Grassroots

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Knowledge Sharing Foundation BioAgricultural Core
Manufacturing Core Medical Core
Federal Government
Manufacturing
State Government
Rural American Safe Net
Micro-farm Cooperative
Local Government
University and K-12 School Distance
Learning Lifetime Learning
Grassroots rural organizations
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SafeNet Phase I (One County) Three months
Community centered design workshops using a
process development methodology (mediator to be
determined) Developing an appreciative social
agreement over basic needs and potentials Assessin
g lines of political/social/economic influence
Establishing goals and objectives for Return to
Agrarian Communities Initiative Demonstrate a
citizen-centric communicator software technology
Based on Open Source software and Federal
Enterprise Architecture guidelines Create a
technical assessment for enhancement to wireless
grid (rural town to be determined) Expenditures
on Wireless Security hardware
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SafeNet Phase II Three months
SafeNet prototype developed using an existing
innovative and publicly owned wireless broadband
infrastructure in one county Towers and hardware
enhancements Test Distant Learning for Everyone
program Citizen wireless communicator technology
tested Return to Agrarian Communities Initiative
meeting Assessment of land usage and
geographical constraints impacting economic
development Closed ecosystem micro-farming
demonstration Pharmaceutical framing
Micro-electronic assembly plant Industry
recruitment supporting one county Return to
Agrarian Communities Initiative
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SafeNet Phase III 6 months
Process Development Methodology Workshops in more
than one rural counties Workshops on SafeNet
implementations accommodating local lines of
influence, goals and objectives Workshops on the
technical principles related to the SafeNet
Wireless hot spot demonstration Distance
learning and economic development demonstrations
Citizen centric communicator technology made
available County by county assessment of land
usage and geographical constraints impacting
economic development Industry recruitment
supporting Return to Agrarian Communities
Initiative
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SafeNet Phase IV 12 months
Implementation of County Return to Agrarian
Communities Initiative in several rural
counties Reflects an external assessment of rural
county needs and potentials Assists community
activists in shaping the plan Addresses local
interests in public owned citizen centric
governance Has strong economic development
impact Produces a resilient communications
infrastructure using a cable plus wireless
physical infrastructure based on peer-to-peer
transmission technology and local governance.
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County-based Safe-Net

• If the WWW goes down Safe-Net is unaffected.
  Safe-Net is a Virtual Private Network with well
  defined access portals into the WWW. Safe-Net is
  developed with Open Source software and
  micro-transaction accounting
• Safe-Net will carry no commercial (advertising)
  traffic
• Non commercial restrictions modeled after public
  school prohibitions on commercial influences and
  on social science suggesting that the most
  efficient Safe-Net is one with a single payer
  responsibility and no un-necessary information
  flow.
• Public and Private speech (social discussion)
  about economic issues are, of course, welcome
  but advertising that is not easily controllable
  by the reader is not.
• Safe-Net is transactionally transparent and
  preserves a complete record of all transactions
  into a referential base
• Referential bases are a new technology that
  compresses event structure into a bit map
• Encryption is allowed to preserve a degree of
  privacy, but point to point transaction
  information is recorded into the referential base
  and provide precise evidentiary evidence. This
  referential base does NOT contain the content,
  only the record that a point to point transfer of
  data occurred.

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Safe-Net Stake Holders
Community leaders within rural counties Works
with Rural Development Councils Educational
leadership at the local level Envisions the
creation of economic power by existing or new
individual owned farms State leadership Governors
Office Commissioner of Agriculture Federal
Leadership Resilient Communities Initiative
(National Bioterrorism Preparedness
Initiative) Strategic Leadership Network (Monthly
collaboration workshop at GSA/NSF) Scholars
Washington DC based BCNGroup Safe-Net advisory
committee (15 PhDs) Union Institute and
University distance learning for K-12 plus adult
learning, advanced degrees Knowledge Sharing
Foundation distributed knowledge sharing
technology and methodologies KMPro professional
organization distance learning content
development technology/methodology
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Levels of Influence
White House

Congress
Federal
Federal
Department of Homeland Security
Health Human Services
Rural Safe-Net
rural county
rural county
rural county
rural county
rural county
rural county
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Safe-Net Foundation
Knowledge technology toolkit for Kids (K-12)
Explains how the Safe-Net works and how the
computer works (using Open Source software
Python and Linux Supports the Knowledge Sharing
Foundation application layer Knowledge Sharing
Foundation application layer is a single payer
application layer that provides all services
within the Safe-Net Micro-transaction accounting
is instrumented as part of the application
layer so that all transactions are transparent to
the system administrators System administrators
appointed micro-farming co-operative Distance
learning presentation layer
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Safe-Net Start-up
Phase I one county (information
gathering) Inventory of all Internet
infrastructure resources in one rural
county Topological map used to detail a three
phase implementation of a leading edge common
technology extension based on a optical fiber and
wireless physical infrastructure First phase
implementation budget developed (target date June
1st, 2004) Demonstration of the technical
capability to produce a Safe Net transactional
record that is maintained within a compressed bit
map Phase II Micro-farm Co-operative assumes
responsibility for maintaining and over-seeing
the county Safe-Net system.
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Safe-Net Community Services I

• Distance Learning for Everyone
• Leading virtual university The Union Institute
  and University
• Professional Knowledge Management society,
  KMPro.org
• additional university based services added based
  on standard presentation and educational fee
  schedules
• PhD, Masters, Baccalaureate, Agricultural
  Services, Life-time learning and K-12 curriculums
• Community Healthcare services
• ICD code reporting from primary care to insurance
  company
• Syndromic surveillance system based on
  Referential Bases
• Mental Health services
• Pharmaceutical information and wellness
  information

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Safe-Net Community Services II
Bio-Ag Control Systems Supporting small
research pharmaceutical farms Supporting small
to medium sized production pharmaceutical
farms Local micro-electronic production
facilities Emergancy response system Locally
maintained by Fire Department and
Hospital Citizen centered wireless communication
devices for all citizens Mental health resource
integration process related to national
Resilient Communities Initiative
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Safe-Net Community Services III
Citizen centric governance Elections can be
conducted on County Safe-Net Public information
on government (federal, state, country) public
document repositories County histories and
library services Planning and public notices
centralized One stop citizen feedback and
complaint response center
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Conceptual work on a American Rural SafeNet
The following propositions are being
considered Proposition 1 Each County will have
a separate SafeNet whose transactional logs are
preserved as a public record. Transactional logs
do not preserve the content of data transfer,
only the fact that there was a transfer of
(un-disclosed) data. Proposition 2 The Rural
SafeNet will not allow advertising transactions
(at all) within an open but protected
Peer-to-Peer system. Proposition 3 Speech can be
encrypted or compressed, if so desired, and will
be regarded as private speech. Proposition 4
If public transaction logs suggest illegal
activity, a procedure will be available for local
government to make an inquiry. If the inquiry is
evidential to criminal prosecution then the
matter will go to law enforcement.