Playing hard & happy to change the world!
Nowadays in Brazil, mobilized for young people, communities, business people, governments and ordinary citizens have been meeting online to self-organize and take action in climate change.
Using the free online social network platform Ning.com, the group started with the “Oasis Game,” a social technology designed by Elos Institute that kicked off a sustainable network to support and empower healthy and resilient communities in regions that were damaged by natural, human or social disasters.
At COP15 we will experience OASIS, a open source social technology, with the Thomas P. Hejle Institute´s Community (teachers, youth and children), the oldest Copenhagen youth club, building together a new space and challenging the our abilities to co-create beautiful change in scarcity contexts with people from different cultures.
Price: Free
Places Available: 50
Clotes & shoes: confortable and good to work
About OASIS
The simple idea of bringing people together to make a difference was enough to fire up a group of committed young people who decided to use Internet to respond the needs of Santa Catarina, a region in the South of Brazil that was affected by heavy floods last November. Over 70,000 people were evacuated from their houses and infrastructure in the region was heavily impacted.
The Oasis technology and the internet was integrated to mobilize people and available resources to offer them best to make difference under the principle: “Playing to change our World”.
More than 4000 people from all over the country joined the game!
Using the internet, they learn more about a particular community challenge and discuss their needs. Also to identify what each person can contribute to the network. The virtual platform optimizes collaboration, even if long distance, among Brazilian society. Any individual is invited to share their talent, skills and resources. The rule is simple: everybody contributes giving their best however they can!
It is not about talking but it is about taking concrete action, Oasis mobilize a “Hands on” process. For that, students, ordinary citizens, professionals and companies can organize teams to join efforts with the locals to build and restore public spaces prioritized by the community. During 2 to 10 intense days, they work different action projects simultaneously. They build playgrounds, bridges and repair roofs and structures in other public spaces. In doing so, the participants more than improve the local infrastructure; they help spark a movement for change.
These action days are a powerful tool to reinstall self-esteem and entrepreneurship among the local inhabitants from the people where the project is taking place. With the process, the population is empowered, the local authorities committed and the business community engaged. OASIS intends to channel this energy in order to stimulate them to develop a long-term action plan.
The OASIS movement
Is being self-organized with the aim of bringing together the best and most unique knowledge in the world today to generate local plans for low-cost housing prototypes and innovative infrastructure that can adapt to climate change. Our goal is to share this model widely so it can be used by populations elsewhere that are confronting climate change disasters.
http://oasissantacatarina.ning.com.
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