On this World Humanitarian Day Aug 19, 2019 I feel it is a good time to start compiling humanitarian efforts being conducted in Kenya.
The United Nations posted:
This World Humanitarian Day, we focus on our program called Food for Peace (FFP). Through FFP, we provide emergency food assistance to those affected by conflict and natural disasters and development food assistance to improve long-term food security. http://ow.ly/FqU550vsDgq
These three separate components are written down even if someone is going to be verbally presenting them.
when I explain it to someone for the first time, I tell them it is just trying to convince someone of an idea without loosing them.
Step one: tell them a quick brief summary of the GREAT IDEA you have (the pitch)
Step two: tell them more about why they should not miss out and should be a part of realizing this GREAT IDEA by joining the team, investing, sponsoring, etc. (The Proposal)
Step three: once they say they are interested and ask for more, you tell them more details about your plan to execute this GREAT IDEA. (The executive summary)
Security
The messaging services run “over the top,” meaning they are not tied directly to the provider of the network or the phone.
U.S. May Outlaw Messaging Encryption Used By WhatsApp, iMessage And Others, Report
End-to-end encrypted messaging is a major issue for law enforcement—as the world shifts from easy to crack (for governments) cellular SMS messaging to various flavors of IP messaging, such as WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal and Wickr, governments are exploring their options. The challenge is that such services are provided by technology companies, mostly based in the U.S., making them to a large extent out of reach from lawmakers elsewhere. The messaging services run “over the top,” meaning they are not tied directly to the provider of the network or the phone.
All of which means that the powerbroker here, as in most things tech, is the U.S. government. Which is why when Politico reported that “senior Trump administration officials met on Wednesday [June 26] to discuss whether to seek legislation prohibiting tech companies from using forms of encryption that law enforcement can’t break,” it was of real significance, “a provocative step that would reopen a long-running feud between federal authorities and Silicon Valley.”
“Technology is moving fast, and privacy needs to move with it,” Joel Wallenstrom—the CEO of uber-secure messaging platform Wickr—told me. “These are all completely legitimate, understandable even predictable concerns coming from law enforcement and elsewhere.”
Politico cited several unnamed sources in reporting that “the encryption challenge, which the government calls ‘going dark,’ was the focus of a National Security Council meeting Wednesday morning that included the No. 2 officials from several key agencies.” The discussion focused on the lockdown of messaging apps, billed as “a privacy and security feature,” which “frustrates authorities investigating terrorism, drug trafficking and child pornography.”
The challenge for governments, the U.S. included, is that the privacy of messaging has become a central theme in the ongoing debate around privacy, data security and information integrity. People around the world are shifting from public social media posting to closed groups, and messaging platforms have been a major driver of that. Even Facebook has put messaging security and privacy at the center of its new strategy.
“We hope there is really productive dialog and problem-solving,” Wallenstrom told me, speaking before the NSC news broke. In his view, “lines in the sand” and “folded arms” on the part of governments need to be avoided, with China, North Korea and Iran “not the countries we want to emulate as far as technology is concerned.”
The example of WeChat in China is especially relevant, where the authorities monitor message traffic on a fairly open basis, with immediate sanctions for misbehavior.
As the 30th anniversary of Tiananmen Square approached, it was reported that WeChat users found “keywords or pictures related to the event have been almost instantaneously deleted, with their posters sometimes summarily blocked. On the days of the anniversary itself, users were not even able to change their avatars.”
And there were many similar stories from the recent public protests in Hong Kong.
“We hope this [end-to-end encrypted] technology will exist,” Wallenstrom said, “that it’s not blockable… That there are providers of this technology that want to work through these issues and tackle the smart path forward and don’t become binary and say we won’t work with [governments] to work through these debates.”
There is no single point of view within the U.S. government on this issue, and even “a well-known fault line on encryption within the executive branch,” as reported by Politico. “The DOJ and the FBI argue that catching criminals and terrorists should be the top priority, even if watered-down encryption creates hacking risks. The Commerce and State Departments disagree, pointing to the economic, security and diplomatic consequences of mandating encryption ‘backdoors’.”
And DHS can see both sides of the debate even within itself. ”The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency know the importance of encrypting sensitive data, especially in critical infrastructure operations, but ICE and the Secret Service regularly run into encryption roadblocks during their investigations.”
Wallenstrom referenced the San Bernardino terrorist attack in 2015, which pitched DOJ against Apple to gain access to the iPhone of one of the attackers. And Politico did the same. For governments, terrorism, child trafficking and elements of serious organized crime become something of a trump card when tackling the public debate on privacy, the ultimate “yes, but.”
Earlier this month, a coalition of technology companies, privacy experts and human rights groups published an open response to a discussion document from U.K. spy agency GCHQ that suggested the idea of a ghost protocol to enable “an extra end” in end-to-end encrypted messaging, allowing governments (when required) to listen in.
