About Us0
Overview1
The Doug
Engelbart Institute*
was conceived by Dr. Douglas
C. Engelbart as a vehicle for broad-based collaboration
to explore how we can dramatically boost
our ability to solve complex, urgent problems on a global scale collectively.
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Simply put, our mission is
to inspire, demonstrate and propogate breakthrough
strategies, organizing principles, best practices, and open source
tools for boosting the Collective IQ of teams, organizations, networked initiatives, and even
whole nations; 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 rapidly increasing learning, innovation and effectiveness at solving important problems. 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.
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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 Stanford University
Special Collections and the Computer History Museum. Visit our
Library page for details.
We also maintain a working version of Augment/NLS
on a Sun server.1d
The Doug Engelbart
Institute is a California 501(c)3 not-for-profit incorporated
in the State of California.1e
Our Team2
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
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A powerful strategy for the
Knowledge Age:
"While Demming provided the improvement approach for the industrial age, Doug provided the innovation approach for the knowledge age."
– Curt Carlson, President, SRI International |
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