During the last crew call, Hans Galliker said, that it is complicated to explain what the ARK really is. We had to agree. One needs to look at the vision first in order to understand the functionalities. All of them have organically evolved because of the mission laid out in the white paper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I asked ChatGTP to explain the white paper. Here is what I got: I found the full \u201cWhite Paper\u201d PDF<\/em> for Green Steps ARK<\/strong> (titled White Paper \u2013 version 03<\/em>, Oct 2021) on ResearchGate and can summarize its key ideas. (ResearchGate<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The ARK is a gamified social network and educational platform<\/strong> designed to support bottom-up climate change adaptation and sustainability<\/strong> by strengthening local communities, encouraging environmental stewardship, and fostering behavioral change. It aims to drive \u201ctriple health\u201d<\/em> \u2014 personal, environmental, and community well-being \u2014 using technology and a scalable social business model. (ResearchGate<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The white paper breaks down the ARK mission into three strategic phases<\/strong> that align with specific United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): (ResearchGate<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n While I haven\u2019t extracted the entire PDF (due to content access limits), the abstract and description indicate these core features<\/strong> of the ARK platform: (ResearchGate<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The ARK white paper presents a holistic philosophy that blends: (ResearchGate<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Green Steps ARK White Paper<\/strong> proposes an ambitious educational and social platform<\/strong> that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" During the last crew call, Hans Galliker said, that it is complicated to explain what the ARK really is. We had to agree. One needs to look at the vision first in order to understand the functionalities. All of them have organically evolved because of the mission laid out in the white paper. I asked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[57,53,58,60],"class_list":["post-4411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-climate-crises","tag-ecosystem-services","tag-social-crisis","tag-universal-basic-income"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ark.greensteps.me\/page\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ark.greensteps.me\/page\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ark.greensteps.me\/page\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ark.greensteps.me\/page\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ark.greensteps.me\/page\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4411"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ark.greensteps.me\/page\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5008,"href":"https:\/\/ark.greensteps.me\/page\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411\/revisions\/5008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ark.greensteps.me\/page\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ark.greensteps.me\/page\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ark.greensteps.me\/page\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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1. Strengthening Local Communities<\/strong>: how do we collaborate across organizations?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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2. A new paradigm for the far end objective of education<\/strong>: why and for what purpose do we learn?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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3. Ecosystem Service Remuneration & Conditional UBI<\/strong>: how do we share wealth?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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