THIS GROUP HAS BEEN RELOCATED TO NED.COM UNDER THE TITLE "THE WORLD CONNECTORY PROJECT"

it can be found here:

http://www.ned.com/group/wwc/abo ut

All aspects of the World Connectory Project are to be discussed here:

• how it should work: analysing the process and component parts
• how you could get involved: when this Project gets launched in your area
• progress made so far: all the latest information including the Random Exercise
• immediate help required: finding the poorest parts of the more prosperous poor countries (see the Random Exercise) or add to the list of international helping organisations and where they work (see nonprofitslist)
• project timetable: see Section entitled "There are four key dates: A-Day, B-Day, C-Day and D-Day"

The ambition of the Project is to Make Poverty History - from the bottom up, not the top down. This may seem hopelessly over-ambitious, but you have to start somewhere. And here on ONet seems to me to be a very good place to start!

The key notion on which this project is based is the Apportionment of Poverty.

To save you immediately reaching for your dictionaries, I don't think you'll find "Apportionment" used in this particular sense there - at least, not yet. But if you were to look again in ten or fifteen years time, who knows!

"Apportionment", when used here, will mean the process of sub-dividing the poorest countries of the world into similar sized "portions" (i.e. areas of land containing about the same number of people) in order to make it easier to take steps to reduce poverty.

The richest countries of the world will be subdivided in similar fashion and each richer portion will then be allocated a poorer portion. People in these partner-areas will be invited to get themselves organised to:

• make contact
• communicate and share information about themselves
• find ways to be mutually supportive