Addressing Poverty with IT PDF Print E-mail

The Information Age empowers us to create economic opportunity by connecting projects with communications tools which bring Access, Markets, and Community to those in need. Prosperity Program is designed into the FDU Game in order to ensure expanded opportunity for those in, or at risk of, persistent poverty via programs that: increase income security, help people connect to the globalized information age labor market, protect their earnings from theft, and enable them to advance into a more sustainable lifestyle.

Escaping persistent poverty is a daunting challenge, particularly those in third world countries where government assistance is essentially impossible. It is private NPO, and NGO groups which provide the majority of services to the most impoverished people;

Doctors without Borders, Amnesty International, & Red Cross provide health services, Room To Read educational services, and many faith based Missions help by bringing food, building shelters, setting up solar power, and most importantly with water projects. Through cooperative humanitarian outreach and effective programs that provide fishing poles instead of donating a fish, many impoverished families can succeed in entering the Information Age labor market thereby building digital earnings and assets, and prospering from the growing global digital economy of the Internet.

Objectives of the FDU Game in Addressing Poverty
Income Security: To improve income security and wealth based on non-natural resources (such as shooting a Lion video, instead of the Lion for his skin,) by advancing policies and programs designed to increase income and assets even for those not utiliziong tools of the information age.

Reducing Barriers to Employment: To reduce barriers to employment by offering opportunities for self-created jobs over the internet, direct exchange of hand-crafted goods, an unencumbered currency that has no debt repayment responsibilities, and support for no cost Access Points which facilitate entrance into the digital market for the most impoverished Users.


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