With the arrival of a truly global age, the human institutions that we have come to rely on are struggling to address global challenges and seize opportunities.

We are motivated by a desire to align human interests in order to provide greater focus in our effort to accelerate human flourishing.

To this end, Project Vision’s first task is to articulate a vision for the kind of global civilization we should be striving to effect. Without a clear vision and sense of mission, building the necessary solidarity and collective will required to transform civilization will be a near impossibility. Moreover, without a clear vision or picture of what kind of civilization we want to effect, we would be unable to credibly identify or agree on the impediments to realizing it.

This ‘vision’ for humanity will be developed by a leading body of experts representing many scholarly, religious and philosophical perspectives.

With the work of a new vision completed, the task then becomes one of identifying the impediments to realizing the vision and ensuring they are addressed in the most effective ways available.

Humanity 2.0 first seeks to understand what the most significant impediments to human flourishing are so that we may more intelligently focus our efforts and resources. Ignoring this important work would be tantamount to thrusting a person into an arena with a hydra in which one endlessly strikes at its heads, but never succeeds in vanquishing it.

We must strike at the underlying causes of civilizational stagnation, the heart, so to speak, if we are to succeed.

A committee of philosophers, historians, and anthropologists will lead the effort of identifying the key impediments to human flourishing. Once their initial list of impediments is prepared, it will be handed off to a scientific committee that will analyze and validate their philosophical assertions by referencing available data and scientific insights.

To plan an effective strategy for addressing the most significant impediments to human flourishing, priority must be assigned to them. Currently, organizations and institutions work to identify and understand the world’s most important problems, but this is unfortunately where the work typically stops. Governments, NGOs, businesses, and individuals are then left with the responsibility of determining which problems to address and how. This results in diminished outcomes, as a plethora of approaches and a broad dispersal of resources are deployed. Humanity 2.0 seeks to know through both quantitative and qualitative analysis what the most significant impediments to human flourishing are so that we can focus our efforts and bring to bear sufficient resources to effectively address them. Moreover, this insight will be shared with the global community so we may collectively take action.

Most global challenges that beset the world are simply too big for any one sector to solve; our focused, cross-sector, global strategy will allow us to change that.

In addition, the global institutions and techno-economic infrastructures (financial markets, social media, etc.) needed to solve these complex challenges are losing legitimacy with the general public. Our thesis for this decline in legitimacy: these institutions and corporations are built on incomplete models of human flourishing. In addition, the centralization of power and wealth has created further divides between global leaders and local communities. Our aim is to use a collaborative process to restore this vital reservoir of trust so that institutions can enroll and coordinate collective action to tackle these impediments. The more complex the challenge to human flourishing, the greater the need to utilize the principles of enablement and empowerment:global leaders serving national leaders - serving local leaders - serving the relational prosperity of individuals.

Triaging the impediments will provide Humanity 2.0 a clear priority of work moving forward. Moreover, this focus year to year will afford the Humanity 2.0 team the ability to be highly selective in the partnerships it leverages to ensure maximum impact.