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Pacific Planet

Action group

http://www.vol.it/pplanet

...Ten centuries later a child approached the great monument and read the names of the men that strongly wanted the existence of his generation...

We are a group of communication experts entrusted by a Swiss company with the task of preparing the birth of this non-profit Association and of attending to the construction of a monument that symbolise the will for peace of a number of people at the beginning of the new millennium.

The name of each person that will contribute to this project, whatever the contribution, will be inscribed on the main monolith of the monument.

For brevity we have written four sections to describe our characteristics, our intentions, our motivations, and the ways of accessing our initiative.

Introducing ourselves

Motivations

The Project

How to join


Pacific Planet - Introducing ourselves
Pacific Planet

Action group

http://www.vol.it/pplanet

Introducing ourselves

We are a group of communication experts, males and females, with different backgrounds in the sector. We have been selected by a Geneva-based Swiss company called "La Lancia di Archita" (Archita's lance) for our professional qualifications.

In 1992 we were asked to prepare a strategy for the worldwide diffusion of a message which will be kept secret until midnight GMT of the 1st of July 2000. It is deposited at the office of a Notary Public in Geneva. The message contains the deep motivation underlying this initiative, that  promoting world peace. It does not have any political or religious content, it is simply the philosophical manifesto of the end of the millennium. Its simple philosophy is based on the assumption that the sharing of cultures is the best instrument of peace. Through us, the company La Lancia di Archita wishes to propose the development of an operational theme that will be fulfilled with the birth of the first digital University of the world.

We have been required to act through a non-profit making Association. The initiative is part of the motivations of some of the most serious pacifist and environmentalist associations. The promoters will not receive any profit and they will remain anonymous indefinitely.

The Association is called "Pacific Planet" and will be transformed into a Foundation with the same name on 1st July 2000. An authoritative board of guarantors will supervise that its aims will be properly fulfilled.

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The Project

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Pacific Planet - Motivations
Pacific Planet

Action group

http://www.vol.it/pplanet

Motivations

We would like to call the world's public attention on this unusual subscription aimed at funding the construction of the first University of the digital age. A University that should spread knowledge to millions of students at the same time, whatever their social condition of access.

This university will be different because it will be open to people of all cultures and beliefs, for the simple reason that shared culture will be able to reach every corner of the World in a digital form, giving everybody free access to knowledge and to all kinds of university degrees, even from the best of Universities.
The promoters are fully convinced that wherever culture arrives through the sharing of knowledge there will be a hope of peace.
Few and simple strategies are needed to achieve this vision. Since ours is a non-profit association, we intend to attract four international sponsors and offer them the opportunity of taking advantage of the millennium and promoting a trenchant peace message by transmitting the aims of the Association through their advertisements.
More precisely we are convinced that a disarming message would be more effective if part of the image communication of important trade marks, well known in the multicultural markets that have been conquered with honest business strategies and effective marketing campaigns.

Peace can be promoted without any rhetoric by combining the symbol of the monument with the concept that only shared knowledge can save us from an increasingly uncivilised state.

The sponsors will be asked to spare 5 seconds and a line.
Five seconds of their advertisements on television networks worldwide and a line in their printed advertisements. One simple gesture is even more eloquent than a pamphlet of subtle argumentation.
We have clear ideas on how to get a worldwide initiative working with this diffusion potential.

The millennial monument has the same celebrative function as the Eiffel Tower. It is a comprehensible symbol, that could include any meaning that might be suggested to us in a digital form. Nevertheless, it will celebrate something more important. We would like to use the opportunity offered us by this historical date to cast an important anchor of peace and meditation, through the construction of a symbol that will materialise into atoms what the will of thousands of people all over the world will express in bits.
An entire millennial civilisation is celebrating an important birthday. We are witnessing the beginning of a new century and of a new millennium. For a thousand years our ancestors have written their dates beginning with the digit 1. Since we shall be the only generation to witness the new event and the first to write our dates beginning with the digit 2, we must testify with signs of real civilisation our state of human awareness in the early years of the new millennium.

We must promise to single out historically the best products of our civilisation, so that our distant descendants should not only perceive us as causing irreversible damage to the ecosystem.

