The G8 World Leaders' 'Global Call to Action' {relative to ...



ONE AMERICA -- Equal and Just

CIVIL RIGHTS CHAMPION

So that no other child anywhere in our One World will ever again have to feel prejudice's searing pain or suffer the injustice and indignities to which you were subjected, will you Champion the immediate actualization of Ubiquitous e-Access [ ] via something akin to the "IN-SYNC with Amazing GrACE" initiatives

[ ] that incorporate a Seamlessly-Integrated Self-Funding SINGULAR SOLUTION [ ]? This uses hybrids of well-established Network-Centric Business Modalities [ ].

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. noted that: "People fail to get along because they fear each other. They fear each other because they don't know each other. They don't know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other."

Ubiquitous e-Access enables all Americans to learn and work together as ONE AMERICA, "to help build an America that provides everyone with equal justice and equal opportunity" by empowering each of us -- "We, the People" -- to develop ourselves to the limits of our innate G-d-given talents and abilities.

How?

Ubiquitous e-Access enables each of us to "Reach Out and Teach Someone" via the Internet in seamlessly-integrated Virtual Mentoring Communities that can utilize Tele-Immersion and other Virtual Reality modalities [ ].

United in Service to America via Learning Opportunities from Vibrant Educational Synergism:

Knowledge-based Investments for our Diversified Society (USALOVESKIDS®)

Something akin to the "IN-SYNC with Amazing GrACE" concepts can provide the means to expand the reach of teachers, parents, physicians, and other Humans of Goodwill way beyond the actual boundaries of each of their respective local communities -- thus linking actual and Virtual Mentoring Communities into one Grand Mentoring Network.

FYI -- our proposed National Action Plan for Development of America's Human Capital is posted at .

TRULY ENLIGHTENED LEADERSHIP

Are you also willing to persuade your Representatives and Senators in Congress plus all Cabinet members -- especially the ones who head the 32 High Impact Agencies that serve the most people

[ ] -- to exercise truly Enlightened Leadership [ ] and to join forces with you in order to marshal (and leverage) our National resources (both in terms of America's Human Capital and monetary capital) for the immediate actualization of Ubiquitous e-Access?

Our Seamlessly-Integrated Self-Funding SINGULAR SOLUTION utilizes "holistic/out-of-the-box" self-funding models that are based on extensive Public/Private Partnerships and incorporates hybrids of well-established Network-Centric Business Modalities [ ] that can generate recurrent revenue streams, thereby creating a potential return on our knowledge-based investments (in cost savings and value creation) in the $billions$ while simultaneously Boosting America's Collective IQ [ ].

Our SINGULAR SOLUTION can immediately actualize Ubiquitous e-Access for Closing America's Digital Divide, Lifelong Learning/Education, e-Gov Reformation (vertically integrated across all levels of governance), e-Commerce, e-Voting, TeleWork, Lowest-Cost @Home Healthcare, Virtual Mentoring Communities, & Net Diplomacy (People-to-People and Nation-to-Nation).

INDUSTRY SUPPORT and NATIONAL WILL

Gateway's CEO Ted Waitt and other corporate leaders have assured us that it's just a matter of National Will -- "We, the People" merely need to decide to launch America's "Moon Shot into Inner Space" to nurture the Soul of America (and the World) -- our children. Corporate America has asserted that it is ready and willing to provide the requisite "IT/IS utilities" for Ubiquitous e-Access to all Americans TODAY if some of the funds currently being allocated for old-fashioned printing and postal mailing of hardcopy documents [e.g., IRS and/or state tax forms, Census questionnaires, county governments' real estate and other fiscal documents, city permits, etc.] were to be re-allocated and spent for our citizens' IT/IS "seats" by utilizing Netsourcing Seat Management concepts in public/private partnerships

[ ] in order to provide federal, state, and local government services via the Internet rather than via the printing press and pony express.

