FAQ
Getting started
Tutorial video (or for those curious about joining!)
After registering at humanitrack.org, watch this short onboarding video!
SUPER QUICK START GUIDE!!!
You want to take action, let's DO IT!
1. Click on Map (this will minimize the tutorial for when you have time)
2. Click FOLLOW on the Cancer Screening Quest (or your Quest of preference)...
...then click anywhere else on it to go there
3. Scroll down and pick an "EASY action:" task, click on More details...
...read it, click on GIVE ME THIS TASK!...
4. Do the task! You can MINIMIZE the pop-up window...
...then find it again in the drop down menu from top right, My tasks....
5. Find and open your task, write briefly what you did in the Solution box...
...then click I FINISHED THE TASK...
6. Now go browse around or do another task while waiting for your sweet sweet reward of profile points and satisfaction of taking action towards a better future!!!
Take a tour with the tutorial
The tutorial will automatically start up after you have logged in for the first time. The tutorial won’t take more than 10 minutes and will quickly get you up to speed with many of the site’s main features. You can end the tutorial at any time and also revisit an unfinished tutorial it at any time by finding it in the list from the expandable menu from your user logo in the top right corner. You could also revisit the tutorial from the menu if you purposely visit another page or accidentally lose the pop-up tutorial box.
Setting up your profile
After registering and logging in, you can press on your user logo in the top right corner and go to Profile. From here you can upload a profile image, add a superpower (ie your main background, interest, or experience), pick which theme you want for your user level naming, add some links to your social websites or other relevant websites, and add a little summary about yourself.
Navigating the Home page
You will land on the home page after logging in and can always return by pressing the Humanitrack logo on the top left corner of every page.
The homepage let's you quickly browse and react to the latest or most popular articles being shared. Directly underneath the article titles you can find links to the Challenge and Quest pages (looks like this “Challenge / Quest”, or if the Quest is driving multiple Challenges then looks like this “Challenge 1 / Challenge 2 / Quest” ). Following these links is a good way to browse around Humanitrack. You can click on articles to read them (in a new browser window/tab), comment on them with your takeaways and new ideas or inspiration, like/dislike them, browse and like/dislike comments.
Your home page in a desktop view will show a list of followed quests once you start following some Challenges or Quests that interest you. In the News section you can then click on FOLLOWED to see the latest articles from these Challenges and Quests.
Finally, you can earn bonus points for actions in Challenges and Quests listed in the Help Wanted section “Quests need you!”.
Using the expandable menu
From any page you can access an expandable menu in the top right of the screen. The contents of the menu can be accessed by clicking on your profile icon in the top right of the menu bar. On larger screens the links to parts of Humanitrack are spread between the top menu bar and this expandable menu. On smaller screens everything is in the expandable menu, which can be scrolled through if it can’t fit the length of your screen.
This menu has the only link to your profile for editing and is also good for quickly accessing “Followed quests”.
Exploring the Map
The Map is a great place to start your journey and find some Quests to follow. Humanitrack has defined the ultimate goals of humanity as Endgames and the progress of these are driven directly from the "divide and conquer" Quests. Quests are grouped into what we call Challenges.
You can view or hide Quests and/or Challenges with the “Show Quests” and “Show Challenges” options. The search bar and these “Show” options will come in handy as Humanitrack grows (we expect to eventually have over 150 Quests).
If your topic of interest Quest is listed but isn’t live yet then you can vote for it. This will help Humanitrack prioritize the rollout of Quests.
Pressing Endgames will show a list or Quests that are helping drive their progress.
Joining and leaving Challenges or Quests
You can follow or unfollow Challenges or Quests from the Map. Simply click/press the FOLLOW or UNFOLLOW button. If you are following a quest it will say FOLLOWED.
Another way to unfollow is to go to “Followed quests” in your expandable menu and press the FOLLOWED button.
Visiting any Challenge or Quest allows you to click a FOLLOW THIS CHALLENGE or FOLLOW THIS QUEST button, or in turn an UNFOLLOW button. Remember that following a Challenge will automatically set you up to follow all of its Quests...simply unfollow them from that Challenge’s QUEST menu (your page may need refreshing), or go to the expandable menu’s “Followed quests” and unfollow from here.
