Introduction

1. Introduction Trunityis a web-hosted group publishing platform on which anyone or organization can build scaleable, group managed websites and networked communities without technical skills. Watch video Trunity integrates authoring, blogging, news, events, multimedia and social networking functionality into a unified platform with robust collaboration and content management  functionality, giving individuals and organizations a new and extremely cost-effective way to develop online content and catalyze community activity. The Trunity platform also features a unique federated directory, content sharing and user identity functionality, enabling powerful new types of collaborations — not just within communities but also across multiple organizations or networks of web sites. • Organized like a “mirror of the world around us.”

2. What is Trunity? The Multi-University Human Rights Project Trunity was designed by and for scholars as a web-based information resource that combines the trustworthiness and authority of a content review process and the power of web-based collaboration with a particular emphasis on the interaction between society and subject matter experts. Platform architecture designed for bureaucracy-flattening, distributed and decentralized collaboration. The Trunity platform establishes a new benchmark in web publishing. See step by step tutorial video How to Build a WebsiteASEAN live mockup

3. Market Firsts • Web-Hosted Professional Standard Content Mgmt Systems (CMS) Trunity is the first truly scaleable, and first fully web-hosted CMS. Existing social networks lack the ability to organize content. • Interoperability and Virtual Neighborhoods • Websites and sections of website directories on the Trunity platform can be easily organized and integrated into three dimensional network configurations in ways not contemplated on any other platform. • Live Cross Publishing: • Trunity’s unique platform architecture allows for unrestricted publishing of content across the platform while maintaining original editorial control and attribution.

4. Technical Advantage Trunity is easy. No technical barriers Because no special “technical” skills are required to build and manage portals, no more barriers between those with the knowledge and those seeking knowledge on the world wide web. Support for Ad Hoc Editorial Groups, Enterprise Special groups or editorial committees can publish or syndicate existing content per ad hoc editorial policies. Every Website is Independent and Autonomous Each portal is the primary entry point or door into it’s network. Relationships between portals within networks (virtual neighborhoods) are by mutual consent and are mutually exclusive. • Editorial Process (peer) Review • 1400 scholars from over one hundred universities publishing over seven thousand papers on the Earth Portal have driven the Trunity editorial process requirements

5. Strategic Advantage Dublin Core Standard Content published on the Trunity platform conforms to the international standard for digital publishing and archiving. This data standard has been adopted by museums, libraries, governments and universities. Trunity Hosts The Digital Universe (see Wikipedia) For further discussion examples: EarthPortalCosmosPortalOceansPortal Access to existing human rights document archive Over one hundred of the core human rights declarations, treaties and laws available to re-publish and organize in your own network. Highly respected existing user community Experts in science, education, economic development and human rights.

6. Economic Advantage • Web-Based Platform Means No Infrastructure Costs • The Trunity Web Service uses best practices for redundancy, mirroring and security on Sun web servers in collocations on an Internet backbone. No user-side equipment is required. • No Out of Pocket Cost to Build Initial FWII DSN Trunity and FWII will work together with HRRCA to develop and solicit funding for hosting, training and capacity expansion. Opportunity to Form and Seek Funding as a Digital Universe (DU) Steward Coalition Running on the same platform, The Digital Universe Foundation is sponsoring the creation of the most trusted network of informational portals on the Internet. *The National Council for Science and The Environment (NCSE), as the secretariat for the DU Earth Portal Coalition recently secured multi-year funding to “create a Learning Community for Solutions to Climate Change” on the Trunity platform

7. People Advantage Minimal Training Requirements for Self-Sufficiency More people can be trained more easily providing for an ever increasing community of people publishing on the web. Trunity Websites Reinforces Digital Literacy Skills As a CMS, the Trunity platform brings together core digital literacy skills (word processing, file management, web-based tools) in a coherent, organized way. Organizing Around Dewey Decimal Concepts User defined directories employ the Dewey Decimal methodology Think: Localized Context Sensitive Pedagogy Consider the implications if anyone or group can build multimedia enabled virtual classrooms, curricula and resources at the community level. Increased Productivity of interns and volunteers Volunteers can work from any computer with an Internet connection.

8. Trunity VS Other

9. Real Networks A TRUEnetwork of autonomous groups that mirrors the way we really operate in the real world. • By real people • By mutual consent • By mutually exclusive changing perspective Build real networks navigable from any node.

10. Web 3.0 Architecture Web 3.0Architecture Powerful new types of collaboration, not just within communities but also across multiple organizations and communities.

11. Content Management • Scaleable • Directory Driven • Dublin Core Standard • Fully Web-Hosted • Simple, Easy, Powerful

12. Organize Content Library Science Organize and publish thousands of documents, videos, photos and more using ‘best practices’ in Library Science

13. Institutional Digital Archive Supports the “Dublin Core” International Standard for Digital Archives. Scaleable. Powerful enough for Universities, governments, libraries and large corporations.

14. Group Publishing Unprecedented authoring, group publishing and editorial controls

15. Manage all content in one place

16. Virtual Classroom Trunity allows ANY teacher, school or university to create virtual classrooms & online courses.

17. Global Collaboration A Berkana community exchange ideas and co-create new solutions. “We hope the practice of upcycling will become a natural way of living—that it becomes just what we do by sharing stories from around the world.”

18. International Partnership The Pax Natura Foundation Is an alignment of scientist, landowners, corporations, universities and governments around the world. The Trunity platform allows them to collaborate and publish under academic standards, an ever-growing resource, professionally organized and easy to manage independently or collectively.

19. Small Non-Profits Human Rights Education Center of UtahWhy pay thousands of dollars over years for HTML websites they you update? Now an active board can build and manage a real educational, informative public resource AND integrate curriculum, student projects, membership, events, volunteers and more…

20. What is a Taxonomy? The backbone of the Trunity Platform is expressed here as a table of contents. But it could be an ontology of a particular subject area or personal perspective of world view.

21. The Beginning