Consider the extraordinary and unparalleled potential of the internet to support a truly global dialogue.  While language and access to the internet remain formidable barrier to such a dialogue, the overall ability of individuals in any corner of the world to communicate with one another has been considerably improved by its development.  As the network of global internet users grows, the need for consolidation has grown concomitantly.  Companies such as Google, America Online (AOL), and Yahoo! have each sought to satisfy this need by creating large searchable directories of websites and objects (e.g. images, sound files).  In doing so, they allow their respective users to search through large portions of the internet for from a single location.

 

Thus far, however, no central resource exists that is capable of adequately consolidating scientific research materials, and presenting these in a manner that is useful to both researcher and non-researcher alike.  Furthermore, due to the largely closed-door nature of contemporary scientific research, this lack of consolidation has made information that was already difficult to access, more so.

 

By developing this discussion forum, and placing it within the broader series of resources we have developed herein, we hope to encourage a more open dialogue between researchers, as well as between researchers and non-researchers.  What distinguishes this forum from its peers throughout the internet lies in that discussions held here need not remain as such.  Rather, discussions may lead to research projects (that may, in turn, receive financing via our research microfinance platform), or result in theories and conclusions that may subsequently be integrated within our broader scientific research-based curricula.

 

In other words, this discussion forum is more than simply a digital message board seeking to recycle the understanding of today.  Rather, this forum is a staging area for the research and researchers that will revolutionize tomorrow!