The Geodesic Direct Democratic Network -Projects

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Projects are NOT for making decisions. The Geonet is for making decisions. The Projects carry out the decisions of the Geonet under certain restraints. Projects cannot function without continous overview by the I-Teams which create and support the Project. Projects cannot function without being totally transparent to all members of the Geonet, no matter what I-Teams the members link.

There are a number of different kinds of Projects;

(The designation of some kinds of projects herein does not preclude the creation of other kinds of projects by the GEONET membership.)

Action Project -An Action Project can be the smallest or the largest of Projects, of shortest or longest duration, and is the least specialized. An action Project has to follow the same characteristics as any other Project but can have as it's goal the simple cleaning up of a vacent lot, regeneration of it's soil, and the planting of a park or garden... Or the regeneration of the peoples, environment, society, and infrastructure of the whole planet...

Data Gathering Project -A Data Gathering Project is a specialized Project to gather all the existing data upon a subject which the Geonet wishes to know more about, with emplisis upon what is provably true and what is not. It does not do research into new data, but can combine the gathered data into new conclusions. It is a kind of verifying and investagative Project, not in terms of investagating individuals or groups, but in terms of the Subjects the I-Teams wish to fully find out about.

Educational Project -An Educational Project can be as specialized as teaching computer science to a handful of non-Geonet people, to as unspecialized as setting up a Learning Center in a poor neighborhood, setting up an educational channel on the internet, or almost any kind of educational effort the Geonet considers reasonable and which it will support. It cannot teach anything to do with coercion, warfare, violence, intimidation, weapons, demolitions, or even self-defense.

Equality Project -An Equality Project is two part Project. First it gathers data about a given area or situation, then it does whatever it has determined to be necessary to create a level of equality in any aspect of that area or situation. It is a kind of carefully controled combination Data Gathering Project which then morphs into an Action Project. This kind of Project has a minimum level of Geonet Participation required and has extra oversight by the Geonet I-Teams other than the initiating I-Teams. Importantly, equality projects, when working on financial inequality, the Project does not attempt to pull the top down, impoverish the rich, but only pull the bottom up, enrich the poor.

Expansion Project -Like all organizations, the Geonet needs to grow to become effective on larger scale problems. The Expansion Project is an ongoing Project which receives 1% of all members donations in a special Project fund, and which promotes the Geonet in every way it can that is not coercive, annoying, destructive, or crude. (See Lesson Eight -Details of Specific Procedures)

Income Generating Project -The Geonet can and will come up with ideas for products and services which will generate large sums of money. The Income Generating Project is the mechinism by which the Geonet can bring in additional funds for the use of the Geonet by any legal means that does not go against the spirit or the letter of the Geonet Charter. Any funds produced by a Income Generating Project are divided up among all the members of the Geonet and added to each members two donation funds for their descretionary use as described in 'Lesson Four -Finances' and 'Lesson Eight -Details of Specific Procedures'.

Research Project -A Research Project is much like a Data Gathering Project, except it's specific goal is the discovery and development of specific NEW technologies: social, environmental, scientific, educational, etc.

NOTE: It is important to keep in mind that all Projects exist for specific periods of time, then either end or require re-evaluation and funding approval by the Geonet membership. There must not be any open ended Projects nor extention of a Project without the evaluation and funding approval of the Geonet Membership.