May 13

Blog#4

Blog #4: Team Prompts– 

  1. List the top 20 questions your team needs to answer to advance the venture forward. Categorize the questions if necessary. 
  1. When is the heating season in Almaty?
  2. Where are the power houses located?
  3. What is the general map of the city?
  4. Where are the main roads located?
  5. Where are self-heating traditional houses mainly located?
  6. Where are the schools located? 
  7. When will we conduct the experiment?
  8. How can we make our monitors and filters easily accessible?
  9. How many participants do we need?
  10. How will we analyze the data?
  11. How can we convince citizens to take better precautions?
  12. What is the best way to educate people about the effects of poor air quality?
  13. What is the most effective way to make air monitors?
  14. Can we persuade the government to make meaningful changes?
  15. How much help can we anticipate from Kazak organizations?
  16. What other potential partnerships can we form? 
  17. Realistically, will we be able to improve the air quality? 
  18. How to build sustainable and affordable air filters with local products?
  19.  How to share the result of our experimental study?
  20. Do we need funding? How can we get any?
  1. Develop and Visualize the Theory of Change (Logic Model) for your venture. Please submit a crisp visual. 

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  1. Develop a Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) plan for your venture. Identify short-term and long-term outcomes.
  1. Metric of success: we are going to measure success through cognitive tests. The results of the tests will tell us if air quality has an effect on cognitive performance.
  2. Short term: educate people on ways to keep protect themselves from poor air quality and create air monitors
  3. Long term: infrastructural change and improved air quality will decrease the health issues associated with air pollution

 


Posted May 13, 2023 by Allen Wilson in category Uncategorized

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