The response from the likes of Apple, Microsoft, Google and WhatsApp was blunt: “It would undermine the authentication process… introduce potential unintentional vulnerabilities, increase risks that communications systems could be abused or misused… It will not matter that conversations are protected by encryption. Communications will not be secure.”
“The ghost protocol idea has been proven over and over to be unsustainable,” Wallenstrom told me. “Deciding who gets access to this kind of [intercept] technology means we’re in the business of determining who’s good and who’s bad.” He also pointed out that removing privacy protections opens up content so the platforms themselves can “go snooping through user data.”
And if the U.S. does start to genuinely debate such legislation, the backlash will escalate quickly. It is one thing to moderate the content shared on social media, quite another to bring total user privacy to an end. But for law enforcement and national security, there are genuine concerns. Where there are terrorists hiding from the authorities on platforms like Telegram there is a serious public interest issue. On this one, cliche or not, there really are no easy answers.
“I believe the future of communication,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in March, “will shift to private, encrypted services where people can be confident what they say to each other stays secure and messages and content won’t stick around forever.”
“Yes, but…”
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We are in the MVP stage and are looking for a list of potential Founding Partners who share our vision, understand our mission and would like to join our community.
Potential partners list
* Skoll Foundation
* United Nations
* Moonshot
* Life is Good
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Youth dividend: the benefits that result from catching the youth population at the right time. Asian Tigers (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Asian_Tigers?wprov=sfti1.) are well known for success in this area. Focused on youth
Challenge is timing — people want results in 2-3 years. But investing in human capital — youth — will take longer than that. Need to educate/socialize to the time it will take.
Many do understand, looking at the demographics on the African continent, that the need is there and it will take time … but that the dividends are great. (Using Asian countries as an example)
Youth — good to focus at this age because brains still developing, forming habits, beliefs, etc. Also time when brain is able to truly absorb and learn — skills, etc.
Nexus — bringing together 35 and younger social entrepreneurs … lots of talk about block chain (rural electrification in India, setting up app for rural xyz in Southeast Asia). Talking with a new set of tools that those in development for 30 years don’t know much about. Social media is another example.
USAID has policies that few agency personnel read, but nearly all IPs do.
Youth & Development Policy … not getting results over time that we were looking for. Engage vertically through programs — engage in design implementation & evaluation. Also across projects. Not best practice to have stand-alone youth project. Better to incorporate, integrate youth into all programming. Then can have program that fills the gaps not met in programmatic integration.
Guiding principles:
Recognize youth participation is vital
Invest in assets and resilience
Involve mentors, family and communities
Account for differences and commonalities
Create second chances
Pursue gender equality (gang, pregnancy … often those we’re giving “second chances” really never had a first chance)
Harness youth innovation and technology
Section 2: Adolescent Development
Missing middle – early age reading good, then entry into work force … but nothing in the middle, which are huge years for youth development. HIV/AIDS: only group with increase is youth in these middle years … indicates lack of programming at those ages.
FRIDA — youth women’s development organization — all under 30, programs designed by 15-25-year olds.
“Teenage brain explained” mp4. Adolescence = use it or lose it phase
Brain fully developed mid-20s (14-24 — synaptic development)
—youth dropping out of school at the same time their synaptic development begins
Last part of brain to development — prefrontal cortex (“last in, first out”) part that gives good judgment (first part of brain is fight or flight/impulse)
Synaptic pruning … unused connections wither away, used connections get stronger
Risk taking — build positive risk taking as alternative to dangerous behaviors — sports, theater, debate, community service, theater, etc.) (eg use skateboarding for youth vulnerable to entering gangs)
Self regulation — how do we help youth regulate emotions, decisions, actions at age where emotional triggering is at its highest while impulse control is still underdeveloped. Without addressing from, say 15-25, those behaviors (addiction, self-harm, depression) take stronger root
Adverse childhood experience (ACE) — abuse, neglect, household dysfunction, humanitarian disaster or conflict … individuals going through 4 significant experiences, are more susceptible to risk outcomes of ACEs (suicide, heart disease, addiction, STDs injury
— ACEs & brain development — red is good (difference in activity in frontal cortex v. Imigdila. Lots of pruning (black space in abused brain) … but can be re-developed through sports, chess, etc. Helps brain re-wire. But if we don’t do anything, risk generation working only with part of their brain.
INSPIRE package of working with youth
Facets of adolescent development
Physical — changes you can see (when young people point these out, can affect confidence & behavior)
Cognitive development — younger, highly curious, limited attention span, learn when learning engages emotions, think of things as to how they affect them, not others as much; mid/late adolescence, able to think abstract & critically
Social development— younger highly influenced by their peers, over time, develop greater tolerance understanding and substitute group with relationship & individual identity
Emotional development— fear and insecurity can affect moods, confidence, etc.
