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| Cry out; A possible extention to project legacy? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Nov 29 2006, 10:48 PM (1,698 Views) | |
| SwiftSpear | Nov 29 2006, 10:48 PM Post #1 |
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Cry out is a project I've had milling on the back burner for a while now. Originally I had envisioned a project much like project legacy, where internet users abroad would come together and postulate as to how we would rebuild society if the chance ever presented itself, but then my frustrations with being inactive kicked in and I decided that the project was stupid unless it actually accomplished something. Thus 'Cry out' was born. The idea behind cry out would be a global community centered around retrieving, defining, and addressing the problems of the world, much the same way a charity would, just with much less restriction and much more efficiently. The idea is that since cry out would be a global internet community there is no force in the world that could effectively prevent a potential problem from being reported, and there is no resource in the world that we couldn't effectively obtain to help deal with any given problem. The structure of the community would be three fold. Primarily would be the problem discussion forum. The format would be simple, any random person in the world could submit a report of any problem at all, starvation in a specific African village, a particular middle eastern orphan who's parents were killed and it now homeless, a charity who's headquarters are being shut down for some reason, human rights atrocities in china, frell, even stupid traffic laws in Minnesota that need change. The problem report would instantly be public at which point it would be analyzed and verified, determining if we can obtain cooperation and finding out exactly how much we can learn about the problem so that it's easy to figure out what needs to be done and how exactly it would have to work. The second structure would be the problem response unit. Any problem that requires addressing, would be summarized and expanded, then transfered to a second forum that is soully there for the purpose of doing whatever is necessary to get a solution in motion. Make no mistake, this would be a real charity organization, we would organize lobbies to change problematic laws, we would contact authorities and charities to try to force action on the solving of our problem, depending on our resources I'd eventually want to send work groups to get things done directly when possible. The whole point is to receive a problem that would slip through the cracks of conventional society and be ignored, and attack it, and get it solved by whatever means necessary. The third structure would be the resource unit. The point here would be to amass practical resources. Donation money that can be used and spread to solve problems or pay people who aid us in our endeavors, connections with other charities and political figures, connections to other organizations that help us, sponsor us, or respond to our requests. Anything useful that can be issued and applied to the solving of the next problem. Why it never happened: The problem for me is that this project is deathly serious. I would be fully determined to actually seeing through the solutions to the problems issued as often as possible. The thing is, this project would require alot of organization and logistical talent to realize effectively. The worst thing I could imagine would be amassing donations and then not being able to find a way to use them, or using them on something trivial just to find out that our time in the limelight was about to pass. I would need someone experienced trustworthy and highly competent with managing and organizing resources, because I tend to deal with money on my sleeve and in a very disorganized manner, and I know of no such person. I figured, anyways, rather then just forget it completely I'd post the idea somewhere where it might be interesting to the readers. Honestly the internet, and internet community is a disturbingly efficient and effective resource for something like this that is basically nearly completely untapped. From around the globe I can have money anywhere and know pretty much exactly who it's going to and why because they told me them selfs in detail. I figure most people are innately good and could immediately see the benefit of a project like this executed properly, so advertisement would be easy. The trick would mostly be, like I said, bringing the project to the point where it's actually helping people on a daily basis. |
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| Ninja | Aug 12 2007, 04:47 AM Post #2 |
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I believe it would be extremely difficult to pull something like this off. And getting enough trustworhty people organized. There is no telling how many people might just say they are in it to make it look like they're "helping people". Not to mention the amount of funding you would need. If you do get all the ducks in a row then maybe this has a chance to work. But there are so many set-backs to it that there is a little chance of it working. I'm not trying to shoot you down or anything, I'm just saying there are some major things that owuld need to happen. I believe it to be a great idea, and would be happy to be a part of it, if it can happen. |
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