The purpose of the workshop is to demonstrate and discuss the prototype in progress, as well as discuss further issues with regard to the design of the system.

The Santa Fe Institute is a world renowned center for thinking about complexity and self-organizing systems. We are pleased to have the opportunity to meet in this stimulating environment for elevated thought in a generous spirit with which we may plant the seeds for a self-organizing, self-propagating space for humanitarian uplift.

To bring together people of good will who are interested in creating an open, scalable, Internet-enabled infrastructure to support humanitarian and development activities on a global scale. To discuss notions of trust, community, and accountability in the context of a self-organizing, adaptive context in which those patterns of activity which successful transformational activities could be replicated. To examine possible technologies, such as a Philanthropic Markup Language, that could serve as a foundation for a global community that would create a space within which philanthropy can occur.

Heather Wood-Ion is co-founder of the Uplift Academy, is currently executive director of the Goldie Hawn Institute, author of Third Class Ticket, and co-author of

David Ellerman is visiting scholar at UC Riverside, and author of Helping People Help Themselves: From the World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance (Evolving Values for a Capitalist World) as well as Intellectual T

David Brin is a scientist, public speaker, and author. Several of his novels have been New York Times Bestsellers, winning multiple Hugo, Nebula and other awards. His 1989 ecological thriller, Earth, foreshadowed global warming, cyberwarfare and near-future trends such as the World Wide Web. A 1998 movie, directed by Kevin Costner, was loosely based on The Postman. His fifteen novels have been translated into more than twenty languages.

Jeffrey Ashe is the Manager of Community Finance at Oxfam America. Prior to coming to Oxfam, Mr. Ashe founded and served as Executive Director of Working Capital, the largest micro enterprise program in the United States. Before Working Capital, Mr. Ashe was Director of the "PISCES Project," the first worldwide investigation of programs reaching the smallest economic activities of the poor.