Join things that interest you the most or join some that are listed in “Quests need you!” to help keep content fresh and give you some bonus points.
Using the Labs
The Labs (a fancy fun name for Humanitrack's forums) are where ideas can take shape and come to life.
Community Lab : For giving feedback and discussing community guidelines, from codes of conduct to site architecture and structure/systems and feature suggestions and tweaks.
Quest Lab : The global think tank for new ideas as well as suggestions for new Challenges and Quests, or any other quest related topic. The world wants to hear your good ideas, help you vet ideas or assess their feasibility, or at least get inspired by your thinking. Come here to discuss a hot article when the comment section for the article becomes too limited.
Project lab : Where people can suggest new projects and collaborations within the community and look for people to do it with. A place for prejecting. So many individuals and groups are out there working on similar solutions but not working together...let’s change this!
Quest hubs will contain links to lab topics and threads to help quickly guide you where to post. It is also helpful for the entire Humanitrack community to browse the Labs to help cross-pollinate ideas and perspectives...this is a recipe for innovation!
Taking action and doing Tasks!
Without content and community there isn’t much use for Humanitrack. The easiest way to get going by adding content is to find a Quest you like (click on Map and pick a Quest to join) and choose a short 2 minute Task in the Quest hub.
Users are encouraged to go out and find interesting and informative videos and articles on the internet and add these links to the related Quest. Look for “ADD NEW ARTICLE” button on Quest pages. If you are not sure which Quest the article should be added in, but are sure of the Challenge, then you can go to that Challenge’s “ADD NEW ARTICLE”. Always try and add news to Quests (since they can be shared among multiple Challenges).
Remember to “like” the articles you enjoy or have a positive impact on the progress of the Quest.
Content also means adding comments to articles or comment threads. Add some takeaways from the article, new ideas and inspirations, or just have some fun. Reward helpful or inspiring comments with likes.
Disliking can help discourage harsh or inappropriate comments and help to suppress posts that don’t provide much new content or insight into the topic.
If you have data, information, links or ideas for the tab sections of the Challenge or Quest hub, then you can find a link to the lab thread from the respective hub’s OVERVIEW tab. Follow this link and add your content. Alternatively you can contact an Editor of the Challenge or Quest with this. Click on the editor you want to contact and click on “Contact with editor”.
Supporting Humanitrack
Going to the Support page will show you the current and previous fundraising goals. Humanitrack’s administration and growth with you and the world is driven with your support. We are in this together and we are going to be transparent in how we use the money raised as we push progress.
Another very important way to support Humanitrack is by spreading the word. Get #humanitrack and #STEMpowered out there and share humanitrack.org with those you know. Be creative, be weird, be fun...we need the Humanitrack community to grow!!! Especially with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) students and graduates...spread the word around your schools and campuses.
Finally, we need editors to support, moderate, and help organize all of the content and data coming into Quests and Challenges on a global scale. From passionate novices to experts, we need you!
Having fun with Humanitrack
We should be as accurate and serious with our data and ideas as possible, but we really should all have fun while helping push humanity forward and helping our planet. As Elon Musk and SpaceX have shown us, why send a boring block of cement as ballast up to space in a test rocket when you can send an electric sports car with a spaceman listening to “Space Oddity”.
Adding game elements to the Humanitrack platform and taking on roles of Hero and Superhero are some of the ways we want to make this whole experience more of a fun adventure. How fun can reversing climate change really be? Let’s find out!
Go visit your profile to see a summary of your achievements (click on PREVIEW PROFILE, then click on SEE DETAILS...or you can click Details or click Achievements from the expandable top right menu). Read more about the gamification of Humanitrack in this FAQ (see the “Points and rewards” FAQ entries for Heroes and Superheroes).
Being a User (Hero)
Ways to interact with Humanitrack
So you’ve joined Humanitrack...what next? Heroes like you can interact with the platform in many ways…
-Do a task! In as little as 2 minutes, this is the easiest and fastest way to interact and take action. Each Quest or Challenge will have a specific list of tasks that you can do to help keep content on the page updated, organized, and help generate new ideas or even help other users. Plus you really build your profile and skills with these tasks.
