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A crash course in changing the world.
The Kagulu File - Part I
--- Accessing EVOKE profile : DLTQ ---
Age : 41 years old
Achievement : Found ways to enhance people's creativity by the use of displaced imagery and their ability to network information by use of subversive messaging.
Age : 41 years old
Achievement : Found ways to enhance people's creativity by the use of displaced imagery and their ability to network information by use of subversive messaging.
--- Log record, 2020-03-09 ---
I sit there, in the white room. My quiet space.
I sit there, in the white room. My quiet space.
In the midst of the room are three monitors. No cables, no clutter, just the three flickering monitors. Besides the monitors, which currently are horisontally placed, there isn't much in this small room. My space for image replacement.
The monitors are showing me frames from newspaper articles, picture streams from certain tags on popular photosharing sites, and extrapolated words from blog posts from around the world.
I close my eyes for a moment, and I try to not let go of the question. "Don't lose the question, Raymond!", I repeat to myself with intent. I open the eyes again, I see a picture that catches my curiosity. It is a picture showing the before/after of a small city in Africa. I tap the monitor leftwards. It stops, and rewinds slowly. I stop it when i see the before/after image. The difference is stunning.
It is published by a certain Jane Xcha. To me, that sounds like some pseudonym. All right. I go to the source, and I see this image within its context of a blog post published a few hours ago, and it talks about local innovation in Africa, using this city of Kagulu in Uganda as an example.
I tap a few commands into the keyboard (I'm old-fashioned - I still use a keyboard) and the two other monitors are now showing me images, text and other forms of media from the same user, and from the content of people she is known to have communicated with a lot, publicly. A lot of it is the same kind of stuff I have been looking at for close to two decades. Smiling children, someone moving into a new house funded by donors in the West, U.N. flag mixed with flags of all kinds of donor countries, and so on. Old news.
I know that even though I miss out on a lot of the content, the database part of my home infoHQ is analyzing what I look at, and what path I follow from there. A Package is being prepared. Info-package that will be fit into a 15-second video. An automated trailer for my perspective today, what I learned. And yet that 15-second package is just the top of the pyramid. Every frame is also several links to selected material. Subliminal, the eternal easter egg, and yet very plain, - although it strains your eyes to look at the flickering images.
Suddenly the year "2011" pops up in big bold letters on the monitor in the middle. I rewind that monitor, I pause, I ask for the context, and a tagcloud appears of words used in a report about the transformation of this city, Kagulu. The year 2011 keeps popping up there, in that report.
"What really happened in 2011?" I ask myself before I get up and make myself some tea in the kitchen nearby. My wife is out at the moment, visiting friends, and I am sitting here, trying to find new paths to share.
When I get back to my White Room, I see that all three monitors are now flickering images from a limited pool of information all related to this city. Apparently this village is seen as one of the prime examples of early north-south collaboration of the new school. The new kind. "Weird that I haven't heard about this before"
I shift to my chat system where I am idling in a few tag-classified chat rooms. In the room named "Innovation" I ask "Do you guys know what happened in Kagulu in 2011?" and after my question I type "africa; uganda; :kagulu:; innovation; collaboration; evolution". The system analyzes my local monitor history and relays my question to a few select sub-networks.
20 seconds later someone by the name "Qela" types "It". In a PM to Qela, I write "What do you mean? I can see the reports here. Something happened. What? Why was 2011 so important for the development of this village in the middle of nowhere in Uganda?". "Ask Fred Wakabi" she answers.
I google "Fred Wakabi +Kagulu" and this old video from 2009 appears:
I watch the video and I see this man, barely able to hold his excitement. His parting words - "Kagulu community will not remain the same" gives me a shiver up my spine.
"What happened in those two years, Fred? What was your role? And what role did Nabuur have in all of this?"
I look at the before/after picture again. I visually scan the doc**ents, the video evidence. And I see how this cities has become a model not only for the neighbouring cities and villages, but a model for cities around the world.
I pick up my phone and call a number I haven't called in 5 years. Time to investigate further.
--- End of first part of log record ---
[This evidence is inspired by this]
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Comment by Brian Ballsun-Stanton on March 10, 2010 at 3:25am
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Hrmmm. How would you use the interface explored in: http://jayisgames.com/cgdc7/?gameID=2 in a project of this sort? It feels like there's some synergy here.
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