Moral & ethical — older adolescents start to develop justice fairness, etc. Older youths lead charge in protesting injustice
Role of family in youth planning, all programming … we focus on education, work, etc. Would be amplified if engaged family in youth programming.
Positive Youth Development
USG approach across 22 agencies
Self-efficacy/agency (confidence in one’s abilities, knowledge that they can take something on)
Contribution (civic engagement, feeling they have a role to play, opportunity to engage)
Enabling environment (safety (physical & emotional), cultural & social norms, mentors
Assets
—need all four to be considered in programming.
—just “drop in center” isn’t enough; covers safety, but not opportunities, contributions, etc.
Life & Soft Skills
academic, technical (most important in transitioning to jobs), soft skills
Soft skills help us most during our lives — learn through sports, engagement with others. So much time is spent on academic & technical, need to find way to support the soft skills as well.
“Pathways to Success”. Sports to teach life/soft skills (Sports for Kenyan Youth) teamwork —> work readiness —> technical/vocational skills … not sitting in a room … active
Study on praise and fixed mindsets: type of praise make a difference. Praise “you’re so smart” vs. “you must have put in a lot of effort”. Don’t praise intelligence or abilities, but praise process and effort put in. “Growth mindset”. When you praise intelligence (fixed mindset) kids stop taking risks because they don’t want to disappoint … if they fail it’ll show they’re not intelligent and they won’t be praised. If you praise on effort, it makes kids want to try harder, put in more effort, take more risks … because it’s the effort and the process that they learn is important.
Coaching idea — what do you want to accomplish during this match/game. Not just winning, but goal to improve on x, y, z … personal best … etc. Then it’s not just the final outcome that defines success or failure.
#mondi group
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Solar powered desalination plant in Kenya
Oi.app
Kenya project
Give Power project
Solar-powered desalination plant in Kenya gives fresh water to 25,000 people a day
Hayes Barnard, the founder and president of GivePower, is taking his experience from the solar field and applying it to fresh water source crises.
“Humanity needs to take swift action to address the increasingly severe global water crisis that faces the developing world,” he says. “With our background in off-grid clean energy, GivePower can immediately help by deploying solar water farm solutions to save lives in areas throughout the world that suffer from prolonged water scarcity.”
GivePower’s solar power desalination device
GivePower started off in 2013 as a nonprofit branch of SolarCity, Elon Musk’s failed solar-panel company that was eventually absorbed into Tesla in 2016. Barnard spun off GivePower into its own organization before the merger.
He spent almost two years in San Francisco building the machine, he hopes the technology could one day reach the more than two billion people who live in water-scarce areas. The nonprofit works mostly on building solar-energy power plants that provide electricity all across the developing world.
According to GivePower, they’ve “already deployed more than 2,650 solar-powered energy systems to schools, medical clinics and villages in 17 developing countries GivePower is focusing its efforts on the most critical use case of sustainable energy: reliable access to clean water.”
The Kiunga facility initially cost $500,000 to build and took one month to construct. They hope to generate $100,000 per year from the plant, and then funnel that money into building new facilities. The eventual goal is to cut costs to $100,00 per solar-powered desalination plant in the future. Barnard hopes that the systems will fund each other to create an additional system every five years.
Part of their initial funding came from a $250,000 grant by Bank of America last year.
Access to the system comes from people using the M-Pesa payments app. Locals only have to pay a fourth of a cent for every liter of water. Barnard points out that this is astronomically less than what is usually $1 per liter from premium water brands.
The installation in Kiunga has already made a lot of headway and fundamental change for the people living there.
Fresh water crisis and women’s rights
It’s estimated by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) that one third of the world’s population don’t have access to safe drinking water. By 2025, half of the world’s population may live in water-scarce regions. Cities in Africa, China, and India are already facing this problem.
It’s been found that limited access to fresh drinking water keeps women out of the educational system. According to a report by the UN Commission for Human Rights, women and children in Africa and Asia must walk an average of 3.7 miles a day to procure water.
The UN states that “between 50 and 100 litres of water per person per day are needed to ensure that most basic needs are met and few health concerns arise.”
This is why Barnard thinks that it’s so crucial to bring water directly to them. The ongoing climate crisis will only make these types of solutions more crucial for affected communities .
GivePower hopes to establish a local thriving community around these new fresh water sources. One that’ll encourage health, safety and even commerce. Already, Barnard has seen a group of women that have started a freshwater clothes washing service. It’s his hope and intention that this spurs economic activity for women and affects the community at large.
The ingenious technology of solar powered desalination may just be the panacea for the growing water crisis. Once basic human needs are met, these water-scarce regions would not only survive but eventually flourish.
