Taking full advantage of the newly arisen sustainabilities

Invitation to take a part in our social lab on COVID19! How your confined life has affected anything else? Any economic worries? Feeling safe at your home? Who do you trust more regarding the news?

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Inspiration

We have seen our planet changing a lot since the Industrial Revolution. Accordingly, we have started to change our models of life as we know it into a more sustainable one for all the last decades. Still, our global system is based on mostly exploitation of every possible primary resource we luckily dispose of. At present, due to COVID19 spread-related hostility, we are forced to stop every action that gives a solid basis for our economy. At the same time, we are also forced to take specific measures to last our vision of this world and the pretended comfortable life’s style.

What if we are not supposed to ever come back to our “normalities”…?

What if sustainability may be attractive economically enough as well or can be even more profitable?

This is a great chance to contribute to the newly-establishable balance. This is a very good moment to humbly “invest” in a mid- and long-term perspective. And this time it seems there is the nature itself speaking to us directly.

What it does

The project performs a social experiment. The societal actors are identified in the base of having a direct interest in the resilient outcome, possessing a valuable data source for the experiment and being at vital risk due to thereof. In the future, once an appropriate database is established from the experiment series, it aims to unify the acquired informative system into an online learning space for definite training.

How I built it

The social lab tool is not built yet. The project foresees in the first place a series of social experiments to create a nucleus of database set on how the confinement conditionings affect the population, regarding

  • the economic and domestic performance,
  • gender-based domestic (sexual, psychological, physical) violence potential escalations or emergence, and
  • the fake news appearance and individual perception revealed by each of the participants.

For that purpose, an online tool/app will be created in order to questionnaire the selected population thereof. For the latter, appropriate information and intelligence systems will be applied.

Challenges I ran into

Identify new sustainabilities in the base of the COVID19-related crisis development and overall course so far within the population sampling on the following areas: dealing with the enclosure and related temporary depressive state, facing the individual economy of each household cell, arranging and organising the emergency resources available for an enhanced escalation of the violence on-site, intuitive position on the possible release of fake news, etc.

Another challenge is related to reaching the populations of concern in an anonymous and secure way, as well as any population that is not connected with the healthcare and social care systems. Therefore, the initial societal actors' population will be selected among the primary/secondary pupils as well as university students attending the online scholar-official system formed channels during confinement times. The appropriate personal data managing agreements will be considered for both minor and adult areas.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Having identified the most essential areas affecting the determined lifestyles by the confinement conditions, as specified in the thematic streams.

What I learned

To initiate and join a hackathon initiative. To form a team.

What's next for "Taking full advantage of the newly arisen sustainabilities"

To create an online tool/app to societal learning on how to identify sustainability in daily struggles, to arrange the emergency resources in a case when needed or to recognize a trustworthy information source. The learning tool will be tested within the sampled communities and the outcomes internationalised in consequence.

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  • citris
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