1. Building Knowledge Societies the Supercourse

2. Strategic Plan: Building a Library of Alexandria Scientific Supercourse Ronald E. LaPorte, Ph.D. Gilbert Omenn, M.D. Ismail Serageldin, Ph.D. Vint Cerf, Ph.D. Faina Linkov, Ph.D. Send Comments to ronlaporte@aol.com

3. Imhotep, the "father of medicine". The word "Imhotep" means "he who comes in peace'

4. Medicine is a science from which one learns the states of the human body with respect to what is healthy and what is not, in order to preserve good health when it exists and restore it when it is lacking Ibn Sina, the opening to the Qanun fi al-tibb

5. Changing Life Expectancies

6. Causes of Death in Qatar

7. 7 95% of Classroom Lectures use PowerPoint 75% of Distance Learning use PowerPoint

9. Improved Manufacturing and Delivery of Lectures

10. Why don’t scientists and educators share our most exciting PowerPoint lectures on the Internet for free?

11. Faculty can choose 1-4000 lectures Educating the Teacher Internet Library of Lectures

14. 44,000 Faculty 175 Countries

15. Lectures

21. Supercourse Lectures Teaching 1,000,000 Students

22. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela

23. 23 Developed under grants from NASA and NLM/NIH Global Expert Network of 45,000 including 20 Noble Prize Winners, Director NIH, US Surgeon General, Vint Cerf 3,383 PowerPoint lectures on prevention 80 million hits a year Highest Google Percentile Ranked Site for Global Health lectures 170 publications in Science, Nature, PNAS Top 100 PC magazine site Taught >1 million in the past 12 months

24. WHO-NCD-Supercourse

25. Scientific Supercourse

26. Need for a Scientific Supercourse Science has become enormous, and compartmentalized making interdisciplinary research and training difficult It is a very large task to keep current for 2 areas of science, let alone 30 topics for a review course Many Scientific findings take >5 year to appear in classrooms A large number of developing countries have not received scientific journals and books for greater than a decade Scientists have always shared, why not share our best lectures? The Library of Alexandria saved scientific works for >700 years, we should archive our lectures

27. Supercourse Global Network of Scientists Sharing PowerPoint Lectures

28. Building a Scientific Supercourse Vetted content Network Distribution System Funding

29. Discipline Vetted Lectures Of Science = Keynote Speakers

30. Networking Scientists Scientists in 1-2 0 of each other 45,000 Prevention network contacting Scientific Friends Flier in Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese Viral Marketing All Scientists in world knowing about this in 3 weeks

31. Distribution Scheme Library of Alexandria Supercourse Mirrored servers in all national libraries DVDs Mirrored servers for each scientific Disciplines

33. Prometheus statue At the Library of Alexandria Send comments to: ronlaporte@aol.com