Projects
Idea Bank has a history of getting involved early in trying to solve problems with a predicted pattern of growth. Some ideas fail. Some ideas succeed. All ideas provide lessons and contacts with diverse sources of intelligence and wisdom.
Some projects develop ideas which are not adopted or are adopted but fail during execution. When a problem is part of a pattern of growth, each project harvests lessons, data, intelligence, contacts and experience critical to Idea Bank’s culture of improvement.
Working on these projects expands Idea Bank’s global networks, enabling us to increase our capabilities for bringing them to life.
Many projects are protected by confidentiality agreements, but the themes and patterns of growth can be seen in this chronology of projects.
Idea Bank has a history of getting involved early in trying to solve problems with a predicted pattern of growth. Some ideas fail. Some ideas succeed. All ideas provide lessons and contacts with diverse sources of intelligence and wisdom.
Some projects develop ideas which are not adopted or are adopted but fail during execution. When a problem is part of a pattern of growth, each project harvests lessons, data, intelligence, contacts and experience critical to Idea Bank’s culture of improvement.
Working on these projects expands Idea Bank’s global networks, enabling us to increase our capabilities for bringing them to life.
Many projects are protected by confidentiality agreements, but the themes and patterns of growth can be seen in this chronology of projects.
Idea Bank has a history of getting involved early in trying to solve problems with a predicted pattern of growth. Some ideas fail. Some ideas succeed. All ideas provide lessons and contacts with diverse sources of intelligence and wisdom.
Some projects develop ideas which are not adopted or are adopted but fail during execution. When a problem is part of a pattern of growth, each project harvests lessons, data, intelligence, contacts and experience critical to Idea Bank’s culture of improvement.
Working on these projects expands Idea Bank’s global networks, enabling us to increase our capabilities for bringing them to life.
Many projects are protected by confidentiality agreements, but the themes and patterns of growth can be seen in this chronology of projects.
Airship Transport Africa
Researched and developed a plan to develop cargo airships connecting Africa’s interior with its seaports, starting with eastern and southern Africa. The study compared the overall cost of trucking with airships covering an area the size of Australia, connecting landlocked regions with global ports. The study was developed for an airship startup company in Florida. It formed the foundation to develop further knowledge in transport, logistics and airship ventures.
Stornoway Productions
Researched and developed a documentary film on the changing nature of foreign aid in Africa in the late 1980s and early 1990s, why structural adjustment programs would force a shift in the terms of financing for African countries. This project introduced Idea Bank to leaders in self-reliant economics for enabling entrepreneurs to change Africa’s transport, energy and communications sectors.
Wajax
Organized financing and developed a market development plan for Wajax’s fire protection equipment business to expand into protecting Africa’s protected natural areas. This created foundation for protecting national parks and surrounding agricultural zones and tourism sectors.
Integrated Health Clinics Africa
Worked in support of Dr Nat Quansah and pioneers in Africa’s healthcare sector to develop a system of integrated clinics, combining traditional local healthcare systems with university medical schools to combine traditional and modern medical practices to lower the cost and improve the health outcomes for communities living in and around protected natural areas.
Hoax Couture
Organized financing and developed a global marketing strategy with the founders.
Tena
Organized financing and developed a line of clothing and accessories with Hoax and Denise Cléroux to source materials from the surrounding areas of protected zones in Madagascar, including silk from fire-proof trees and raffia from northern Madagascar’s protected areas.
Peace Project Burundi-Rwanda
Organized Bill Graham’s campaign to have Canada lead the effort to prevent war and organize international peacekeeping in Burund and Rwanda in November, 1993, 5 months before the start of the Rwanda-Burundi genocide. The project failed. It laid the foundation for learning about conflict and conflict resolution.
Mandela Inauguration
Developed an idea tournament to design t-shirts delivered to Mandela’s Inauguration to promote peace and collaboration between divided communities. This was the first step to creating a cross-cultural exchange between South Africa and Canada.
Crees of Quebec
Developed and financed a student exchange for the Crees of Quebec to join an international Canada-Africa program for students to create entrepreneurial projects for the future of renewable energy and environmental stewardship.
Haida
Developed and financed a student exchange for the the Haida Nation to join a national Canadian program for students to create entrepreneurial projects for the future of ecotourism, traditional health and and biodiversity management.
Parks Canada
Researched and developed a project for Parks Canada to work with First Nations on collaboration for protecting species-at-risk. During the process of working with First Nations leaders, Idea Bank learned about threats to cultures-at-risk. The project evolved from protecting species within parks and greater parks ecosystems to collaborating with communities in greater parks economies. This laid the foundation for a broader project inviting different cultures from around the world to resolve conflicts in greater parks ecosystems and economies.
