Hi,

same thing, still havent found one I really liked. You?

Cake and Coffee – User friendly Elder Network

As society ages more and more and people get ever more isolated, especially the older they get, here might be a solution. Cake and Coffee would be a network for old people to plan events, beginning from something as casual as Cake and Coffee or a walk together. Being mostly for digital natives, the network would offer an automated phone handling. Customers could set a newsletter via telephone to get notified when something is up in their vicinity, or start projects themselves. This could work like crowdfunding: Cake and coffee if minimum 4 people join. Furthermore the network could provide services from a hotline with personal help delivering all the internet can: Organizing transport, shopping etc, and so functioning as an opening window to the digital world and a bridge to the social one. Revenue could come in via ads, a small fee after the first month, the personal hotline costing a fee, or via provisions from the extra services like transport or shopping, taken from the companies to whom the order is passed on.


Living Room Gallery Network

This one is for cities with lots of artist (and probably high real estate prices): Why not have a network, were artists invite people to their homes or ateliers? They could set a specific time, insert free of charge. The users could have the benefit of seeing art, maybe socialize, and see places of the city which normally they wouldn't. For the users there would be a small charge or it could be ad financed. The artists would have the opportunity to get known, sell their art, socialize or simply live out their exhibitionism.



Virtual Town Hall - Crowdfunding Democracy

Politicians disconnected from the real life and corrupted by lobbies are a big problem everywhere. The Virtual Town Hall could bring democracy into every neighborhood and so make it more efficient. People could register according to their location, so that the decisions are made by those who know the circumstances and who will be affected be them. In the first stance it could be an election tool, detecting what people want for their neighborhood (similar to the European Pirate Party’s Liquid Democracy): For example a new playground. The second stage could be an actual petition, for which the site could collaborate with one of the many sites who already specialize in that. Thirdly it could be used to fund projects the state does not or can not fund, like the new playground. This is where a provision for the site and so revenue would come in.
Important for the project would be to have a offline kit of structures ready for those without internet: The possibility for phone or mail elections, or even ones organized by the community itself on the four eyes principle. Furthermore the word should be spread be print outs. Best would be a coordinator for every campaign.

Thanks for all opinions!