Eight Core User Elements of the GIC

The Global Interchange 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. Our focus is to create a vibrant, ethical, and productive online community of social responsibility and positive change. To do this, the GIC has developed 8 Core User Elements that offer compelling reasons for users to become subscribers.

These 8 Core User 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 User Elements is a hub in its own right, providing ever-expanding levels of information and connection rich in content, free of advertising, and offering 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 between individual, nonprofit, educational, non-governmental, 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; increased 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 toward maintaining a large subscriber base, such as membership services, interconnectivity, expanding communications and networking, online conferences, event calendar and registration services, member directory, e-mail, storage, transcription, tools, help desk and technical support, and 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.