Culture islands

If it is so hard for immigrants to integrate, why not found districts where they can live in their own culture (like Chinatown in New York)? Then native people can visit there as tourists and vice versa.

Challenge

- What societal challenge does it combat?

* Romanian beggars on Helsinki streets (or other non-integrated immigrants)

- http://beachange.org/challenge/how-help-romanian-beggers

* Excessive production of greenhouse gas emissions because of traveling Markets

- Who will buy, what, why and how much they are going to pay for it?

 Romanian (or any other country where we have a lot of immigrants from) companies that want to do business in Finland and Finnish companies that want to do business in Romania will pay for having a Romanian island in Helsinki where they can make first contacts and get to know the business culture easily.

Profit prospects

- What investments are needed? What operating costs are there? How much revenue is expected during the whole life-cycle of the business from the birth to market growth to stagnation to perishing of the product/service?

A big investment...including lobbing for such districts in city plan. The basic idea has almost no operating costs once the district is there.

Competition

- What competing products or services there are? What are their market share, pricing, strengths and weaknesses?

Cross-cultural societies and other bridge organizations between countries.

Their strength is that they are in line with the numerous organizations that are striving like hell to merge immigrants into local society. They find support and credibility much more easily than this kind of milder integration approach.

Their weakness is that they cannot really bring the cultures together. They can educate, but the actual cross-cultural experience has to be created through traveling which has negative environmental impacts.

Differentiation

- How does this idea differentiate you from others in the markets?

Bringing cultures together for real - not just merging diverse people but growing real foreign islands within a city. Tourism made easier, cheaper and more ecological.

Verified need - How many people you have found that are ready to buy your products or services?

 Impact

- What positive impact does your idea have on society and environment?

* More experiences of visiting a different country -> more cultural understanding and tolerance

* No need for immigrants to totally integrate -> original culture preserved better and transferred to children -> more diverse Finland and globe

* No need to travel far to get a tourism experience -> less greenhouse gas emissions

- What negative impact does it have?

Might lead to a situation with no or minimal or even aggressive connections between natives and the immigrant island.

- How can the negative impact be eliminated or made remarkably smaller than the positive one?

Organizing activities that connect people from the island and natives around it, e.g. student exchange

- How can the positive impact grow bigger?

Making big cities global villages: having districts for all main immigrant groups so that it's possible to travel around the world in a day.