-Follow the Quests that you are really passionate about and use Humanitrack as a news aggregator. Take inspiration from the news/videos in your custom feed, interact with like-minded people in the comments, and just stay up-to-date.
-Feed the feeds! Keep the Quests updated and as a community try and validate the news and data coming in.
-What do all these news articles amount to and where are we now? Browse the tab sections of a Quest hub to see an overview of the progress, milestones, and next steps and hurdles to overcome.
-Get up-to-date fast. Get an overview of the topic and visit the links that the community thinks are best for understanding the topic and its background. Familiarize yourself with the network as you become a part of it. Humanitrack is great for students looking to narrow down where they should focus their studies or projects and where they could best make use of their talents.
-Bring your ideas and perspectives. Cross-pollinate ideas and backgrounds. Browse not only your preferred topics but use the feeds in on the home page to browse other articles, challenges, quests. Also go browse around the Labs. Bring your liking thumb and more importantly your insights, help, and ideas to the comment sections.
Adding an article or video link
So you’ve found a news article or a new short descriptive video, how do you go about posting it to a news feed?
Users are encouraged to go out and find new, interesting, and informative videos and articles on the internet and add these links to the related Quest. Look for “ADD NEW ARTICLE” button on Quest pages. If you are not sure which Quest the article should be added in, but are sure of the Challenge, then you can go to that Challenge’s “ADD NEW ARTICLE”. Always try and add news to Quests (since they can be shared among multiple Challenges).
Once you click on the “ADD NEW ARTICLE” click on “ADD LINK” if you have a news article or video you want to share. Copy and paste the URL in the section above “USE THIS LINK”, then click on “USE THIS LINK” to import the headline, image, and summary automatically. You can change the image (or select another if more than one was imported automatically), modify the header, and modify the summary with other key take-aways. Keep an eye on the character counters to make sure you don’t exceed the limit of any section. Finally click on “Add tag” to add tags like related SDGs (type SDG to get a drop down list), school or company, area of research, etc, all separated by semicolons. New tags will be added in the suggested dropdown list as Humanitrack grows.
When finished with tagging you can now press PREVIEW. Press EDIT to go back and make any changes, or press PUBLISH to send to the editors for review and the green light to appear in the feeds. You can see which posts are waiting to be approved from the user icon expandable menu under “Articles waiting for approval”.
The same process applies to hosting your own research papers on Humanitrack. Instead of pressing “ADD LINK” you will press “WRITE ARTICLE” and copy and paste your paper. Upload an appropriate image, heading, summary, and add relevant tags. The same PREVIEW and EDIT/PUBLISH process as with “ADD LINK” applies here.
Communicating with Editors
We want most communication on Humanitrack to be open and transparent. So most of your communication with the Editors will be through specific Lab threads whose links can be found in Challenge and Quest hubs. In the case you need to communicate directly with an Editor, you can find the Editor at the top of a Quest or Challenge page (click on “See all editors” if there are more than 3 Editors), then click on the specific Editor’s “Contact with editor” link. Now you can write a message and click SEND.
Editors need support from the users with keeping everything up-to-date, running smoothly, organized, maintaining a fun and positive tone, and keeping data and news as validated as possible. Like you, Editors are here to make a difference and share the same vision and drive as you...they just have a lot more responsibility on their shoulders.
Also, remember to let Editors know when you have used Humanitrack to get new projects off the ground, created some social media marketing or simply advocated and promoted Humanitrack, or you have done some offline event or activity that relates to the Challenge or Quest, and some kind of proof to back this up. Editors have the ability to award outstanding users with “Hero of the Day” badges or give them a “Power-up” (extra points and a badge).
Points and rewards
We are constantly improving the gamification of Humanitrack and want you to feel as much personal progress as possible while having as much fun as possible. The points system is in place to help reward you for your quality content, contributions, and being a part of this important new community. It feeds into a level hierarchy that helps the Humanitrack community identify some of the power users and those with good credibility. As Heroes level up, they can unlock more features, and in time they can become eligible to become Editors (Superheroes). Points and badges are a part of your user profile and can be seen in your Achievements section (accessible from the expandable menu) or from clicking on another user’s profile icon, going to their profile, then clicking on “SEE DETAILS” under Achievements.
