ManyOne Network and Foundation

Originally posted to sCNN – the smallChangeNewsNetwork

This looks an awful lot like some of the future that Julie Caldwell has been talking about… and for which she is now developing some proposal pages, connecting youth movement to new structures and practices for governance and ownership. Good fodder for the GivingMarket/PublicFoundation approach.

The ManyOne Network is a global network of trusted and authoritative Internet content providers, creating an open democratic Web-based medium that inspires creativity, community, collaboration and learning. Stewarded by the world’s foremost experts, with information for people of all ages and education levels, together, they are creating the world’s first online collaborative encyclopedia of human knowledge, an ecosystem of intellect and culture beautifully rendered in 3D and rich media in an ad-free environment.

Accessed through the ManyOne Universal Browser and Portal Service, and distributed through membership organizations, ManyOne’s reusable Web portal service catalyzes this ecosystem of partners and members to co-evolve a new medium. Partners can then private-label the combined service to offer world-class portals, complete with ISP services, email, trade, and Instant Messaging to their constituencies via subscriptions, transforming their Web sites into revenue generators.

ManyOne is a privately held, for-profit company that will become wholly owned by the non-profit ManyOne Foundation in 2005. The company and the Foundation are pioneering a new standard of social responsibility in organizational governance, objectives, and conduct. The ManyOne Foundation is guided by the Earth Charter, a roadmap of principles for a just and sustainable world. The ManyOne Foundation’s Board of Directors includes social leaders such as Jane Goodall, Paul Hawken, and Maurice Strong.

via Penny Scott who spoke with ManyOne president, Richard Perl at last year’s BALLE conference in Philadelphia.

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