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Solution Overview

Solution Name:

SymbioCreation

One-line solution summary:

In a world divided by multiple reasons, SymbioCreation promotes collaborative creativity through the integration of people, ideas, cultures

Pitch your solution.

Faced with a World Divided by multiple reasons, Distanced by big pending gaps, Disconnected from opportunities for all, Dominated by the Culture of Competition, where the “strongest/fittest survive” as Darwin said...

SymbioCreation promotes the Culture of Collaborative Creativity. How?

Through a new collaborative Methodology, a hybrid Multiplatform and a Massive Impact.

METHODOLOGY: inspired by symbiogenesis that, unlike what Darwin proposes, "Cooperation is a more powerful force of evolution than competition." Margulis.

SymbioCreation allows people to integrate ideas, capabilities and technologies, in a massive way, to CoCreate solutions of high value / impact.

MULTIPLATFORM:

DIGITAL To integrate individual ideas, generate group proposals and manage their evolution through AI and Blockchain for the recognition of the massive contributions.

PHYSICAL through the network of FabLabs giving participants physical local support and the opportunity to materialize their ideas remotely.

MAXIMUM POSSIBLE IMPACT, our impact indicator that measures the level of effectiveness of the proposals.

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What specific problem are you solving?

We faced with a world:

DIVIDED for multiple reasons: politics, history, religions, sports, etc. https://acleddata.com/2020/02/...

DISTANCED with big pending social gaps https://wid.world “Latin America is one of the regions with the highest level of social inequality. The problem is not that we are different, but that we are distant! " Gustavo Gutierrez.

DISCONNECTED still: “114 million children still out of the classroom in Latin America and the Caribbean The world's largest number of children without face-to-face schooling” UNICEF, 24 March 2021. www.unicef.org/press-releases/114- million-children-still-out-classroom-latin-america-and-caribbean

A world Dominated by the Culture of Competition, where “the strongest or fittest survive” as Darwin said ...

These conditions are especially critical in the Amazon rainforest, for example in Condorcanqui in Peru, where the Awajún and Wampis indigenous peoples live. In this amazing and isolated jungle lives talented young people, but with few opportunities to develop their potential. When they finish school (if they finish it) one in four adolescents is already mother / father. Many are seduced by activities such as illegal logging and informal mining, drug trafficking and narco-terrorism...

How could we generate opportunities for young people in these extreme conditions?

What is your solution?

SimbioCreación allows people to integrate ideas, capabilities and technologies in a massive way, to co-create solutions of high value and impact.

Faced with a world Dominated by the Culture of Competition, where “the strongest or fittest/survive” as Darwin said ... SimbioCreación promotes the Culture of Collaborative Creativity. How?, Through:

A METHODOLOGY (www.symbiocreation.com) inspired by Symbiogenesis theory that, unlike what Darwin proposes, "Cooperation is a more powerful means of evolution than competition." Margulis.

Our principles (SimbioThinking): Convergence rather than competition. Integrate rather than Impose. Purpose rather than Profession. Create rather than Criticize.

Hybrid MULTIPLATFORM:

DIGITAL (app.SymbioCreation.com | To integrate individual ideas, generate group proposals and manage their evolution through Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain for the recognition of the massive contributions.

PHYSICAL (in alliance with fablabs.io and fab.lat) through the network of digital fabrication laboratories giving participants physical local support and the opportunity to materialize their ideas and projects remotely.

MAXIMUM POSSIBLE IMPACT (rather than MinimumViableProduct), is the impact indicator of SymbioCreation that measures the effectiveness (E) of the proposals based on: Impact (M) / resources (m):

E = M/m.

SymbioCreation promotes the Culture of Collaborative Creativity through the integration of people, institutions, ideas, cultures and technologies.

Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?

SymbioCreation seeks to make an impact worldwide by promoting the culture of collaborative creativity, especially in areas with the greatest social gaps, such as the Amazonian territory. How?

A. Developing competencies of the future, such as: STEAM, empathy, creativity and project prototyping using Digital Manufacturing, Electronics, Robotics and / or Biotechnology tools (Industry 4.0).