Remember to come back daily for a daily point bonus...go for a weekly bonus if possible!
Levels:
Level |
Visitor |
Hero lvl1 |
Hero lvl2 |
Hero lvl3 |
Hero lvl4 |
Hero lvl5 |
Hero lvl6 |
Hero lvl7 |
Points |
- |
0 |
100 |
300 |
500 |
800 |
1300 |
2500 |
Points:
Points per completed and approved Task |
5 |
Points per received like on article |
1 |
Points per received like on comment |
1 |
Points per received like on forum post |
1 |
Points per received like on forum comment |
1 |
Points per received like on help-wanted article |
2 |
Points per received like on help-wanted comment |
2 |
Add link article accepted |
10 |
Add link article accepted on help-wanted quest |
20 |
Hosted article accepted |
25 |
Hosted article accepted on help-wanted quest |
50 |
Editor: approving an article |
5 |
Editor: resolving a reported article |
1 |
Editor: resolving a reported comment |
1 |
Recieve power-up |
50 |
Bronze donator |
50 |
Silver donator |
100 |
Gold donator |
200 |
Platinum donator |
500 |
Reach new level |
50 |
Daily activity bonus |
5 |
Weekly activity streak bonus |
35 |
Tutorial step |
9 |
Your Humanitrack community will take notice of your inputs and credibility. And you can be rewarded for your actions both online and off. Editors have the ability to award outstanding users with “Hero of the Day” badges or give them a “Power-up” (up to 50 extra points and a badge). Let Editors know when you have used Humanitrack to get new projects off the ground, created some social media marketing or simply advocated and promoted Humanitrack, or you have done some offline event or activity that relates to the Challenge or Quest, and some kind of proof to back this up.
Using the Labs
The Labs (a fancy fun name for Humanitrack's forums) are where ideas can take shape and come to life.
Community Lab : For giving feedback and discussing community guidelines, from codes of conduct to site architecture and structure/systems and feature suggestions and tweaks.
Quest Lab : The global think tank for new ideas as well as suggestions for new Challenges and Quests, or any other quest related topic. The world wants to hear your good ideas, help you vet ideas or assess their feasibility, or at least get inspired by your thinking. Come here to discuss a hot article when the comment section for the article becomes too limited.
Project lab : Where people can suggest new projects and collaborations within the community and look for people to do it with. A place for prejecting. So many individuals and groups are out there working on similar solutions but not working together...let’s change this!
Quest hubs will contain links to lab topics and threads to help quickly guide you where to post. There will also be links as to where to send updated links or other data to the Editors. It is also helpful for the entire Humanitrack community to browse the Labs to help cross-pollinate ideas and perspectives...this is a recipe for innovation!
To create a new topic thread, simply navigate to Labs, click on “NEW TOPIC” and fill out the Title, Description, and finally choose one of the Labs to place it in (based off of the above descriptions). Click on CREATE once finished.
Spreading the word
Get #humanitrack and #STEMpowered out there and share humanitrack.org with those you know. Be creative, be weird, be fun...we need the Humanitrack community to grow!!! Especially with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) students and graduates...spread the word around your schools and campuses.
We want to be huge because more minds equals more ideas, perspectives, and in the end more progress. We want to be huge because that means more of us are united and working with each other towards the same goals and dreams. We are a purpose driven company, community, and platform who needs you to help us survive, grow, and thrive!
Donations
We’re constantly working on how to fund the growth of Humanitrack with new revenue streams...but making money is not what Humanitrack is about so your donations are more than welcome!
Going to the Support page will show you the current and previous fundraising goals. Humanitrack’s administration and growth with you and the world is driven with your support. We are in this together and we are going to be transparent in how we use the money raised as we push progress.
Donations are through PayPal and are currently listed in Euros € (relatively similar in value to the USD $). You can do a one time donation or set up a monthly donation. From €5 to €5000, we’ll take whatever you can give and make the most of it!
