The Santa Fe Institute is a world renowned center for thinking about complexity and self-organizing systems. We are pleased to have the opportunity to meet in this stimulating environment for elevated thought in a generous spirit with which we may plant the seeds for a self-organizing, self-propagating space for humanitarian uplift.

To bring together people of good will who are interested in creating an open, scalable, Internet-enabled infrastructure to support humanitarian and development activities on a global scale. To discuss notions of trust, community, and accountability in the context of a self-organizing, adaptive context in which those patterns of activity which successful transformational activities could be replicated. To examine possible technologies, such as a Philanthropic Markup Language, that could serve as a foundation for a global community that would create a space within which philanthropy can occur.