While working on my LEARN2 mission, I would share something EVOKE made me think since a couple of days, and the big chance I'm mumbling on.
I don't know if everybody is aware that a few months ago (
November the 20th, 2009) WIRED IT has proposed Internet as a candidate to the
Nobel Peace Prize. This outstanding initiative was also supported, since the beginning, by WIRED UK and WIRED US editors, and
Shirin Ebadi.I published
a post about it on my ITgG blog, where you can find further informations and links, both in English and in Italian.
In
a few days, 4000 people signed up to support this initiative, and the number of "
ambassadors" and promoters for the initiative grew up.
On February the first, WIRED IT proposal was accepted and now Internet is officially running for the prize.
I
think this is awesome. Of course there has been a great debate around the contradictions of the Internet, and it's still going on. Personally I have many reserves as well: censorship, digital crimes, cracking, illegal forms of feticism or fanatism are sadly diffused on the internet. Anyway, I think that I4P conveys an important message.
As
Umberto Veronesi said about it: "if the Web wins the Nobel Prize, we'd show to the future generations two things: first, that we did understand the significance of the global revolution produced by the Net; second, that we were determined to address it to the better use for Humanity".
I do believe that EVOKE could become another important tessera in the mosaic, strengthening the initiative, and giving it new reasons to be. Then, I would EVOKE the entire community by proposing a mission in two steps: the first one to add EVOKE's voice to the I4P choir, the second one to show that EVOKE actually makes real what I4P is pretending to demonstrate.
For the first step:
- have a look at the website, google Internet for Peace, or search for #I4P on twitter if you want further informations
- sign up at the I4P page
- as soon as you signed up, write a blog post, or upload an image with the screenshot of your name on I4P's supporters page or map, and tag it ACTX and I4P
- comment this post or message me, to let me know you're in the EVOKE I4P group; I'll read your post and award your mission (ok, its just 1 point, but it's all I can do and the mission itself worth it, anyway; isn't it?)
For the second step:
- find a creative way to make EVOKE helping peace, really, and propose it to the network; when searching for an idea, consider that peace comes from a series of positive conditions, which in many cases are the same for which you are called, as EVOKE agents. If sustainable and renewable resources were available anywhere, there wouldn't be wars for oil; if the primary goods were eaqually distributed, there wouldn't be war for water, food, land...
- after thinking of it, propose a collective project, something that must necessarily be done by a group of people. Explain your idea and tag it ACTX and I4P
- again, comment this post or message me to let me know you're in the EVOKE I4P group; if yours is a feasible idea I'll be happy to join your project, I'll award you with my just-1-point and I guess Alchemy won't be impassible (are you there Alchemy? Can you confirm?)
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