What can be created that will allow us to practice and demonstrate personally and culturally?

How can we learn to work with, engage, and help others?

What can we build to promote and encourage intentional acts of kindness?

How can we build a platform, community, or initiative that maintains integrity? Data privacy?

How can we reconnect with humanity and empathize with the challenge facing others?

Can we explore technology that allows us to dig deeper into ourselves and therefore create personal change?

Can we see the world and others differently? What can we build to address the most pressing issues affecting humanity?

Healthcare

Nearly 350,000 health apps are in circulation today. Yet, according to the World Bank and World Health Organization, at least half of the world’s population cannot obtain essential health services. What obstacles keep this issue alive? How can technology be a way to re-imagine existing approaches to healthcare that do not limit equitable access to quality care?

Sports

Sports can bring individuals and communities together in a moment of shared humanity. This vastly profitable industry also can cause damage to the environment, exploit the vulnerable, and be politicized to do harm. Athletes, administrators, advertisers and fans all have a role to play. How can technology dismantle the inequity, injustice and sometimes downright abuse that occurs in sports?

Water

Water is essential for creating and sustaining life on Earth. Whether people realize it or not, water plays a role in many social, political, environmental, and health issues. What solutions can lead to more respect for bodies of water and all the living things that need it to survive?

should be functional or at least communicate its functionality

encourage the user to embody one or more of the seven values and/or allow the user to allow others to embody one ore more of the values.

not be single use. The user should be able to benefit from the app each time they open it over a long period of time.

be easily understandable to a person without professional or specialized knowledge in any particular subject such as humanities, and does not assume sophistication of the user.

allow user to access multiple perspectives on the values.

cite external sources used to code, design, and other applicable areas.

Allow the user to share with others how the app has affected their views of the seven values.

Allow the user to access external resources.

Allow the user to interact with other user’s perspective on the values.

Integrates new information and allows for the future updates.

Submit app to an actual app store.

Presented by one team member.

Limited to five minutes including all visual aids.

Articulate points from Challenge Statements.

Open Mindedness

Keep on open mind about the process! It will start out a little bit disorganized and you many struggle to figure out how best to engage, but bit by bit ideas will start to emerge and following the process you will end up with some promising challenge.

Attitude of Learning

Listening to people’s perspective and ideas of challenge with an attitude of learning and understanding may spark new inspiration and will help you to create stronger challenge statement that have broaden applicability.

Need Centered

It’s natural when talking about complex issues to immediately jump to problem solving. Try to avoid that here and when you find yourself proposing solutions to the challenge you are talking about, take a step back and refocus on the challenge and need(s) itself and making its as specific and clear as possible.

Purity of Motive

This isn’t about promoting a person, organization or cause. We are here to meaningfully participate in the challenge definition process.

Yes And…

Have fun. Be creative. Think outside the box. Build upon each other’s ideas. Especially in the first brainstorming stage where you are suggesting challenge ideas. Sometimes a brilliant challenge comes from an idea that sounds a little crazy at first.