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Our Driving Vision 0

We recognize that the opportunities, problems, and challenges we face – whether business, social, political, economic, environmental – are increasing exponentially on a global scale, so finding exponentially more powerful ways to collectively address important problems is critical;

This is both a dire threat and a golden opportunity – companies, initiatives, regions, nations and societies that kick into gear on this will likely surpass those that don’t in leaps and bounds.

The sooner we reach critical mass as a planet, the better off we all are, and thus there is tremendous value in sharing best practices, and in addressing this collectively as a Grand Challenge.

Our mission is to accelerate progress toward this goal through broad-based collaboration, education, outreach, and hands on exploratory implementations.

We offer a powerful strategic approach for increasing collective intelligence in organizations and societies commensurate with the exponential rate and scale of change, in a way that optimizes overall effectiveness, productivity, innovation, and quality of life on the planet. Everything you need to get started is available free on our website beginning with Vision and Mission, Vision Highlights, Bootstrap "Paradigm Map" (for short videos of Doug presenting the strategic vision), and Resources for Bootstrapping Innovation™.

We also serve as the official steward and agent of Doug Engelbart's seminal work. See the Doug Engelbart Archives for links to his papers, videotaped presentations and interviews, biographical information, and more.

More Background 1

The Doug Engelbart Institute* was conceived by Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart and Christina Engelbart as a vehicle for broad-based collaboration to explore how we can dramatically boost our collective ability to solve complex, urgent problems on a global scale. 1a

Simply put, our mission is to inspire, demonstrate and propogate breakthrough strategies, best practices, and open source tools for boosting the Collective IQ of teams, organizations, initiatives, communities, and even whole nations and societies; to cultivate an active collaborative network of participants from a cross-section of disciplines and sectors engaging in cross-cutting hands-on participatory initiatives via our interactive website; to foster pilot trials in partner organizations; to facilitate the incorporation of resulting open source tools into mainstream software; and to make the work broadly available through the web, through publications, gatherings, workshops, presentations and consulting. Ultimately the Institute seeks to promote an international alliance of stakeholders engaging in this work.1b

The stratetic principles underlying this work are based on Doug's lifelong vision for bootstrapping our Collective IQ for the purpose of rapidly increasing learning, innovation and effectiveness of teams, organizations, and society. Many of these organizing principles were embedded in his legendary research lab at SRI, which was responsible for more breakthrough innovation than probably any other lab before or since. 1c

The Doug Engelbart Institute is also steward of Engelbart's historic work, including his papers, photographic and video records, digital files, and software, in collaboration with the Internet Archive, Stanford University Special Collections, SRI International, the NMC, and the Computer History Museum. Visit our Archives page for details. 1d

The Doug Engelbart Institute is a California 501(c)3 not-for-profit incorporated in the State of California.1e

Our Team2

Principals 2a

Directors 2b

Advisors 2c

Contact Info 3

To reach us at our offices at SRI International click here.3a

Members of the press please see our Press pages before contacting us.3b