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Welcome to World University and School, a global, virtual, digital, open, (potentially degree-granting - Ph.D., M.D., & Music School, etc.), free-to-students, university and school, with great universities (e.g. MIT, Ivy League Schools, Stanford, U.C. Berkeley, Oxford, T.U.M., Sorbonne, L.M.U., Juilliard Music School, Cambridge, Collège de France, Cal Tech, B.T.U., University of Chicago, etc.) as key web content ~~players~~, based on a Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware model, especially for the developing world, and for everyone.

Welcome to World University and School, a global, virtual, digital, open, (potentially degree-granting - Ph.D., M.D., & Music School, etc.), free-to-students, university and school, with great universities (e.g. MIT, Ivy League Schools, Stanford, U.C. Berkeley, Oxford, T.U.M., Sorbonne, L.M.U., Juilliard Music School, Cambridge, Collège de France, Cal Tech, B.T.U., University of Chicago, etc.) as key web content generators, based on a Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware model, especially for the developing world, and for everyone.

Mission

World University & School's (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com - like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware) - mission is to facilitate all levels of teaching and learning opportunities (and potentially degrees, eventually) through an open, editable wiki in all languages, nation-states and subjects with great universities, and for One Laptop per Child countries and everyone.

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Master Plan

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Engage new technological developments robustly, as they emerge.

Engage, and help to generate, new technological developments (partnering with MIT?) robustly, as they emerge.

Budget robustly for technological innovation and experimentation.

Interns positions in the first two years (20 hrs a week maximum):

The following report to the General Manager:

1 head of WUaS Universitian community building – like Wikipedians – Everyone can teach – new content generators with web cameras

1 head of wiki Academic sections, for eventual degrees (Ph.D., B.A., Music degrees)

1 head of One Laptop per Child wiki languages' development

1 head of wiki, new, open Teaching and Learning content aggregation

1 head of wiki and other Information Technology technical development – including Google Wave

1 head of languages' development – liaison with other WUaS languages

1 head of nation-state wiki – and eventual accreditation in each

1 head of Second Life island development

1 head of New Intern Development – nascent Human Resources position – job descriptions

1 head of legal questions - Creative Commons law, California Law, U.S. Law

1 head of outreach and marketing (and branding?)

1 head of Minutes for all the committees, each of the above being a committee, facilitating and training other recording clerks - (email collation?)

1 head of Medical School and eventual hospital development

1 head of Music School

1 head of Design

1 head of New Schools (e.g. Law, Veterinary, Dental)

The following report to the 'Head of Fundraising and Fiduciary Responsibility' (a Quaker):

1 intern head of grant writing (e.g. Bill and Melinda Gates' foundation, Buffett, Sloan, Soros, Silicon Valley computer company foundations, all of the Domini Social Equity Corporations' Foundations (companies that have met socially responsible and activist screens)

1 head of corporate liaisons (where WUaS could offer accounting courses for companies, and related course development as 'thank you' courses, for significant grants)

1 head of academic liaison for pension and health benefits for FTEs

1 head of accounting

1 head of communication with board members (for 5 person clerk board and for 100+ person board – a board member in every major city in the world?)

1 head of endowment management and planning (socially-conscious mutual fund indexing approach).

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Quarter 2

Build community of Universitians - like Wikipedians - who contribute richly idea-wise to WUaS (e.g. students, worldwide, at great universities - Cal, Stanford, MIT, Ivy Leagues, Cambridge, Sorbonne, etc. as one group of such ~~folks~~?; Quakers as another group?; Bohemians as another?; Peace community as another?)

Build community of Universitians - like Wikipedians - long into the future, through active outreach, who contribute richly idea-wise to WUaS (e.g. students, worldwide, at great universities - Cal, Stanford, MIT, Ivy Leagues, Cambridge, Sorbonne, etc. as one group of such Universitians?; Quakers as another group?; Bohemians as another?; Peace community as another?)

~~get~~ One Laptop per Child ~~Languages~~ working with at least 4 subjects (1 intern)

Get One Laptop per Child languages working with at least 4 subjects & 1 intern for all 9 languages, at first; plan to hire a Ph.D. per language to generate a university and school in each language

Quarter 3

Add 10-20 languages to WUaS in rudimentary form (with around 4 subjects each); As a wiki, people can add languages if they want.

Quarter 4

Add 10-20 nation states to WUaS in rudimentary form (with around 4 subjects each, textbook sections, legal questions for eventual degree granting)

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Year 2011

Add remaining 175-ish Wikipedia languages, not added earlier

Add 10-20 more nation-states

Plan for mobile video capable device acquisitions, like OLPC handhelds with video, for OLPC countries, to complement OLPC areas, and to reach out to other populations.

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Plan for wiring some OLPC countries (New Guinea?) for video capability

Server farms

Server farms?

Unique WUaS video publishing (e.g. WUaS's own open, free Ustream or Youtube) for some teaching and learning material.

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Year 2012

Add remaining 3000-8000 languages to WUaS in rudimentary form (with around 4 subjects)