Watching tv one day i came across an ad that explained that you got a chance to apply for funding if your business idea gets accepted, after i have checked out the website sponsored by MIT i started thinking about an idea but i wanted it to have a social twist to it. So i came up with two ideas which i will explain but please if you got better one add them and we may contribute in some way and if we win, your names can be added as the founders of the idea, yes there is a prize for the winner (15,000KD) which will be invested to start the business. I do have some kind of meshed thoughts but i cannot put them into an idea. Let me brief you on what i personally had in mind; my main goal is to increase awareness in the Kuwaitis society, it may be both Corporate or Community wise, but i have it meshed up with Corporate Responsibility (CR), to push companies to accept some corporate responsibility towards the community and make its employees who are part of the community to contribute to people working in the labor class. It can be called as a switching function, where i give certain employees a day off by taking their job in a later shift, ie: giving an employee at costa a break today and i take his later shift, or doing the same with the employees who clean the streets. Then instead of every company in Kuwait trying to show off some CR, we can organize them in a more strategic long term programme. Where a true programme is setup-implemented within these organizations to perform real CR instead of using beach clean ups as PR stunt. Thats one idea which sometimes feel good and other times feels stupid, so i keep the rest of that idea in your hands. The second is completely different and it came to me because i was pissed off about not finding certain books that i would like to buy in Arabic. Then the bomb that pissed me off is that why does our government have the right to tell us what to read and to not. Why should i even consider not reading a certain book because a religious guy in the ministry thinks its bad for me, then maybe i should read the book and make my own @#$%^&% mind if its bad or good. So the thought took a regional perspective and then i compared Kuwait to the rest of the GCC, yes we do have a little better censorship system but other dont and we all (GCC) got the Internet. Why not create a site like google books for Arabic books to get published on the net for Arab people to read what they please. So feel free to bash the ideas as much as you want. 

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