The mission of Humanetrix (human.net.tricks) is to create and support the development of open innovative technologies that serve to bring people together across the spectrum of the human condition and to promote positive change in society at large.
Relevant Project(s)
- Humanthread is an internet and web application (in development), the purpose of which is to collect and archive the life experience of human beings as they would tell the tales in their own voices. Humanthread will be, when completed, a freely accessible and permanently available digital library of oral and written historical accounts as conveyed in the first person.
- The Citizens' Toolkit is a project (in development) designed to make information about the workings of American democratic institutions more accessible and understandable to citizens. The Citizens' Toolkit for Bloomington website provides voting information, including poll finding, for Bloomington and Monroe County residents.
- Teaparty is a topical and threaded web forum designed to facilitate discussion on topics of political import and current debate.
Relevant Methodologies
The use of information technology--the Internet in particular--as providing a powerful and nearly limitless set of tools which may be brought to bear on behalf of the public good. The promotion of human dialog, personal interconnectedness, cultural understanding, cultivation of civil society, general life-long curiosity and the greater enjoyment of life are all at the heart of our mission and thus, the projects and educational initiatives we devise and support. The production of open-source software is one important way of helping to network and improve access to technology for all people.
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Humanetrix Foundation, Inc.
714 N. Fairview St.
Bloomington, IN 47404