UUPGs
Last year, I had a chance to learn more about 639 unreached, unengaged people group- population over 100,000 at GKYM, Global Korean Young Adult Mission Festival. I was shocked by the fact that more than 1 billion people live on less than a dollar a day. These children and families are all too familiar with poverty. It has robbed them of hope and threatens to steal their future.
Christian missionary activities often involve sending individuals and groups (called "missionaries"), to foreign countries and to places in their own homeland. This has frequently involved not only evangelization (in order to expand Christianity through the conversion of new members), but also humanitarian work, especially among the poor and disadvantaged. Missionaries have the authority to preach the Christian faith (and sometimes to administer sacraments), and provide humanitarian work to improve economic development, literacy, education, healthcare and orphanage. Christian doctrines (such as the "Doctrine of Love" professed by many missions) permit the provision of aid without requiring religious conversion.
I had a chance to talk to one of the learders while I was attending the Missionary Festival. He told me that media representations are a very good source to raise awareness about this issue among young people. Ever since that, I was wondering as a interactive designer what kind of things can be contributed for the task to reach the 3,300 Unreached, Unengaged People Groups (UUPGs).
This leads me to create this project that is relavant to Christian young adults community and can raise awareness about UUPGs and generate focusing on raising the next generation as a missional generation.
Precedents
http://finishingthetask.com/
This site provides all UUPGs statistics, however, the site lacks visulization and interactive mapping.
http://oilspill.labucketbrigade.org/The Louisiana Bucket Brigade deployed the open source software platform to map the fallout of the deepwater horizon oil spill.
In this project, I want to use open source software platform for the information collected from finishingthetask.com, visualization and interacitve mapping to raise awareness that we can help these people as a missionary among young Christians.
I got all the statistic on these group of people from above site.










