presente! mission: We create a NextEdu map during the worldwide Jelly Week.
A map consisting of alternative education institutions and its financial supporters.
Language: English
Why? Show us your wealth of local wisdom!
1) One purpose is to show that there is already an alternative school system in place and working. A NextEdu map is sorted by the type of work innovative schools are doing and shows where those schools are and how they are supported by the local society.
2) For communities there is the objective of mapping interactively their experiences to offer an understanding of their own richness and potential to establish stronger linkages between recognized initiatives.
3) Another purpose for ground level organizations that work in poverty areas is to encourage crowd-funding or venture funding of those innovative educational institutions on the map and by that fostering regional development. Ground level organizations attract investors to the map, then to the other local initiatives in order to share resources and exchange knowledge.
If it were successful it could generate the resources each of us need to support the larger effort of mapping and building networks of the programs working on the ground level, as well as sources of volunteers, technology and operating dollars needed by each of these local organizations.
(Daniel) The idea is to build a market-based system that provides the on-going operating resources, ideas, talent, technology, etc. that each of these initiatives will need for decades in order to grow to be best in the world, and able to stay connected to youth from preschool to first job and a career.
So it is in the self-interest to put their work on the map and encourage others to look at it and maintain it. In that way innovative education initiatives and schools become a sustainable asset for whole regions.
How? We enable education change makers and supporters to tag their initiatives in a map representing the NextEdu.
1) Educational projects from all over the world participate with an own local jelly in January contributing to a worldwide challenge. They choose partner jellies from educational or social business sectors.
2) Together we create the NextEdu map of wisdom that institutions and entrepreneurs tag themselves, post introductions to, within 4 categories (that need to be defined by the presente! organizers - proposals):
3) We start a crowd boosting!!!! Something that encourages the crowd to support the NextEducation. One issue is to find a "social media way" to increase attention, awareness and engagement in the most effective way. We assemble a kind of "social engagement kit", which makes it easy for a project to decide what to use and to use the adequate tools in kind of step by step manner, decision trees, check lists. E.g. crowd funding is fine
4) The platform will include links to discussion portals hosted by leaders in different parts of the world to focus on local efforts, challenges and opportunities. The "crowd boosting" done throughout the year will be supported by place-based events hosted by members of the network. Such events will be connected to each other via this platform and the collective effort will aim to draw leaders from other sectors, government, business and investment into the discussions so they build relationships and become proactive in their own support of member efforts as a result of the work being done.
Maps need to show layers of informationIn building the Jelly map it would be great to create information categories so layers of information could be shown on the map based on what any user is trying to understand. Here is a section of my library pointing to many uses of maps. Look at these and borrow from the best of what they do to create the Jelly map -http://tinyurl.com/TMCLibrary-PovertyMapping
Here is the interactive map directory that I've created. You can create layers showing tutor/mentor programs by age group served, type of program, zip code, and you can add information showing poverty, schools, assets, political districts, etc. The more detailed the information is the better it will assure that what people look at is "like kinded" and not "different activities, serving different purposes, with different structures"http://www.tutormentorprogramlocator.net/InteractiveMap.aspx
What? Did you say game plan? Game plan?! Yeah let’s play.
1) presente! members, #JELLYWEEK, ambassadors, TheNextEducation Wiki initiators and the minds behind groaction revise this game plan
2) We set up a Skype conference call December 16th 5 pm CET (Participants: Anni Rolf, Philippe Greier, Daniel Bassil, Olle Bjerkås, Celso Sekiguchi, Alexandré Bradford, Willi Scholl, Irena Efremovska, Bert-Ola Bergstrand, Rafael Reinehr, Kate Ettinger, please add your name)
3) Mobilization of local education networks and organization of local education jellies.
4) The nextEdu map is defined and implemented during the week; with the contribution of presente! members, all #JELLYWEEK participants, TheNextEdge education subgroup, coworking spaces and groAction.
5) A crowd funding campaign is designed and started during the JELLYWEEK
6) A collective action 12-month event calendar might be launched during JELLYWEEK, enabling participants to post web-based events that could be joined/supported by peers in other cities/countries. By posting a 12 month rotating calendar we can begin to time collective actions around events such as the G-8 Summit in May, and draw more attention to our discussions/collaborations by building off the publicity generated by these events and our own international collaboration of SEs and idea-intermediaries.
Context: Global JELLYWEEK 2012 / 16 to 22 Jan 2012
presente! organizers and Jelly ambassadors (pls add yourself) Anni could you discuss that with the ambassadors?
USA / Daniel F. Bassill (skype: ?) and Anna Thomas (New York) and ??
Austria / Philippe Greier (skype: fl9wrider)
USA & Global / Kate Ettinger (skype: ettinger_k)
Sweden & Global / Bert-Ola Bergstrand (Skype bolab51)
(this website was developed by Rafael Reinehr as a courtesy of Coolmeia, Ideas in Cooperation, a think-and-do-tank dedicated to study, improve and implement methods, tools, attitudes and solutions toward an other possible world.)