For the New School’s conference MobilityShifts on Digital Learning (Oct. 10-16, 2011), the Vera List Center for Art and Politics ask the Ghana ThinkTank to solve the problems posed by the conference. So we sent out a call for people’s Digital Problems, delivered these problems to our think tanks in Ghana, Cuba, El Salvador, Mexico, ...

  The problems of Corona, Queens A. PROBLEM: “The police harass Latin American Immigrant workers on the street, especially all over Roosevelt Avenue. They use racial profiling to give the an excuse to give them tickets” SOLUTION: Write the policeman’s name down and go to the police station and report the harassment. People...

  Problem: ”My problem is that I’m never happy”   Solution: “The best way to find solution on this problem is to gathered some people you don’t know, make a circle and than try to talk with them. tell them what you don’t like in your life , what you want to change, your wishes. The ...

  Problem: “How can you tell if somebody is lying or if they are telling the truth?”   Solution: “The best way to see if somebody is lying or not is to looking people in the eyes whilethey are speaking. See their reaction ( mimic ), see body talk. See if they can look in ...

  Problem: ”I have had bad luck because of Black Magic/ Brujeria. I had a good job as a professional signer in Spanish, but then I lost my teeth, my wife left me for a Cubanor Dominican in the Bronx, and my back and legs stopped working, so I am in a wheelchair.”   Solution: “There ...

  Problem: “Old time residents are racist with newcomers”   Solution: “With economic crises we have less tolerance , especially between employers who are in fear of loosing their jobs because their managers are talking how newcomer scould take their jobs. From there all hate come. Try to connect old time residents and...

  Problem: “People are taking advantage of immigrants by hiring them and then not paying”   Solution: “The best way to solve this problem is that government should give some reliefs to the people who hire immigrants but what ordinary citizen can do here is to make protests infront of the factory those immigrants worked....

  Problem: “The police harass Latin American Immigrant workers on the street, especially all overRoosevelt Avenue. They use racial profiling to give the an excuse to give them tickets”   Solution: This is very serious violations of human rights so the solutions can be this. Make a group of 5-6 people who are not latin ...

Here are the solutions to Cardiff’s problems proposed by the think tank in Serbia: Cardiff’s Problems: 1. A large number of people have no concept of social interaction with other passing strangers. They look through you, or worse at you like you’re something they’ve trodden in, with disgust and bitter resentment. 2. There...

  Photos by Poolad Javaher Haghighi. More here. Here are the solutions that the Iran think tank provided: Solving the problems of Wales “Sazmanab Project” think-tank 1. To solve the communication problem of the Welsh, we came up with a couple of solutions. The main issue all these resolutions point to is that we should ...

The Thinktank in Serbia at work in the Generator NGO, Vranje, Serbia. The first batch of solutions came in for the first batch of Liverpool problems: SERBIA Paint the undersides of people’s umbrellas with sunny scapes, then organize activities in the rain, holding these umbrellas, that would normally only be done in the sun. For ...