Decrease uncertainty and prejudice about people we don’t know by presenting their beliefs and unspoken motivations in a manner that celebrates diversity and addresses the behavioral realities in how humans process information.
Has the addition of social media to broadcast improved our understanding of current events? In a word, no. The solution is less about new to the world technologies, talking heads, or by-lines. It is about celebrating diversity by advancing contrasting crowd sourced points of view about the same topic at the same time from the same place to anyone anywhere in the world.
We have successfully tested our most critical issue – Sourcing rich recorded content from virtually recruited respondents. We started by recruiting a group consisting of 30 Moslems and Orthodox Jews to record their backgrounds assuming this to be our most challenging test. The average recording was 41 minutes long, and they recruited about 180 more without any provocation. Why? Because most of us are flattered that someone wants to Get To Know Me.
We are now poised to move to the next level PoC with support for implementations from the Government of Kenya and Bar-Ilan University.
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – ANAÏS NIN
