Why ePangea?

Paulo Freire once suggested that freedom is only accessible through learning. He suggested that respectful and inclusive democracy begins in the classroom, through dialogue. That dialogue begins with a word and that without this word, without individual expression, we could not emancipate ourselves. Congruently, Esperanto was once thought to be the key to facilitating communication and thus, universal access to conflict resolution. ePangea aligns with this line of thinking.

The classroom need not be a concrete brick and mortar building. The classroom is our mind and our innate curiosity, if permitted to roam freely, will absorb - and symbiotically, directly and indirectly, affect - any environment it may find itself in. ePangea attempts to bring the world to your fingertips so that your mind can roam free in whatever environment it so chooses.

How is it different from Wikipedia?

It tracks learner profiles and facilitates collaborative learning.

It connects to platforms like LinkPower to generate practical experiential learning and improve local communities in the process while transferring knowledge between all those involved.

It allows users to track their own learning progress and identify their next steps in reaching their personal and professional goals.

It allows recruiters to quickly locate qualified resources required for their tasks, projects and programs.

It cultivates intrinsic motivation by allowing the user to satisfy their curiosity through exploration. It can team the user up with another learner that has the same immediate ability and interest profile, securely bypassing the constrictive grade-level groupings schools are confined to.

It allows the user to click into an intuitive interface that permits the discovery of unknown unknowns. For example, how can we learn about polar bears when we've never heard of the term "bear"? ePangea allows the user to click into parts of their subjective reality, drilling into the micro to macro and back to the micro of the things and places that they never knew existed.

How can such a large platform be sustained when free?

If all humans pitched in a dollar a year, we'd have close to an 8 billion dollar yearly budget. If we use the 80/20 rule, we find that 20% of 8 billion is 1.6 billion people. Let's only take 20% of that 1.6 billion so we're left with only 320 million, or 4%, of the world population. We can make do with 1/20th of that. That is 16 million, or 0.2%, of the world population that would contribute a single 1$/yr to this project.

If individuals do not wish to support this initiative monetarily to avoid conflicts of interest, we could request that a portion of our collective tax budgets be allocated to it instead. The goal would be to ensure that everyone everywhere can learn with the intention of creating a safer world through increased collaboration. This will inevitably result in less military spending and inversely, larger education and health budgets and/or fewer taxes. A centralized crypto fund can be put together, perhaps funded in the same way the UN does with UNESCO. Transparency will be paramount, management will be meritocratic and democratic, and administrative overhead costs kept at an absolute minimum.

Who manages what is taught? Who manages the machine?

We all do. Via the most sophisticated algorithm that incorporates all that we know about usage ratings, user reputation, accountability, machine learning, blockchain, and practically every other attribute we can account for in terms of deciding what knowledge and approaches to learning will be returned to the user's unique inquiry that was made at a given time, suited for his/her/their latest assessed abilities profile, and all of which is securely stored and updated in real-time.