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THE BILLION DOLLAR PROJECT Give someone a fish they eat for a day - Teach someone to fish they eat for a lifetime
IN THE BEGINNING The Billion Dollar Project® is an international philanthropic
undertaking to spread knowledge acquisition to the third world without cost to the recipients. This is the only
kind of donation the Project expects from its volunteer individuals and organizations. Originally envisioned 40 years ago by Dr. Fred DiUlus, the Billion Dollar Project® was designed as a philanthropic outreach for professional participants to help overcome poverty, hunger, and ignorance in the world. It was, from its very existence conceived as a global project that could harness the power of technology to spread rapid acquisition of knowledge for those it was least available, anywhere in the world, even in the USA. With the thought that if the Project could accomplish this, it could do wonders never imagined. The project is an all volunteer effort top to bottom. Unfortunately, the reality
in 1976 was that a PC cost at least $10,000 and there was no Internet outside of Academia and the Government and
the World Wide Web for the general masses and the public access to high speed Internet was still decades away. The
hope was that some day the dream would eventually bear fruit
Technology has caught up and coupled with the World Wide Web and Internet education and program development launching the project, it has been said that it "... just kind of Ka-Chinged into place.”
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