Empowering Young People to Solve Social Issues Through Collaboration
A talk on collaborative problem-solving in Mexico highlights the importance of not wasting ideas. Learn how crowdsourcing is used in various fields and how it can be applied to solve social issues.
00:00:00 A TEDxDF talk highlights the need for collaborative problem-solving. The speaker discusses how everyone is affected by problems in Mexico and emphasizes the importance of not wasting ideas when faced with challenges.
💡 Mexico has serious problems that affect everyone, and many people have ideas to fix them.
🗣️ Group discussions can generate a variety of different ideas on how to solve problems.
🚀 NASA's mission to launch the Atlantis faced a weight challenge that required innovative problem-solving.
00:01:04 Discover how NASA used crowdsourcing to solve their most difficult problems, and how this method is now used in various fields.
🚀 NASA faced a problem and asked for help from everyone in the building.
💡 Someone suggested not painting the rocket, which resulted in a successful mission.
🔍 NASA started crowdsourcing difficult problems and offering prizes to solve them.
00:02:10 A TEDxDF talk discusses using crowdsourcing to solve social issues, allowing those affected to propose and create viable projects.
🌍 Crowdsourcing is a successful model for designs and can also be applied to solving social issues.
🧠 People affected by social issues have the knowledge and interest to improve things.
🔧 Yo Propongo is a civic engagement platform that uses crowdsourcing to gather information and transform it into viable projects to solve social issues.
00:03:13 A collaborative solution to problems using social media platforms to gather information and propose solutions to improve or solve issues.
🌍 We gather information from various sources like social media and polls to understand the problem better.
🔎 By analyzing the gathered information, we identify trouble areas and potential solutions.
🙌 Through collaboration with different stakeholders, we turn the proposed ideas into effective programs.
00:04:16 TEDxDF - Alejandro Maza - Collaborative Problem-Solving: Empowering Young People to Address Alcohol-Related Traffic Accidents in Mexico City
🚦 Closing sobriety checkpoints later reduced alcohol-related traffic accidents in Mexico City.
👥 Involving young people's input and ideas in solving social issues.
🌇 Collaborative problem-solving approach in addressing social issues.
00:05:21 Discover how collaboration and information sharing can transform us from complainers to problem solvers, impacting our daily lives.
🔑 Information and participation can lead to solutions that impact people's daily lives.
🚀 The platform discussed in the video has the potential to transform individuals from seeing themselves as victims of problems to becoming part of the solution.
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