CONGRESSIONAL INTEREST/SUPPORT

I've also included -- for your review and consideration -- the self-explanatory WebMemo that I recently sent to my Congresswoman, Rep. Connie Morella [ ], and which Connie's Jordie Hannum forwarded to Ben Wu in the Technology Subcommittee of the House Science Committee which Connie chairs and has jurisdiction over U.S. technology and competitiveness policy.

Connie's WebMemo includes hyperlinks to the 2 other self-explanatory WebMemos I recently sent to:

(a) the 8 Nobel Laureates I know [ ], and

(b) Cisco's CEO/President John Chambers [ ], who is one of Gov. George W. Bush's key Presidential advisors on IT matters

[ ] -- (a copy of this WebMemo was also sent to Sen. Lieberman).

Our proposed Seamlessly-Integrated Self-Funding SINGULAR SOLUTION was discussed briefly with Senators Biden and Kerry on May 10, 2000 at the Conference on Solutions for the Digital Divide, and is under review by legislative analysts in the offices of my Congresswoman [Rep. Connie Morella (R-MD)] and Senators Kerry, Biden, Thompson, and Lieberman to:

(1) develop and sponsor federal legislation that, when enacted, will catalyze implementation of Ubiquitous e-Access Nationwide to close the Digital Divide via comprehensive, seamlessly-integrated self-funding Network-centric modalities (e.g., Netsourcing Seat Management)

[ ] and

(2) foster America's "Moon Shot into Inner Space" to nurture the Soul of America (and the World) -- our children -- by forging a bipartisan/nonpartisan "National Coalition" among the leaders of both parties to expedite the Nationwide implementation of Virtual Mentoring Communities

[ ] via something akin to our "IN-SYNC with Amazing GrACE" self-funding proposals [ ].

Of the infinite "out-of-the-box" possibilities that one can envision for self-funding modalities, the U.S. Department of Education's "Share-in-Savings" contract provides one rather limited, comparatively small-scale, but important first-step exemplar [ ; ].

DoC's ROLE

Our SINGULAR SOLUTION is consonant with DoC's Mission Statement, and was discussed briefly (i) on December 9, 1999 at the Digital Divide Summit hosted by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce during the breakout session on "Sustainable Public Access Points" [use CTRL F to find Martinez's comments at ] and (ii) on May 10, 2000 at the Conference on Solutions for the Digital Divide, where Senators Joseph Biden (D-DE) and John Kerry (D-MA) and Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-CA) participated as invited speakers and graciously accepted advance copies of our proposed SINGULAR SOLUTION for their review and consideration.

However, to close America's Digital Divide, real e-Gov (viz., totally committed and involved Self-Governance by "We, the People") necessitates Ubiquitous e-Access for the reasons enumerated relative to our proposed Seamlessly-Integrated Self-Funding SINGULAR SOLUTION

[ ].

CLOSING GLOBAL DIGITAL DIVIDE

Ubiquitous e-Access would also enable us to close our growing Global Digital Divide while interconnecting Humans of Goodwill within Virtual Mentoring Communities worldwide (CyberPeaceCorps).

Please note that, even though the self-funding IN-SYNC concepts are discussed in the context of closing America's Digital Divide by 2001, these same self-funding concepts are seamlessly scalable to close our Global Digital Divide by 2010.

This is especially appropriate if one chooses to incorporate into the proposed action plans the use of broadband Internet service via geostationary satellites, such as is currently being provided by iDirect

[ ] or StarBand [ ], and will later be provided via low earth orbit (LEO) satellites by Teledesic's "Internet-in-the-Sky" [ ]. Such broadband Internet service via satellites would enable a nation to provide Ubiquitous e-Access almost overnight to all its citizens (especially those who live in remote rural areas) at a fraction of the cost associated with establishing a wired infrastructure. This would not only obviate the latter costs (and Human inertia to change), but perhaps would also enable the nation to leapfrog other wealthier nations that are bogged down by their own societal inertia (and diminished social conscience).

