Burning Man Issue Tracker

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World Issue Tracker (issuetracker.world)

IssueTracker.world See also: openproblems.connectr.site

We think the biggest reason people don’t work on impactful things is that they are simply not aware how many low hanging fruit they could be working on today. If they knew about those things they would be getting up and working on them.

Important neglected problems. Issues we would like to see more brainpower, talent, or contribution being poured into in locales we are familiar with. Also: vetted, meaningful, high-impact initiatives contributing toward these goals.

What are the things that need to get done? Make a list! Knock them out and complete them? How few people could do it? #inspiring #lifegoal

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Gerhub

gerhub.org

Needs: philanthropic funding, engineering talent?

Initiative to apply to college in USA - similar to Skillshare [To find URL]

Needs: ??

#idea HackMongolia -- no large scale hackathons in Mongolia #idea ~Battushig

Needs: sponsors, mentors

#idea LLMs to translate MOOCs into the Mongolian language

Needs: hackers

#idea FIRST Robotics / FIRST Lego League for Mongolia

Needs: sponsors

tomujin academy

NOVAx

TomyoEdtech

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instagram.com

Login • Instagram — https://instagram.com/novax.space?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

instagram.com

Evidence: desire to learn coding/data science #bigmarket: dean of engineering from stanford came to mongolia lately; data science seminars - seminar was fully booked

No specific tutoring for coding

#idea

#idea HackMongolia -- no large scale hackathons in Mongolia #idea ~Battushig

#idea FIRST Robotics / FIRST Lego League for Mongolia

No MOOCs in the Mongolian language – most mongolians don't speak english well enough to participate in a MOOC

needs: tech input, education input

people living in Ger districs (districts circling outskirts of cities not connected to central electricity grid --> burning coal to survive. -30C in winter PM2.5 levels 30x recommended amount) (? from coal mining as well)

not enough apartments to house people in Ger districts; so if they want to move in and not contribute to air pollution they can't

when first planning city, had enough drainage; areas were supposed to be bare/full of vegetation - people buying land legally or illegally and building apartments/infrastructure #SeasonalIssues

government corruption and lack of enforcement allowed this - drainage bases blocked by apartments

dependent on Russia for energy

bus networks don't reach that far. have to walk in the cold in the winter 30min-1hr to nearest bus stops to get into city center

up -eat lot of meat/dairy; 10x more livestock eg sheep than humans but not reflected in price of meat

food sourced from russia

Covid

flooding when heavy rain

todo

traffic jams all year long

<relates to> poor infrastructure

details

details

impactlabs.io

Needs: ?sponsors (change if not correct), speakers for next years summit

volunteerforce.jacobcole.net

volunteerforce.jacobcole.net

Needs: engineering volunteers to build things, project ideas

Wider variety of ways to take breaks

Promote embodied well-being practices and make them accessible and fun http://qigong.garden/

qigong.garden

Related: screen addiction

Svaroopa Yoga

svaroopa.org

Create more fun and engaging content – knowledge transfer from modern social media influencers, e.g. have face present during productivity software tutorials

http://actualfood.com/

actualfood.com

Lack of teaching of critical thinking, too much focus on rote

Finland and UAE do this well

Lack of good lectures

3blue1brown could start its own university/public high school

Start with linear algebra course? #suggestion

More Social Emotional Learning - NVC (Nonviolent Communication) could be taught in elementary schools

Full hands-free interfaces for computers

Games for low vision kids

Adrian Rodriguez co

www.ted.com

More studies on Integrative healing/Chinese medicine for Tourettes

Widespread unprocessed trauma

Need for more caring “mom energy” / “extra families” for kids and young adults especially

Svaroopa Yoga

svaroopa.org

people living in Ger districs (districts circling outskirts of cities not connected to central electricity grid --> burning coal to survive. -30C in winter PM2.5 levels 30x recommended amount) (? from coal mining as well)

not enough apartments to house people in Ger districts; so if they want to move in and not contribute to air pollution they can't

Not legally allowed to create new housing for homeless like in NYC

That being said, SF’s problem is not that it has homelessness, it’s that the city has a ton of homeless.

This of course is really obvious but worth stating nonetheless. Now, SF has a ton of homeless for three main reasons: typical issues (e.g. mental illness, disabilities, etc.) which plague other cities with much lower cost of living, desire to be homeless in a city which minimally limits their freedom, and of course people pushed on to the streets by the regional housing crunch.

In the second category, I include folks who are truly hopeless addicts, folks who became unsheltered elsewhere but moved to California for the weather, extremely mentally ill people (the screaming type) who won’t be bothered in California due to people generally minding their own business, what have you.

