This is bizarre but it seems to be real and doesn't seem to be reality TV. As best I can figure, Ben Keene was befriended by Fijians in 2004 and wanted to come up with a way to share the experience with others. He was invovled with adventure travelling and Time-Out publicaitons so he had some ideas. Now on Tribewanted 5,000 people can (pay and) signup on the internet to form a tribe to control a real island in Fiji for 3 years. They will meet online and make decisions and then will travel to the island to put them in place. Included with membership are accomodations and food for a visit to the island (you have to get there on your own and are encouraged to pay back the CO2 costs of your travel. It's about $220 per person per year and I think their 5,000 person number is per year, so they're raising $5,500,000.
Monday, May 29, 2006
Join a Tribe
This is bizarre but it seems to be real and doesn't seem to be reality TV. As best I can figure, Ben Keene was befriended by Fijians in 2004 and wanted to come up with a way to share the experience with others. He was invovled with adventure travelling and Time-Out publicaitons so he had some ideas. Now on Tribewanted 5,000 people can (pay and) signup on the internet to form a tribe to control a real island in Fiji for 3 years. They will meet online and make decisions and then will travel to the island to put them in place. Included with membership are accomodations and food for a visit to the island (you have to get there on your own and are encouraged to pay back the CO2 costs of your travel. It's about $220 per person per year and I think their 5,000 person number is per year, so they're raising $5,500,000.
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