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The Internet Foundation Applying the Internet to Global and Systemic Issues |
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Mission: Clarify and quantify global and systemic processes - for such as famine, disease, wars, genocide, health care, education, terrorism, governance, country planning, urban service delivery, information delivery, achieving excellence, developing culture, transforming science, developing technologies. The Internet is now partially integrated into all human affairs, global issues, and self-sustaining strategies. As such, it can be catalytic in bringing closure to outstanding global problems, or structure to emerging systemic issues. The Foundation uses and develops Internet Research technologies for analyses of current and emerging issues.
Why an Internet Foundation?At one time, I was asked to lead a team of specialists to integrate all the information on the potential for famine in Africa and then to use that information to interrupt the famine process. The effort convinced me that a small group of dedicated individuals could apply the latest in GIS, image processing, statistical, desktop publishing and communications tools to tackle a problem on the scale of Africa. For the past seven years I have researched and used the Internet extensively for a wide variety of current issues and have grown convinced that society is spending many orders of magnitude too much to solve most problems. The Internet Foundation cannot solve these problems by itself. But it can provide a core of Internet experience to share with others who are working on these problems. The Foundation can help identify and quantify processes quickly and efficiently - in a way that is transparent to all participants. The Foundation can pursue a course of research in using the Internet for these kinds of problems which will lay a foundation for future, still more successful efforts. - Richard Collins, September 2005. |
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