Canada-Africa National Parks Collaboration
Secured long-term financing for national parks in Canada and eastern-southern Africa to create a collaboration for protecting species-at-risk and cultures-at-risk and promoting a circulating value economy. Initial sectors for development in greater parks economies were tourism, agriculture, fisheries, healthcare and cultural exports including clothing, accessories, software, film and television.
Mazava
Created a knowledge sharing platform connecting biological hot zones for infectious diseases with universities to predict, prevent and manage infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics. Developed a ranking system for which biological hot zones, and their key travel hubs, could pose the greatest threats to enable outbreaks to become pandemics.
Tazo
Secured financing for a 13 part documentary series on the threat of infectious diseases.
Mohara
Created an investment fund to invest in startups with a focus on the prediction, prevention and management of infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics.
SARS Report
: Contributed research and recommendations for Canada’s position in the world as a knowledge broker connecting points of threats with points of care globally to build bridges across cultural, economic and political divisions, in preparation for future outbreaks and pandemics.
Barcode Pathogens
Recruited the founding team and financed a project to enable barcoding for pathogens.
Fio
Recruited the founding team and investors to launch Fio, a point of care diagnostics device enabling rapid, accurate diagnostics, data sharing and knowledge sharing for infectious disease prediction, prevention and management.
Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC)
Secured financing for DRDC to collaborate with Fio to develop a handheld device for rapid response to prevent and manage infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics globally and position Canada as the leader in global collaboration for pandemic management.
Green Trade Agreement
Worked with Bill Graham, Minister of Foreign Affairs, to develop the concept of environmental free trade agreements between North-South, starting with Canada and Africa to promote trade in products and services able to reduce CO2 emissions, protect species-at-risk, improve ecosystems health, create circular economies to continually reduce waste, remove pollution and reuse industrial products.
Canada-Africa Trade Mission
Worked with Bill Graham, Minister of Foreign Affairs, to develop the idea of Canada’s first trade mission to Africa.
Canadian Policy on Pandemic Preparedness
Worked with Minister of Defence Bill Graham to create Canada’s policy on pandemic preparedness with Minister of Emergency Preparedness Anne McLellan and Minister of State for Public Health, Carolyn Bennett.
Mobile Medical Clinics
Designed and developed a system of self-reliant mobile medical clinics able to operate in biological hot zones where the threat of generating infectious outbreaks and pandemics is greatest. The system was used a solar powered airship able to fly into remote environments and operate as a self-reliant system for weeks or months in areas with needing no infrastructure.
Solar Ship
Recruited the founding team and investors to launch Solar Ship, a solar powered airship company with 14 different designs of aircraft having been through design, build, regulatory approval and flight.
Micro Hydro
Recruited the founding team and investors to launch a micro hydro company in Canada with 26 sites to develop hydroelectric power for small communities and prototype a system with a US patent on low head, low flow water supply.
Carbon Removal – Direct Air Capture
Developed a financing plan and organized investment events for a direct air capture venture between 2007 and 2010. This created the foundation of knowledge for Idea Bank to develop expertise in climate policy and technologies.
Hydrogen Airships
Researched and developed a system for using micro hydro to generate hydrogen using electrolysis to enable airships to inflate and operate in remote areas to further the concept of self-reliant operations in remote areas.
Hydrogen Economy
Researched and developed a system of hydrogen corridors enabling access from ocean ports to remote interiors regions with an initial focus on North America and Africa.
Solar vs. Hydrogen Comparative Study
Developed a comparative study examining the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) generated from a self-reliant sources in remote areas, comparing remote areas in North America, South America, Africa and Asia.
Carbon Free Mining Study
Developed a comparative study examining the levelized cost of energy – electricity and transport energy - to run gold mines in remote areas. The study included carbon pricing and the total cost of transporting liquid fossil fuels into remote mines in the Arctic and Africa’s interior including DRC, Zambia, Tanzania. This created the foundation of knowledge for Idea Bank to develop a transport and logistics system for remote areas.
Remote Area Transport Corridors
Designed and developed a transport and logistics corridor system for remote areas in Canada’s North, Alaska, Africa, Asia and South America. Developed plans, recruited global partners and investors and secured funding and regulatory approval for a large scale project using a combination of ships, airships, solar, wind, hydroelectric and hydrogen to create transport corridors using self-reliant energy, with no fossil fuels to enable sustained flow of operations connecting remote areas with the global economy. The project created the foundation for developing expertise in building collaboration between competing forces aligned with the US, Canada and China.
Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR)
Designed and developed ISR system for remote areas to predict, prevent and manage threats to remote areas, including national borders, illegal fishing, threats to species-at-risk, anti-poaching and disaster management. The project created a low cost, wide area network of aerostats and long range drones able to provide aerial observation over areas of 3 million km2. It included secure systems for military and defence operations and community open systems enabling remote area entrepreneurs and Indigenous communities to use the infrastructure to predict, prevent and manage threats from changing weather events and natural disaster.
High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS)
Designed and developed HAPS system with global leader in satellite communications to expand ISR for remote areas to increase security and protection against threats and create the technical platform for low-cost internet in remote areas in Canada’s North, Alaska, Africa, Asia, island nations and South America.
Mobile Aerostat for Disaster Relief
Designed and developed mobile aerostat system for disaster relief enabling life-saving infrastructure and supplies to be delivered to points of need in response to the rising frequency and scale of natural disasters and human-made disasters resulting from violence and conflict.
Global Community of Innovators
Contributed to the design and development of a network of innovators from the US, Canada, China, the UK, EU, Australia, New Zealand and Africa to increase the rate at which new ideas can be tested, evaluated and achieve regulatory approval in healthcare, aerospace and environmental technologies.
Aerospace Innovation Corridors
Designed and developed a concept for aerospace innovators from the US, Canada, China, the UK, EU, UAE, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Africa to be provided regulatory approval to build and test fly new aerospace and aviation designs.
Peace + Freedom Corridors
Designed and developed a concept for aerospace innovators to be provided regulatory approval to build and test fly new aerospace and aviation designs to save lives and encourage electric air mobility innovation for carbon-free transport.
Investment Conference Canada-South Africa
Worked with trade officials and business leaders to organize a Canada-South Africa investment conference on investing in African brainpower, hosted by Bill Graham and former Minister of Finance Michael Wilson to invite President Cyril Ramaphosa to attract investment from Canada to South Africa during the G7 Summit, 2018.
Stratospheric Balloon
Developed financing and regulatory approval for stratospheric balloon program with successful launch of balloon into stratosphere.
Africa National Park Aerostat Network
Developed a strategic plan using a network of self-reliant aerostats and mobile aerostats for national parks in 5 African countries to provide a wide area network of internet connectivity and aerial surveillance for park managers, entrepreneurs and communities in greater parks ecosystems and economies. The project provided services for protecting species-at-risk, preventing illegal logging, anti-poaching, promoting ecotourism, providing a healthcare network and creating a farmer’s soil health service.
Remote Area Health Network
Designed a healthcare system for remote areas in Africa combining telemedicine for prediction of health threats with distribution of diagnostics from points of care to points of need using solar powered mobile aerostat drones, with rapid diagnostics connecting points of threat with supplies, delivered by mobile aerostat.
Soil Care System
Develop financing for a technology to provide farmers with a system of sensors in soil detecting nutrients, moisture and disease connected to a handheld app providing early warning of issues and continual improvement of soil health resulting in 2x to 10x greater productivity of soil per acre or hectare.
COVID Prevention and Management
Developed financing for triage diagnostics platform in late 2019, early 2020 to be used in hospitals, airports and primary locations for potential superspreading events. Matched this with Mazava ranking of hot zone hubs and areas of global collaboration. Connected top ranking infectious disease officials in Canada, US, China, Africa and the Middle East to encourage knowledge sharing on threats and strategies to manage threats.
COVID Corporate Policy
Developed a series of corporate policies on building a culture of health, safety, respect around the realities of managing a business during COVID. Policies included how to diagnose COVID, how to predict threats for spreading COVID, human resource policies on when to come to work, how to prevent infection at work, how to travel during COVID and reduce exposure to infection, how to develop remote work plans and a culture of improvement.
Economic Model for Reefs and Rainforests
Developed an economic model for coral reefs and rainforests, with global investors, local communities and governance of the commons for biodiversity, measuring change, diagnosing threats and investing in remedies to threats.
Self-Reliant Remote Real Estate
Designed and developed a self-reliant remote real estate venture to enable remote work during COVID. The design focused used decades of experience and contacts in remote area infrastructure design for transport, internet connectivity and energy along with infectious disease diagnostics, prevention and management. The venture used a mixed ownership economic model to enable ownership of individual units with shared costs for the development, operation and maintenance of self-reliant infrastructure for transport, communications, energy and waste management.
