Internet's New Civilization Network

The main Social Innovations Award for 1995 and £1,000 in awards money), in this, the 10th anniversary year of the Institute for Social Inventions (founded September 1st '85) goes to Internet's New Civilization Network and the related World Transformation and Whole Systems areas on the World Wide Web, run by Flemming Funch on a shoestring budget in California. His overall theme is 'to make the world a better place' and his site provides free space for many non-profit groups, including the Institute for Social Inventions' new Global Ideas Bank, for which Funch did all the coding. He sees the potential of Internet to be 'more than theoretical discussions and electronic networking. My idea is for people to get together and work on projects with tangible results'. See page 194 for details.

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