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Solution overview

Our Solution

Climate Games: Future-Proofing Place and People

Tagline

Climate Action + Green Jobs Creation (Training and Placement)

Pitch us on your solution

1. Future-proofing communities against climate disasters, such as flooding, hurricanes, forest fires, and sea rise.

2. We gamify workforce training for disaster preparedness, management and recovery through hackathons, job fairs, workshops and community building at our Climate Games events, which are open to multi-generational teams from all sectors of the community.

3. Our goal is to enable Climate Game attendees and participants to train and find climate-related (green) jobs by training them in exponential technologies (VR/AR, IoT, AI, 3D printing and/blockchain) to develop local climate solutions.

What is the problem you are solving?

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Who are you serving?

Local governments, families, businesses and communities exposed to disasters who need training and education to prepare resilience plans,
manage first-responder services, and disaster recovery and rebuilding. Examples: Capacity building efforts from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Early Adoption Technology Conference and Pop-Up Hackathons as part of the One United Globe Platform. CNMI's post-typhoon and Sacramento's post-wildfire assistance to fire disaster zones.

What is your solution?

We gamify workforce training for disaster preparedness, management and recovery through hackathons, job fairs, workshops and community building at our Climate Games events, which are open to multi-generational teams from all sectors of the community. Gamification occurs in several ways:

1. Leveraging Unity and Unreal VR gaming engines for local resource, weather, building and disaster visualization,

2. Hackathon contests among competing teams, with awards for local winners and advancement to regional, national and international hackathon competitions.

3. Competition among towns/cities for the best teams, practices and solutions.

4. Professionalization through team pitches to angel investors, VCs and corporate venture funds (i.e. "Shark Tank for climate ventures") 5. Database of climate players and teams, which are shared with employers and investors

We are developing a Training-as-a-Service (TaaS) platform for green job training and education at the local level.

Select only the most relevant.

Create or advance equitable and inclusive economic growth
Ensure all citizens can overcome barriers to civic participation and inclusion

Where is your solution team headquartered?

Fairfax, VA, USA

Our solution's stage of development:

Pilot

More about your solution

Select one of the below:

New business model or process

Describe what makes your solution innovative.

Climate Games are the premier community-building opportunity of our lifetime. We take local hackathons and provide training to inclusive and diverse teams across the globe to solve local climate issues. The teams will include members from Low-Moderate-Income (LMI) communities, along with other actors who can provide guidance and capacity-building skills to ensure knowledge is transferred and shared. The team members will be trained from technology companies and leverage the exponential power of emerging technologies to solve local climate issues around the globe. An A.I.-driven database of the climate players will be shared with employers and investors. We will close the global employment skills gap and link the new green jobs as the pathway for the future of work

Describe the core technology that your solution utilizes.

We envision leveraging Unity and Unreal VR gaming engines for local resource, weather, building and disaster visualization. The Climate gamers will train and identify new climate-related (green) jobs by training them in exponential technologies (VR/AR, IoT, AI and/blockchain) to develop local climate solutions.

The A.I.-driven database will house climate participant data that will provide skills-learned and obtained, and other data in each community where the games occur. Creating the globes largest HR database that will provide predictive analysis for current jobs and provided a concrete path for the new jobs and skills as known as the future of work.

Please select the technologies currently used in your solution:

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Blockchain
Big Data
Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality
Internet of Things
Biomimicry
Indigenous Knowledge
Behavioral Design
Social Networks

Why do you expect your solution to address the problem?

Our approach is systematic and includes all domains of entrepreneurial ecosystem including the 99% that are not represented and typically not included in policy decisions. By providing access, opportunity and connecting resources to all the diverse participants across the globe, by leveraging emerging technologies. We create organic ecosystems where all people can provide their input and ideas to solve local climate issues.

Select the key characteristics of the population your solution serves.

Women & Girls
Pregnant Women
LGBTQ+
Children and Adolescents
Infants
Elderly
Rural Residents
Peri-Urban Residents
Urban Residents
Very Poor/Poor
Low-Income
Middle-Income
Minorities/Previously Excluded Populations
Refugees/Internally Displaced Persons

In which countries do you currently operate?

Bahamas
Fiji
Finland
Kenya
Norway
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States

In which countries will you be operating within the next year?

Bahamas
Fiji
Finland
Kenya
Norway
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States

How many people are you currently serving with your solution? How many will you be serving in one year? How about in five years?

Currently we served the communities in the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and Sacramento, CA. We expect to tour four communities in the U.S. and two International Cities through 2020. From 2021 and beyond we expect to double our visiting communities year over year impacting the global population by 2030.

What are your goals within the next year and within the next five years?

What are the barriers that currently exist for you to accomplish your goals for the next year and for the next five years?

How are you planning to overcome these barriers?

1. Funding-we made connections at conferences including the UN A.I for Good, shared the deck with Google, community-connectors in Oakland,CA and Geneva for grass-roots awareness and connected with Tech VC's regarding the games. We have also presented the our deck to State Economic Development Agencies for their feedback on our approach. We will continue to identify funding and resources to institutionalize games.

If your solution has a website, provide a link here:

https://www.oneunitedglobe.org/

About your team

Your business model & funding

What is your business model?

Climate Games Business Plan

Mission: Leverage exponential technologies to develop climate solutions and future proof the workforce and places.

Concept: “March Madness” national tour with corporate and government sponsors. Hackathons, job festivals, training workshops, elimination rounds at local and national level. Local officials, businesses and citizens identify top climate challenges; hackathon teams of 5 people choose their climate challenge and develop feasible solutions using exponential technologies (VR/AR, IoT, drones, AI, blockchain, robotics, smart grids/mobility/cities, etc.)

Job Training:

New green job analyses and openings
Green education & training workshops
Carbon offset training
Green entertainment festivals

Schedule: U.S. regions (Northeast, South, Central & West) and International communities

Event Management: Hire local teams and leverage Olympic and UN event planning teams.

Financing

Subscription model
Corporate sponsors: equipment, facilities, labor, product and cash donations
Local/state workforce development agencies
Event ticketing
Merchandising
Other

Marketing:

Social media
Corporate advertising
Local/state government promotionals

Requests/Needs

Local/state government sponsors
Corporate donations
Other

Cash Flow Forecast:

Administrative overhead: management (top & local), legal, marketing, etc.
Event costs, by location
Event revenues, by location

What is your path to financial sustainability?

Financing

Subscription model
Corporate sponsors: equipment, facilities, labor, product and cash donations
Local/state workforce development agencies
Event ticketing
Merchandising
Other

Cash Flow Forecast:

Administrative overhead: management (top & local), legal, marketing, etc.
Event costs, by location
Event revenues, by location

Partnership potential