Ideas Generator for the New Lake Toba
Alfred Susanto, Charlie Kristiawan Gaven Howard, Hendry Ho Hai Anh Thu
The aim of our project is to make use of crowd idea sourcing platform that would encourage and involve Lake Toba locals in contributing ideas for the restoration of Lake Toba. Lake Toba is known as the second largest lake in the world. Despite that, Lake Toba has not gained any cognition internationally as Bali is known for. In fact, locals in Lake Toba are facing environmental degradation as water quality keep decreasing, huge amount of fishes turned up dead, and widespread deforestation.
We believe that getting ideas from locals, not limited to tourists, are crucial to let the government know about the current conditions of Lake Toba and what problem needed to be solved. We are planning to organise several events in Lake Toba that will attract foreigners and locals to take part in the development of Lake Toba. In the end of the events, locals and foreigners will be prompted to fill in survey form about their experiences and what need to be improved in Lake Toba. We will also deploy our website using Gamification technique for communities to build stronger relationship with Lake Toba locals and acquire plenty of ideas. Finally, we believe Lake Toba will develop to be the better place for local and international destination, even more realistic, 8th Wonders in the world!
