This site’s purpose is to facilitate a conversation around our global scientific community that can identify global issues that collectively we can solve. Although a formal council is far from being established, this site will promote an exchange of ideas on how we can ensure that all knowledge, information and technology is organized, available and used to make knowledge-based decisions.

Knowledge-based decisions in a co-evolving world are essential to the success of human organization. From history, we know that catastrophic events have occurred, such as meteor and asteroid strikes, super volcanic eruptions, climate shifts/changes and mass extinctions, wiping out an unknown number of living species. These catastrophic events could not be stopped or their impact minimized because of the lack of knowledge and the lack of organization by the inhabiting species.

Humans have evolved into a knowledge-driven society. We must begin to harness the growing knowledge and technologies in order to better organize and cooperate with each other to preserve the human race from future catastrophic events, both natural and human-induced. Catastrophic events WILL occur in the future and the degree of impact of these events will rely on human organization, cooperation and decisions made by the leaders of the world. As scientists, our goal is to provide our leaders and policy makers with the most accurate and up-to-date knowledge, information and technology available, so that the decisions made will have the highest probability for success.

The Global Knowledge Council will be established to provide a forum to share knowledge on vital topics and  to attract scientists, academics, professionals and scholars from across the globe whose sole purpose will be to collaborate and  assimilate all available knowledge, information and technology to use in solving problems in and threats to the world. The Council will work to design an information network to update research topics and results from individual sciences into an organized platform. This will take one of the largest global knowledge assimilation efforts seen by the  human race. With the projections of massive amounts of new knowledge, information and technology over the next few decades, we must begin to think about ways we can assimilate, understand and harness ALL available knowledge information and technology for use by our leaders and decision makers.

To be clear, the Global Knowledge Council should not be thought of as a world government, a one world ideology or even a “world brain.” It is an idea and philosophy that knowledge, information and technology, when harnessed properly, that can benefit society in a positive way. Currently, all knowledge, information and technology are in need of a means to be collectively assessed and harnessed. The expansive growth in distributed knowledge today can be described, at best, as chaotic. If you believe that over the last three decades we have seen a knowledge, information and technology revolution, including the internet boom, the adoption of mass communications and the inter-connectedness of business, financial markets and governmental relations, you recognize the dire need to assimilate, understand, organize and distribute our knowledge in a more effective manner. Companies, such as Google, Microsoft, Apple and many others are quickly realizing that how information is organized and delivered is one of the most important aspects of human growth and development. Researchers across the globe are trying to figure out how to embrace this philosophy, and as of today it has not yet been done effectively. How can this be, you may ask? Just look at how scattered our knowledge continues to be across all the sciences. Only in recent years has an interdisciplinary and integrated approach been implemented to solve many of the pressing problems in today’s world, and the internet acted as the catalyst.

Global problems need global solutions. Only a global organization will have the perspective, expertise and the will to solve serious threats and problems that face us. What if you woke up tomorrow and found out the world was about to be obliterated by an asteroid the size of Alaska? Or that all of Europe or the Americas or Asia would be destroyed by a super volcanic eruption? How could we organize to try and stop it? Could we do anything? Could we pull together all the knowledge, information and technology needed to avoid or at least minimize the catastrophe? If it happened tomorrow, would there be anything we could do?

Historically speaking, catastrophic events will occur in the future. It is time that we create a forum to share and organize all of the wonderful knowledge, information and technology of the world in a way that can be assessed and used properly so that our conclusions, and therefore the decisions of our leaders, will incorporate all the best thinking across the world.