Aki you are a genius.I dont have a big budget yet but im talking to people who may have it thats why i wanna get as many technology based ideas as possible.Present them and if they approve come back and harvest the talent from the skunkworks community.The I LOVE MY COUNTRY idea would be brilliant especially if it was via a toll-free sms number and results announced via radio,tv,facebk etc..

 
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:15 PM, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
And adding more lines of thot for this week. Corrections are welcome.

@Waihiga, you've got me thinking so consider this. That out of each
calamity that befalls people-kind all over the world, there emerges
technology to further help understand the complexity of the problem.
If you take any crises management systems, they were all born out of
unfortunate circumstances and some born in places where there have
been no such events . There is no fixed formula nor solution, because
technology cannot accurately predict the next big quake nor can it
accurately predict the outcome of any political process.

You defined a complex issue with one line = Youth and promoting
National Cohesion.

As a game designer or whatever, ( well future tense at that ) I'd
approach the problem in a different manner due to its complex nature.
Avoid focus on one element of the problem. I'd be designing a game on
this : " I Love my Country ! ". This game would cover many aspects of
why one loves and would protect it from self destruction. And each
time the youth are able to protect his/her country via the SMS based
game, they would be rewarded for thinking of ways to save it. Each
day, one problem would be presented in the game and the youth must
figure out the puzzle to claim a price and have fun in the process.

I think there is enough talent on this list to build such a game
system. I'd still put the game on an SMS service because no other
platform provides cheap and quick access. Then use radio, tv or other
means to create awareness and get thousands into the game.

But ofcourse you don't have that large budget, do you? :-))  If " I
Love my country! " does not work out, well I hope something else will.


On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:08 AM, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
> @Waihiga.......... I'd definately put that large budget
> into an SMS based game.
>
> Me thots. :-)
>
> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:50 PM, waihiga mwaura <waihigamwaura@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Greetings and Happy Easter to All
>>
> The million dollar question is if you had a large
>> budget what project would you start to target the youths with the aim of
>> promoting National Cohesion. Do not limit yourself any media can be utilised
>> T.V., radio, social networking, videogames etc Thanks.
>>
>
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