Field Research University
Developed a field research university with campuses in areas of high biodiversity threats. Developed collaborations with universities from around the world offering an exchange between teaching systems and learning systems: complement the classes and teaching model offered by universities with a learning model by offering access to problems, mentorship and experimentation.
Solar Radiation Modification (SRM)
Developed a strategy for African universities, innovators and governments to create policies governing SRM. This included policies ranging from voting on climate engineering policy at the United Nations to financing African innovators in this space, particularly on local solar radiation management of specific areas such as national parks to find ways to reduce sudden rises in temperature in fragile and threatened ecosystems.
Peace + Freedom
Recruited the founding team and investors to launch Peace + Freedom, connecting innovators, investors and mentors to build ventures for climate adaptation.
Virtual Aerospace Innovation Platform
Recruited the founding team and investors to launch a virtual aerospace innovation platform enabling anyone to design and test fly their aerospace innovation idea.
Airship Transport Africa
Researched and developed a plan to develop cargo airships connecting Africa’s interior with its seaports, starting with eastern and southern Africa. The study compared the overall cost of trucking with airships covering an area the size of Australia, connecting landlocked regions with global ports. The study was developed for an airship startup company in Florida. It formed the foundation to develop further knowledge in transport, logistics and airship ventures.
Stornoway Productions
Researched and developed a documentary film on the changing nature of foreign aid in Africa in the late 1980s and early 1990s, why structural adjustment programs would force a shift in the terms of financing for African countries. This project introduced Idea Bank to leaders in self-reliant economics for enabling entrepreneurs to change Africa’s transport, energy and communications sectors.
Wajax
Organized financing and developed a market development plan for Wajax’s fire protection equipment business to expand into protecting Africa’s protected natural areas. This created foundation for protecting national parks and surrounding agricultural zones and tourism sectors.
Integrated Health Clinics Africa
Worked in support of Dr Nat Quansah and pioneers in Africa’s healthcare sector to develop a system of integrated clinics, combining traditional local healthcare systems with university medical schools to combine traditional and modern medical practices to lower the cost and improve the health outcomes for communities living in and around protected natural areas.
Hoax Couture
Organized financing and developed a global marketing strategy with the founders.
Tena
Organized financing and developed a line of clothing and accessories with Hoax and Denise Cléroux to source materials from the surrounding areas of protected zones in Madagascar, including silk from fire-proof trees and raffia from northern Madagascar’s protected areas.
Peace Project Burundi-Rwanda
Organized Bill Graham’s campaign to have Canada lead the effort to prevent war and organize international peacekeeping in Burund and Rwanda in November, 1993, 5 months before the start of the Rwanda-Burundi genocide. The project failed. It laid the foundation for learning about conflict and conflict resolution.
Mandela Inauguration
Developed an idea tournament to design t-shirts delivered to Mandela’s Inauguration to promote peace and collaboration between divided communities. This was the first step to creating a cross-cultural exchange between South Africa and Canada.
Crees of Quebec
Developed and financed a student exchange for the Crees of Quebec to join an international Canada-Africa program for students to create entrepreneurial projects for the future of renewable energy and environmental stewardship.
Haida
Developed and financed a student exchange for the the Haida Nation to join a national Canadian program for students to create entrepreneurial projects for the future of ecotourism, traditional health and and biodiversity management.
Parks Canada
Researched and developed a project for Parks Canada to work with First Nations on collaboration for protecting species-at-risk. During the process of working with First Nations leaders, Idea Bank learned about threats to cultures-at-risk. The project evolved from protecting species within parks and greater parks ecosystems to collaborating with communities in greater parks economies. This laid the foundation for a broader project inviting different cultures from around the world to resolve conflicts in greater parks ecosystems and economies.
Canada-Africa National Parks Collaboration
Secured long-term financing for national parks in Canada and eastern-southern Africa to create a collaboration for protecting species-at-risk and cultures-at-risk and promoting a circulating value economy. Initial sectors for development in greater parks economies were tourism, agriculture, fisheries, healthcare and cultural exports including clothing, accessories, software, film and television.
Mazava
Created a knowledge sharing platform connecting biological hot zones for infectious diseases with universities to predict, prevent and manage infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics. Developed a ranking system for which biological hot zones, and their key travel hubs, could pose the greatest threats to enable outbreaks to become pandemics.
Tazo
Secured financing for a 13 part documentary series on the threat of infectious diseases.
Mohara
Created an investment fund to invest in startups with a focus on the prediction, prevention and management of infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics.