Our mission: To unify the world in its efforts towards solving universal problems. Through basis efficiencies in project execution, communication Chanel’s and automated networking, the online community will promote good ideas, sustainable solutions, and a new paradigm of thinking, being and acting.
By increasing efficiencies, pooling resources and reducing unnecessary waste, together we will empower the masses to be more self sustaining, creating a more sustainable global community.
Oi1 deeper dive: mission
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This is clearly an audacious goal. but we believe that through collaboration and optimism we together will do it.
How will we do this? We are building a platform that embodies progress, promotes great ideas making them stronger, more sustainable and achievable and connects the world in a manner that has never been done before.
In nature, there are many examples of systems where collaboration and team work naturally produce amazing results. Think of how ants in a colony work together without even realizing they are working towards the same goal. In science, this principal has recently been applied with robots.
The creation of this platform builds on our innate need to help each other and make the world a better place, using the principals of collaboration, experience sharing and team work.
The fact that too many start-ups fail for unnecessary reasons makes it clear that there is a problem and there has to be a better, more efficient way to start and maintain organizations, companies and projects. Non-profits face the same problems or inefficiencies and for them, it is often much worse. The worst part for non-profits is that they don’t go under as easily because they are being funded by donors, grants etc. preventing them from going bankrupt and meaning more time, energy and effort is wasted trying to keep them alive.
In my humble opinion, this makes non-profits’ problems a better starting point for multiple reasons.
For a long time the non-profit sector has been upside down and unfairly treated. The problem is that donors want every penny to be applied to the organizations mission, whether that is disaster relief or saving coral reefs. Donors often don’t take into account the immense amount of resources, in other words, overheads, needed to execute their mission. Many necessary administration tasks or overheads can be automated, thus reducing their costs, eliminating human errors and increasing transparency. This will make donors more confident that their money is being spent wisely when being applied to these vital tasks of running the organization.
This Platforms TRANSPARENCY will also help with organization’s marketing, which is often a forgotten major expense. One idea you will hear often is the idea that there are many people and organisations who are working for the same goals and are often duplicating efforts. They are mainly doing this because there is not a user friendly mechanism for collaboration or aggregating what others are already doing.
The mission of this ultimate collaboration is to facilitate networking and the aggregating of solutions for making the world a better place. With the connectivity we have at our fingertips today, we should not have to start from scratch. Through Franchising and promoting good ideas our intent is to reduce the duplication and competition of efforts.
In this technically savvy world, it is time we automate more of the processes and eliminate the pains of solving global problems and the problems of individual communities.
As a starting point we build a simple user-friendly platform with a few basic modules that make community projects more efficient and in turn more sustainable. By automating certain organizational processes and making them open source it will increase the member engagement and reach, as well as build our user base. Along with increasing efficiencies, This platform will increase transparencies enabling the organizations to better satisfy their members and donors.
To achieve this, We are looking for a team who knows the software world like the back of their hand and can pick favorites and/or best in class from existing products and companies. I need them to understand the idea of putting a “cradle to grave” suite together to create the perfect work flow for solving the worlds more difficult problems. This team needs to be one that gets excited by the audacious goal of building a hyper efficient software multi-tool, that aims to prevent reckless business efforts starting from scratch and duplicating efforts. I need a team that is driven by the thoughts of being part of the greatest collaboration to change the paradigm of thinking and make the world a better place. A team that understands that making it easier for everyone to help make the world a better place is just the next step in efficiencies.
A team that knows anything is possible and wants to lead the world in a project that will change the world an is unwavering in tackling the predictable challenges that arise.
We are also In search of the face of this ultimate collaboration. We need someone who can facilitate a turnkey solutions community that is all inclusive and aims to cure the world of unnecessary difficulties and inefficiencies.
This online company will grow as a community, contributing to positive world change, every step of the way. To begin, we need to find our first CEO to fine tune the core values and principles, pick projects and choose the direction that the company takes.
Do you have what it takes?
If you feel you are ready to take a giant leap into a truly world-changing project, get in touch and tell us why you are the person to drive our vision and get our platform working for the whole planet.
a perameter is a limit or boundary which defines the scope of a particular process or activity.
Oiapp design and usage parameters brainstorming list:
– [ ] No pop ups
– [ ] No rotating pictures or text
– [ ] Greatly Limit the amount of required and forced submission of information.
– [ ] High level of simplicity and consistency
Items under consideration (TBD)
– conditional advertising only
– limitations on length of comments?
– [ ] Regulations on criticism?
– [ ] Have a team who edits/ promotes constructive criticism?
These Tag lines are not all ready for use. This project is intended to give these Serious Consideration and editing (SCE)
* Opportunity is a human right
* A digital platform empowering the masses by making engagement and collaboration more efficient and accessible.
* Empowering people to be more efficient with helping themselves and their communities through utilizing wasted resources.
* It only ends once, everything before that is just progress. ( Jacob, Lost)
