Planetwork Forum
at the Exploratorium
in San Francisco
February 6, 2003

Project Presentations:

Victor Grey - Favors.org - new beta launch
http://favors.org

Atom Constantino - GTV
http://www.gtvonline.com

David Boyd - Raise The Frequency
http://www.raisethefrequency.org

Tom Munneke - Giving Space
http://givingspace.org

Sam Hunting - eTopicality
http://www.etopicality.com

Eugene Kim - Blue Oxen Associates
http://www.blueoxen.org

Joy Tang - Founder
AIDS Relief Foundation / oneVillage

Projects in slightly more detail:

Victor Grey - Favors.org - new beta launch

Atom Constantino - GTV contracts for, purchases, and distributes upbeat, inviting television and web content showcasing environmental, social, and health-related projects. With GTV, the American television viewing public is educated and informed while being given the opportunity to participate in the success of the projects of their choice. The projects are presented, highlighting their efficacy, their scientific and educational value, as well as the personal stories of the people involved.  GTV television content is designed for satellite and cable broadcast. Each show is one hour long and contains studio segments as well as in-the-field segments where GTV hosts present projects which may occur anywhere in the world.

David Boyd - Raise The Frequency - The RTF software team is composed of business professionals with extensive experience in entrepreneurship, business management, finance and technology. We have assembled a world-class advisory board with expertise in social entrepreneurship, trust networks, collaborative technologies, and currency engineering. Our focus is to develop programs that enhance foundation and non-profit capacity building – driven by systematic measures of social value.

Tom Munneke - Giving Space mission: to sow the seeds of a global self-organizing, self-propagating infrastructure which allows the creation, discovery, commitment, and fulfillment of meaningful giving opportunities within a trusted environment.

Sam Hunting - eTopicality MISSION
Problem: Every day, people fail to find the one hit they need in the million hits they get—or fail to type the one right keyword. Our power to retrieve information has far outpaced our need for relevant information. And people are productive only when they are finding information—not when they are just searching.
Solution: "One Stop Finding."™ Topic maps organize information assets so that everything about a subject is accessible from one place. Suddenly, your space in the infoverse starts feeling more like a map, the phonebook, or an encyclopedia than a guessing game or a game of 52-card pickup. Topic maps connect the dots.

Eugene Kim - Blue Oxen Associates is a think tank devoted to studying and improving high-performance collaboration. We are particularly interested in studying knowledge processes -- how we share and acquire knowledge, and how we use tools to augment our abilities to inform, to learn, and to collaborate. Our initial research focuses on communities that develop open source software, and our first reports will be available in March 2003.

Joy Tang is dedicated to the unity and transformation of the global village.
An active participant to build sustainable model for global growth, she creates framework and strategies to involve the global resources to form ‘dignified digital community’ - a community empowered by a platform where knowledge could be shared to uphold and reflect the highest version of each individual's growth via ICT (Information Communication Technology).
She is a global community builder: connecting initiatives in the areas of agricultural development, telecommunication reform, healthcare innovation and solutions for AIDS, human capacity building, new business creation via eCommerce and ecoTourism, rural village economy revitalization, and Youth for ICT development. Her work is extended across the continents from Africa to Asia. Her digital development effort also reached out to China, India, Russia and Latin/South America.

February 17, 2003 - 4:00 pm PDT