Donations are rewarded with points and badges. Here are the current donation badge levels (and points earned) for your total donation history:
Bronze (50 points) = €10
Silver (100 points) = €50
Gold (200 points) = €200
Platinum (500 points) = €1000
If you use a different email for PayPal than for Humanitrack, please contact us to get the donation points correctly awarded to your account!!!
The Hero Code
Be a part of the community! Do your part to add content and support each other. One of the few rules you are allowed to break at Humanitrack is this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)
Keep the tone positive and fun. We fucking love the freedom of speech as much as you, but keep the trolling, hate, and negativity to your other sites of interest.
Keep an open mind. There are going to be debates a’plenty in our community. There are many solutions to the same problems and just remember to be open and flexible to the rest of the community.
Bring it back around. Use what you learn and preject on Humanitrack to go out there and do real world projects, real world events, and real world promotion. Come back and share it with Humanitrack.
Being an Editor (Superhero)
Becoming an Editor
As Humanitrack grows it will need more and more Editors to moderate and manage the growing number of Quests and the user base behind them. There will also become a need for globally positioned Editors to keep the 24 hour flow of information to and from Humanitrack running smoothly. Currently if you really want to become an Editor, then you can contact Humanitrack through the Contact page. In the future, there will be certain criteria that need to be met in order for you to not only apply (ie when a Challenge or Quest has a “Help Wanted : Editors needed” notification set) but for you to be eligible (you must have reached a certain level in the gamification level hierarchy, or you can help for a minimum of X number of hours per week). Becoming a Superhero is the natural progression for some experienced Heroes and we will only want the most trusted, honest, and dedicated Heroes to become Superheroes.
Editor roles and responsibilities
The Editors are the moderators and scribes of Humanitrack’s community of communities. The role of the Editor is to organize and present the data and information coming into the Challenges and Quests. The community of users will guide and assist the Editors in keeping things organized, up-to-date, and as validated as possible. Editors must spend time moderating, resolving issues, and keeping their Challenge or Quest hubs, Lab (forum) sections, and news feeds up-to-date.
Editors have the power to reward users daily with Power-ups (from 1 to 50 points per day). Editors need to know who are the members of their Challenge or Quest community that are doing their best to contribute (both online and off) and make their communities better. This also ties into the ability for Editors to select a Hero of the Day. The Hero of the Day can be queued up if needed, but there should be user selected every day for this. No points are rewarded for this, just the badge and coming up on the Quest leaderboard for the day.
Editors will get notifications when they have a new news feed post to approve. React quickly to this so that the information in the feed stays fresh. Go to your user icon and in the expandable menu find “Managed Quests”. This will show you all the Challenges and or Quests that you are an Editor for. You can accept, move, or reject news feed posts. You should click the URL of the post and skim read it to make sure it is relevant. You will also need to check to see if the article has already been posted in the feed (we’ll eventually have a system in place to do this automatically)...you can do this in a new browser window and search for the article headline or browse through some of the latest news feed posts. Accept the article to get it posted to the news feed. You can move it to another related Quest if it better fits in there. If you reject the article, then you can select a reason and also put some text as to why it was rejected. The posting to the news feed will eventually become automated and community moderated, but for now the Editors have a big responsibility in doing this job.
Notifications will also come on reported articles and comments. Again, react quickly and delete the comments or articles if needed. Humanitrack will eventually have a function to tag fake news articles rather than deleting them, so we can better identify fake news sources.
The same notifications and responsibilities exist for the Tasks in your Quest. We'll create a guide for you on what specific tasks we want constantly added to the Task list...this will all be automated in the future but we need your help for now.
There will be links in the Challenges and Quests that go directly to a Labs (forum) topic. Editors will be responsible for moderating here, reading all the posts, as well and for making updates in the hub based off of the information posted in the Labs topics.
Besides keeping the news feeds updated and moderated, Editors must keep the information in the hub sections updated and organized. See the next section “Managing the hub sections”.
