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LEARN10 WHY DO PEOPLE PLAY COMPUTER GAMES?
What should be done to get a better season 2?
How can we entice people to play urgent evoke, and make them love it?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7G0fPb-w-0&feature=related
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... part two ...…
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... DESIGN PROCESS OF AN OBJECT ...
DISCUSSION
The photo is sent; a story as appetizer;
The object in the photo belonging with this objective is a small container.
Important: The object on the photo is largely to be considered as "conceptual".
The photo shows vaguely a tetra-eder made from paper in order to get a first impression of the idea myself.
A tetra-eder is a spatial object. It has four sides made of four identical tri-angles.
The photo of the object is also tagged…
Added by Thys van der Veer on May 12, 2010 at 8:30pm — 1 Comment
Urgent Evoke
Urgent Evoke; can you help?
Thys van der Veer needs software that enables his cell phone type L6 to send photos to his computer through an already attached cable; see URL for the cell phone type;
http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/XW-EN/Consumer-Products-and-Services/Mobile-Phones/ci.MOTOSLVR-L6-XW-EN.alt
Thys van der Veer needs software that enables his cell phone type L6 to send photos to his computer through an already attached cable; see URL for the cell phone type;
http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/XW-EN/Consumer-Products-and-Services/Mobile-Phones/ci.MOTOSLVR-L6-XW-EN.alt
Added by Thys van der Veer on May 12, 2010 at 6:31pm — 1 Comment
IMAGINE10
EVOKE MANIFESTO
The mission of the EVOKE network is:
social innovation (yet largely undefined, but we are the innovators.)
and…
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ACT10 ROTTERDAM; NEW YORK;
The template for this script is taken from here : http://blog.urgentevoke.net/2010/05/05/investigate-week-ten/
EPISODE 1
ROTTERDAM
The earth moves at different speeds depending on who you are – Nigerian proverb…
Added by Thys van der Veer on May 9, 2010 at 8:00am — 1 Comment
... the questions ... What is the right question? India!!!
EVOKE has transformed many people around the globe.
I have seen so many great answers, I feel unable to come up with something new.
Acknowledgement: Simon Sinek: Start with why?…
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... saving the day ... be prepared ...
More important than answering the questions of MISSION 9 is:
PUTTING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS; Give ample thought to this.
Which questions could better be asked?
Are these questions the right questions?
What could non-doctors do online during a pandemic to help?
What would be important to…
ContinueAdded by Thys van der Veer on May 5, 2010 at 1:30pm — 2 Comments
... weekly flu measurements ...
Transparency seems inportant, but difficult.
Therefore see below how the dutch public is enabled to inform itself, while giving information themselves.
It allows the officials to take efficient measures when needed.
Main learning point
Challenge two:…
ContinueAdded by Thys van der Veer on May 3, 2010 at 4:00pm — 1 Comment
... a local secret ...
IMAGINARY
When i imagine myself at the age of 100 ...
... my urgent message to the world ...
... based on my wisdom then ...
... would be about physics ...
-the growth of our planet does not keep pace with the number of its inhabitants;
-planet earth does not grow;
This is the wisdom:
"the speed of propagation of a tidal wave…
ContinueAdded by Thys van der Veer on May 2, 2010 at 7:30pm — 1 Comment
... with a focus on Senegal ...
In the URL below you will find a dutch project with activities in Senegal. This triggered me to focus on a project in Senegal.
The message below shows my follow up activities since May 3, 2010
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... ideas from Warren Karlenzig ...
Those players of urgent evoke that have a week for this assignment, can create a map using ideas from Warren Karlenzig; and those players will have the time to put these ideas in designs. I would mainly focus on a design for mobility. A town needs space for pedestrians and people that like to sit somewhere in the open air at a great distance from noisy and/or large moving objects like cars, lorries and public transport…
ContinueAdded by Thys van der Veer on May 1, 2010 at 7:00pm — 3 Comments
Crisis identification; social disruptions;
Use your local insight to identify a crisis that your city, town or village might face in the future.
- What most likely political crises combined with other social disruptions should YOU be prepared to face with resilience? Pick one.
A political crisis combined with rioting in the streets.
(although unlikely; but a street burglary could surely be…
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crisis networking solution
Your objective:
It's the year 2011, and the next FLOOD has just reached YOUR part of the world.
A flood that submerges the western part of the Netherlands!!!
Such a flood threathens the lives of 3 million inhabitants directly.
You've been asked to organize one group of people online to do something that matters.
Who are they, and what heroic effort will you ask them to make?
Tell a…
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Political empowerment of women
2020
Political empowerment of women through improved access to channels for communication.
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Mission IMAGINE6
Think about how the lives of girls and women empowered by this very project will change over the next decade.
Some changes will come directly from their experience with this social venture.
Other changes may come from major political, legal, technological, or social advances…
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Education of Afghan women
Work with friends, family, classmates or neighbors to make a contribution to a social venture focused on empowering girls and women.
Tell a story about your efforts to donate, or to raise awareness, in a blog post, video, or …
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Sri Lankans Play Around with Gender Stereotypes
This is my discovery: Women empowerment by raising awarenes in men.
Those that have a week to complete this urgentevoke task will have time to get ideas on how to follow up the learning with their own initiatives.
It is now april, 28, 2010; and I am doing ten missions within three weeks;
First look at this site:…
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... the future of money ...
Sorry, I really am sorry mr Alchemy, I am short of creativity on this goal.
All future money seems to be electronic. See my ACT5 blogpost.
Sorry, mr Alchemy;
It is because of my present lack of creativity and because of my lack of digital experience;
Therefor I am not able/willing to post artwork, photos, videos; (those things that should have been created by ME);
Encouraging comments on this of other players are most…
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The public transport-(OV)-chip-pass in the Netherlands
OV is dutch for Public Transport.
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 idea does it give you for sparking the future of money? ... no idea ...
MY STORY:
EXPERIENCE with the OV-chip in the Netherlands
1.Obtain an OV-chip-pass at a ticket office at a…
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Where does all that money come from?
The origin of money (in german) it can be understood without sound,
I hope.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLIO1_uQY1s
It says:
The problems started with the payments for services.
In german:…
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GLOBAL URINE-PHOSPHATE HARVESTING DAY in 2020
GLOBAL URINE-PHOSPHATE HARVESTING DAY in 2020
Urgent idea:
We need to harvest phosphates from our urine for the re-use as fertilizer in agriculture
In 2020 cities around the globe will compete with eachother in producing large amounts of cubic meters of pure urine on toilet-day, as an awareness message of the global depletion of harvestable phosphates. It might be harvested from human urine as an alternative.
The city that collects the most cubic…
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public servants
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