Challenge: The majority of young people who enter the labor market do so in jobs based on services and / or products with little added value (between Industry 1.0 to 2.0) with an estimated technology gap of 80 years.

B. Inspiring vocations as Agents of Change and their proactive capacity for the development of innovative products with high global impact.

Challenge: There is a general paternalistic culture. Young people and local authorities for the most part hope that solutions to their local challenges will always come from outside. Reagent | Proactive

Empower participants as actors of change.

C. Integrating ideas and capacities to generate proposals of high value and impact for your community. Promote Collaborative Culture between people and institutions.

Identified challenge: There is a generalized culture of mistrust, individualism and competition understood as one against the other (In symbiotic terms, "I win - You lose").

D. Democratize access to digital tools and advanced technologies.

Challenge: The Amazon rainforest has limited access to basic services such as potable water, electricity, and the Internet. There is no adequate technological educational infrastructure in any of the schools visited to support student learning.

A Symbio Transformation case:

Condorcanqui (Peru) is one of the most isolated provinces in the Amazon, a border area with Ecuador where 20 years ago we had a war conflict between these two brother countries. And where local peoples have felt excluded from the rest of the country and young peolpe are seduced by activities such as illegal logging and informal mining, drug trafficking and narco-terrorism... When we started SymbioCreation it was common -and hard- to find a spirit of pessimism among the participants. “José” raised as a personal proposal “to make a bomb (homemade explosive)”, he was skeptical and said: “Why are we going to do something if the authorities do nothing for us? We are forgotten!”

Definitely, the biggest challenge was not creating a product, but inspiring a different attitude in young people that would give them back the “power to believe to create” and technology played a fundamental role in the rediscovery of the world around and the great value they can find in it, and to start to believe that make things happen is possible... In the SimbioCreación process, participants are invited to share and integrate the most relevant information of each proposal to generate a new one of greater value. Some proposals can contribute more, others less, but ultimately all contribute to the achievement of the greater objective. The attitude of the participants, different from a contest, is to build the best possible solution to the general challenge between all of them, therefore, they are more willing to share information and value the contributions of others…

Three months later, at the end of the process, it was wonderful to see how the attitude of the young people of Condorcanqui had radically changed, especially José ... In the process, he changed his proposal from the homemade explosive to a device to generate energy with people activities in sports areas; and during the closing session he said, in front of the authorities present: "before this experience I thought that only the government should be in charge of solving the problems of my community, now I believe that I can also contribute and create solutions to support the government."

Which dimension of the TPrize Challenge does your solution most closely address?

Design, create, and implement new educational or training models for educators and students that guarantee access to quality education in low connectivity environments

Explain how the problem you are addressing, the solution you have designed, and the population you are serving align with the TPrize Challenge.

We consider that SymbioCreation proposal and its impact are aligned with this challenge because we are focused on “increase the engagement of learners in remote, hybrid, and physical environments” especially in Latin America and the Amazon Rainforest, where the education gap is the biggest.

We integrate digital platforms (symbiocreation.com and app.simbiocreacion.com) with physical networks of digital fabrication laboratories (we are parto of fablabs.io and founders of the Latin American FabLab Network fab.lat) to provide more opportunities to young people to create globally and prototype locally.

In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?

Lima, Perú

What is your solution’s stage of development?

Scale: A sustainable enterprise working in several communities or countries that is looking to scale significantly, focusing on increased efficiency.

Explain why you selected this stage of development for your solution.

We have a proven and validated methodology and our own application app.simbiocreacion.com, our own token (FabCoin) and a network of laboratories (fab.lat and fablabs.io) in sustained growth. We have developed countless experiences of SimbioCreación worldwide, before and during the pandemic, especially in Latin America and the Amazon rainforest. But we continue working to improve its functionalities and impact, through:

+ Smart management of the evolution of ideas through AI.

+ Visualization diagrams of the Integration of ideas flow.

+ Identification of trends and influencers.

+ Automation of aspects that enhance the evolution of ideas, such as: Iteration levels, integration processes and frequency of interactions.

Who is the Team Lead for your solution?

Benito Juárez Creator of the SymbioCreation