In summary, Editors must:
-Moderate their Challenge or Quest community
-Listen to their community and adjust or update the data accordingly
-Keep the Task list updated (always copy recently reviewed Tasks)
-Keep their hub information updated via community input
-Keep their news feeds flowing, their content quality and relavance high, and the comments moderated when hateful
-Maintain and moderate their relevant Lab topics
-Work with other Editors as a team when updating content
-Keep the progress bar and milestones updated and listen to the community feedback on these
-Take note of the users who make exceptional contributions (both via ideas, comments, and other posts, both online and offline) and their continued activity. Reward these users with “Hero of the Day”)
-User the daily Power-ups as a supplement to actions similar to those needed for “Hero of the Day”. Reward quality content and leaders of the community...again for both online and offline actions.
Managing the hub sections
To edit the content of the Challenge or Quest hub sections, you must go to “Managed Quests” and then click on EDIT. This will take you to the Challenge or Quest and now you can click on the edit icon (a pencil) in the hub or milestone sections. Click on the different tabs in the hub section to edit them. When done editing you can click on the edit icon (now a return icon). The page must be refreshed if other users or editors already have it open to see the changes.
Don’t just go updating the progress or milestones when you feel like it...first communicate with your community via the DATA section and a link to a Lab topic and figure out if there is a consensus to make the updates. The community will in most cases be tasked with helping Editors figure out when to updated the progress bar and milestones.
Editor points and rewards
We are constantly improving the gamification of Humanitrack and want you to feel as much personal progress as possible while having as much fun as possible. The points system is in place to help reward you for your quality content, contributions, and being a part of this important new community. It feeds into a level hierarchy that helps the Humanitrack community identify some of the power users and those with good credibility. Superheroes follow the same point and level system as Heroes, but have 3 additional levels and have several more achievements they can pursue. Points and badges are a part of your user profile and can be seen in your Achievements section (accessible from the expandable menu) or from clicking on another user’s profile icon, going to their profile, then clicking on “SEE DETAILS” under Achievements.
Remember to come back daily for a daily point bonus...go for a weekly bonus if possible!
Levels:
Level |
Visitor |
Hero, level 1 |
Hero, level 2 |
Hero, level 3 |
Hero, level 4 |
Hero, level 5 |
Hero, level 6 |
Hero, level 7 |
Points |
- |
0 |
100 |
300 |
500 |
800 |
1300 |
2500 |
Superhero, level 8 |
Superhero, level 9 |
Superhero, level 10 |
4000 |
6000 |
10000 |
Points:
Points per completed Task |
5 |
Points per received like on article |
1 |
Points per received like on comment |
1 |
Points per received like on forum post |
1 |
Points per received like on forum comment |
1 |
Points per received like on help-wanted article |
2 |
Points per received like on help-wanted comment |
2 |
Add link article accepted |
10 |
Add link article accepted on help-wanted quest |
20 |
Hosted article accepted |
25 |
Hosted article accepted on help-wanted quest |
50 |
Editor: approving a task | 1 |
Editor: approving an article |
5 |
Editor: resolving a reported article |
1 |
Editor: resolving a reported comment |
1 |
Recieve power-up |
50 |
Bronze donator |
50 |
Silver donator |
100 |
Gold donator |
200 |
Platinum donator |
500 |
Reach new level |
50 |
Daily activity bonus |
5 |
Weekly activity streak bonus |
35 |
Tutorial step |
9 |
Superheroes are just that, SUPER heroes, and thus can do all the same actions that Heroes can (adding content and commenting for example). Humanitrack is constantly trying to improve its system of checks and balances so that Superheroes don’t abuse the system or bias the site.
The Superhero Code
With great power comes...yada yada yada. Seriously, Superheroes have a ton of responsibilities in relation to their Challenge or Quest communities. Use your powers wisely and justly. The Eternal Admins are there to support you and in the worst cases there to discipline you.
Keep the tone positive and fun. We fucking love the freedom of speech as much as you, but keep the trolling, hate, and negativity to other sites of interest. Make sure to moderate fairly and justly.
Keep an open mind. There are going to be debates a’plenty in our community. There are many solutions to the same problems and just remember to be open and flexible to the rest of the community. Try to let debates take their course, but step in if things get out of hand.
Bring it back around. Use what you learn and preject on Humanitrack to go out there and do real world projects, real world events, and real world promotion. Come back and share it with Humanitrack. Make sure you stay on top of the users telling you about their off-site activities and reward them with Power-ups and Hero of the Day honors.