To single out historically means to pay homage to the thousands of enlightened intellects that have led our evolution to its present state. It also means to take note of past errors and awaken consciences as to the danger of our present development systems and to commit ourselves to plan a future that should be compatible with our environment.
Remedies are slow and untimely due to the fact that the policies that can stop degradation do not have sufficient electoral backing to turn them into action.
Today Internet offers an opportunity to create a gigantic opinion movement that should allow each and every individual to make his views known.
Whoever uses telematic networks can express his satisfaction from the grass roots and plan new communication scenarios.

What would happen if the Internet people decided to join in a common initiative?
Our premise is that whoever navigates in a net is intelligent enough to believe that peace is the first step in the search for a serious sustainable development of the planet. For this reason the project will first be improved thanks to the contributions of the net navigators, and subsequently it will be proposed to the world public opinion through the traditional media.
We are convinced that we can construct a sustainable vision of the future through individual creativity.

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Pacific Planet - The Project
Pacific Planet

Action group

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The Project

Notarial procedures are under way for a stone monument, a Stonehenge of the year 2000.

The name, age and membership date of each person or body that will contribute to this project, whatever the contribution, will be inscribed on the monument. This monument will testify the event for thousands of years. It will symbolise the will for peace of a number of people living at the beginning of the millennium.

We are organizing the millennium celebrations to be held on the 1st of July of the year 2000. They will be the greatest multimedial event of the twentieth century and will be aimed to move the inhabitants of the planet to consider the future of mankind seriously.

With the synergic collaboration of four sponsors which we will select for their world prestige, we intend to start a process in the public opinion that should lead to a noble objective: the birth of the first University of the digital age. A University that can spread shared knowledge to the four corners of the Earth, with the aim of allowing every person, whatever his creed, culture, environmental and social difficulty, access to the most distinguished university degrees.

The project will be developed in three phases.

1.  The first phase will be accessible only through Internet.
During this phase all members of the Association can interact with the architecture of the project and therefore contribute towards its optimisation with short essays, ideas, advice and suggestions, or simply by joining it.
Each member's name will be inscribed on the main monolith of the monument, while his intellectual contribution will be recorded in the monument's library.

2.   During the second phase, the improved project will be circulated over the traditional media with the intention of awakening large sectors of the public on the world event that is being prepared.

3.  In the third phase the strategies planned since now for the achievement of the staded goals will be accomplished.

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How to join

In order to promote this digital philosophical manifesto, the Association has prepared the following basic architecture.

The construction of a stone monument in an evocative place inside a park. It will have the same meaning as monuments such as Stonehenge or the statues on Easter Island.
The monument will mark the beginning of the digital age, the age that our generation is already living. It will testify the will of peace among the peoples who will have witnessed this uncertain millennial dawn. This monument will also mark the time, but it will be inscribed with the names of all those who will have joined the Association and shared its objective, namely:

"Through the celebrations for the millennium, to finance the birth
of the first transcultural university of the world"

The Monument, the Celebrations for the year 2000 and the University are the three themes of the Association and the free collaboration of all the members of the entire network on these three themes is surely welcome.

The initiative is ambitious and will start officially on this network for a very simple reason: it will build in real-time a global thinking with the contribution of whoever visits us and decides to join the network of brains we are preparing. Each intellectual contribution, whatever the nature, will be recorded in the monument's digital library.

If you wish to join please e-mail (subject: info)  at

pplanet@mbox.vol.it

for the enrolment form  where costs and conditions are stated.

If you are interested in collaborating you may do so in the following improvement areas (please, don't exceed 500 words):

mail with subject: monument

How do you figure the monument?

mail with subject: July 1 2000

What would you suggest we should organize in the area around the monument on July 1st of the year 2000?

mail with subject: message

Who should take part in spreading the message to the cabled planet?

mail with subject: significance

What are the meanings you would give this monument built to stand for millennia? What should it testify?

mail with subject: sponsor

Who should be the four sponsors of unquestioned universal authority that through their respective advertising strategies could spread our peace message that should remain in history?

mail with subject: sinergy

Which synergies would you associate with the project and for which aims?

mail with subject: spielberg

If Steven Spielberg had to make a film on the birthday of western culture cabled to other cultures, what set reproducing the planet and the monument would you suggest he should use?

mail with subject: sinergy

Which synergies would you associate with the project and for which aims?

mail with subject: culture

What axioms of your culture do you believe should be saved for future generations?

mail with subject: who

Who, and why, would you inform about our initiative?

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Motivations

Introducing ourselves

The Project