Based on our meeting; I've noted several issues that I believe have plausible, SMART solutions. This is not an exhaustive list of all the problems but rather just those issues which I believe can be addressed in short-order (1-6 months). Please feel free to comment and share your solutions and action steps that we can take to solve these issues.
ISSUES:
- Poor Education
- Culture of Dependence (We have the responsibility and capability to help ourselves)
- Culture of Entitlement (We are owed nothing and must resist falling onto the faux support of others)
- Lack of Engagement (Proactive instead of reactive, take an interest in our own culture)
- Lack of Financial Literacy (This is important if you want to own a home, buy or lease a car, run a business, protect your income, plan for retirement or anything else)
- Poor Family Stability (Too often poor schooling, disrespect, lack of mentors, and poor communication skills, lead to familial stability issues)
- Poor Political Awareness (apathy)
- Multilingual Literacy (This is the best way to exercise your mental faculties, we work out our muscles, why not our minds)
- Poor Cultural Exchange (cooperation with each other)
- Poor Planning (Failing to Plan, is planning to fail. What is your five year plan for success?)
TRAITS OF SUCCESSFUL SOLUTIONS:
- Excellence (Must drive every action)
- Grassroots focused (Community)
- Mentorship (Each one teach one)
- Positive Reinforcements (encouragement, schooling, knowledge transfer)
- Learn By Example (Methods that work for other cultures can be adopted for ours)
- Free Education (knowledge sharing, free resources, and tools - see items 7-8 below)
- Life-long learning (Check out www.khanacademy.org; w3schools.org, the-art-of-the-web)
- Self-help is the Best help (Create your own courses on iTunesU or get free videos and course materials from top schools including, Stanford/Yale/Harvard/MIT and many others, which can be found by visiting iTunes U on the Apple App Store)
- Supports international experience (Exposure to outside cultures enables us to learn more)
- Cultural Business Exchange (Sharing skill to help each other be successful, use of bartering as compensation)
- Timeliness (Plan for success by being rigorous with oneself, one's schedule, and one's actions)
SOLUTIONS:
There are many possible successful solutions. I happen to be working on one, which I hope will meet these criteria and be useful to all humankind.One solution, that I am committed to; is to provide a free tool to allow individual, familial, and cultural sharing of ideas, stories, and resources on a global scale in a personal way that is easily consumable to everyone.
My app should be released shortly on the Apple App Store is called Humanistory. This is derived from the fact that while we look at cultural solutions we need to learn by example from everyone. Humanity is the all-inclusive idea. i Story is a play on the words:
history - the app will allow users to record (write, speak, photo, video) stories and share those to family, friends, groups, or publicly
i story - a derivative of the idea of your story, our story, and my story
I will update this discussion once this app is fully released. It will be free and released on the Apple App Store first (later I will release it to the Google Play Store). If anyone wants to be a beta tester for the app please let me know.
BTW - If you have a great idea that can help produce a useful solution that does not already exist and if that solution requires mobile programming then contact me. I prefer serious inquiries and please have a plan.
More Tools and Resources for Learning
HTML, CSS, PHP:w3schools
the-art-of-web
khanacademy.org
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Stanford/Yale/Harvard/MITTommie N. Carter, Jr., MBA
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