Global Grand Challenges

Deforestation and desertification
Standing armies
High Gini Coefficient
Patent system that encloses public knowledge
Lack of public access to published journals. Solution possibility: cross subsidization or institution only pay for the service
Limitation of liability
Biodiversity loss
Alienation from work
Access to healthcare
Illiteracy, and especially collaborative illiteracy
Innumeracy
Corporate funded research
Pollution, especially water pollution
Corrupt institutions
Economic system based on proprietary development as opposed to open source product development
Training as opposed to education
Disciplinary thinking
Agricultural monoculture
Fossil fuel energy
Global supply chains via cost extrernalization
Externalization of social, environmental, and lifetime costs

Global Solutions