@nadia wanted a list of relationship-related topics for the current social media outreach efforts. So @anu searched through the platform content and created one, but tagging with the appropriate cat2-* “dimensions of wellbeing” tags. You could go through the full tag list to find them, but for your convenience we’re also providing it here:
“Organisational Relationships” related topics
This is the story of an organization that started small, with a big idea. Build Nepal started 8 years ago in Tarakeshwar, Kathmandu with a vision to be a “community instrument through which the people can do for themselves”. Working in northern suburbs of Kathmandu, one of the rapidly urbanizing area of Nepal, Build Nepal has grown into a not-for-profit organization solely devoted towards community development. As an extraordinary contributor in community development of Tarakeshwar, some of its …
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The opportunities can then soar. It is Thursday and I get in touch with Kamal Bhatta. He is a filmmaker, actor and an activist and most recently, he has been actively involved in the project #Act4quake. Through funds that was about 14000K, the initiative managed to reach the depths of Earthquake stricken region, all thanks to volunteers who worked hard. This is a great example of citizen driven earthquake relief that scaled up considerably. Their work is interesting but it is best if…
Recently the worst fears of Romanian medical state infrastructure came true. Hexi Pharma, a major company selling disinfectants to hospitals all over the country was discovered to have diluted their products even 10 times from the labelled concentration, to the point of causing infections of thousands of patients in the system over the last years (news here ).
This is just scratching the surface and confirms deep system fail: (1) underfunding and horrendous infrastructure making large numbers of…
[image] I’ve known Anush Babajanyan since 2006 when we worked together preparing the World E-Summit Awards in Yerevan. She is a dear friend of mine and recently she is the co-founder of a new project called 4Plus . The aim of 4 Plus is the development of Armenia’s photojournalism and documentary photography, as well as raising awareness about issues in Armenia through photography. In their work they touch many social issues in Armenian society, which are challenging and inspiring for the people …
Future Makers Nepal is coming close to operating three months in Nepal now. That’s three months of working towards an online community of alternative leaders. But progress is still slow. So what is it that makes building communities or other social movements in Nepal so difficult? Is it difficult in general?
These moments of frustration are valuable because you allow yourself to see things more clearly. I just discussed movement building again with @Natalia_Skoczylas , and we arrived at some int…
No one could have thought of a more appropriate name for a citizen driven initiatives – Nepal Rises, which has almost 4000 members in its Facebook Page , has come a long way from being a proactive group of concerned individuals to a visionary community of dedicated team. Nepal Rises prominently worked on managing and coordinating the supply-demand chain of medical supplies, sanitary supplies, and volunteers in the initial few days of the earthquake. Currently, they have become a legally registere…
A while ago the Edgeryders organisation applied to an open call asking communities to come forward and test some new tools for making sense of large scale conversations. The rationale is: the better we are at this, the more we can facilitate crowd-driven social innovation.
CATALYST, the network running the initiative, is itself a collaboration developed under CAPS (Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation), a topic funded in FP7 and Horizon2020 European research p…
There is a TV channel in Matera completely dedicated to art, culture and MT2019. Go talk to them, please: @RitaO can make the connection. You can simply walk to their office, tell them about LOTE4 (and Fabrizio, Amelia, Robin etc.) and ask them would they like to do something together on that. Offer to help them with liaison. Thanks!
Available in: English / italian
images of what we have been doing with Fontana B…
Based on this discussion , I am seeing a possible opportunity. It works like this:
@gracia , @Ndelo_Peter and @Christina_Jordan want to establish this family transition center. They seem to appreciate the kind of cheap "hi-lo tech" popular with edgeryders because it provides relatively simple solutions for Northern Uganda, which does not have high quality infrastructure.
@Marc , @LucasG and many others in the ER community are fascinated by the same tech, but we don't have many opportunities to…
Hey folks - the startsomegood campaign for the Life in Africa Family Transition Center has launched just yesterday. Check out the page at http://startsomegood.com/lifeinafrica to see the Edgeryders piece in there - let’s hope this gets funded so we can see that come to fruition!