Imagine the immensity of the private/public partnerships that could be created among the public and private sectors of the United States and our trading partner nations and how these would benefit ALL the citizens of the United States and our partnering nations.

Moreover, such international private/public partnerships could conceivably be expanded to include many other nations, especially since the G8 World Leaders' "Global Call to Action" {relative to the Digital Opportunity Task Force (DOT Force) [ ; ; ]} provides the impetus for marshalling (and leveraging) our One World's resources (both in terms of our World's Human Capital and monetary capital).

CLOSING GLOBAL DIGITAL DIVIDE PRESAGES MILLENIUM OF WORLD PEACE

Prayerfully, closing our Global Digital Divide will usher in a Millenium of World Peace by interconnecting all the World's Children (age 3 to 103) via the Internet so that they might get to know, respect, help (and hopefully someday love) one another as fellow members of the One Human Family that we all are, as evinced by Human Genome researchers:

[ ].

Classroom Connect's MayaQuest [ ] and other Quest expeditions

[ ; ] have demonstrated that it is possible to do so! Over 1 million kids, teachers and others from around the globe helped lead the MayaQuest 98 expedition by way of the Internet, and directly linked our Brothers and Sisters in the Amazon with their Brothers and Sisters around our globe. These serve as exemplars of how Ubiquitous e-Access (Internet connectivity) can engender and facilitate the kind of high-quality Human-to-Human interactions worldwide that will presage World Peace.

India's Exemplar [ ]: NIIT's Dr. Sugata Mitra's exciting, simple, but revolutionary social experiment in India's slums has unequivocally demonstrated that if we give an innocent, uninformed, but self-empowering child an Internet-access tool, s/he almost spontaneously closes the Digital Divide by re-creating a new universe -- with "minimally invasive education" (without necessitating any hands-on training). Imagine how much more powerful the effect for our One World's children, especially our disfranchised children. Dr. Mitra discovered that creating content is not what's important; what is important is infrastructure and access and that one can multiply the effectiveness of teachers by 100- or 1,000-fold if one gives children access to the Internet.

DoC's ROLE in CLOSING GLOBAL DIGITAL DIVIDE

Ubiquitous e-Access is essential if global governments are to shape e-economy

[ ].

Since DoC is already tasked with the mission of bridging America's Digital Divide

[ ], DoC is uniquely positioned to be the U.S. agency tasked with the complementary mission of actualizing Ubiquitous e-Access in order to also close our Global Digital Divide.

UNDERDEVELOPED NATIONS

IMAGINE…what if the Leaders of Underdeveloped Nations were to enter into a compact with the President of the United States and each of the 7 other G8 World Leaders to re-allocate funds currently being allocated for "Old Economy" things such as old-fashioned printing and postal mailing of hardcopy documents in order to invest these re-allocated funds in mutually beneficial Network-Centric Business Modalities [ ] that serve to close the Digital Divide in their respective countries by providing Ubiquitous e-Access to each of their citizens? Then one could provide -- at tremendously reduced costs -- all government and corporate services, resources, publications, and information via the Internet rather than via the printing press and pony express.

It's a Win-Win proposition for everybody (all stakeholders, including taxpayers, Congress/Parliament, government workers, corporations, and academia) because it generates even more capital continually via recurrent revenue streams from well-established Network-Centric Business Modalities

[ ].

Please forward this information (with an intro by you, if possible) to any individuals that you know personally who you believe would collaborate to actualize Ubiquitous e-Access nationwide. Ditto for any other of your collaborators (and/or friends who are e-entrepreneurs devoted to closing our Global Digital Divide). Please persuade each of them to respond affirmatively to the G8 World Leaders' "Global Call to Action" for the sake of all our children (age 3 to 103).

Thanks for your time and consideration, and for your feedback.

Cordially yours,

Richard

Richard I. Martínez, Ph.D.

Senior Fellow [ ]

Council for Excellence in Government [ ]

"I dream what could be, and ask -- WHY NOT?"

"Leadership is the art of accomplishing more

than the science of management says is possible."

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