"I′m a sucker for projects where interactive media meets the real world and inspires or makes a difference. Tribe Wanted is just such an initiative. It brings people together on-line and on-the-ground - including on a remote island - to tackle the biggest issues of our day in a totally immersed, committed, fun, human way. How the project is run and presented online shows a very thoughtful, skillful approach to networked media"
- Adam Gee (New Media
Commissioner, Channel 4)

Nov

27

Tribewanted activity on the BBC website…

Filed Under The ramblings of a creative consultant

Hot off the press from the BBC website, they have stated that the Tribewanted programme, ‘Paradise or bust’ will feature in their Winter / Spring schedule. Although there is, as yet, no specific date there is a great start:

Paradise Or Bust

Paradise Or Bust follows the dream of two 26-year-olds, Ben Keene and Mark Bowness. With no experience and little money, they’ve leased a paradise island in Fiji, started a website and hope that up to 5,000 strangers from around the world will join their website community, or “tribe”, and help them build an eco-tourist village. It is the biggest challenge of their lives.

The reality of their dream, however, is no toilet, no water, no shelter, no broadband connection, financial crises and relationships that are tested to the limit.

This remarkable series follows the first year in the life of Tribewanted.com and tells the personal journeys, business challenges and logistical complexities of creating an eco-village on a deserted island.

After battling fires, insect infestations, severe water shortages and living through a coup d’état, the boys face their greatest test – to not destroy the very beauty they went there to find. A year on, have they found paradise – or hell on Earth?

I will certainly be watching it
Check it out: BBC Press Release on Paradise or Bust