Being Akohan - Be the Change you want to see in the World

3 April 2009 by Austin ~ Permalink

As Akohans, we love the idea that everyone can be an agent of change. We also know that people don’t need Akoha to be Akohan :)

As a company we are working to create a fun platform that provides a structure for players to be inspired to complete acts of kindness, a social and viral mechanism for those acts to spread throughout the world and a business that can support a variety of people and organizations goals for spreading their acts of change.

But the principles behind Akoha are beliefs that don’t require someone to play our game.

1) We believe that everyone has within them the ability to make a difference in the world.
2) We know that spreading kindness is fun, should be documented & celebrated by sharing those stories with friends.
3) We believe that we can aggregate many small acts to improve the world to create something greater than the sum of its parts. Together we can use technology to bring together other like minded agents of change and empower them to band together to be capable of tackling even the largest issues facing our world. We sometimes refer to this as the “Wikipedia of World Improvement” — where everyone can participate and together we can accomplish more then anyone of us could alone.

So when we see stories like this we smile - because everyone can be Akohan. No cards needed :)

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1 Comment

  1. Denny Strecker on 04.04.2009 at 10:10 (Reply)

    It is great to see this idea growing. As a martial arts instructor, I have challenged my students to complete ongoing Random Acts of Kindness and my Black Belts are required to create a Kindness Team and complete 25,000 acts of kindness to advance to higher degrees. They love meeting people and explaining what they are doing and are always pleasantly surprised how quickly people will want to help them reach their goal.


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