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Draft Script for a Three Minute Video on the “Promise of Broadband”
By Frank Odasz, frank@lone-eagles.com

Online at http://lone-eagles.com/script1.htm

The New Gold Rush: Mining Raw Human Potential

Opening:
A Chinese blessing is “May you live in interesting times.”  Well, we are certainly blessed. While the recent global economic crisis still has many of us struggling to survive, we also have new communications tools in hand which can allow us to change the world, if indeed we choose to use them to their full potential and support one another.

Act One: The Promise of Broadband

The promise of Broadband is for everyone to connect to something life-changing, empowering, motivating, and meaningful; collaborating as global citizens. The potential is “Everyone Both Learner and Teacher, both Consumer and Producer.”

Scene I: The future has arrived, it just has not been evenly distributed

The promise of broadband is that once everyone is connected and receives the right training, they will be able to learn whatever it is they may need to know anytime, from anywhere. The potential for lighting the fire of the love of learning within all peoples, and for sharing the joy of being able to help others in meaningful ways, has already been thoroughly demonstrated.

Over the last decade, we’ve seen a boom in grassroots innovation from those able to get online and learn from the innovations of others, and to implement and share their own innovations. Imagine a world where everyone can receive the hope to self-actualize their full potential. Today, we live in a very different world than just ten years ago.

Scene II. A proliferation of free web tools is rapidly evolving to be easier and more powerful, to learn, to teach, and to make the living you want, living wherever you want. In addition, mobile devices are getting cheaper and more capable of mobile Ecommerce, called m-commerce, as well as m-learning, and more. Are you subscribed to the best fasttrack update videos to be delivered daily via your smartphone to inform you on what you didn’t know you needed to know?  It is very likely you will soon be introduced to similar services and new smartphone capabilities. The video announcing Apple’s new Ipad at www.apple.com is well worth watching.

In a world of accelerating change, keeping everyone to the same instant of process has become essential. As better innovations appear, they are being quickly shared worldwide, fueling the imaginations of a growing number of grassroots innovators now numbered in the billions.

Did you know that in Kenya farmers are earning 30% more by being able to receive text updates on cellphones? Did you know 300,000 people in Bangladesh are learning English via Cellphones?  Did you know that the ability to transfer cash interactionally can now be done with a single text message?  These simple solutions are allowing millions to pull themselves out of poverty. The Gold Rush has begun! Whole Nations have discovered that their motherlode of opportunity is the people themselves. We are limited only by our imaginations.

Those who are still disconnected are “digitally disabled” and unable to participate in this global hologram of human imagination. Those who are connected, despite any physical disabilities, can do extraordinary things, for themselves as well as others. Individuals need trusted intermediates to connect them with relevant, accurate information.

ACT Two, Scene One: Now that we can, we must:
The human family is now faced with the challenge of recognizing that despite our cultural identities, we are witnessing an emerging global citizenship set of values. As connectivity makes the world smaller, we can better see how our differences make us recognize our sameness. And that the welfare of all citizens has everything to do with global security, no matter where we live.  There is a realization that we can now educate and engage everyone in the global supply chain, as our only joint option for lasting global peace and sustainability.

Scene Two: Teaching the Innovation and Value-creation Dynamics
In order for each of us to make a living, we need to be able to create value. In a knowledge economy such value has a lot to do with delivering education on what others didn’t know they needed to know. Information condenses to knowledge which condenses to wisdom and Value is created. Less is More in the age of information overload.  In question is “Can each of us participate in helping others learn, and in keeping us all up to the same instant of progress?”

The recent boom of E-learning and social media innovations, such as Wikipedia, Facebook and Youtube allow citizens to collaboratively self-publish in ways that empower everyone. “If we all share what we know, we’ll all have access to all our knowledge. “No one knows as much as all of us.”

Scene Three: The Core questions facing America and all Americans:

1. What Matters Most? The answer is highly individual and whether broadband innovations yet exist heavily depends on who is leading defining the best innovations. Americans themselves or big companies, big government, and the politics of control? Most people want control over their own destinies, and as much independence as possible, which is what has suddenly become possible.

2. What's the very best good people can learn to do to help each other? Whether using broadband for themselves, their local community, the nation, and/or the world?

The Power of One – One person’s online resources, innovations, and teachings, now have the potential to reach and benefit literally billions. This is a promise of broadband. Encouraging and mentoring someone to gain new confidence, knowledge and tools to allow them to also make a impact is a positive aspect of broadband, counter to the many scams designed to deceive and cheat others.

The Power of Many – Collaborating and sharing can produce an exponential return on everyone’s efforts. New global virtual communities are emerging; suggesting that future virtual nations of purpose will become viable players on the world stage. Good people taking action.

“Crowd-sourcing” is a new term related to the opportunity to benefit from gathering all the best ideas, from which the best-of-the-best can be evaluated and routinely shared. Based on past successes, corporations and governments are now opening themselves to public input and requesting those with big ideas please speak up.

Conclusion:

Native Hawaiian Values as Global Citizenship Values

Your life is a gift from the Creator. What you do with it is your gift back to the Creator.
Broadband Basics Training includes global citizenship core values which reflect the Native  Hawaiian values of stewardship of the Earth, and of prioritizing the needs of family and community through social enterprises demonstrating the Native Hawaiian spirit as a values-based model for the global community.

Social Quantum Theory as The New Gold Rush: Mining Raw Human Potential

If one person can create self-directed online learning resources that can benefit an unlimited number of citizens, anywhere, anytime, then the future of nations may depend on how quickly we can unlock the inherent potential of all citizens. The potential socio-economic benefits are exponential – which means the more people engaged, the greater the overall potential impacts.

What’s Needed Most: Is an online clearinghouse and help desk that is kept current with free online resources and training and an invitation for all identified vulnerable populations to learn how they can best support their own information needs as well as those of others.  We can do this together, by Hawaiians, for Hawaiians, with Aloha-spirit to encourage everyone that they can make a meaningful difference by realizing their own full potential to help others.