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Designbreak

James David Morgan wrote this post at 9:52 am on December 17th, 2007.

Founded in 2005, Designbreak is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charity organization, dedicated to mediating and promoting solution-oriented collaborations towards solving human problems of all scales. The immense success of open source software, Wikipedia and social networking organizations have shown us that intelligent collaborations and discussions through the internet are not only possible, but are practical. Designbreak has developed a broad open design initiative focused on bringing the internet to bear on pressing issues of global importance, focused around the following three principles:

  1. Our civilization is facing intractable problems of unimaginable magnitude.
  2. To face these problems we must work together, within our local communities.
  3. No single community has the all skills necessary to address these issues, and so we must support other communities by using Internet collaboration as a tool.

Groundswell friend and Designbreak founder Zac Apte tells us that the organization is waiting for confirmation of 501(c)(3) status from the IRS. We’re looking forward to watching their site become a platform for advancing socially conscious design.

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