Quality | Quality of Life Issues
Our global headquarters is the USA; Seattle Washington office of Grace. This USA office is registered as American Grace Charitable Organization.
What we do: We are formed as a socioeconomic think tank. We work in the philanthropy space. We work on ideas that will work well for the public good. The ideas that we work on are primarily quality-of-life issues; and the end result of our deliberations, publications, and policy work are practical solutions that are expected to work well and benefit society as a whole.
As problem solvers, our work does not stop at offering ideas only. In addition to the work that we do at the think tank, we collaborate with others from multifaceted professional backgrounds; experts who know how to turn our ideas into reality. Presently, the ideas that we work on are quality of life issues that are more peculiar to the ecosystem of the developing world.
The Scope of our Philanthropy Activities: We do our philanthropy work under section 501(c) 3 statues of United States charitable laws. Under section 501(c) 3 statutes of United States charitable laws, we are to work on quality-of-life issues that will lessen the burden of government, eliminate poverty, improve public safety and health, reduce carbon emissions, and minimize problems during natural disaster situations. These issues are all embodied in our vision statement.
Also, although some of the work that we do will perhaps make direct interaction with governments and their affiliated entities unavoidable, we want to make it clear that we do not represent the interest of any particular government, nor are we affiliated with any particular government entity. Thank you.
Idea 1. Unique numeric ID's for people who live in the developing world.
Credit: Francis Habadah, Investment Banker
The Idea Originator
@Grace Think Tank
Year: 2005- 2006
Idea 1 Project Highlights
Country | India, 2009
Project Status of India: Completed
Total Population of India: 1.3 billion people
Total Project Cost: $1.4 billion USD
India’s unique numeric ID project, known as the Aadhaar project is now completed. Every resident of India has now been issued a unique numeric ID. This is a remarkable achievement. The government of India was very proactive about implementing its unique numeric ID project.
Continent | Africa, 2011
Project Model: A Continental Approach Model.
Project Status: A work in progress.
Number of Countries: 55
Total Population: 1.2 billion people
Total Project Cost: $3.2 billion USD
Benefits of the Continental Approach Model: Similar to benefits/economies of scale: Huge cost savings as a result of e.g. developing one data entry software for all the 55 countries in Africa; creating the same numeric nomenclature and data format for all the 55 countries in Africa; creating one centralized data storage system that will be segmented among the 55 countries in Africa; one infrastructure maintenance vendor for all the 55 countries in Africa.
Please Note Also:
Nigeria to Give All of Its 200 Million People Identity Numbers: Nigeria, the most populated country in Africa secured a grant of $433 million USD in 2019 through a World Bank and European Union facility to begin work on its part of the unique numeric ID project.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-20/nigeria-to-give-all-of-its-200-million-people- identity-numbers
For details about the Unique Numeric ID Project for Africa, please visit our reports section. Thank you.
Idea 2. A better tax system that will work well for people in the developing world.
Also, please visit reports section for all the details about Idea 2. Thank you.
Idea 3. Beyond elections. A better way to plug people into the socioeconomic system of the developing world.
Idea 4. Rethinking the role of central banks in the developing world. An Idea worth exploring.
Idea 5. What is formal education in an era of Chatgpt and other AI tools?
