Overview of The Global Interchange (continued)

The Global Interchange 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 the GIC together 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 at all levels toward making a positive difference in the world.
• It serves as an important source of new philanthropic and venture funding to partners and members.

Unique synergies of the GIC will yield new applications and systems, intellectual property, and products and services that will contribute to 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 uses the new generation of technology in ways that emphasize human values and needs. 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 toward 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. (These are not to be confused with The 8 American Types of the IOOW-2000 research.)