SARS Report
: Contributed research and recommendations for Canada’s position in the world as a knowledge broker connecting points of threats with points of care globally to build bridges across cultural, economic and political divisions, in preparation for future outbreaks and pandemics.
Barcode Pathogens
Recruited the founding team and financed a project to enable barcoding for pathogens.
Fio
Recruited the founding team and investors to launch Fio, a point of care diagnostics device enabling rapid, accurate diagnostics, data sharing and knowledge sharing for infectious disease prediction, prevention and management.
Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC)
Secured financing for DRDC to collaborate with Fio to develop a handheld device for rapid response to prevent and manage infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics globally and position Canada as the leader in global collaboration for pandemic management.
Green Trade Agreement
Worked with Bill Graham, Minister of Foreign Affairs, to develop the concept of environmental free trade agreements between North-South, starting with Canada and Africa to promote trade in products and services able to reduce CO2 emissions, protect species-at-risk, improve ecosystems health, create circular economies to continually reduce waste, remove pollution and reuse industrial products.
Canada-Africa Trade Mission
Worked with Bill Graham, Minister of Foreign Affairs, to develop the idea of Canada’s first trade mission to Africa.
Canadian Policy on Pandemic Preparedness
Worked with Minister of Defence Bill Graham to create Canada’s policy on pandemic preparedness with Minister of Emergency Preparedness Anne McLellan and Minister of State for Public Health, Carolyn Bennett.
Mobile Medical Clinics
Designed and developed a system of self-reliant mobile medical clinics able to operate in biological hot zones where the threat of generating infectious outbreaks and pandemics is greatest. The system was used a solar powered airship able to fly into remote environments and operate as a self-reliant system for weeks or months in areas with needing no infrastructure.
Solar Ship
Recruited the founding team and investors to launch Solar Ship, a solar powered airship company with 14 different designs of aircraft having been through design, build, regulatory approval and flight.
Micro Hydro
Recruited the founding team and investors to launch a micro hydro company in Canada with 26 sites to develop hydroelectric power for small communities and prototype a system with a US patent on low head, low flow water supply.
Carbon Removal – Direct Air Capture
Developed a financing plan and organized investment events for a direct air capture venture between 2007 and 2010. This created the foundation of knowledge for Idea Bank to develop expertise in climate policy and technologies.
Hydrogen Airships
Researched and developed a system for using micro hydro to generate hydrogen using electrolysis to enable airships to inflate and operate in remote areas to further the concept of self-reliant operations in remote areas.
Hydrogen Economy
Researched and developed a system of hydrogen corridors enabling access from ocean ports to remote interiors regions with an initial focus on North America and Africa.
Solar vs. Hydrogen Comparative Study
Developed a comparative study examining the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) generated from a self-reliant sources in remote areas, comparing remote areas in North America, South America, Africa and Asia.
Carbon Free Mining Study
Developed a comparative study examining the levelized cost of energy – electricity and transport energy - to run gold mines in remote areas. The study included carbon pricing and the total cost of transporting liquid fossil fuels into remote mines in the Arctic and Africa’s interior including DRC, Zambia, Tanzania. This created the foundation of knowledge for Idea Bank to develop a transport and logistics system for remote areas.
Remote Area Transport Corridors
Designed and developed a transport and logistics corridor system for remote areas in Canada’s North, Alaska, Africa, Asia and South America. Developed plans, recruited global partners and investors and secured funding and regulatory approval for a large scale project using a combination of ships, airships, solar, wind, hydroelectric and hydrogen to create transport corridors using self-reliant energy, with no fossil fuels to enable sustained flow of operations connecting remote areas with the global economy. The project created the foundation for developing expertise in building collaboration between competing forces aligned with the US, Canada and China.
Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR)
Designed and developed ISR system for remote areas to predict, prevent and manage threats to remote areas, including national borders, illegal fishing, threats to species-at-risk, anti-poaching and disaster management. The project created a low cost, wide area network of aerostats and long range drones able to provide aerial observation over areas of 3 million km2. It included secure systems for military and defence operations and community open systems enabling remote area entrepreneurs and Indigenous communities to use the infrastructure to predict, prevent and manage threats from changing weather events and natural disaster.
High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS)
Designed and developed HAPS system with global leader in satellite communications to expand ISR for remote areas to increase security and protection against threats and create the technical platform for low-cost internet in remote areas in Canada’s North, Alaska, Africa, Asia, island nations and South America.