Very grateful for some of the questions asked by @Alberto and others here, which helped to clarify some of the campaign text. A big shout out as well to @tomjd at startsomegood for having such an incredibly supportive t…
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I wanted to see how somebody who creates physical things can make a living on the edge so I spoke to Susanne Stauch , a product designer & goldsmith.
[(Making A) Living on the Edge - Susanne Stauch]
Susanne is selling her skills by the hour for jewellery or designs, trying to sell her own work in galleries and starting to use online platforms although she says that she needs to improve in that area.
She has been trying to survive this way for a couple of years now after fi…
A number of conversations have been going on regarding the creation of an organisation ( aka community with a legal structure ) to facilitate the work of Edgeryders and the future development of the Edgeryders platform. What a few of us (Darren, Ksenia, Noemi) want to propose here is the creation of a not-for-profit organisation to facilitate the collaborative projects of Edgeryders, helping us to working together effectively.
A organisation with a legal identity would-
be able to attra…
THE MANIFESTOBECAUSE:
• WE BELIEVE that the current crisis in Europe will be getting worse, dramatically dividing people, the rich from the poor, the privileged from the excluded, the rulers from the ruled ones.
• WE BELIEVE that the so called ‘middle class’ will retain only a few of its privileges, a vast majority will join the ranks of the excluded.
• WE BELIEVE that the political class, despite its official claims, is neither willing nor able to reverse the process, but rather amplifies it …
At Unexus.org we believe the global shift towards a knowledge economy requires a new form of collaborative innovation. With increasingly limited resources available for traditional research and development, there is an imperative for research institutions, corporations and individuals to collaborate in generating and executing innovative ideas. Our vision is for Unexus.org to provide a platform where the innovators of today build innovation communities to develop, implement and showcase solution…
After the Living On The Edge (LOTE) conference last week, I used a long train journey back to the UK to think about how to contextualise the stories that emerged from the event alongside those contained in the Edgeryders platform. More than anything else, a question that I had been asked after my presentation had stuck with me. A participant suggested that the synopsis I provided hadn’t really engaged with the theme of resilience. My immediate response – which I believe, in one sense, is sti…
Hello fellow EdgeRyders,
We have been commissioned to put together a network analysis report of the EdgeRyders community. We’re presenting some initial findings to you - the Edgeryders community at large - for your input, thoughts and to ensure that everyone has a better overall view of how discussions taking place on the ER platform - through comments and mission reports- govern the shape and direction of the ER network itself. In the age of “Big Data” it’s common practice for companies, bra…
Europe's New WarEurope is at war. It’s not obvious until you know some history, but Europe is at war. There are three critical pieces of information you need to master to understand this fully, and what it implies.
The first is that Spain and Greece very nearly had totally different political systems in the 20th century. Spain very nearly went Anarchist (not violent-chaotic, but without central control from government) but during the Spanish Civil War they were forced into Fascism. Greece very n…
Freedom of panorama is the possibility to make photos, videos or paintings of buildings or monuments permanently located on public spaces and to publish it.
It is a provision in copyright laws, because taking pictures etcetera is seen as a production of derivative works, which usually should be authorized by the owner of the copyright of the “object” whose your derivative work comes from.
The freedom of panorama depends on the legislation of the country you’re in: you could find a map of the…
“Personal Relationships” related topics
Sometimes I feel like my friends can’t quite take me seriously when I tell them how much art school is stressing me. When I hear myself describe to them what we do in our courses (like dressing up and dancing around cardboard sculptures of alien Christmas trees), I sometimes find it difficult to take myself seriously. However, as most people that work in a creative field would probably tell you, it really is stressful. Being creative is intense. Apart from the financial uncertainty and competiti…
Especially when talking to the older people in my circle of friends I quite often realised a huge fear or distrust of the unkown foreign when it comes to the so-called refugee debate. Even though these people are normally very reflected, very human behaving people, who care for eachother, who agree that every human being has the same right to live. How can one explain this contradiction? Theoretical constructs vs. practical experiences might play a huge role.
In those talks I found out that it …
TeachSurfing is a free web application for travelers and organizations to make contact and arrange volunteer classes or workshops globally in a very easy way.
