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Wow, now where the stress of the past weeks slowly dries up the little voice in my head which tells me what to write is eventually talking to me again…
So, it is great to be back!
First of all I want to share an idea I had a while ago. This Idea is inspired by Seth Godin and having seen his Ted talk ..
As these are my own thoughts and ideas I do not need to reference. If you do like them however, and you want to reproduce them, you need to reference, otherwise you are plagiarising.
Remarkable
This piece is inspired by my Evidence based Management class and the Ted talk of
Seth Godin.
The idea behind it is simple. People notice what is new and fresh and remarkable. They give more attention to something, what has not been there before in the same way.
According to that, my Idea is simple but I think it is good and many people will notice it. I had to do an AIDS assignment and that is why I thought of the following.
Have you ever been to Berlin? In East Berlin there is something very unique when you cross the street. Everybody who lives there or has even only visited, knows about it. The “Ampelmaennchen” in English, “robot people”. The East Berlin robots all have little people in them (not the usual ones). The green one is walking the red one stands they are also wearing hats and one can buy them as souvenirs at every corner printed on a t-shirt.
That is something new which people notice, because it is different.
Now back to the assignment. I thought why can’t we do something like that, it is easy, inexpensive and a robot is something everyone looks at. Why don’t we as South Africans with one of the highest Aids rates in the world, make a statement and put the AIDS bow into red robots, that it glows every time the robot is red. Because if a robot is red and one has to stop!
Think about it, STOP AIDS. It would be a reminder. It would be a statement. It would be something unique.
I think it would therefore be remarkable. And just between us the tourists 2010 will love that!!!
I hope you like it!
Jane
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Hey there,
It’s not the problem that nobody knows that there is AIDS in South Africa, the problem is that nobody is interested in giving money to poor people in a poor country.
This sounds hard now, but it’s our capitalistic reality, the truth.
You can see that in Germany, they are spending billions of Euros against this climatic changes, which are only an imagination or a theory. With that money they could fight AIDS or Malaria but they won’t. It’s not a problem of the Western side of the world. That’s why it won’t change as long as there will be AIDS in Europe.
Sad but true.
Your idea is good but the world is not ready for that.
But anyway Greetings
Comment by Thilo Mull October 12, 2008 @ 10:06 am