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The Bootstrap Vision Statement2
The Bootstrap Mission Statement3

The Bootstrap Vision Statement2

Our world is a complex place with urgent problems of a global scale.2A

The rate, scale, and complex nature of change is unprecedented and beyond the capability of any one person, organization, or even nation to comprehend and respond to. 2B

Challenges of an exponential scale require an evolutionary coping strategy of a commensurate scale on a cooperative cross-disciplinary, international, cross-cultural level. 2C

We need a new, co-evolutionary environment capable of handling simultaneous complex social, technical, and economic changes at an appropriate rate and scale. 2D

The grand challenge is to boost the Collective IQ of organizations and of society; success of this effort will improve the capacity to address any other grand challenge. 2E

The improvements gained and applied in its own pursuit will accelerate the improvement of Collective IQ. This is a bootstrapping strategy. 2F

Those organizations, communities, institutions and nations that successfully bootstrap their Collective IQ will achieve the highest levels of performance and success. 2G
 
 

The Bootstrap Mission Statement3

Our Mission is to:3A

Promote awareness of the scale, urgency, and complexity of the challenges we face; 3B

Catalyze, launch, and shepherd an active, strategic pursuit of boosting the Collective IQ on a scale commensurate with the rate, scale, and pervasiveness of change; 3C

Create an exploratory environment where participants can collaborate, experiment, and set in motion advanced pilot outposts in diverse application areas; 3D

Enable a whole new way of thinking about the way we work, learn, and live together; 3E

Promote development of Collective IQ among, within and by networked improvement communities; 3F

Cultivate a knowledge environment which includes a shared dynamic knowledge repository; 3G

Foster development of an open platform information system infrastructure, based on an Open Hyperdocument Systems (OHS) framework; 3H

Share the A-B-C's of Bootstrapping and support co-evolution of human organizations and their tools; 3I

Enable sharing of effort, cost and risks of advanced exploration among a diverse set of organizations and improvement communities; 3J

Push the scaling of bootstrapping towards what could become National Improvement Infrastructures, as well as a Global Improvement Infrastructure. 3K
 
 

Collaboratively developed since Jan '99 by Douglas Engelbart (assisted by Christina Engelbart, Pat Rush, Mary Dye & Peter Yim).