Ideas Vancouver

  • Kris
  • Dan - UX
  • Jual (John) - developer
  • Natsumi (psych)
  • Tom
  • Arman
  • David - journalism/politics
  • Josh
  • Phillipe
  • Andrea
  • Luke
  • Tate
  • Pete
  • Sasha Van Wie
  • Chris Noris Jones

Ideas

  • Finding your deep rooted issue
  • User Testing Lab - Design Sprint lab in Vancouver
    • Add a rapid design phase to people’s projects
    • Need two rooms
    • What is User Testing?
    • The Design Sprint
  • Connection of people app
    • It’s 2017 - LinkedIn/Twitter/Upwork are the best?
    • about.me
    • Business cards with private and public connection options
    • 21.co
    • Keybase.io
    • Gmail allows your name a plus symbol and the website, and the emails still come to you. i.e. kris@ideawave.ca vs kris+facebook@gmail.com.
    • Email has too much spam, it’s a blackhole to me, I want to delete it.
    • Validtate the sender, then you could have reputation
  • Surplus food from grocery shops to shelters (point system)
    • IGA gives our family food that is edible but not the freshest, we give it to a shelter
    • Freegansim
    • Deliver this food if you have space in your car
      • Tax write off
      • Don’t have to pay someone to remove it
      • Allow user to tap into store point system
      • Validate with paper/pen
      • people perform worse if things are money based
      • Kris: Altruism Points System
      • Talk to the shelters
      • Tie in to the delivery systems
      • Volunteer to the shelters
      • Grocery store bus
      • How Do Supermarkets Dispose of Expired Food?
      • Kris: Validate users - Reputation system (coloured star)
        • Pay to have a commercial star
      • Rebel Soup
      • Peerby
  • Men’s group - to connect to each other
    • Bring mental health to the community
    • Something original and fun
    • Sintonia Helps
    • Harmony House
    • Mental Health is very expensive
    • Need for peer based support groups
    • Toronto’s Mental Wellness Loft * News about it
    • Public Living Rooms
    • HIM
    • Women’s groups and gay men’s groups, but little for men in general - and men are least likely to share
    • GVRD Depression Meetup Group
    • Issues that exist in Vancouver:
      • Cost
      • Mobility
      • Trust
      • Privacy
    • Have mobile people go to the house of someone who is immobile
    • Are we giving love & wanting, or just trying to get it
    • I offee a Free class: Mental Health First Aid ($32 for the book)
    • Social isolation is huge in Vancouver
    • Tony Robbins - I’m not your guru - Match Uncle’s
    • John Ince - He runs a men’s group, wants a long-term commitment (every session for a year)
    • Say Uncle - Active Listening class - Sign those people up
    • Resonate (as a name)
  • Type of drone
  • Angel pitch charity night
    • Gap between funders and entrepreneurs
    • Pay for a time block - but profits go to charity
    • Pay $40-50 to speak to an Angel
    • In person or in phone
    • Awesome Shit Club
    • Keiretsu
  • Fix airbnb/VRBO regulation
    • Bed & Pillow Club - Private Members Club
    • Dallas Buyers CLub
    • Time Share/House Swap
    • Kris: Friends network - Escort
  • Reperations & Catharsis (3 possible ideas)
    • Womempedia.com (women only)
    • Anthroapology
      • Government backing - paid mediator that edits comments
      • People can apologize
      • Reconcilliation - is apology as valid technique?
      • Residential school victims not content with financial compensation
      • Buying people off doesn’t often work
      • A website forum - “When did you check yourself in this context of history?”
      • A better understanding of what the issues are
      • There was a conious effort to keep them quiet
      • Port Alberni had them until the ’90s
      • Subversive awareness system
      • The less they become foreign to us from awareness
      • Video series or podcast series - like celebrieites reading tweets - reading apologies
      • opporessed people read kind tweets
    • Dating app for co-dependents - Hinder
      • Mock website
      • Find someone who looks like you - Dopplebanger (find unknown relatives)
      • Measure your co-dependance or it’s self identifying
  • Paint brush roller that applies tape & stickers
  • Vancouver Park Board decision to ban cetaceans from the Aquarium
    • “First issue I’ve been able to articulate the issue, and have people change their minds”
    • How do you know if you’re getting the small minority loud voice
    • How do we get equal perspectives
    • Unbiased facts plugin
    • Get Liberal & Conservative viewpoint
    • Slackbot
    • Survey tool/Decision tool that can do that?
    • Twitter bot?
    • Is there value in weighting truthiness? Thoroughness? Investigative research measurement? Regional applicability and awareness?
    • People involved in decision making have more time and resources, so more opportunity for sway. No incentive for communities to have mroe people participate? They’re not like “most people”.
    • Random Hacks of Kindness
  • Cryptocurrency meetup