Culture that worships money vs empowerment of others

Bureaucracy in power structures

Personalized medicine like research to the people

www.researchtothepeople.org

Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (TNXB, Vascular)

Potential Solution: Stanford rare disease hackathon https://rttp.stanford.edu/

rttp.stanford.edu

details

Highly polluted water supply (see difference between places closer to mountain water sources vs near the coast)

Drug addiction (exponentiated by dehumanizing drug policy)

War driven economy encourages never-ending wars

Overgrowth of consumerism such that it becomes entangled with the meaning of being human

School systems often perpetuate trauma

Requires students to sit still for many hours a day, which is unhealthy to require of a human body

Doesn’t follow or encourage the spark of aliveness, students have to rediscover

doesn't really help learning or meet needs for movement play creativity socialization.

Selfishness and lack of helping (bootstraps mentality)

Cruelty towards those unable to care for themselves, eg chronic illness sufferers, those with mental health issues. A feeling that people in general don’t have a right to housing, food, etc and that they need to earn it (indoctrination by capitalism disguised as a call to agency).

Society punishes u for resting or building things that aren’t maximally productive. Minimal incentive to screw around and make cool stuff, or to make art that isn’t immediately well-loved.

American exceptionalism and lack of global collaboration overall

‘America, world police’ is the wrong vibe. United Nations is directionally correct. Global civilization of sharing, caring, and love is the right vibe. Need to find a way to co-exist despite competing ideologies, for starters we need to ALL agree on basic human rights

en.wikipedia.org

Stroads, cities built for cars.

Look to Sweden and Netherlands and Barcelona and how they built walkable mega blocks that get a sense of thriving and real livability in their cities.

Failure of suburbia and the atomic family to provide for social needs.

Left brain-dominant, feeling-repressing epidemic.

Gendlin’s focusing can help (really surprises people when they get in touch with their emotions, realizing they were only connected with a shallow facsimile of their true emotions, which feel true and strong and deep and alive.)

MDMA can help (see MDMA on clinical trials for PTSD to see its massive impact on emotional dysfunction and trauma)

Attention economy and engagement algorithms rather than empowerment algorithms.

Tiktok

Obesity representative of emotional numbing & short term dopamine loops, loss of overall purpose and narrative of meaning of America, of raison d'etre.

Sitting epidemic killing people due to desk jobs. Excavate the embodiment graveyard.

US Peace Corps

Tanzania-MIT Telehackathon

Building and measuring resilience https://concernusa.org/news/what-we-mean-by-resilience/

concernusa.org

Possibly: Kiva.org Microfinance – Review ,2nd Review

www.cgdev.org

Bad Porto conditions

Poop on seats

Often lacking tp

Lingering porto smell over the top of the chemical air de-smelly-ifier

Every porto could have a reminder to close the lid (reduces the lingering smell) and to lock the door

It’s hard to navigate burning man

Road signs keep being stolen(ppl are putting up signs saying pls dont steal)

Food camp portions are small and lines for food are long

Wow this sounds like communism but hey, free food. That’s why radical self-reliance is a thing. And your camp feeds you well generally.

HBGB healers are constantly booked out even right after being refreshed

Events constantly getting canceled

Hard to find out about exclusive events. I knew someone was hosting an orgy but didn’t find out when/where until it was already over

Sparkleponies

Aggressive solicitors w megaphones trying to get you to go to their events, kinda uncomfortable vibes

Plug-n-play camps defeat purpose of event

Burning man gate radio gives little to no weather updates even when it rains black swan level (most in a decade). Should focus more on information during emergencies rather than being whimsical 24/7--it’s there to disseminate information.

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qualiacomputing.com

Mongolia Issues

ideapad.io

(See root level relations: https://ideapad.io/world-issue-trackers-issuetracker-gestaltlist/

ideapad.io

Ideabank.global

ideabank.global

http://globalideabank.jacobcole.net/

globalideabank.jacobcole.net

https://startupideas.jacobcole.net/

startupideas.jacobcole.net

http://worldproblems.jacobcole.net/

worldproblems.jacobcole.net

http://easilysolvableworldproblems.jacobcole.net/

easilysolvableworldproblems.jacobcole.net

US Peace Corps Philosophy of “Live in a country for 6 months as an inhabitant before trying to make any interventions.”

this helps us not fall into the mistake of donating large amounts of mosquito Nets to a country in Africa and then accidentally undercutting all local production capacity - the result being long-term less sustainable

By contrast some issues are well solved simply by giving people money and resources. Relates to  givedirectly, microlending

#FutureVision #Utopian The fun creating a “spaceship bridge” for the world – the bridge of spaceship earth: what are the challenges today for our heroes to solve?