Mobile Aerostat for Disaster Relief
Designed and developed mobile aerostat system for disaster relief enabling life-saving infrastructure and supplies to be delivered to points of need in response to the rising frequency and scale of natural disasters and human-made disasters resulting from violence and conflict.
Global Community of Innovators
Contributed to the design and development of a network of innovators from the US, Canada, China, the UK, EU, Australia, New Zealand and Africa to increase the rate at which new ideas can be tested, evaluated and achieve regulatory approval in healthcare, aerospace and environmental technologies.
Aerospace Innovation Corridors
Designed and developed a concept for aerospace innovators from the US, Canada, China, the UK, EU, UAE, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Africa to be provided regulatory approval to build and test fly new aerospace and aviation designs.
Peace + Freedom Corridors
Designed and developed a concept for aerospace innovators to be provided regulatory approval to build and test fly new aerospace and aviation designs to save lives and encourage electric air mobility innovation for carbon-free transport.
Investment Conference Canada-South Africa
Worked with trade officials and business leaders to organize a Canada-South Africa investment conference on investing in African brainpower, hosted by Bill Graham and former Minister of Finance Michael Wilson to invite President Cyril Ramaphosa to attract investment from Canada to South Africa during the G7 Summit, 2018.
Stratospheric Balloon
Developed financing and regulatory approval for stratospheric balloon program with successful launch of balloon into stratosphere.
Africa National Park Aerostat Network
Developed a strategic plan using a network of self-reliant aerostats and mobile aerostats for national parks in 5 African countries to provide a wide area network of internet connectivity and aerial surveillance for park managers, entrepreneurs and communities in greater parks ecosystems and economies. The project provided services for protecting species-at-risk, preventing illegal logging, anti-poaching, promoting ecotourism, providing a healthcare network and creating a farmer’s soil health service.
Remote Area Health Network
Designed a healthcare system for remote areas in Africa combining telemedicine for prediction of health threats with distribution of diagnostics from points of care to points of need using solar powered mobile aerostat drones, with rapid diagnostics connecting points of threat with supplies, delivered by mobile aerostat.
Soil Care System
Develop financing for a technology to provide farmers with a system of sensors in soil detecting nutrients, moisture and disease connected to a handheld app providing early warning of issues and continual improvement of soil health resulting in 2x to 10x greater productivity of soil per acre or hectare.
COVID Prevention and Management
Developed financing for triage diagnostics platform in late 2019, early 2020 to be used in hospitals, airports and primary locations for potential superspreading events. Matched this with Mazava ranking of hot zone hubs and areas of global collaboration. Connected top ranking infectious disease officials in Canada, US, China, Africa and the Middle East to encourage knowledge sharing on threats and strategies to manage threats.
COVID Corporate Policy
Developed a series of corporate policies on building a culture of health, safety, respect around the realities of managing a business during COVID. Policies included how to diagnose COVID, how to predict threats for spreading COVID, human resource policies on when to come to work, how to prevent infection at work, how to travel during COVID and reduce exposure to infection, how to develop remote work plans and a culture of improvement.
Economic Model for Reefs and Rainforests
Developed an economic model for coral reefs and rainforests, with global investors, local communities and governance of the commons for biodiversity, measuring change, diagnosing threats and investing in remedies to threats.
Self-Reliant Remote Real Estate
Designed and developed a self-reliant remote real estate venture to enable remote work during COVID. The design focused used decades of experience and contacts in remote area infrastructure design for transport, internet connectivity and energy along with infectious disease diagnostics, prevention and management. The venture used a mixed ownership economic model to enable ownership of individual units with shared costs for the development, operation and maintenance of self-reliant infrastructure for transport, communications, energy and waste management.
Field Research University
Developed a field research university with campuses in areas of high biodiversity threats. Developed collaborations with universities from around the world offering an exchange between teaching systems and learning systems: complement the classes and teaching model offered by universities with a learning model by offering access to problems, mentorship and experimentation.
Solar Radiation Modification (SRM)
Developed a strategy for African universities, innovators and governments to create policies governing SRM. This included policies ranging from voting on climate engineering policy at the United Nations to financing African innovators in this space, particularly on local solar radiation management of specific areas such as national parks to find ways to reduce sudden rises in temperature in fragile and threatened ecosystems.
Peace + Freedom
Recruited the founding team and investors to launch Peace + Freedom, connecting innovators, investors and mentors to build ventures for climate adaptation.
Virtual Aerospace Innovation Platform
Recruited the founding team and investors to launch a virtual aerospace innovation platform enabling anyone to design and test fly their aerospace innovation idea.
