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LEARN10 - New topics for Season 3
After ten exciting and exploring weeks we have come to an end of EVOKEs´ Season 2. Now it is up to us to suggest challenges and social problems to face for Season 3.
For the next episode the topics should include beneath Food and Agriculture, the unanticipated impacts of the global financial crisis especially in those countries who suffers most of it.
The global financial crisis has led to an economic crisis which in turn has led to a human rights crisis. A report of Amnesty…
Added by Evelyn Schwengler on June 28, 2012 at 1:19pm — No Comments
LEARN9 - The Importance of Crisis Communication
This week we had to investigate the five secrets of Crisis Communication. When it comes to a pandemic communication plays a decisive role to ensure public security. Therefore the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard had prepared the five most important communication issues to handle such situations:
- Coming to Terms with Uncertainty
- Covering Risk
- Outbreak Communication
- Managing Panic in a Pandemic
- People’s reactions
In my opinion the issue to…
Added by Evelyn Schwengler on June 23, 2012 at 9:52pm — No Comments
A successful attempt - Wedomartani and the Green Pharmacy
I have discovered a very interestingcase study about a so called Green Pharmacy project in Indonesia on www.cbnrm.net. Wedomartani, a little village in Indonesia, has transformed itself into a productive area which produces herbs and plants for medical purposes to prevent social decline:…
Added by Evelyn Schwengler on June 11, 2012 at 8:51pm — No Comments
LERN7- A future crisis
One of the biggest drivers of future crisis is known as the rapid growth of urban populations all over the world. Especially in developing countries this fast-paced trend will lead to urban slums. A studyof UN HABITAT estimates that by 2050, over 5 billion people will be living in cities, with an average of 30% living in slums. The development of slums is mostly accompanied by a lack access of clean water…
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LEARN6 - Gender equality in education
This week I would like to share an amazing story with you! It is about a project of UNESCO which is focused on gender equity in education.
The UNESCO has created one year ago global partnerships for the education of girls and women…
Added by Evelyn Schwengler on May 31, 2012 at 4:58pm — No Comments
IMAGINE 5 - the revolution of payment
It is March, 21st in 2020 – today NanoPay a worldwide operating payment and banking company will go down in history with its long-awaited product launch of NanoCash.
This key project created in association with world leading representatives and experts in the fields of IT, medicine, trade and banking, finally comes to a luminous product start! Today all eyes are on the…
Added by Evelyn Schwengler on May 21, 2012 at 4:49pm — No Comments
LEARN 5 - The future of money
This week it´s all about money and of course its future!
In times of debt crisis and currency wars our world community has to face several problems. Europe and the US are struggling with over-indeptedness while the United Arab Emirates are flushed with oil money. Moreover there are about 3 billion people currently live on less than $2 a day. Consequently the call for a global currency solution is growing louder and louder! Which solution will make the biggest change in how we use money…
Added by Evelyn Schwengler on May 21, 2012 at 8:02am — No Comments
LEARN4 - Thea city of water and gardens.
This week I would like to introduce a fantastic clean water project that inspired me a lot!
Our journey leads us to Singapore - the smallest of Asia’s tiger states. With its immense economic growth of about 4.5 percent per year, its population of 4.5 million people is predicted to grow soon to about 7 million, what means a rice of more than 150%.
So the question came up how to manage the supply of clean and fresh water for its inhabitants by using its limited natural…
Added by Evelyn Schwengler on May 16, 2012 at 3:00pm — No Comments
LEARN3
I just have found an interesting electricity project called "Micro hydropower". This small-scale hydro powerplant is one of the most environmentally caretaking energy conversion option available. Unlike large-scale hydro power, it does not attempt to interfere significantly with river flows and in my opinion a very sustainable and easy way to provide electricity in developing countries.
At…
ContinueAdded by Evelyn Schwengler on May 7, 2012 at 6:55pm — 1 Comment
ACT3
With the sunny days in April this year the biking season has reopened after the cold winter. And I really like bicycle tours! I also love my smart phone, an HTC desire HD - my loyal companion which optimises my everyday life! And so my story begins:
On May, 1st some friends and I wanted to make a nice bicycle tour along the Wöhrder See, through the Zerzabelshorster Forst and back to our starting point. We were well prepared - the bikes were ready, Picknick food packed and a biking app…
ContinueAdded by Evelyn Schwengler on May 7, 2012 at 6:01pm — 2 Comments
IMAGINE2
In 2020 I´ll be living in Singapore. On March 10th I´ll pepare a delicious meal - my favorite: organic & sustainable Sushi! I´will dine with dear friends in the dining room of my penthouse apartment.
Here is a little picture story to my delicious meal:
Recipe to my organic & sustainable…
ContinueAdded by Evelyn Schwengler on May 2, 2012 at 6:52pm — 2 Comments
LEARN2
In my opinion one of the biggest challenges to food security in our local community is child poverty. One child in four in Nuremberg depends on social transfer benefit payments and every third child suffers from poverty at all.
As one of the most powerless groups in society, children often bear the physical and emotional costs of poverty. This problem manifests itself in bad living conditions like bad housing conditions, frequent unemployment and malnutrition of children.
Due…
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ACT1
Here is my first Act!
I had to find a soical innovator to contact. At my research I found the World Community Grid an association with the mission to create the world's largest public computing grid to tackle social projects that benefit humanity.
It has developed a so called Grid computing that conects many individual computers to creat a large system…
ContinueAdded by Evelyn Schwengler on April 25, 2012 at 6:35pm — 3 Comments
IMAGINE1
What will be my personal best-case scenario in 10 years?
Under favorable circ**stances I' ll be a successful key account manager at Google and living in an Asian country. In my sparetime I'll travel around the world, discover new cultures and habitats. I'll participate in an organisation which helps making progress in developing innovative ideas for interactive communication plattforms.
Under favorable circ**stances I' ll be a successful key account manager at Google and living in an Asian country. In my sparetime I'll travel around the world, discover new cultures and habitats. I'll participate in an organisation which helps making progress in developing innovative ideas for interactive communication plattforms.
Added by Evelyn Schwengler on April 25, 2012 at 12:57pm — No Comments
LEARN1
My favorite secret is the following one:
Do the hard work needed to find a simple solution. As Leonardo da Vinci said, “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”—and it is the key to this type of design work.
In my opinion this secret matches to most innovative creations - knowing how things are done is the key to New solutions! Especially when some steps are difficult or uncomfortable to handle. Most innovations are based on problems or gaps in the… Continue
Do the hard work needed to find a simple solution. As Leonardo da Vinci said, “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”—and it is the key to this type of design work.
In my opinion this secret matches to most innovative creations - knowing how things are done is the key to New solutions! Especially when some steps are difficult or uncomfortable to handle. Most innovations are based on problems or gaps in the… Continue
Added by Evelyn Schwengler on April 25, 2012 at 9:36am — No Comments
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