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TEDxAmsterdam ‘Ideas worth Doing’ Challenge
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Episode 4 – Today is the day your ideas can become reality!
TEDxAmsterdam has always been about ideas. Ideas Worth spreading.
And NOW the TEDxAmsterdam CHALLENGE is about Ideas Worth DOING.
Great solutions that have a positive effect on others.
Wouldn’t you like to get you thoughts ideas off the paper, off the drawing board, into the real world?
Many great ideas have been submitted to the TEDx Challenge, one of which will receive the TEDxAmsterdam Award. This award will help realize this great idea.
TEDxAmsterdam asks for your contributions, no matter how small. Do what you do best and donate your collected money at tedxamsterdam.com
Do something small to get great ideas done.
The most creative donations win a ticket to the TEDxAmsterdam event on the 30th of November in the Stadsschouwburg in Amsterdam.
For more information go to TEDxAmsterdam award page
Rules of the challenge
It’s pretty simple: TEDxAmsterdam is about ‘ideas worth spreading,’ and our TEDxAmsterdam Challenge is about ‘ideas worth doing!’ We challenge you to do something good in your local community, your city, the Netherlands, or the world. Take your pick.
- Your chosen project has to be undertaken and put into action in the period between 29 June until the 19 October.
- To verify the project, you must document it with some authentic proof. We’re looking for a newspaper or published article, clear photos, a short movie clip, or testimonials on film. Be creative.
- The TEDxAmsterdam Challenge is free for everyone of every age to join. Our event is international, so entries must be in English.
- Entries must do good for someone, some place or something in your local community, city, the Netherlands or the world.
- Entries can be individual, group, or nominated by a 3rd party.
- Entries close on the 19 October.
- Voting takes place from 19 October
- Winners will be announced on the 9 November.
Challenge input
• You can enter documentation and authentic proof of the realization of your challenge.
• The challenges are editable, so you can correct or update your challenge information.
• Make sure to indicate what kind of challenge you are entering; Basic, Collaboration or A Gift.
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Ideas Worth Doing : Competition participants
Haïti5Haiti, Dutch kids support Haitian kids
As daily consumers of coffee from the Coffee Company (CC), colleagues, friends and I saved up a large number of small brown coffee bags. A new purpose for the bags was found in Hai5Haïti. The idea is to ask primary school children in Amsterdam to fill the paper bags with their redundant school supplies and toys for children in Haiti. Furthermore we will ask the children to give a high-five to their peers by drawing their hand on the small coffee bag. Coffee Company (VanWauw) will exhibit these little-art bags during four weeks to raise money for Stichting naar School in Haïti. By involving the CC we aim to raise more awareness and a bigger support. Stichting naar School in Haïti is prepared to cooperate and distribute the bags among kids at schools they established in Haiti.
Hai5Haïti, Dutch kids support Haïtian kids
As daily consumers of coffee from the Coffee Company(CC), colleagues, friends and I saved up a large number of small brown coffee bags. A new purpose for the bags was found in Hai5Haïti. The idea is to ask primary school children in Amsterdam to fill the paper bags with their redundant school supplies and toys for children in Haïti. Furthermore we will ask the children to give a high-five to their peers by drawing their hand on the small coffee bag. Coffee Company (VanWauw) will exhibit these little-art bags during four weeks to raise money for Stichting naar School in Haïti. By involving the CC we aim to raise more awareness and a bigger support. Stichting naar School in Haïti is prepared to cooperate and distribute the bags among kids at schools they established in Haïti.
Sencity
I am going to set up a Sensorial Laboratory. In this virtual laboratory we create and test sense stimulating facilities. Next to that we already have a training program to teach deaf youngsters how to organize a Music Event for Deaf People. We will use sense stimulating facilities like a vibrating floor, Aroma Jockey, Ice Jockey, Sign Dancers, Text Jockey, Video Projections, Light effects. The events have been very successfull so far with editions in Madrid, Berlin, Finland, Miami, Mexico, Brazil, Capetown, Johannesburg and Sydney. Now it is time for a new step, the Sensorial Laboratory in which the facilities get further developed and exploited in the commercial market.
