China

PINKER: Finding partners or group to have daily life action together

Submitted by joonsbaek on Tue, 06/28/2011 - 9:53am

Countries

China

Tags

urban, neighborhood

Themes

community building
Link: 
PINKER
Stakeholders / Promoters: 
Pinkenet is an E-platform where participants could publish and share the information for finding the partners and group. It was organized by several sections to make searching easier. Participants are mostly Yong people who leave from their families and hometown to new cities to work and live. Lack of families and friends makes them life boring and alone.
Background/ Context: 
With industrialization, the population of cities grow fast with new immigrations. Most of them are the young who leave from their families and hometown to new cities to work and live. Lack of families and friends makes them life boring and alone. Then those young start to connect with others who are in the similar situations through some channels like pinkenet to have activities together like dinner, entertainment, travel, shopping, sports, game and etc. By those activities, those young peoples increase their life quality and make more friends, have more social fabric connections.
Case Description: 

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With E-platform, urban people (mostly young) could find partners or group who they don’t know each other to have activities together. With economic prices, Pinker participants would have more social life and social connection and to have some services and experiences, which increase the life quality to individuals and solidarity to society. 

Benefits (Social, and environmental benefits): 

Those urban young find a solution for themselves to re-establish the social connections in new places with an economic and easy and sustainable way. 

PINCHE: Car pool for going to work

Submitted by joonsbaek on Tue, 06/28/2011 - 9:48am

Countries

China

Tags

carpooling

Themes

small distance mobility, do-it-yourself, community building
Link: 
Pinche
Stakeholders / Promoters: 
Owner of car who shares his/her care and provide service of transportation to others without much additional cost but with contribution from them; Participations without car have a high quality and economic solution; Pinche web: different kinds of E-platform which enable group building of car pool;
Background/ Context: 
Urban transportation is a big social problem in cities today: too slowly by auto bus, too crowded by metro, too expensive by taxi, too exhausted to own a car. There is a big potential need of new solutions more comfortable, economic, convenient, fast and accessible, which is car pool could contribute. Once more residents have their own cars, car pool is becoming popular rapidly. With different communication channel, residents look for others who homes and companies could be organized in one routine and go to work together with a car.
Case Description: 

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Several residents whose homes and companies could be organized in one routine share a car of one of them for going to work. A good transportation solution is provided for those people who haven’t their own car, which does in crease the life quality much in practise. Those owners of car in groups share much economic pressure with others. The transportation pressure in rush time decreases.  Social connections between residents increase. 

Benefits (Social, and environmental benefits): 

It is totally self-organized with strong motivation and sustainability: to have the services instead of the products.

AGRI-FOND ASSOCIATION

Submitted by joonsbaek on Tue, 06/28/2011 - 9:40am

Countries

China

Tags

Network, food, direct sales, community-supported agriculture

Themes

rural-urban links, food, goods distribution systems
Link: 
AGRI-FOND ASSOCIATION
Stakeholders / Promoters: 
Promoters (Zhou Jinzhang, Luo Zhehong and Peng Hui) are three young people who had some personal experiences on countryside tour and food. They promote this action with strong initiatives Users are those urban citizens who have more consciousness on food quality and incline of countryside food lifestyle. With this network, they could find good solutions with reasonable price. Providers are those individual farmers who prefer to keep (at least partly) traditional agriculture.
Background/ Context: 
Today, people in cities have more interest in rural life and traditional and high quality food (slow food) especially with the industrialization of agriculture and pollution of environment. But there is no information platform for that and no credit system at the beginning. Ainonghui found some farmers who prefer do traditional agriculture (rice, vegetable and poultry) with traditional/local seeds and by natural method and agree on the bargain of products and service. They tried to organize the natural agriculture recourses and keep the quality of products and process. On the other hand, they make more urban people who have interest in it involved in the network to booking and buy the products and service. They also open a showroom/ store to be as a connection between suppliers and consumers.
Case Description: 

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It’s a community support agriculture action and system to connect consumers who have need of high quality food and countryside experience with small agri-producers who keep the traditional species and planting way. On one hand, it makes urban peoples in this community accessible to have food with high quality and special tastes by a reasonable price. And they also could have fantastic experiences of countryside life if they like; on the other hand, with these stable consumers, the individual farmers could have some income and keep their traditional agriculture, which has long term meaning for protection of species diversity.

Benefits (Social, and environmental benefits): 

From a micro-scale, those people (promoters, users and provider) self organize a network to connect a gap between the specific need of slow food and week traditional agriculture, which are ignored in general. Furthermore, they establish and grow the trust system in their network.