Well Done: Venture Concept #2, Week #15

    

     IDEA

·        Opportunity: On any given day, there are enough children missing cases that would be equivalent to wiping out an entire city. Some vanish with few or no details to help family members figure out exactly what happened. It not only takes a village to raise a child, it takes a nation to find the hundreds of thousands of missing children. 

·        Innovation: No only would we use DNA, Fingerprinting, and updated photos as well as other child missing alerts, we also have created a social media guide that shows parents how to use the community building powers of Facebook, You Tube, Twitter and email to help in search for a missing child. Moreover, we would create a child identification file that could easily be sent or obtained from social media that would include: DNA Swabs; current picture (taken every 6 months) and other demographics; fingerprints; Identifying marks; prevention and safety training to local communities, schools, and parent associations for parents and other volunteers; partner with Amber Alert to send current pictures to every smartphone within range of cellphone towers near where the child disappeared and classes in physical defense techniques to keep children safe from attack, abduction, and sexual assault.

·        Venture Concept: Finding the Forgotten: This search and rescue program will provide a coordinated, international response to the problem of missing children. The venture would partner with law enforcement and community agencies, along with volunteers to help bring our missing children home. Our social media guide would:

o   Uncover and leverage resources within parents’ and caregivers’ social network

o   Create leads for police

o   Provide parent with the solace and comfort that comes from knowing they are actively participating in the search and effort to being their child home

The social media guide helps build communities by harnessing the parents’ and caregivers’ extended social networks to:

o   Deploy more people to canvass locations for the child

o   Enlist searchers with the special training, such as retired detectives

o   Reach well-wishers who can supply meals to busy searchers and the family

SUMMARY OF FEEDBACK: I did not receive a lot of feedback in the realm of change, but rather supportive believe in the concept. The old Proverb, “It takes a village” speaks to the cultural context and belief that it takes a village to raise a child. We can only assume if it takes a village to raise a child, then it takes an entire community to take an active role in finding a missing child.

CHANGES: As mentioned above, I didn’t receive any feedback as to how to change the venture concept, however, I have added the social media guide since I scribbled out my idea on my napkin. Forget milk cartons. Finding missing children has gone high tech. Social networking’s aid in the quest to find missing children has proven a dramatic success. Facebook alone has over four billion users, and we don’t want to miss out on these opportunities to find children.