Resource Routing_Catalysts For Change Zone of Future Innovtion

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March 2013

Foresight Engine Game Analysis:

25 Zones of Future Innovation

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In light of newfound crowdsourcing tools

and relatively pervasive mobile phone and

Internet connectivity, people are rapidly

expanding the scope of opportunities that

harness the power of the crowd.

Organizations and individuals alike are

developing platforms that allow the crowd to

build social movements, organize disaster

responses, and report on corruption. A most

interesting evolution of crowdsourcing is

matching, or routing, resources to the people

and efforts that need them the most, in the

moment they are needed.

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This idea is to use the crowd, from the village to the nation to the world, to map

resources and send them where they are most needed. Catalysts for Change

players challenged us to push crowdsourcing tools to the global limit. While many

cards looked at platforms built and maintained by governments or non-profits, the

addition of crowdsourcing mechanisms to these programs points to a potential for

unprecedented power and outsized impact. Players suggested building platforms that

would allow individuals to track local resources, skills, and jobs, and then possibly

upload them to a global marketplace where these needs can be matched globally. The

end goal is to build efficient crowdsourced resource-routing platforms for everything

from natural resources to human resources and beyond. 4

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Govts create and fund centres worldwide where unemployed register. These skills are then sent where required to build, teach, mentor.

South Africa

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A global match-making platform for professionals & local communities with matching visions to co-create & realize authentic solutions

USA



South Africa


Nobody determines who gets what, a correlation center provides us with the Intel of how much resources we have to sustain ourselves.

Norway



South Africa


USA


Create a skills exchange barter system so that people can trade skills. So a tailor can train the child of a carpenter and vice-versa.

Ghana



South Africa


USA


Norway


A collective appreciation cloud which would count the jobs and skills someone would create could be a separate social solution

Netherlands



South Africa


USA


Norway


Ghana


Improvement cloud-network to find plans, blueprints, lessons and collaborators to let you create physical improvement to your area. #leap

USA



South Africa


USA


Netherlands


Norway


Ghana


An improved communication system, between the people needing work and people needing them. A database of “quests" (jobs)

Brazil



South Africa


USA


Netherlands


Norway


Ghana


USA


Look at River of Words:http://www.riverofwords.org/ and then add a focus on local resources + an interactive map for posting observations

USA



South Africa


USA


Netherlands


Norway


Ghana


USA


Brazil




South Africa


USA


Netherlands


Norway


Ghana


USA


Brazil

Look at River of Words:http://www.riverofwords.org/ and then add a focus on local resources + an interactive map for posting observations

USA


Signals from the Present

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Amazon wedding registry services were repurposed by Occupy Sandy after the Hurricane in late 2012 to help get much needed supplies directly to the hurricane victims.

Viral

Viral is a Mexican organization that uses a gamified matchmaking process to connect community leaders with social entrepreneurs and volunteers to solve local problems.

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Amazon Registry for Direct Donations

Image Source: www.viral.org.mx/debates

Image Source: www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wedding/32TAA123PJR42/ref=cm_wed_vv_page_1?ie=UTF8&page=1&sort=category-bucket

http://viral.org.mx/

http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wedding/32TAA123PJR42/ref=cm_wed_vv_page_1?ie=UTF8&page=1&sort=category-bucket

http://viral.org.mx/debates




Originally a Twitter-driven citizen mobilization movement headquartered in Ghana during the height of the civil war in Côte d'Ivoire, #civsocial got emergency supplies to the places they were needed despite the government cutting mobile networks. Today the network continues to grow with a standby team on Twitter, Facebook, Blackberry Messenger and Skype. #civsocial currently supports the government in policies around crises management, and has built Akendewa, the first tech hub in French-speaking Africa.

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#civsocial

Image Source: www.twitter.com


http://civsocial.akendewa.org/

http://civsocial.akendewa.org/

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March 2013

Foresight Engine Game Analysis:

25 Zones of Future Innovation



Contact: Tessa Finlev, [email protected]

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