Online Think Tank Empowers Citizens to Solve Real Problems via Web, Cellphones

BONITA, Calif., June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The last week's events in Iran have
underlined a new global reality: like it or not, common web and mobile
technologies are changing all aspects of the world.

Over the last five years or so, new Web 2.0 tools have hit society like one
wave after another: MySpace, Skype, Facebook, YouTube, all the various iPhone
and Blackberry applications, and now Twitter.

But to a large degree, these enormously capable technologies have been used
for rather trivial purposes: entertainment, gossip, playing video games,
publicizing bad garage bands, and re-sending the same
cat-falling-off-the-couch video hundreds of times.

Now comes an organization which wants to help people use these tools for
grander purposes. Why not, says the World Mind Network, use our vastly
expanded powers of electronic networking to improve education, do research,
brainstorm solutions to long-standing social problems, build community across
political divides, and utilize collaborative online mind-mapping to address
common issues.

Starting June 24, membership is free and available to all.

Joining the World Mind Network is like having a Facebook or Twitter account,
but it assumes that one is interested in improving the world somehow.
Participants can join a forum devoted to improving science education
co-moderated by a Nobel Laureate (Peter Doherty), build a community around a
disappearing art form, start a psychological research project, or contribute
to an interactive blog on the world economic crisis co-hosted by another
Nobelist (Edmund Phelps).

The idea is that web and mobile communications have turned the globe into
something like a huge brain, with vast processing power and ability to address
major challenges. Yet as a species, mankind has for the most part failed to
take advantage of this, since Web 2.0 tools are not traditionally marketed
that way. But the notion that an average person can have an enormous effect on
the world through free tools that are used every day for business and pleasure
is becoming more and more evident.

According to the World Mind Network, in the last 15 years or so Humanity has
traversed the anthropological scale from Homo Sapiens (Thinking Man) to Homo
Connnectivus (Connected Man) to the current Homo Endunamonus (Empowered Man).

The possibilities are endless. See http://theworldmindnetwork.net

Contact:

John Toomey
(626) 230-8862
friendsbeyondborders@gmail.com
Skype: johnatoomey

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SOURCE The World Mind Network

John Toomey, +1-626-230-8862, friendsbeyondborders@gmail.com, for World Mind
Network