Gaming for Change : the new philanthropy business model ?

When social networking, crowdsourcing and gamification merge, you have  the future of Philanthropy at your mousestep. With the growing popularity of social gaming, a new movement is taking place online to create social gaming platform that helps people do something good in the real world.

Gaming for change will revolutionize the way humanitarian mission are being financed (by brand partners and individual on-line small donation), managed and audited. Because what matters most is not the level of finance, but mostly the impact the whole project has on the communities (children, family, communities) or the environment.

Now, imagine a swiss watch brand, already involved in projects aimed at, let’s say  »saving the ocean », teaming up with this platform, to indirectly educate, I mean « humanitain », millions of human being to do good in the real world. Reputation management… Get in touch if interested.

 

 

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We collaborate on a research aiming to better define and understand « The Sustainability Conscious Luxury Customer ». We need your input. Thank you.

Which (other) values would you attribute to this new hybrid profile?

 

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Chocolate, a luxury goods ingredient, but …. – CNN – Jan 20, 8 pm GMT

In « Chocolate’s Child Slaves, » CNN’s David McKenzie travels into the heart of the Ivory coast to investigate what’s happening to children working in the cocoa fields.

Premieres Friday January 20, 8 p.m. GMT, 9 CET.

It may be unthinkable that the chocolate we enjoy could come from the hands of children working as slaves. In the Ivory Coast and other cocoa-producing countries, there are an estimated 100,000 children working the fields, many against their will, to create the chocolate delicacies enjoyed around the world.

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Sustainability: the next management frontier.

Sustainability is a tough question. Anything new is risky. Anything new is doing things differently. Anything new will certainly mean making less money, at least in the short term….

ASW ? ( And So What ? )

The luxury industry (at large) can easily afford to take a leadership role … Why are luxury brands so shy ?

MIT Tech TV

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Corporate Responsibility Reporting : not an option anymore… says KPMG.

The KPMG International Corporate Responsibility Reporting Survey 2011 represents the largest and most comprehensive survey of Corporate Responsibility (CR) reporting trends ever published. 3,400 companies representing the national leaders from 34 countries around the world, including the 250 largest global companies, were included in our research. Asia-Pacifc (Singapore, New Zealand, India and Taiwan) + Israel (?) + privately held companies clearly lacking behind.
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