[Sunnybayes]

So who wants to help me brainstorm another "save the world" website?

There are tones of charities and organizations and other stuff out there.

But to me, it seems the main problem is visibility. All the information is out there on the internet, but its so scattered out there. Or people are just too damned doom and gloomish.

Also another big problem is that there is not really any interaction with the people. It just seems like there are these websites with articles, but then you can't really tell if anyone is doing anything. Motivation is intrinsically tied with people.

There is no clear leader. I don't know. Maybe I don't watch TV enough to know if there is a clear leader.

I'm thinking something like an open source solution.

My main idea, its rough, is that it will be something like Wikipedia, but with a purpose.

-there will be a list of purposes (as a heirarchy, there could well be tens of thousands or millions of actions that people could do)
-all purposes would be linked to the main purpose of "knowing how things are going and that everything is probably cool beans"
-people would be able to volunteer to do a purpose
-people would be able to exactly see how their actions will help us get closer to the goal
-people would be able to see exactly how their money is going to be used, and could see the exact cash flow of the organization
-totally visibility
-anyone who sees any problem at all in their communities, or even personal problems would be able to submit a purpose
-people could see what other people are doing (bandwagon effect)
-The actions of people would be managed by the people
-This could be something like online democracy or something like that. People could make decisions by taking test for basic knowlege, or something like that
-People who know things (like with connections, like with getting in tact with important people) can keep a list of contacts.
-Would be able to easily link in other organizations.
-There would be open discussion of the best actions that could be taken in the most efficient manner, and then the best actions could be voted on. Or something like that.
-people would be anonymous
-people would volunteer to consolidate redundant information, because it seems like everyone has a different language for the exact same things


The real motivation is that it will be an awesomely fun thing to do. People would have fun doing it... and it needs to be fun. It will "give power to the people" again.. and get rid of the helpless feeling.

There would have to be really really strong moderation/b.s. detection.
Why? Because corporations and governments would have their own motives and are likely to throw in their own B.S./confusing arguments to cause confusion and inaction.

I'll have to think about this some more. There could be some huge and obvious faults that I've missed. Anyone else have ideas?