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Created: Nov 18, 2008
Updated: Nov 24, 2009
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Topic: Global Marshall Plan
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There are several proposals for a Global Marshall Plan floating about. It might be helpful to gather them all and see what we would add to the mix. I have costed out a complete education plan based on One Laptop Per Child at $25 billion annually for computers, plus about $30 billion in one-time costs for renewable electricity and Internet to connect them all up. I don't know what the costs for running that network would be.
Earth Treasury plans to combine those three elements.
o Education, including One Laptop Per Child, Sugar Labs, FLOSS Manuals, and the Ministries of Education, Teachers Unions, education schools, and other education organizations worldwide
o Renewable power for any terrain and climate, with input from Engineers Without Borders and other R&D, and Rotary International for deployment. Solar power units presently cost about $5 per kilowatt in quantity, about enough to power 100 OLPC XOs running at 2-8 W, plus an XS school server.
o Broadband Internet using WiMax technology, at about $10 per person, also with Rotary International
and then add in microfinance to assist in paying for all of them, with income from newly enabled economic activity to pay back loans and make the programs self-sustaining
The rest of the Millennium Development Goals for dealing with poverty would follow as a matter of course from a combination of education, private enterprise, and increasing tax revenues for governments. This assumes that increased education and communication also enabled populations to do something about corruption in their governments.
The long-term consequences would be the complete abolition of poverty, oppression, and even war.
Further investment could of course speed up any part of this process. Health care and nutrition are particularly useful places to do more sooner, but I won't complain at anybody who takes on any part of the whole problem set.
One more aspect of the program is to build social and spiritual community in the manner of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement in Sri Lanka, which, in addition to this sort of integrated development, gets Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, and Christians to meditate together on each other's welfare.