Airship Transport Africa
Researched and developed a plan to develop cargo airships connecting Africa’s interior with its seaports, starting with eastern and southern Africa. The study compared the overall cost of trucking with airships covering an area the size of Australia, connecting landlocked regions with global ports. The study was developed for an airship startup company in Florida. It formed the foundation to develop further knowledge in transport, logistics and airship ventures.
Stornoway Productions
Researched and developed a documentary film on the changing nature of foreign aid in Africa in the late 1980s and early 1990s, why structural adjustment programs would force a shift in the terms of financing for African countries. This project introduced Idea Bank to leaders in self-reliant economics for enabling entrepreneurs to change Africa’s transport, energy and communications sectors.
Wajax
Organized financing and developed a market development plan for Wajax’s fire protection equipment business to expand into protecting Africa’s protected natural areas. This created foundation for protecting national parks and surrounding agricultural zones and tourism sectors.
Integrated Health Clinics Africa
Worked in support of Dr Nat Quansah and pioneers in Africa’s healthcare sector to develop a system of integrated clinics, combining traditional local healthcare systems with university medical schools to combine traditional and modern medical practices to lower the cost and improve the health outcomes for communities living in and around protected natural areas.
Hoax Couture
Organized financing and developed a global marketing strategy with the founders.
Tena
Organized financing and developed a line of clothing and accessories with Hoax and Denise Cléroux to source materials from the surrounding areas of protected zones in Madagascar, including silk from fire-proof trees and raffia from northern Madagascar’s protected areas.
Peace Project Burundi-Rwanda
Organized Bill Graham’s campaign to have Canada lead the effort to prevent war and organize international peacekeeping in Burund and Rwanda in November, 1993, 5 months before the start of the Rwanda-Burundi genocide. The project failed. It laid the foundation for learning about conflict and conflict resolution.
Mandela Inauguration
Developed an idea tournament to design t-shirts delivered to Mandela’s Inauguration to promote peace and collaboration between divided communities. This was the first step to creating a cross-cultural exchange between South Africa and Canada.
Crees of Quebec
Developed and financed a student exchange for the Crees of Quebec to join an international Canada-Africa program for students to create entrepreneurial projects for the future of renewable energy and environmental stewardship.
Haida
Developed and financed a student exchange for the the Haida Nation to join a national Canadian program for students to create entrepreneurial projects for the future of ecotourism, traditional health and and biodiversity management.
Parks Canada
Researched and developed a project for Parks Canada to work with First Nations on collaboration for protecting species-at-risk. During the process of working with First Nations leaders, Idea Bank learned about threats to cultures-at-risk. The project evolved from protecting species within parks and greater parks ecosystems to collaborating with communities in greater parks economies. This laid the foundation for a broader project inviting different cultures from around the world to resolve conflicts in greater parks ecosystems and economies.
Canada-Africa National Parks Collaboration
Secured long-term financing for national parks in Canada and eastern-southern Africa to create a collaboration for protecting species-at-risk and cultures-at-risk and promoting a circulating value economy. Initial sectors for development in greater parks economies were tourism, agriculture, fisheries, healthcare and cultural exports including clothing, accessories, software, film and television.
Mazava
Created a knowledge sharing platform connecting biological hot zones for infectious diseases with universities to predict, prevent and manage infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics. Developed a ranking system for which biological hot zones, and their key travel hubs, could pose the greatest threats to enable outbreaks to become pandemics.
Tazo
Secured financing for a 13 part documentary series on the threat of infectious diseases.
Mohara
Created an investment fund to invest in startups with a focus on the prediction, prevention and management of infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics.
SARS Report
: Contributed research and recommendations for Canada’s position in the world as a knowledge broker connecting points of threats with points of care globally to build bridges across cultural, economic and political divisions, in preparation for future outbreaks and pandemics.
Barcode Pathogens
Recruited the founding team and financed a project to enable barcoding for pathogens.
Fio
Recruited the founding team and investors to launch Fio, a point of care diagnostics device enabling rapid, accurate diagnostics, data sharing and knowledge sharing for infectious disease prediction, prevention and management.
Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC)
Secured financing for DRDC to collaborate with Fio to develop a handheld device for rapid response to prevent and manage infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics globally and position Canada as the leader in global collaboration for pandemic management.
Green Trade Agreement
Worked with Bill Graham, Minister of Foreign Affairs, to develop the concept of environmental free trade agreements between North-South, starting with Canada and Africa to promote trade in products and services able to reduce CO2 emissions, protect species-at-risk, improve ecosystems health, create circular economies to continually reduce waste, remove pollution and reuse industrial products.
