Simon Freitag's Blog (13)

In 8 years I will be livivng in Asia. After several project throughout the world my company sent me for a stay of 5 years to Asia. I can't imagine a country but am quite sure that it might be south eas Asia as I have already gained some knowledge in that area.

Within my work I will be responsible for a team of five people and we are trying to establish our business in that area. But apart from that I am trying to connect with the culture and people over there to gain as many insight as…

EPISODE 1

PANEL 1

The set is a huge field with a big crowd of people.

Everyone is shouting out loud their ideas. A big water crisis is about to come

PANEL 2

two politicans see all the thoughts and ideas of the shouting crowd poping up on a big screen

PANEL 3

you see the politicans discussion about their ideas how to solve the crisis and they come to the solution that they are heading in a different direction as their people do

PANEL 4…

Evoke is a network for an easy collaboration between humans all over the world. Its aim is to bring together bright minds and creative people who work on importnant social topics. It is a plattform that isn't ruled by any political institution or system. Everyone who has an idea is able to post it andeveryone can additionally comment on oher users posts and ideas to extend these thoughts.

It is a big source of bright ideas and therefore a very good consulting tool for the heads of every…

Looking at the future I think we will see a change in the world. The strong countries as we know them right now won't be the strong countires in maybe 20 years. The world is changing.

The social problems that might appear are in my opinion basically energy and water problems. More nations will increase their living standard. That means that more and more need more energy and water for that life.

I think Africa will play a big role in the future as they have to make the biggest…

The most interesting and important fact of these five is the one called "covering the risk"

I was really surprised by the low correlation between how much harm that hazard does and how upset people get about it. That means that sometimes there is a huge panic about something that isn't worth it. And the awarness of big hazards is sometimes too low. That means that the coorelation between those two facts should be pushed to get higher. I think it is important to create a high rate of how…

I will turn 100 in 75 years. I imagine a world where everything is moving so fast that it is hard to follow that speed when you're 100 years old. I expect people to be more and more virtually linked so basically they communicate with each other but see themselfes not very often in "real" meetings. Everyone can travel around the world very easily and the people are more and more isolated from each orther.

As a wise old man I would try to show the people how we met for dinner for some…

I picked the case about involving the civil society to conserve the rainforest in Brazil: http://srdis.ciesin.org/cases/Brazil-Paper.html

One key laerning from that case was on the one hand the influence of the NGOs and the impact the society has when it comes to important topic. The number of following sub-projects concerning that case is quite impressive. If you make a topic to a society topic and gain awarness it is good…

A possible crisis that might come up at Brunswick or better in Germany and Europe is a massive financial crisis where every bank gets bankrup. That would mean that no one is able to trade or pick up money. That results in the fact that money gets worthless and a material trading would start again. So basically we are back in the stone age. So lets asume now that our mobile phones still have service because the phone companies have an agreement with the government to guarantee phone reception…

In my opinion the most interesting news story that has been published was the one about the implementation of kaws againat discrimination based on gender: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=42120&Cr=&Cr1=

I found it quite shocking that there are still countries in Europe where there are no equal rights for men and women. I thought this is a topic that is on the Agenda in Asia or Africa…

I found an intersting way of transfering money. It works with SMS. The sender and receiver just need to register theit phone numbers and agree on a PIN and then they can easily transfer money via SMS.

I think it'a an easy way to send someone money in a fast way. We use our mobile phone every day. So you'll have access to the money everywehere at any time. It is also possible to pay bills or to send money home. And I think if this technology develops it should be easy to pay for your…

While searching in the internet for intersting clean water projects i found a very ineteresting approach which is basically just a bag.

With this bag you are able to clean the non drinking water an change it into drinking water. Even heavy metals can be filtered.

I think it's an very interesting approach because it is easy. You just need this bag and you can filter your water make it clean within 8 to 12 hours. I think it's a good approach for the wh*** world as a major problem are…

In my opinion a big issue in our society in Germany is that we throw away tons of food which isn't ruined at all but has reached the expiry date.

If you have a look at the supermarket chains. There are big containers with lots of food in it. Food that is considered to be expired but in fact isn't. The food industry has to make up dates for the food expiry. These dates are set with a high security for the food companies. Meaning that they want to make sure that no food expires before…

My favorite post is the one that's called: " What you have matters more than what you lack ".

If you look at this in a way that it was meant to be you understand that you should be thankful for what you got and don't try to find excuses in the things you don't have.

It is very typical for humankinds to look for excuses or the solutions or even problems they can't solve by looking at what you don't have. Like if you have a time machine I would know how to fight poverty. But the fact…