business of changing lives ignite pp

Josh GilbertsLIS 201

(ANS)

Nonprofit

Fall 1990

Network

Social Network

Any group of people who provide one another with

mutual assistance and support

Middle Ages

Industrial Age

Cold WarInformation Era

Social Networks

Memex

Vannevar Bush

Sir Tim Berners-Lee

World Wide Web

ThinkQuest: 1995

Less than 1/3 of schools had internet access.

3% of teachers used internet in classroom

ThinkQuest went Global in 1997

In 1998 the ThinkQuest library averaged 20 million hits a week

ThinkQuest

Technology

Push

Pull!

Technology Pull

Change

Information has multiple sides

Information LiteracyINFORMATION

INFORMATION

INFORMATION

INFORMATION

INFORMATION

INFO

RMAT

ION

Largest and fastest growing program

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ThinkQuest

Chem101

Examples of early contest winners

1900’s the library was the information highway

Information Age

700,000 plus young people from ANS-supported organizations mentoring peers by 2010.

CHANGING

LIVES