{"id":2627,"date":"2009-10-28T16:22:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T20:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2009-10-28T16:22:34","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T20:22:34","slug":"a-database-of-the-world-problems-ready-for-you-to-solve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/a-database-of-the-world-problems-ready-for-you-to-solve\/","title":{"rendered":"A database of the world problems: ready for you to solve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be neat if there were such a thing?<\/p>\n<p>A database where you could browse the problems, pick one and try to tackle solving it.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly you need to define when something becomes a &#8216;problem&#8217; &#8211; I suggest based on the average detrimental effect it has per person world wide.<\/p>\n<p>On that basis some of the top issues would still be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Poverty<\/li>\n<li>Sustainability &amp; environmental concerns<\/li>\n<li>Education<\/li>\n<li>Peak oil?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You see when posed with a challenge humanity fights to overcome it (hey we&#8217;ve come this far right?) so why not expose these problems in a direct light. \u00a0Arm people with the constraints, barriers and requirements of \u00a0a solution and let them figure out how to fix it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be neat if there were such a thing? A database where you could browse the problems, pick one and try to tackle solving it. Clearly you need to define when something becomes a &#8216;problem&#8217; &#8211; I suggest based on the average detrimental effect it has per person world wide. On that basis some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[218,333,1391],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}