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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!
WILLA will GET IT DONE
GET IT DONE GET IT DONE is a new way to get aid projects done. Aid used to be simple, personal, direct. Somehow, it has become all about the middlemen, about big anonymous organisations helping equally anonymous 'victims'. The personal connection is missing and results are often invisible.
Times Square to Art Square
I want to turn all billboards on Times Square into art for a certain amount of time, using social media.If you believe you can make the impossible possible, help turning Times Square into Art Square, join the positive movement.
The Unity Express: a single train journey across 24 European countries in 2012
The Unity Express is a journey across as many as 24 European countries in a single, privately chartered train, with 22 stops in major cities along the way to connect the passengers with the people living there, for a period of four weeks in the summer of 2012. The train has room for more than 400 people on board simultaneously and will host probably more than a 1000 passengers in total. When traveling, people literally live in the train: eating, sleeping, partying, laughing, learning, discussing... It all happens there.The Unity Express is all about you - the volunteer. Help the longest train journey ever become a reality, unifying Europe in the process!
Global Education Greenhouse
I am launching a cooperative to serve as a global braintrust for co-creation, knowledge and information sharing amongst diverse people of all ages and backgrounds. One of my first "products" is a spin-off of a program I have developed for schools in the South Bronx and Harlem, New York. The program is bringing urban students (from ages 7 to 14) hands on science and facilitating the scope and freedom to play and learn. I am currently reaching out to scientists and science majors in universities to work with my students and their teachers on site and online to delve deeply into explorations of biology, microbiology, ecology, agriculture, etc. to design solutions for the sustainability of our planet. In the next year, I will open up the online community to people around the world."Power to the People," by John Lennon, says it all.
Improving survival rates from cardiac arrests using mobile phones
We have started a global project to empower the people to locate the nearest automated external defibrillators (AEDs) during emergencies. We are approaching 3000 AED locations worldwide,which is only the tip of the iceberg. It only takes one AED to save one life. We have developed phone apps to allow the public to locate the nearest public AEDs. iPhone users can download the free "AED Nearby" app, Android users the free "ShowNearby AED" app. More apps are being developed. Our methods will encourage those who are afraid to do CPR to participate in the chain of survival to save lives.Someone in your community might use the data you provide to save you or your family!
Sell one day and make a difference
In 2011 I want to convince 1000 IT-professionals to sell one workday to their employer for EUR 0,00 and go to work on that day. Their employers donate everything they earn that day to a small scale good cause. We have tried this in the SAP community and it works! The last four years we have generated over EUR 250.000 and donated it to a broad range of good causes. Now it's time to enhance the scope and make a real difference.Be our champion and give the idea a face. Or just become our ambassador and plug the idea within your company. Or even better: join us.
Spreading the tools of creative production!
I've built a RepRap 3D printer that can make useful physical objects, including many parts to make another 3D printer. With it, I've fabricated the parts for three more 3D printers. One of them is shared with others who also want to have a 3D printer. They can learn from operating my 3D printer and they can fabricate themselves another set of parts to and another one for a friend. This helps spread this creative and magical technology that allows you to turn your ideas into physical objects. Examples application are many, and include household, personalized and engineering items. http://bit.ly/3dpVid My loaning program: http://blog.erikdebruijn.nl/archives/139-Eriks-RepRap-for-loan!.html http://www.reprap.org/ I've also donated a full set of parts to a public hobby space in Lisbon. They will use it to make more machines for spaces in other cities.Furthermore I'd like to keep improving the technology, ease of use and lower the cost.
Pink Noord
Een buurtborrel organiseren voor roze bewoners uit en werkenden in stadsdeel Amsterdam Noord.zegt het voort verteld iedereen over Pink Noord.
TEDxFlanders
My team and I are organizing TEDxFlanders... This time for 250 people @ the ZOO of Antwerp and a simulcast in the Central Station (Train station)Start your own TEDx, if not... join one of the existing crews...
Miss
I have created an initiative called The Blossoming Thought Project here in rainy Melbourne. Once a week, or more, a group of us hit the city with flyers that say "free positive thoughts' and 'this is the sign you've been waiting for... open up to the world (it's waiting)" and many others. Sure enough, in the morning, people have taken the positive thoughts home with them to keep them safe, which seeing, makes it all worth it. We also do 'messages in a bottle' so we collect old jars and place love letters/ affirmations in them and dare people to be curious about the world. All we are doing is trying to make old things beautiful again. The world is crying out for it. We also take plenty of photos and blog them on this website http://theblossomingthoughtproject.tumblr.com/ And as you can see it has my email address on it, so anyone that wants to join, can. Anyone that wants to make their hometowns blossom, has a chance to.How many times have you sat back and thought, this world is such a sad place? If this is you, then help me. Please.
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