Cooperative for Public Understanding

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Organizations join for free. The only committment is to share our goal of providing knowledge to the public, and sharing knowledge and experience with each other.

We welcome any organization to express interest in joining our project.

The role of collaborating organizations

The goal of the CPU is aimed at providing free, reliable information.  But it is not the project itself that would provide the information. The public understanding project is aimed at encouraging other organizations to make their information easy to understand, non technical, and clear.  That is, there is a ton of stuff on the web, but a lot of it is academic, comprehensive, technical, specialized, etc. Not aimed at consumption by the general public.  Now, a lot of that kind of information is necessary and useful, but on the other hand, a lot of the information on the web is stuff that could be more useful if it was written so that anyone without technical background could easily understand it.

This is where the public understanding project comes in.  We want to say, lets get together and figure out how reports and such could be written so they are accurate and easy to understand.  What might be some guidelines on how to make the reports accurate and easy to read.  Lets develop these guidelines and publish them and encourage organizations to follow them.

And this is where collaborating organizations comes in.  They could help to develop the guidelines, and could also support and promote the guidelines, encourage others to follow them, encourage authors to follow these guidelines.

And then in turn the public understanding website would promote those organizations that follow the guidelines, link to reports and materials from those organizations that follow the guidelines, and say, "here is a report from organizations ABC, that follows these guidelines"

However, the main purpose of the CPU is to communicate with the public, so organizations should provide information that the public can use to understand the goals, background and legitimacy of the organization.



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Organizations we would like to join in our efforts might be those which have aims of providing information to the public.


(others.  Suggestions?)


















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