Overview

Remember the old Microsoft tagline : “Where do you want to go today?” The implication is that information technology can help you achieve your goals whatever they are. Indeed, in today’s world it is often true.

Whatever your project, whether professional or personal, there are certain common issues that you are likely to encounter:

Most projects could use some additional resources

In most projects you will need to find relevant information

Most project participants would benefit from improving their expertise, which means not just finding information but learning new concepts and methods

Most projects require some analytical decisions

While existing technology is already very helpful for all these things, it can do a lot better. And the better it does, the more likely is your project to succeed.

On this website I’ve outlined some ideas about promising next steps to take in this direction:

• Community Enterprise : get additional resources and energy through crowdsourcing.
• Knowledge formalization for the masses : improve search through better tagging.
• Edupedia : build the best learning resource in the world.
• Real Debate : make better analytical decisions.