The fundamental philosophy of philanthropy we see everywhere is: “the haves” give to “the have-nots”.
Now, this model has most definitely had its fair share of impact -- namely through the likes of Bill Gates and Ratan Tata -- but we believe it to be a disservice to all if we satisfice with its efficacy.
Therefore, our plan takes a different approach. We want to leverage the ballooning human population by creating a platform that allows people to lift themselves up, as opposed to be reliant on others.
To test our hypothesis, what better place to start than the world’s largest democracy -- India.
In other words, India2 -- the non-profit organisation we will finance -- will leverage digital products’ negligible replication cost by offering a blockchain integrated online general education repository for <10c per month. The goal being to provide the hundreds of millions further down the socio-economic distribution with vital knowledge in a manner that resonates, while all profits get invested in Sugata Mitra’s “School in the Cloud” and other low-cost solutions to primary education.
As you can see, effectively, we would have created a feedback loop -- citizens learn and visibly contribute to society’s development, through which we hope that they continue to learn more, earn more, and contribute more.
The power of digital products can be very easily seen by all the tech giants today. Difference is, no one has leveraged this for philanthropy.
