Living an Impact-Focused Life What’s your why? I believe I was put on this earth to… Fulfill my parent’s biological duties, but they wanted a boy because of Chinese culture. Earn money to support my family, and now I want to do that while being sustainable. My purpose is to… Go to school and achieve a good education, so I can have a good career and earn money. Contribute to…

1. Refine your systems stacks. 2. Based on your refined systems stacks, crystalize your response to four prompts for your semester-end presentations: – #6 What is your business / operations / sustainability model? Our steady-state model will include increased health awareness, reduced respiratory sickness by 50%, and gained AirVision App users, where at least half of Almaty’s population will be engaged. We will establish short-term goals that will help us…

  Interdependence Citizens in Almaty, Kazakhstan, are exposed to unhealthy or serious air pollution during the winter time, and a solution is needed to mitigate the impact of air pollution on human health. Thus, Almaty citizens and the app, which is our solution, are interdependent on each other. Almaty citizens can download and use the app to reduce their personal exposure to air pollutants through personal health advice and educational…

1. Attention getters (5) Heavily polluted picture of Almaty in the winter Scary stats 4th largest cause of death in the world 7 million deaths per year 92% of population lives in places with low quality air Telling people to imagine how their life might change if it were as polluted here Difficulty exercising outside for more than 30 mins Developing asthma/children developing asthma Children developing respiratory conditions playing outside…

Visualize your partner network and explain how it works in simple words. For each partner, explain – Why should they partner with you? – Inputs: What they contribute/invest? – Outputs: What they receive in return? – How will you go about building the partnership?   Build our brand/entity – dedicated to reduce air pollution exposure and respiratory illness though reaching Almaty Citizens in Kazakhstan to use AirVision.   Phase Approach…

How will you leverage various types of organizations to advance the larger dream behind your project? As a team, for every single type of organization listed below, identify TWO extremely specific scenarios for engagement and partnership. The goal of such engagement might be to acquire resources (funding, space, knowledge, etc), build your brand, establish a history of collaboration, acquire social or political capital, brand association with well-known brands/organizations, increase your…

Group Members: Menglin Jiang, Marcos Escobar, Kelsey Johnson, Rianna Ambosie   Ethical Issue: Do we wean infants earlier to lower their risk of contracting HIV and supplement their nutrition with porridge that may be contaminated with pesticides (and may cause adverse health effects)?    Step 1: Determine the facts in the situation – obtain all of the unbiased facts possible. Clearly state the ethical issue.  ~35% of children have stunted…

Grassroots Diplomacy Strategy Development Methodology Step 1: Determine the facts in the situation – obtain all of the unbiased facts possible Jack an American student is working in Kenya in a youth center The center received gifts for children under 14 and gave them out in a gift-giving ceremony There were not enough presents for all of the children  The left out children were given black hats unceremoniously Step 2:…

Identify Ethical Issues: There are a few potential ethical issues here, including the lack of compensation to community assistants and the long term benefits intended by this research. The questions then would be: should it be required to pay the community members and what is the ultimate incentive for the researchers (is it publication focused or in place for future research)? Is it ethical to conduct the study? Should communities…

Accomplishments in Spring 2021 and Summer 2021 App Research We added to the health database with information on how air quality impacts human health that the earlier cohort completed the last year We compiled all of the research and constructed it into advice for our app  We came up with a system to output the advice on an app using levels of susceptibility Provided our app outline to an existing…