World Future Fund

Research programs:we continued our main research programs. We increased our coverage of europe by adding more news sources. We continued to add to our library and paid more attention to comparing what is available for free on the internet vs. what is for sale in terms of books and e books. We also expanded our system for monitoring social networks like facebook and twitter to see what key organizations and governments are doing around the World. We expanded our monitoring of news and public affairs smart phone apps. We also expanded our collection of chart and picture files for internal research use. We greatly expanded our research into finding relevant videos on the internet and created more internal archives ofvideos on the environment and World history. We expanded our research efforts in europe and latin america particularly in relation to respect for environmental values among native religions.

Education programs: we continued to expand our main programs. Our web site continues to achieve high search engine rank positions in many subjects. We are studying the technical details of making our web site more secure. So far it has not been hacked but vigilance in necessary. We posted more short picture essays to communicate ideas in a brief manner. We alo paid more attention to creating indexes of key subjects for our readers.we created backup servers to increase the security of our web presence. We expanded the World Future Fund facebook page and twitter pages. We expanded our efforts to study how to make more contacts in europe via social networking sites. We continued to add more video pages to our web site. We expanded our efforts to produce videos. We expanded our picture galleries on the web. We continued to update our guides to help people around the World produce audios and videos about relevant subjects relating to the Future.