Grassroots rural organizations

1. Knowledge Sharing Foundation BioAgricultural Core Manufacturing Core Medical Core Federal Government Manufacturing State Government Rural American Safe Net Micro-farm Cooperative Local Government University and K-12 School Distance Learning Lifetime Learning Grassroots rural organizations

2. SafeNet – Phase I (One County) Three months • Community centered design workshops using a process development methodology (mediator to be determined) • Developing an appreciative social agreement over basic needs and potentials • Assessing lines of political/social/economic influence • Establishing goals and objectives for Return to Agrarian Communities Initiative • Demonstrate a citizen-centric communicator software technology • Based on Open Source software and Federal Enterprise Architecture guidelines • Create a technical assessment for enhancement to wireless grid (rural town to be determined) • Expenditures on Wireless Security hardware

3. SafeNet – Phase II Three months • SafeNet prototype developed using an existing innovative and publicly owned wireless broadband infrastructure in one county • Towers and hardware enhancements • Test Distant Learning for Everyone program • Citizen wireless communicator technology tested • Return to Agrarian Communities Initiative meeting • Assessment of land usage and geographical constraints impacting economic development • Closed ecosystem micro-farming demonstration • Pharmaceutical framing • Micro-electronic assembly plant • Industry recruitment supporting one county Return to Agrarian Communities Initiative

4. SafeNet – Phase III 6 months • Process Development Methodology Workshops in more than one rural counties • Workshops on SafeNet implementations accommodating local lines of influence, goals and objectives • Workshops on the technical principles related to the SafeNet • Wireless hot spot demonstration • Distance learning and economic development demonstrations • Citizen centric communicator technology made available • County by county assessment of land usage and geographical constraints impacting economic development • Industry recruitment supporting Return to Agrarian Communities Initiative

5. SafeNet – Phase IV 12 months • Implementation of County Return to Agrarian Communities Initiative in several rural counties • Reflects an external assessment of rural county needs and potentials • Assists community activists in shaping the plan • Addresses local interests in public owned citizen centric governance • Has strong economic development impact • Produces a resilient communications infrastructure using a cable plus wireless physical infrastructure based on peer-to-peer transmission technology and local governance.

6. County-based Safe-Net • If the WWW goes down Safe-Net is unaffected. Safe-Net is a Virtual Private Network with well defined access portals into the WWW. Safe-Net is developed with Open Source software and micro-transaction accounting • Safe-Net will carry no commercial (advertising) traffic • Non commercial restrictions modeled after public school prohibitions on commercial influences and on social science suggesting that the most efficient Safe-Net is one with a single payer responsibility and no un-necessary information flow. • Public and Private speech (social discussion) about economic issues are, of course, welcome; but advertising that is not easily controllable by the reader is not. • Safe-Net is transactionally transparent and preserves a complete record of all transactions into a referential base • Referential bases are a new technology that compresses event structure into a bit map • Encryption is allowed to preserve a degree of privacy, but point to point transaction information is recorded into the referential base and provide precise evidentiary evidence. This referential base does NOT contain the content, only the record that a point to point transfer of data occurred.

7. Safe-Net Stake Holders • Community leaders within rural counties • Works with Rural Development Councils • Educational leadership at the local level • Envisions the creation of economic power by existing or new individual owned farms • State leadership • Governor’s Office • Commissioner of Agriculture • Federal Leadership • Resilient Communities Initiative (National Bioterrorism Preparedness Initiative) • Strategic Leadership Network (Monthly collaboration workshop at GSA/NSF) • Scholars • Washington DC based BCNGroup Safe-Net advisory committee (15 PhDs) • Union Institute and University distance learning for K-12 plus adult learning, advanced degrees • Knowledge Sharing Foundation distributed knowledge sharing technology and methodologies • KMPro professional organization distance learning content development technology/methodology

8. Levels of Influence White House & Congress Federal Federal Department of Homeland Security Health & Human Services Rural Safe-Net rural county rural county rural county rural county rural county rural county

9. Safe-Net Foundation • Knowledge technology toolkit for Kids (K-12) • Explains how the Safe-Net works and how the computer works (using Open Source software – Python and Linux • Supports the Knowledge Sharing Foundation application layer • Knowledge Sharing Foundation application layer is a single payer application layer that provides all services within the Safe-Net • Micro-transaction accounting is “instrumented” as part of the application layer so that all transactions are transparent to the system administrators • System administrators appointed micro-farming co-operative • Distance learning presentation layer

10. Safe-Net Start-up • Phase I: one county (information gathering) • Inventory of all Internet infrastructure resources in one rural county • Topological map used to detail a three phase implementation of a leading edge common technology extension based on a optical fiber and wireless physical infrastructure • First phase implementation budget developed (target date June 1st, 2004) • Demonstration of the technical capability to produce a Safe Net transactional record that is maintained within a compressed bit map • Phase II: Micro-farm Co-operative assumes responsibility for maintaining and over-seeing the county Safe-Net system.

11. Safe-Net Community Services I • Distance Learning for Everyone • Leading virtual university The Union Institute and University • Professional Knowledge Management society, KMPro.org • additional university based services added based on standard presentation and educational fee schedules • PhD, Masters, Baccalaureate, Agricultural Services, Life-time learning and K-12 curriculums • Community Healthcare services • ICD code reporting from primary care to insurance company • Syndromic surveillance system based on Referential Bases • Mental Health services • Pharmaceutical information and wellness information

12. Safe-Net Community Services II • Bio-Ag Control Systems • Supporting small research pharmaceutical farms • Supporting small to medium sized production pharmaceutical farms • Local micro-electronic production facilities • Emergancy response system • Locally maintained by Fire Department and Hospital • Citizen centered wireless communication devices for all citizens • Mental health resource integration process related to national “Resilient Communities” Initiative

13. Safe-Net Community Services III • Citizen centric governance • Elections can be conducted on County Safe-Net • Public information on government (federal, state, country) public document repositories • County histories and library services • Planning and public notices centralized • One stop citizen feedback and complaint response center

14. Conceptual work on a American Rural SafeNet The following propositions are being considered: Proposition 1: Each County will have a separate SafeNet whose transactional logs are preserved as a public record. Transactional logs do not preserve the content of data transfer, only the fact that there was a transfer of (un-disclosed) data. Proposition 2: The Rural SafeNet will not allow advertising transactions (at all) within an open but protected Peer-to-Peer system. Proposition 3: Speech can be encrypted or compressed, if so desired, and will be regarded as private speech. Proposition 4: If public transaction logs suggest illegal activity, a procedure will be available for local government to make an inquiry. If the inquiry is evidential to criminal prosecution then the matter will go to law enforcement.