Lets Keep It Simple:

Sea level is rising and it is not going to stop!  To island and developing nations this is a threat to unique cultures, families, ways of life, and the future economic systems of a people’s basic sustainability/survivability. 

Yet, there are important things we can do right now to help.  As we mapped Mars for water and minerals, we do the same ‘one-nation-at-a-time’ here on earth for the benefit of the peoples who live there.

The people who live on small islands (and any nation with a coastline) need your/our help to establish both a national drinking water inventory. They also need your/our help to model where rising seas impact their nation, culture, and economy, giving them their own “National Data Sovereignty” and help smash “Digital-Poverty.”

Now lets add-in a majority of our planet’s population is under threat by rising seas, water shortages, and a changing climate.  We all need the best data possible.

·  We want two island nations to be (scientifically proven) the first in the world with a National Water Inventory.  This will greatly aid their future economic status.

·  We want two island nations to become the ‘First Carbon Neutral Nations on the Planet.’ The only thing preventing these nations becoming Carbon Neutral is a planetary data both scientists and Wall Street agree on. 

This is DIGITIZE-A-NATION^TM

The Technical Overview of Digitize-a-Nation:

Every nation is a system-of-systems, from the infrastructure networks that provide food, power, water and information, to the commodity networks of farms and mineral resources. Mapping as if each nation is its own planet, these elements can all be meshed into a single national economic system that provides both balance and a plan for its people’s sustainable development.  Digitize-a-Nation is this first network vivisection that provides ‘information as infrastructure’ to national policy makers to best determine Environmentally Sustainable Growth (ESG) via sustainable investing and effective risk management.

The Non-Technical Overview of Digitize-a-Nation:

We rocket scientists can map a small country as its own planet, give the data to its people, and let them build their future with new tools, and let the people who live there create the nation they think best for their needs and dreams. 

Ok, So What’s the problem? 

In most small and developing nations, policy leaders make decisions using incomplete or outdated national data.  The lack of a sovereign data network let big nations and multinational corporations negotiate with ‘Data Superiority’ over a small nation’s economic future.  This is unfair, and can lead to national bullying of small and developing nations by others. It is their nation, it should be their data.

Ok, So what might a solution be? 

In order for the local island people to manage where sea-level rise is changing the physical and economic environment, the government and the indigenous communities need their own interactive networked sovereign planetary database meshed with Wall Street economics to build their sustainable future. Leaders need National Data Sovereignty.

The network is designed to empower: 

·  A national inventory can become a national identity.

·  A new access to information and applications.

·  Data Sovereignty can be a national treasure.

·  Proactive Risk Management improves microcredit and new business.

·  Improve National Sovereign Credit Rating.

·  Create a new National Water Inventory.

·  Create a new National Coastal Monitoring 24/7.

·  Expanding Environmentally Sustainable Investment Networking.

·  Improving Sustainable Economics to Existing Business.

·  Education, Training, New Employment, engaging an entire population.

·  Create a Minerals, Mining, Earth Commodities Inventory.

·  Create an Energy and Infrastructure Inventory with breathable visual maps.

·  Commercial Agriculture Inventory and Commodity networking.

·  Planetary mapping of Geothermal/Wind/Solar/Tide mapping.

·  Complete Marine Environment Inventory Mapping/Monitoring.

·  New Digital Shepherding and remote monitoring of indigenous animal populations.

·  Eco-Tourism and Citizen Scientist applications with iPLANT.

·  Education at all levels, especially engaging girls to technology.

The success of this project not only empowers the lives of people and sustainability topics yet also prove the viability of local data networks.

Their Value Proposition

Every day small/developing nations pay hidden risk fees to currency and commodity markets, that better data would eliminate and reverse inflationary costs of risk across each nation, and better engage its population into digital systems, micro-economics and new markets.  A Digitized nation’s GDP should increase 3% the first year, recovering the cost of the Digitize program.  In 3-years, a Digitized nation should see +10% in GDP, plus data as a commodity, should become its own income generator.  A public/private-partnership should also stimulate new information networked to business, education, and training.

Why do we list as Entrepreneur not Community?

Working towards a ‘Franchise’ type model, we want the people of a Digitized nation to make money and build new businesses from their own data set; and encourage each nation build a ‘public-private-partnership’ between its sovereign leadership, its academic, and business community.  Let them be the Entrepreneurs with this data.

ABOUT US

Digitize-a-Nation is an LLC based in Washington DC founded and directed by Andrew Cameron and William Brammer both who really like planet earth and all the people here.  Planet earth has more roller-coasters than all the other planets combined.  We need to take the space tools we have and make them work for everyone on the planet, especially those in small and developing nations. 

At Digitize-a-Nation we are using the most advanced SuperComputers to develop a new approach that network satellite data with Wall Street to benefit those on this planet who need help the most.  Fighting Poverty and cultivating long-term sustainable practices begins with empowering the communities living there actually begin with data. Its how we map planets, its how we help our own.

We have collaboration with the Space Agencies, top science, top explorers and oceanographers, top supercomputer people, top economists, and of course a bunch of very fun rocket scientists.  We are serious about what we can do!!

Ok, What We Need from You

We need to get a science plane in the air and collect planetary data and put it into a SuperComputer.  Simple, however airplanes and supercomputers cost money.  The first step will cost $440,000 and help us get the World Bank and Wall Street to cover the rest.  However, the value return for the island nation can be in the tens of millions over time, reducing risk with better data, better their lives, and better their interaction with New Environmentally Sustainable Investing.

To fulfill our 2015 promises to the island nations and keep their data program protected, we need to charter a specialized sensor aircraft, collect that data, buy supercomputer time and create a new data model and connect to a network.  Your donation will go directly to chartering the satellite simulator aircraft and data infrastructure that allows us to put Planetary data into a SuperComputer ‘point cloud’ and made available for the needs of the people, the needs of the nation, and become a new model for the planet. 

Once you the visionary supporters, the people of the islands, the rocket scientists, and we at Digitize-a-Nation have this first mission accomplished, Wall Street will understand economics work better with Planetary data from the nation itself, and then World Bank among other international institutions should begin to fund the needs for more island nations, more developing nations, and ultimately all nation’s water and a sustainable economic future. 

But this can only happen with your help!

2015 Minimum budget

You can help in two ways:

1. Please Donate Here Today! Help us fund this big and challenging, sustainable project.  (If you were/are a Scout feel free to include your troop/den number, or if a student, include your teacher/school name)

2. Spread the word!Tell your friends about this opportunity. Please call a friend, share our campaign link on Facebook and other social media.

Only by working together can we better the only planet we have,

one-nation-at-a-time.

From all of us at Digitize-a-Nation

Thank You

for making a difference!

and

Thank You

to our

space/science/technology/economic

collaborators and supporting organizations!

The Perks: Now 

A Monument to Vision.  No T-shirts, as all money goes to rent the airplane and supercomputer time to crunch numbers, and build the first Digitize model.  Every contributing visionary will get their names etched into a monument to be placed on the island built by local artists.  There will also be an “on-line” monument, which our designers say will be very very cool. 

The Perks: Later 

Though Not Right Away, if we can get this started, maybe 6 months after the first flight and first data, our team likes the idea of having a Big Virtual Party to connect the first visionaries and all the people on the islands in a one hour monster chat room to say hello to everyone.  Lets use the supercomputers and make a world of friends!!  Lets let other people far away from us that we care about them and that their issues matter to us.