Name: TEDx】ソーシャル・ギャミフィケーター：旧態依然とした資金調達の常識を覆す:Nhat Vuong at TEDxTokyoChange (【TEDx】Social gamificator: disrupting old fashioned fundraising:Nhat Vuong at TEDxTokyoChange)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:51:52.000Z
Duration: 11 min 51 s
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過去形

the singar Bono from YouTube in last TED event

I was really amazed because he said that we are so close

to eradicate polio from the surface of the earth.

I thought it was amazing and I couldn't help

but imagine how the world would be such a better place

if much more celebrities would come together and try to solve world issues

But the problem is that there are much more global issues

than celebrities are willing to use their fame for the good of society

what I would like to share with you today is

what can we do if we are part of 99%  if we don't have neither influences, if we don't have a very nice voice.

I want to tell you a bit about why I started this adventure

After the war, they escaped on the boat with a hope of better life

Thanks for the support of non-profit, the Red Cross,  we were able to realocate to Switzerland.

I was really fortunate to grown up in Switzerland

and my only exposure, untill I was 15,  to global issues such as poverty and hunger

Looking on the screen was feeling like you were watching a movie

and I wasn't so comelled to actually make anything to try to solve it because

I thought that I couldn't do anything to make such a big change

with my parents. It was the first time and I was able to see poverty with my own eyes

and what it made me realize seeing those kids in the street trying to beg for money

from that life and only things that separated me from that life was that

the fact that my parents took a boat in 1980

So I've felt really fortunate and that really changed a way I saw the world

around me all my friends wanted to work for big companies

and try to make it a very good living.  You know, in switzerland,

many people wanted to work for banks or these kind of thing

But for me, I had this kind of desire to contribute and give back to the society

but at that time I was not so much familiar with  the world social entrepreneur

So I was not so sure what I could do at that time

So I started travelling and arrived, in 2007, in Japan where

But something that really remarked me was the difference that we had

in terms of donation made to NPOs in Japan

This is the amount that the individuals have donated to non-profits in Japan

this number is actually $220 Billion which is a massive difference

2 countries that were so close in terms of GDP ranking

If you take into the daily life, $5 billion represents only $ 40/person a year

And for the american people, it means they are giving $ 700 a year

So I started asking to my japanese friends

They said,first of all,  there's not a big donation culture in Japan

Other told me that's religious matter There was a talk about religion

Well you know the Christianity is not so common in Japan And it means that

people are not so willing to donate when they go to the church

And finally another Japanese people said that we are used to that

the government actually takes care of the people in need

so the tax that we're paying to the government should take care of such issues

and it was the fact that in Japan the number of non-profit organization is

actually a very low compared to the United States

where as in the US, there are  more than 1 million non-profit organization

So imagine that much less people who are trying  to raise awareness about global issues

then much less people who are trying to ask  for donation from the people

I tried to challenge to myself and I try to find a way how can we increase the number

of people who are not so much  concerned about global issues

in a way that would bring some massive change

I try to look for clues in the current world and I saw that there were things

like concerts that became charity concert

So basically mixing entertainment and fun to social contribution is a way to go

Others like to do sports and  some people run marathon

some other people also organize some charity run

But I'm not really a runner And I'm terrible at playing music   0:05:48.580,0:05:54.909 Actually I'm better at playing video games and I myself a gamer

sometimes I think that I played a bit too much

how could I justify to my friends, to my parents, to my girlfriend

so that was a bit of what I was trying to prove

This represents more than 3 billions hour played every week

It's not necessarily a waste, I want to say

Because that represents more than $76 billion that's going to be spend this year

So I think that there is a way,maybe, to try to take a bit of that money

for connecting games with the social world

And corporation like Zynga are actually taking the lead

I don't know if you are familiar  with the game called FarmVille

It's a game where you can actually spend your money to build and get a bigger farm

and actually you can spend your money to  contribute to society

how it's done is when there was an  earthquake in Haiti in 2010

users, players were able to buy some digital items that could be used in the game

TEDx】ソーシャル・ギャミフィケーター：旧態依然とした資金調達の常識を覆す:Nhat Vuong at TEDxTokyoChange (【TEDx】Social gamificator: disrupting old fashioned fundraising:Nhat Vuong at TEDxTokyoChange)