WHY ? HOW ? WHAT ?
WHY UPWORLD ?
Take charge of community,your life and your wellbeing.
Research consistently shows that nations with higher citizen wellbeing experience not only more robust economic growth but also have stronger currencies. For example,over the past three decades, countries with the most significant economic growth had almost double the citizen well being than the slower-growing nations. This correlation isn't limited to nations; organizations that prioritize employee wellbeing tend to grow faster and contribute more positively to society.
Not surprisingly, South Africans' wellbeing is alarmingly low, ranking among the world's worst.Despite our daily efforts, the question remains: what can we do differently? Blaming the past does not spur the right action anymore.Neither does blaming our lack of income or poor economy.We must adopt a proactive stance, innovatively enhancing our wellbeing, our environment,our longevity and sustainability within our income constraints.What if we look at nations with the same income but better wellbeing?What if we could work with AI to learn what works better for others - in terms of leadership,innovation, action and accountability to improve our wellbeing,our democracy,our economy and our planet.
Buckminster Fuller once said, "In order to change an existing paradigm, you don't try to change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.
Introducing UpWorld.Ai: A cutting-edge machine learning social impact platform designed to foster a movement for social change, empowering everyone to take charge of their lives and tangibly improve their wellbeing in both professional, personal and public domains.
HOW DOES UPWORLD WORK ?
UpVote is the core action UpWorld facilitates - UpWorld members daily validate(UpVote) whatever works and shares that between one another.In this way, the UpWorld platform facilitates feedback for employees/ employers with their suppliers,supported by research partners(academia) through 6 steps / mechanisms, as summarised through the word UPVOTE :
UNIFY with colleagues,your employer and even friends into collective bargaining groups and identify common suppliers & needs so that you can use your collective baragaining to leverage your joint purchasing and joint voting power for volume discounts, better terms and better service.
PROCESS and analyse the value agreed/offered in your service level agreements and provided by your service provider practice and compare,benchmark it with the past and with those of your group members’ providers. This step helps in making informed decisions about which services to support or challenge,as evidenced by people you know and trust.
upVOTE for and validate the best providers and practices so that it can proliferate through our critical gratitude tool.Users participate in voting to express their satisfaction or dissatisfaction with services. This step ensures that feedback is quantifiable and can be used to influence provider behaviour and service adjustments.
OUTLINE and broadcast provider performance into the impact index to proliferate it and reduce what does not by broadcasting the good and bad. Positive feedback and successful service models are amplified to encourage their adoption across more areas of the platform’s influence. This step helps in scaling successful initiatives and models.The Outline step further helps members to convert boring,analytical research results(the benchmarking) into real anecdotes that help us understand how people like ourselves made our own lives better.
TOKENIZE and reward yourself and others for the choices that impact us best through tokens of gratitude.all interactions and outcomes are scored to provide a clear and transparent record of performance and impact. This helps in tracking progress and holding providers accountable.
ESCROW,hold your collective funds if and when the provider does not deliver according to your service level agreement and group mandate.
WHAT UPVOTE ACHIEVES ?
By Upvoting(or downvoting) suppliers UpWorld members can collectively demand transparency, accountability and merits from governments and corporations to measurably improve wellbeing of individuals and the shareholder value of our companies(employers) on every rand/dollar spent.By UpVoting one another members can increase social cohesion, propagate the habits that improve wellbeing and build one another's reputation(the "currency" of the internet).
On an Individual Level benchmarking and adopting best practices from peers can lead to significant improvements in wellbeing. For instance, a respected study by the Harvard Business Review found that individuals who actively benchmark their wellbeing practices and adopt proven strategies experience a 20% increase in overall life satisfaction and a 15% boost in workplace productivity. By leveraging UpWorld's tools, individuals can identify areas of improvement, adopt best practices, and track their progress, leading to enhanced personal and professional wellbeing.
On an organizational level, UpWorld's benchmarking and validation platform facilitates the following outcomes :
- Supplier performance improvements.
- Staff performance improvements.
- Staff wellbeing improvements
- Employee strategic thinking and decision making capabilities
On a community level, consider the benefits we can expect from adopting a framework for benchmarking and validation of best practices and best providers :
- Accountability for all suppliers,especially public servants to improve all value chains and outcomes.
- Wellbeing best practices that improves national productivity,the economy and social cohesion.
We'll leave you with a final example as food for thought : through benchmarking and validation, we've identified a notable opportunity: Nations with increased consumption of vegetables experience a marked decrease in non-communicable diseases. Moreover, producing vegetables has a lesser impact on carbon and water resources and generates 300 times more employment per hectare compared to cereal and meat production. Over a span of 25 years, 13 countries have successfully increased their vegetable consumption from 170g to 790g. Adopting a similar approach, South Africa could potentially achieve full employment within 14 years and significantly lower obesity rates. Leveraging a digital platform like UpWorld to promote this dietary shift could expedite this positive change.What if we can innovate a digital,social impact platform that rivals the adoption rates of Facebook,Whatsapp,OpenAI etc. ? .........maybe we can employ all our unemployed in 5 years from launch....If we believe!........can we afford not to ?
