"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)

Dec

29

Tribewanted ‘The Guardian Travel’s experiment of the Year’

Filed Under The ramblings of a creative consultant

Tribewanted has been featured in The Guardian’s Travel paper and has referred to the project as the ‘experiment of the year’. The full text is:

Take a twentysomething entrepreneur, a paradise island in the South Pacific, a troupe of adventurers tuning in from offices across the world, then add a pinch of internet pseudo-democracy, and you’ve got Tribewanted. Each member of the “tribe” pays a yearly fee, which entitles them to a week on Vorovoro, a tiny outcrop just off Fiji’s second biggest island, where the group has its own village, and also an ongoing vote on all tribal decisions. Sound like a documentary waiting to happen? It is: the BBC series airs in January.

It’s a huge flippin’ honour as the guy who came up with the concept of tribewanted to have the Guardian give it such a title… woohoo.. exciting times and I cannot wait for the documentary to come out.

Check it out: Guardian Travel