Hannes Wiedermann's Blog (11)

WHICH great challenges and social problems should the EVOKE Network tackle next?

->I think one big problem is rural exodus. So the big cities will grow and grow. I think thats bad for the environment, cause the cities become to big and in the countriside are only old people.

WHERE in the world should the network try to build up new EVOKE communities?

->People in the western world are living in rich circ**stances, but if we loose this circ**stances no one could help the poor… Continue

Managing Panic in a Pandemic is for me the simplest but most necessary point.

You can see it all time in the news. Last year it was swine fever, befor that it was Avian influenza. It looks to me that someone only wants to start a big panic or riot. But for nothing! It wasn`t really dangerous. But whats about BSE I never hear anything about it today and still people die of BSE.…

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http://srdis.ciesin.org/cases/canada-003.html



This text showes you how the native people of the canadien Northwest Territories rebuild the managing of land use. Two very big parts are, Communication and Regional Managing. In first Communication: the text showes how importent it is to have short massage ways. So if someone has some kind of problem or an important tip he can talk to the Managing people directly, there is no… Continue

I think in future, if the citys will grow and grow. There is a big possibility for a riot or some kind of violence everywhere. You can see it today, it´s maybe a football game or a demonstration with a lot of angry people. so they walking in bigger croweds than today and start to fight. In this moment you could use the Ushahidi platform to alert or to get alert. If everybody do this noone can become part of this riot without fault!

I chose the text: US Secretary of State and Executive Director of UN Women Discuss Women’s Leadership Roles in Emerging Democracies.

http://www.unwomen.org/2011/04/us-secretary-of-state-and-executive-director-of-un-women-discuss-womens-leadership-roles-in-emerging-democracies/

It`s about the new UN Entity for Gender Equality and… Continue

I don`t have a realy good idea about the future of money, because I think it is a very complexe question. In this moment money have a very long history and the way we use it is the europaen and anglo saxon way this might be a problem for the h*** world. But after reading the text about the Microcredit I started to search about other solutions and I found Local currency. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_currency

I like this model… Continue

my most liked projekt is vivaconagua. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viva_con_Agua_de_Sankt_Pauli

FC St. Pauli is my favourit soccer team and so I knowe this projekt since 2006. http://www.vivaconagua.co.uk/

It´s a projekt to help people (most of them children) to get clean water. Which I find good: There is a big club behind this projekt so very many people get knowledge… Continue

I think a big problem is the usage of useful plants to create fuel.

here some links from germany/Braunschweig who describe the problem.

http://www2.braunschweig.de/sdw/tgdw/070210biodiesel.html

http://www.regenwald.org/mailalert/677/e10-und-sogenannten-biodiese...

But after the adebtion of a new kind of fuel the protest… Continue

POWER PLAYER:

I think this idea isn`t new but I like the implementation.

http://www.ueber-lebenskunst.org/contents/project_view/nodeId:53

It is the usage and construction of Dye-sensitized solar cell (Grätzel-Zelle).

The reason I like this is because of the showing of this technique to students or schoolkids who have to build those and so will understand that everyone can do something and that it… Continue

I think a big problem is the usage of useful plants to create fuel.

here some links from germany/Braunschweig who describe the problem.

http://www2.braunschweig.de/sdw/tgdw/070210biodiesel.html

http://www.regenwald.org/mailalert/677/e10-und-sogenannten-biodiese...

But after the adebtion of a new kind of fuel the protest… Continue

One little part to help Africa or other low tech regions.
I think one solution ist to prevent over engeneering. So you won`t have to teach everybody how to use a very complex machine, if you build it easily. I can see it at myself. It is the Determinants of Perceived Ease of Use. Sure we can build very high technologically machines but if only an engineer can use it, it isn`t a solution. So we have to build simple, cheap and very tough machines, which everybody can use.