Our Mission
The Doug Engelbart Institute
was founded by Doug Engelbart with daughter Christina Engelbart to further
his lifelong career goal of boosting our collective capability to solve important problems intelligently, for which he coined the term Collective IQ.
We recognize that the opportunities, problems, and challenges we face – whether business, social, political, economic, environment – are increasing exponentially on a global scale, so finding exponentially more powerful ways to collectively address important challenges is critical;
This is both a dire threat and a golden opportunity – companies, initiatives, regions, nations that kick into gear on this soonest will likely surpass those that don't in leaps and bounds.
The sooner we reach critical mass as a planet, the better off we all are, and thus there is tremendous value in sharing best practices, and in addressing this collectively as a Grand Challenge.
Our mission is to accelerate progress toward this goal through broad-based collaboration, education, outreach, consulting, and hands on exploratory implementations. See Doug's call to action in Augmenting Society's Collective IQ and his Bootstrap "Paradigm Map", with practical pointers and toolkits on our Bootstrapping Innovation resources page.
Hey Kids!
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We also have a special section of the website
devoted to you KIDS! Whether
you are here to work on a homework assignment,
or just for fun, check it out!
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Douglas Carl Engelbart