I heard about this project from Kolba Lab and myself being a Couchsurfing ambassador for many years, I got really excited that such an initiative came to life and that the person behind the project is an Armenian lady. For me the main reason to couchsurf/host was the exchange of ideas, knowledge and culture, so this project seemed to com…
As a professional programmer, my main experience of sharing is a strongly positive one that causes me to believe that, as long as we all have a vested interest in the resources to which they are contributed, the sharing of ideas and effort can radically improve the quality of those resources. So, please allow me to rant about Open Source and how the principle might be applied to our everyday life.
Open Source projects (in computing terms) are projects where the supporting code for a piece of so…
When I was thinking how to summarize the results from the 'Living together' session, three words appeared clearly in my mind: trust, bottom-up and balance. TrustClearly we live in a society that has damaged their social capital, and the basis of that damage is the lack of trust. The sad truth is that as society in general we don't trust in our neighbor, let alone a complete outsider. One could argue that the social networks that are permeating our social life help us to trust more and be more tr…
What is family? This is both a question that is hard to answer, but equally quite easy; it depends on how you approach it. Quite a lot of people still see family in the given Husband, Wife, Kids in a family house, with a pet or whatever, making ends meet, educating each other and growing alonside each other experiencing life. The nuclear family as it were - is this sort of life achieveable for young people now, and is it something that is still desirable?
I admit that inside me somewhere is a 1…
I like to have a wide social network but I often organise mycontacts according to people that I share my core interests with. This helps me keep in touch with their projects and exchange information regularly. I neverthless like having a wide and diverse social network as I have often had unexpected yet insightful exchanges with someone from outside my core network group.
I am more of a focussed online networker. Some people want to share everything with everyone. I often only post online abo…
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Imagine a world in which Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile hadn’t supported Columbus’ plan to sail West instead of East to reach Asia. It seemed like a crazy idea at the time, most monarchs and rulers around Europe had already turned him down. They too could have just said: “Sorry old man. We are not giving you a penny”. Or imagine a world in which powerful countries like the US didn’t spend almost 3% of their GDP on R&D, trying to develp - alas - new weapons most of the …
Family life could be a myth.
Not because we are condemned to loneliness.
But because today’s jobs are designed not to let us enjoy enough free time. We do have some free time, don’t get me wrong. But we don’t have the time needed to build a family, the time needed to feel, create and support such a complex social and emotional structure…a family.
Do you really, but really think, that if you work 8 hours/day, need to run a household by yourself and deal with other thousands of daily life tasks…
Clearly, the community in general is not my ally in pursuing a less coherent career goal because people expect you to do something when graduating. Even as a master’s student I felt that answering the question: What do you do? with the answer I’m studying is not good enough for some. Of course there’s a set model which says that once you graduate, the normal thing to do is have a job. Even as a student you are in search of a job, preparing the field for later. That’s why there is so much focus o…
“Relationship with society” related topics
a link to a cool short post which I found today (by Brainpicker)
Found a post on
learning by Maria Popova.
I’m not a big fan of quotes, but these are quite relevant.
And some of them are from a long time ago, funny enough:
Education, of course, is always based on what was. Education shows you what has been and leaves you to make the deduction as to what may be. Education as we pursue it cannot prophesy, and does not. (1955,
William Gibson on cultivating a personal micro-culture.)
Tell me more about the group that walked
What was it like in the group that walked? Like what were the dynamics as people walked around, in the group, the actual social dynamics as people travelled together, and what will become of the community now that you’ve arrived - are people going home to their own countries, or are they staying in Athens now?
What’s the next step?
And where will you go now?
Enigmatic and mysterious, warm, deep, tribal
Gypsies remain the major precursor of the phenomena of osmosis. Gypsies really have fascinated me for a long time, because their music is made of effusion of fury and excess sentimentality, indomitable and warm, deep and tribal. But also because I am attracted to creating osmosis between cultures (the Francosphere and the Anglosphere).
Gypsy people remain very enigmatic and mysterious. Scapegoats of our sedentary world, objects of social rejection…
