet. You need something between them. Regardless of what currency or financial instruments are used, you need a… Continue
Added by Victor Udoewa on May 11, 2010 at 4:44am — No Comments
Moon Phase Trinket
Predicting the weather and changes in the weather, weather patterns, and the season is an ancient bit of traditional, environmental, and indigenous knowledge the Maasai in Kenya retain. It allows them to adapt to changing climate by changing grazing patterns, crop rotation, and living locations for greater natural resource management, livestock productivity, and more.
This object is a wooden moon phase trinket… Continue
This object is a wooden moon phase trinket… Continue
Added by Victor Udoewa on May 11, 2010 at 4:22am — No Comments
Ancient Weathermen
When I grew up, if the TV weatherman was wrong, people were angry with him. They considered it his job, and as someone who works in his field, he should be an expert. In rural communities, I have heard of farmers wanting to hurt the weatherman when his forecast was wrong.
Well, in Kenya, the Maasai have an ancient tradition of being able to predict certain weather patterns and conditions including droughts and in some cases rains. They can predict changes in climate and season through… Continue
Well, in Kenya, the Maasai have an ancient tradition of being able to predict certain weather patterns and conditions including droughts and in some cases rains. They can predict changes in climate and season through… Continue
Added by Victor Udoewa on May 11, 2010 at 2:25am — 2 Comments
Talk on Resilience and Biodiversity Strategies
When I first saw the Action objective for this mission, I realized that another Evoke Agent Michele B. had already found a lot of the emergency and resilience plans for the Washington, D.C. area. And I didn't want to repeat her work.
Michele's work uncovering DC resilience plans
And D.C. doesn't have a specific resilience plan, but rather many different redundant emergency and… Continue
Added by Victor Udoewa on May 7, 2010 at 10:42pm — 3 Comments
D.C. RESILIENCE 2020
Here is my map of DC Resilience in 2020.
From rooftop gardens, the National Farm, radio repositories in the Washington Monument, and wind-powered electric recharge car stations, this city has it all. They don't allow any gas cars in the city, but have resilience information centers located in all free national museums. DC even has underground gardens in addition to the rooftop gardens. Lastly, there are constructed wetlands on the coasts as well as distributed water-quality testing… Continue
From rooftop gardens, the National Farm, radio repositories in the Washington Monument, and wind-powered electric recharge car stations, this city has it all. They don't allow any gas cars in the city, but have resilience information centers located in all free national museums. DC even has underground gardens in addition to the rooftop gardens. Lastly, there are constructed wetlands on the coasts as well as distributed water-quality testing… Continue
Added by Victor Udoewa on May 2, 2010 at 7:52pm — No Comments
SWAN Day
In some countries like the United States, women and men do not share equality yet, but we are able to pursue women's empowerment in a wide variety of areas. So this post is about promoting women's empowerment in the arts.
SWAN stands for Support Women Artists Now.
And there is an international SWAN Day each year. This year, in 2010, we celebrated the
third annual SWAN day on March 27, 2010.
The closest person I knew holding… Continue
SWAN stands for Support Women Artists Now.
And there is an international SWAN Day each year. This year, in 2010, we celebrated the
third annual SWAN day on March 27, 2010.
The closest person I knew holding… Continue
Added by Victor Udoewa on May 1, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments
Individual Resilience = Group Resilience
In my job we deal with resilience all the time. It is the current buzzword. We usually deal with it at a national level. I also work with people who work on urban resilience for other countries as part of international development. So I'm lucky to be around so many people who think about this all the time.
I've set up a meeting with friends to discuss biodiversity strategies, and I'll post that when it happens. I wanted to go ahead and write about another meeting specifically…
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Resilience Vulnerabilities in D.C.
I will name two areas we could use the network.
Our city does not have the infrastructure to deal with multi-day heavy snowfall and blizzards. We usually borrow or rent extra equipment. We don't have the ability to constantly clear the snow from both big and small streets like Detroit, Chicago, or Boston has.
Because of that we had to shut down the government for a week in January of February of this year, 2010. Grocery stores could no longer receive supplies, and people… Continue
Our city does not have the infrastructure to deal with multi-day heavy snowfall and blizzards. We usually borrow or rent extra equipment. We don't have the ability to constantly clear the snow from both big and small streets like Detroit, Chicago, or Boston has.
Because of that we had to shut down the government for a week in January of February of this year, 2010. Grocery stores could no longer receive supplies, and people… Continue
Added by Victor Udoewa on April 24, 2010 at 7:42pm — 1 Comment
World Peace Achieved
It all started back in Nicaragua and the group ADIM that fought for the Integral Development of Women. The empowerment movement rose so steeply that many women became financially employed, most self-employed, and with a greater share of the financial market, they were able to invest and build. Many helped build international corporations and put pressure in the government to improve standards and norms for women giving equal pay and rights. Nicaragua had its first woman president in 2020. And… Continue
Added by Victor Udoewa on April 24, 2010 at 4:58pm — No Comments
Nicaraguan Social Enterprise - Monte Verde
I had joined Kiva a few weeks ago due to another collaborative and forward thinking Evoke Agent, but I hadn't yet given any money. So I found a group, the Monte Verde Group, with a social enterprise in Nicaragua. They partner with a group called the Alternative Association for the Integral Development of Women (ADIM). I helped to support them and hopefully further women's economic empowerment, at least… Continue
Added by Victor Udoewa on April 24, 2010 at 1:08pm — No Comments
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This past weekend was the annual celebration at the lake house in Connecticut. It is amazing that the lake is still so clear and beautiful after all these years. The watershed association has done a wonderful job protecting these waters from the damaging effects of development.The wood grill was finally ready to cook on, so we didn't miss the propane tank fueled grill anymore. The food actually tasted fresher than in the past and was easy to keep fueled.Dad was very proud of the solar hybrid…See More
Stinging Nettle
In this blog post I will focus on a plant that is abundant in our nature, and which is immensely nutritious. It's of course the Stinging Nettle. Let's start with the chemical constituents of this plant:37 % Non-Nitrogen-Extracts19 - 29 % Ash9 - 21 % Fiber4 % Fat22 % ProteinOnce the leaves are drid, their protein content can reach an astounding 40 %, which is much higher than beef, which even under the best of circ**stances can never exceed 31 % protein. In addition the Stinging Nettle consists…See More
The meal
It is 7'oclock, I was late home from work due to an assignment that i wanted to get ahead on. By the time I get home I am feeling extremley tired and I cannot be bothered to make a proper meal. I walk to the fridge and open it to see what there is for me to eat. All of the out of date foodstuffs have been automaticaly thrown away by the fridge, they will be recycled tomorrow as animal feed or something. I see i have organic local eggs and some local cheese. Foods are vacc** sealded for easy…See More
Future
FutureToday is 2020/1/1. It is just like yesterday. The war is still continuing. It has started since 2010. In 2010, that year was a horrible year. Almost every energy ran out. Every country’s governments were crushed down at the same time. There were riots everywhere. All of the big company’s bosses were killed xdeadx in the riots. Troops fought each other everywhere. Food was bought up xawayx at once. There were no more food supplies in any shops. The economy was all crushed down. All the…See More
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