Humanitarian response becomes competitive participation.
Everyone expects
Technology makes donating more efficient.
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Save a life. Climb the leaderboard.
Families needing assistance advertise themselves. Donors and teams compete through impact scores. Organisations form around delivering the assistance that participants direct and fund.
Giving becomes something people play, watch and share. Competition and a public record of impact create new reasons to participate.
The scenario follows that change into the relationships between donors, delivery organisations and the people whose circumstances have become the basis of the contest.
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Everyone can picture the restored animal in a reserve. Who pictures the first person to hunt it, the restaurant serving it, the antlers on the wall or the customer who…
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Everyone expectsThe restaurant sells a sustainable menu.
Protesters press against the glass while diners eat endangered meat. The enormous bill pays for conservation.
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Everyone expectsGene editing makes healthier pets.
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