OVERVIEW

The GIC fulfills the vision of its founders, who have decades of experience with positive social innovations, economic development, research, information technology, and planning. Seeing the need, they have put together The Global Interchange with key differentiators:

• It creates a transnational, online network where people can access, participate, and contribute to a wide range of human, technical, informational, and financial resources.
• It builds tangible relationships and provides beneficial exposure to making a positive difference in the world.
• The GIC represents a source of new revenue to key partners.
• Unique synergies of the GIC will yield new applications and systems, intellectual property, and products and services that will contribute a substantial portion of the revenue by year five.
• It represents a logical and potentially synergistic addition to existing telecommunication, Internet, and other information industry activities.

The GIC anticipates developing and utilizing the latest information technology and knowledge synthesis applications to facilitate user relationships as well as its own operations.

The GIC fulfills a coherent set of needs and interests that are not being met and represents a new generation of Internet applications that emphasize human values and needs as well as technology. The GIC addresses these requirements through a financial and operational model that includes both individual and organizational accounts. Throughout all aspects of this enterprise, the value of human, technical, informational, and financial resources is continuously amplified. This is accomplished through unique processes and structures as well as informational and financial strategies and by connecting individual and organizational wealth for the highest good.

Utilizing the best practices of both the business world and the independent sector, the GIC introduces new structures and processes to allow for the emergence of a global funding and communications hub.

Thoughtfully structured and properly used and facilitated, the GIC can serve as a powerful catalyst to bridge geographic distances, encouraging large numbers of people to see the connection between many wonderful acts of innovation and service currently being expressed throughout the world. The GIC can facilitate the emergence of a coherent community of diversity, aligned with the larger context of a positive and more enlightened future. It will be a means by which people can explore and learn, where they will find community with like-minded individuals, and where they will find financial and other resources to accomplish their worthy efforts towards creating a more positive future.

The Global Interchange is based on a phased implementation of 8 Core Elements into a strategic hub, bringing together infrastructure, facilitated processes, and resources to connect a culturally diverse mix of communities.

SUCCESS AND RISK FACTORS

The key to the potential for the GIC's success and reduction of risk rests largely on its ability to address sets of needs and wants that are virtually ignored or vastly underserved and does so with an organizational model that melds the best of collaborative and cooperative structures with proven mission-project-focused approaches. We believe this model will lead to the development of a stable organization that has depth and longevity while, at the same time, taking advantage of market and economic opportunities that few are currently positioned to address in the world.

To support this business and economic model, we have highlighted several areas that, through diligence and insightful and astute implementation, will ensure that The Global Interchange becomes the Internet hub of and for innovation, expertise, flexibility, interconnectivity, and informed communities worldwide.

• User interface strategy
• Marketing strategy
• Intellectual property
• Business and economic model
• Organizational development and corporate culture strategy
• Technology, distribution, and support infrastructure
• Socially and environmentally responsible values, ethics, practices

TECHNOLOGY, RESEARCH, AND DEVELOPMENT

The GIC's research and development efforts will include a new type of visual language user interface, search engine, browser, and desktop management functions. Through the use of artificial intelligence applications and simple human attention to user needs, the GIC will be highly appreciated by both novice and experienced users. The GIC will emphasize the use of proven technology and applications to support an early commercial launch in parallel to its own proprietary research and development efforts.

Partly based on the IOOW-2000 typology and research database, and partly based on unique statistical algorithms, The Global Interchange includes a unique system that compares actual user behavior, including search engine activities, product interests, and other online actions with professed behavior based on statistical survey-based indicators. This creates a set of sophisticated tools for predicting behavior and for developing and tracking strategic positioning and communications campaigns. The typology and analytical systems are equally applicable to internal management, employee assessment, customer profiling, and other marketing applications.

WHO WILL USE GIC TECHNOLOGY

The primary value of the Internet to people is its interconnectivity and potential for interactivity. All other forms of media only push messages to their constituents, with little or no means of gathering quality feedback on constituent reactions as they occur. Websites and organizations that capitalize upon frequent, highly tailored, and customized content delivery as well as the facilitation of communication among their users will have a much greater chance to succeed in this arena.

Private and public companies, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and educational institutions spend billions of dollars every year seeking the answers to soft questions (customer satisfaction, consumer demands, and employee performance) that they need in order to drive their respective missions forward. A basic advantage for non-commercial ventures and large corporations is to quickly understand barriers to success and/or how to fulfill clearly stated needs of constituents. The Global Interchange utilizes both proprietary analysis and knowledge management software as a very powerful toolset to address many of these needs.

Over time, unique technological, scientific, informational, and entertainment content will emerge from the GIC that will represent additional sources for intellectual property of strategic and economic value. There can be many “spin-offs” that emerge from the GIC that will be commercially viable with little negative impact on the advantageous position of the GIC as an enterprise.

MARKET OPPORTUNITY AND VALUE PROPOSITION

The Global Interchange fulfills a need that has been identified through IOOW-2000. The first phase of the research has identified millions of U.S. households with online access that are willing to subscribe to a low-cost, non-commercial, Internet service dedicated to personal and global transformation.

The Global Interchange is designed to be a financially self-sustaining, strategic hub focused entirely on enriching people's lives. It will leverage the Internet's full potential to interconnect millions of individuals, philanthropic and educational organizations, government agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and businesses around an earnest desire to invest and participate in a positive future for humanity.

It will do this by integrating four key resources:

• Human
• Technical
• Financial
• Informational

This high level of integration and facilitation is enhanced through our proprietary knowledge synthesis software, content validation, and resource management, all of which will foster synergy between users' needs, information engineering expertise, and constructive resources.

Captured in a compelling model, the GIC integrates leading edge, philanthropic principles with the strength of business processes, bringing together an extensive range of human and material resources to aid in and facilitate the emergence of an awakened world.

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