USER SERVICES - THE EIGHT CORE ELEMENTS

These 8 Core Elements offer infinite interconnectivity, attracting users of diverse background, perspective, talent, and insight who desire to share and invest in an extraordinary synthesis of purpose. Each of the 8 Core Elements is a hub in its own right, providing ever-expanding levels of information and connection that is rich in content, free of advertising, and offers sophisticated features and capabilities.

1. Networking and Interconnectivity: Intelligent software, content analysis, and human facilitation to utilize Internet communications and knowledge synthesis tools to ensure optimal interconnectivity between resources and individual, non-profit, educational, non-governmental organizations, business, and government members. This nexus is the interchange of all communities of individuals and organizations participating in the GIC and includes subscribers as well as casual, Internet users.

2. Facilitation and Project Communities: A community of individuals, organizations and businesses at the leading edge of social-cultural, economic, and techno-scientific innovation for a positive future. Increasing the effectiveness of individual and group innovation with access to exemplars, interlinking forums and project incubators representing the world’s best instances of positive innovation.

3. Information and Research Support: Key informational attractors, information application development and strategic resources focused on acquiring, validating, creating, and publishing both free and fee-based knowledge and custom research. Provides strategic information support throughout the GIC and manages a major portion of the GIC's public information and search function resources.

4. Funding and Communities of Support: Collecting, assembling, and transferring individual, entrepreneurial, and organizational resources in ways that bridge charitable giving, venture philanthropy, commercial funding, ethical investment funds, and visionary wealth.

5. GIC News Network: Gathering, validating, shaping, and delivering existing and alternative news, geographic and topical interests, and project announcements through electronic, broadcast, and print channels designed to connect participants on one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many levels. The GIC is also an alternative to traditional media outlets for localized and worldwide information.

6. New Content Media Center: Gathering, developing, and producing creative, original, and inspiring, factual and imaginative material aligned with positive, social-cultural innovation delivered through print, electronic, live, and all other media channels. As such, it is not limited to the opportunities presented by the Internet for delivery and interactivity.

7. Learning Communities: Innovative variety of transformational and traditional core curricula and learning programs made available through online, broadcast, and traditional channels. Leading educational innovators will be brought together to develop a core set of offerings from the best of the best.

8. User Services and E-Store: A gateway to services geared to maintaining a large subscriber base, such as membership services, interconnectivity, expanding communications and networking, online conferences, event calendar and registration services, member directory, email, storage, transcription, tools, help desk and technical support, interlinking business and nonprofit organization directories. The online store will also offer goods and services from GIC constituents as well as the larger universe of commercial providers. While the GIC does not plan to become a product distribution business, it will be in a position to receive pass-through fees and commissions. In addition, various unique commercial opportunities have been identified in the preliminary planning of the GIC that could quickly lead to a new source of commercial revenue from the development of this core element.

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