IDEAS Magazine
IDEAS Magazine a web and print magazine without borders created and curated by bachelor student Nikolas Konstantin. In its one year foundation IDEAS has achieved the following merits, illustrating the inspirational rising from the single passion of a young student to an international project that elevates young people: IDEAS Magazine - The Wall The Wall is a gratis concept magazine including articles from enlightening figures such as 2009 TEDx Amsterdam speaker Frans Timmermanns and price winning students essays. In a nutshell, the wall is a handmade gazette, encompassing articles by students, politicians, activists, dreamers and realists. Exhibition 10 Countries 10 Countries is a permanent Exhibition in The Hague University visualising the notion of diversity as an irreplaceable and wonderful attribute of our world today, which accompanies the process of blurring borders and differences among people, cultures, religions and every other part of society.
Twitterdienst/Twitterservice
We have organised the first multireligious Twitterservice in Amsterdam. On September 26, 2010 in the Vincentiuskerk, Jacob van Lennepkade 211, we gathered as people from Roman-catholic, Protestant, Buddhist, Muslim, Humanist, Hare Krishna and other faiths to celebrate Compassion. By reading the Charter for Compassion, listen to Compassion in various religions and meditating on compassion, and meanwhile receiving Tweets from people in the Netherlands and abroad, we shared compassion. According to newspaper articles in Het Parool and Spanish press this was a worldpremiere. That sunday "Twitterdienst" a worldwide trending topic, and reached Chili and Japan. Newspaper Trouw had a review and Katholiek Nederland TV did a report. The team organisers consist of Petra Hubbeling (Buddhist), Lex Boot (Protestant), Bas van der Bent (Protestant), Joris van Gerven (Catholic), Sergio Felter (Humanist), Fred Omvlee (Protestant)
KamerVragen
Foster innovative and sustainable ideas and business concepts. KamerVragen is a monthly evening for the creation of new and sustainable ideas and business concepts. We bring together a variety of people around specific themes, encompassing all aspects of a product or service. A designer directly visualizes the new ideas and business concepts that are brought up. Example: in September we invited Piet Sprengers, head sustainability at ASN Bank, together with 8 ecologists and 8 bankers. The idea was to come up with new financing solutions for biodiversity projects: topical but complicated matter. Advice to ASN: be an innovator! (Pool non-financiable biodiversity projects in a biodiversity fund backed by ASN-guarantees. Use ecologists to assess project risks). The designer made a print saying: "Do you want this fish or maybe that one? You have to decide quickly because we are rapidly running out!Ideas worth spreading need environments that foster creative thinking: join us @ KamerVragen.
KNIT!
I want to collect leftover wool, cotton etc. that turns up in everybody's cupboard, attick or shed. If not in your own, than at least in yoyr granny' s or friend's. In a remote rural area of Malawi this wool can be of great use for the women. They have learned to knit and crochet, and with that skill can set up small business for themselves and their community. So it works both ways; unused material is clearing our space and mind and gets a very useful destination. This support is a temporay one; finally they must be able to buy their own wool from the profits, but in this stage they need ongoing support to 'get the ball rolling'.Together we can help these women to set up their business. Have a look at my website for the results so far. Impressive and encouraging!
ChangeCamp Sault Local/Virtual
Work with Gerry Kirk and Alan Bustamante to incorporate InnovationGames(tm) into ChangeCamp Sault, for Sault Ste Marie Canada. Two problems with the ChangeCamp format for civic engagement are 1. making the shift from pure discussion/brainstorming into initiatives that a large number of people can support and 2. getting people to ATTEND such a meeting. InnovationGames(tm) (http://innovationgames.com/online-games/) are a form of "serious play" which engages many people in a process of collaborative brainstorming and prioritization. Because of various cognitive factors that are built-in to the Games, I have seen many instances of use of the Games resulting in a consensus decision for a group of people who initially had different agendas. By combining the Games, both in-person and online, with the format of a ChangeCamp (http://changecamp.ca) we hope to get further engagement of the local populace into the political and civic future of the community.Take the ChangeCamp idea and apply it in your own hometown! ChangeCamp is specific to Canada, but you can use the same principles!
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