Maiella National Park (Italy): WUaS News and Q&A 2/22/21 - Hi Universitians, Here are the videos from last week - https://drive.google.com/file/d/15SAQSqSbG8W2ZRiJuf-FeADW7oV6Iig5/view .... - and today, Monday, 2/22/21 for your reference - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BO2nci8Jm7qEVezu7QTzsbguKPcvB9O4/view * * And here's the article I mentioned too - Phil Windley The Generative Self-Sovereign Internet https://www.windley.com/archives/2020/12/the_generative_self-sovereign_internet.shtml

Dear Scott,

Thank you for adding my email address to your mailing list and the twitter link too. I just finished viewing the 2/8/20 News Meeting of WUaS with Friz Lebowsky in its entirety. A remarkable conversation on too many points for me to be able to keep this brief, but please know it spoke to me in a very profound way. 

In addition to my Linkedin profile I would like to give you an understanding about the depth of my desire to facilitate human understanding and expansion. My documentary experience has been around agriculture and farming. Currently I'm working with a producer on a project that will likely take another year or more to complete. Part of this project speaks to the experiences of soldiers in and out of wartime. Having grown up in the 1970's, I have long been interested in telling stories about the emotional, human aspects of war. About 15 years ago, I read a book that illustrated the human destruction war really represents; Michael Norman's These Good Men. I had to let the option lapse because I was unable to find the right partners to work on the screenplay I had wanted to write based on the work. 

As my documentary work continued, it led me to know many USDA "in the field" scientists. It frustrated me to watch them put 10, 20 or more years of work into the new technologies they developed to advance agriculture for it to end up languishing on the shelf because nobody knew about the work. The problem had everything to do with the centralized nature/structure of the USDA, etc; it was essentially a closed loop. Finding ways to un-close loops seems to be a theme in my life. What these scientists needed was to be connected directly to those funders who recognized the value of their work. By 2010 when I was invited to represent the Food, Science and Technology group (then a nascent online platform) at The Global Leaders I saw an opportunity to help change this. I wrote, developed, and was vetted to submit my proposal to the first Obama Administration. The proposal was structured to let The Global Leaders Platform serve as an online dating site of sorts between the USDA and ARS Office of Technology Transfer and qualified funders at The Global Leaders. After approval I worked with the USDA ARS Office of Technology Transfer for 13 months and was barely able to get beyond conference calls. The desire on part of the USDA/ARS was there, funders were excited, but the nature of the circuitous, centralized governmental system prevented its success. This was the impetus for me to start Earth Twine which we can discuss at some future point. One thing it might be useful to know about Earth Twine is that our goal was to utilize blockchain and its technologies to open and improve the way food supply chains communicated with one another and its customers. 

Between now and March 8th I will continue to review the materials you have shared and will look forward to speaking together then.