About Humanitrack
How Humanitrack works
There are well over 50 million science, tech, and engineering minded students and graduates out there in the world with at least 10 million graduating every year. We are an extremely powerful force when we are all united and organized. Humanitrack is creating a home and outlet for these individuals all in order to rapidly accelerate human progress. Humanitrack is not only harnessing all the ideas of these individuals, but sparking countless new ideas and giving them a birthplace to form before being launched into actual projects elsewhere. This is the ultimate inspiration and innovation breeding ground and accelerator. To push the pedal further to the metal, Humanitrack is helping future and new graduates find their paths in their fields so they are where they need to be to solve the current and future hurdles on our path to our larger goals and dreams. Also reinforcing this acceleration of progress, Humanitrack shows companies and industries the exact challenges, status, progress, and breakthroughs that we are globally coming up with and thus getting them to both embrace and react more quickly. Humanitrack brings awareness and understanding to smaller technologies and helps everyone understand where we are at and where we are headed with these technologies. Eventually we want to use machine learning (or even deep learning) to help us identify where we should focus our resources in order to progress even faster and more efficiently (are you seeing a pattern here?). Finally, Humanitrack is the outlet that many have been looking for to help make a real difference in this world….everyone can contribute and push our collective progress.
We are taking the innovation and technology approach to problem solving because that is what can easily be done at our grassroots level. It is important to progress on humanity’s goals and dreams through laws and governments, but this process can be very slow and can be plagued by corruption and greed. We need action now and this is done through tech and innovation...making things and processes more efficient, affordable, environmentally friendly, accessible and in some cases just making entirely new things...invention.
Humanitrack is managed by a small administration team but will grow as the community and revenue grows. We are not in this for the money, we are in this to harness the existing resources and minds we have on this planet and make one hell of a difference. We want a better future for ourselves and our future generations and this is a way to enable action today towards this future.
Currently we are hosted via AWS to support a rapid growth in our user base. We are funded primarily through donations but have several revenue streams in the works to sustain us and allow us to grow.
Humanitrack hierarchy
We have gone ahead and defined humanity’s Endgames...our final objectives or goals that can be a century and more from attaining. Once these are defined it is only natural to look back to where we are now and begin to formulate a plan on how to get to these Endgames. All of these endgames start with what we have defined as Quests. These are technology or innovation driven Quests. Each Quest can be broken down into a series of milestones and even smaller tasks to reach these milestones. The hierarchy level between Endgames and Quests is called Challenges. Challenges are groupings of Quests and anything that might not fit directly into any of the Quests. For example, we have a Challenge called Energy Storage. Quests under the Challenge Energy Storage are for example Supercapacitors, Metal-ion Batteries, Solid-state Batteries, and Flywheels. Progress on Supercapacitors means progress for Energy Storage and progress for the Endgames of “Climate Controlled” and “Peace on Earth”.
The problem breakdown hierarchy is like this:
Quest < Challenge < Endgame
The site management hierarchy is like this:
User < Editor < Admin
Hero < Superhero < Eternal
Growing Humanitrack
We plan on releasing new Challenges and Quests at a pace that we can keep up with financially. The more financial resources we have, then the more administration and platform resources we can put into place. We aim to eventually have over 150 Quests and over 50 million daily users...this is big, but totally possible.
We of course need the Humanitrack community to donate their time to achieve this. We’ll be relying a lot on the community to grow organically through social media and through partnering with schools, student organizations, and universities.
Future Challenges
The Humanitrack Map will be constantly growing and refined over time. Here is an idea of the direction we are going for Challenges:
Challenges:
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Automated Body Diagnostics
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Bionic Humans
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Climate Control
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Computing
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Energy Creation
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Environment
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Food Supply
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Fresh Water Supply
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Genetic Engineering
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Housing
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Human Body
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Human Brain
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Human Non-Viral Diseases
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Human Viral Diseases
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Information Technology
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Materials
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Mining
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Planet Earth Defense
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Power Transfer
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Replicators
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Robotics
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Space Travel
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Surgery
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Transportation
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Understanding the Cosmos