Amy Kate Payne's Blog (30)

I think the main goals of the evoke website is to create social entrepreneurs out of ordinary people and euip them with the necessary skills to make a difference with regard to the social problems we face on a global scale. The members of evoke are predominantly ordinary citizens with a storng social concious who want to make an impact in the lives of the less fortunate. I think to be ethical as an evoke agent you have to be evironmentally concious in any design or idea you have come…

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A Small village outside Balaka. Sunset at the local clinic. The corridors of the clinic are lined with bodies of people who are dying from AIDS. The clinic staff try make their patients as comfortable as possible, but the clinic lacks medical supplies and manpower. Outside the clinic, there is a line of people which extends from the door out onto the earth trodden ground.These are people living with the HIV virus and who…

I have really enjoyed participating in the last 10 week's of the evoke game. I do think however, that there are a number of alterations that could be made. I don't like how wach week, the week's challenge is divided into a learn, act and imagine mission, I think that each week there should just any three tasks, as it becomes slightly repetitive at times, especially with regard to the imagine task.

I think the next evoke should be played on a global level by all willing…

I think the work that Ember did is of great significance. An emergency call to action for a non-medical community that I would use, would be to get together a group of hygienists and nutritionist to give advice on simple methods of how to obstain from contracting the epidemic and what food and liquids should be consumed to built up your immune system making you less susceptible to the pandemic. I would use Embers idea of the net as a medium of communication to people across the globe. There…

For this week's learn mission, I chose to talk about a indigenous knowledge success story in Oaxaga Mexico. After bitter struggles, between physicians and traditional medicinal women, joint meetings were held in which plans for collaboration were set up. As a result, the indigenous knowledge of these Mexican women of curative plants, and traditional practices have been catalogued. Furthermore, the traditional medicine women have been…

I was disapointed to find that for this week's act mission, I failed to find any plans underway to increase Grahamstown's urban resiliance. Therefore I decided to focus on the Mascar city development which is underway in Abu Dhabi. This project aims to develope a "green city" which will be completed in approximately eight years time and will utilise solar panel technology water treatment systems, nonpolluting underground light rail, and a small research university operated in conjunction…

As a young teenager, I used to teach my domestic worker's daughers how to read and write in English. I remember devising all sort od exercise worksheets to improve their command of the english language. I used to also teach them maths, and make them maths worksheets which dealt with basic maths concepts. In this way, I think I have already achieved this week's act task. I think educcation remains a vital key to woman's empowerment as it open's the door to opportunity.

However,…

BREAKING NEWS.....the world's form of currency as we know it, is no longer. Today in 2020 the barter system has come to stand as the alternative currency exchange transaction, and is being used globally.

Bartering is a medium in which goods or services are directly exchanged for other goods and/or services without a medium of exchange, such as money. As a rseult, the world has become a much more community based place.A simple example would be the transaction of…

Make a real economic transaction this week using a currency, platform or exchange system you've NEVER used before. Tell a story about your experience. What ideas does it give you for sparking the future of money?

For this mission I looked at the Dancing Rabbit eco-village in Missisouri, which contains a community of people geared to sustaiable and eco-friendly living. They work on a number of different projects and with regards to food for the community operate an alternative…