Canada-Africa Trade Mission
Worked with Bill Graham, Minister of Foreign Affairs, to develop the idea of Canada’s first trade mission to Africa.
Canadian Policy on Pandemic Preparedness
Worked with Minister of Defence Bill Graham to create Canada’s policy on pandemic preparedness with Minister of Emergency Preparedness Anne McLellan and Minister of State for Public Health, Carolyn Bennett.
Mobile Medical Clinics
Designed and developed a system of self-reliant mobile medical clinics able to operate in biological hot zones where the threat of generating infectious outbreaks and pandemics is greatest. The system was used a solar powered airship able to fly into remote environments and operate as a self-reliant system for weeks or months in areas with needing no infrastructure.
Solar Ship
Recruited the founding team and investors to launch Solar Ship, a solar powered airship company with 14 different designs of aircraft having been through design, build, regulatory approval and flight.
Micro Hydro
Recruited the founding team and investors to launch a micro hydro company in Canada with 26 sites to develop hydroelectric power for small communities and prototype a system with a US patent on low head, low flow water supply.
Carbon Removal – Direct Air Capture
Developed a financing plan and organized investment events for a direct air capture venture between 2007 and 2010. This created the foundation of knowledge for Idea Bank to develop expertise in climate policy and technologies.
Hydrogen Airships
Researched and developed a system for using micro hydro to generate hydrogen using electrolysis to enable airships to inflate and operate in remote areas to further the concept of self-reliant operations in remote areas.
Hydrogen Economy
Researched and developed a system of hydrogen corridors enabling access from ocean ports to remote interiors regions with an initial focus on North America and Africa.
Solar vs. Hydrogen Comparative Study
Developed a comparative study examining the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) generated from a self-reliant sources in remote areas, comparing remote areas in North America, South America, Africa and Asia.
Carbon Free Mining Study
Developed a comparative study examining the levelized cost of energy – electricity and transport energy - to run gold mines in remote areas. The study included carbon pricing and the total cost of transporting liquid fossil fuels into remote mines in the Arctic and Africa’s interior including DRC, Zambia, Tanzania. This created the foundation of knowledge for Idea Bank to develop a transport and logistics system for remote areas.
Remote Area Transport Corridors
Designed and developed a transport and logistics corridor system for remote areas in Canada’s North, Alaska, Africa, Asia and South America. Developed plans, recruited global partners and investors and secured funding and regulatory approval for a large scale project using a combination of ships, airships, solar, wind, hydroelectric and hydrogen to create transport corridors using self-reliant energy, with no fossil fuels to enable sustained flow of operations connecting remote areas with the global economy. The project created the foundation for developing expertise in building collaboration between competing forces aligned with the US, Canada and China.
Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR)
Designed and developed ISR system for remote areas to predict, prevent and manage threats to remote areas, including national borders, illegal fishing, threats to species-at-risk, anti-poaching and disaster management. The project created a low cost, wide area network of aerostats and long range drones able to provide aerial observation over areas of 3 million km2. It included secure systems for military and defence operations and community open systems enabling remote area entrepreneurs and Indigenous communities to use the infrastructure to predict, prevent and manage threats from changing weather events and natural disaster.
High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS)
Designed and developed HAPS system with global leader in satellite communications to expand ISR for remote areas to increase security and protection against threats and create the technical platform for low-cost internet in remote areas in Canada’s North, Alaska, Africa, Asia, island nations and South America.
Mobile Aerostat for Disaster Relief
Designed and developed mobile aerostat system for disaster relief enabling life-saving infrastructure and supplies to be delivered to points of need in response to the rising frequency and scale of natural disasters and human-made disasters resulting from violence and conflict.
Global Community of Innovators
Contributed to the design and development of a network of innovators from the US, Canada, China, the UK, EU, Australia, New Zealand and Africa to increase the rate at which new ideas can be tested, evaluated and achieve regulatory approval in healthcare, aerospace and environmental technologies.
Aerospace Innovation Corridors
Designed and developed a concept for aerospace innovators from the US, Canada, China, the UK, EU, UAE, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Africa to be provided regulatory approval to build and test fly new aerospace and aviation designs.
Peace + Freedom Corridors
Designed and developed a concept for aerospace innovators to be provided regulatory approval to build and test fly new aerospace and aviation designs to save lives and encourage electric air mobility innovation for carbon-free transport.
Investment Conference Canada-South Africa
Worked with trade officials and business leaders to organize a Canada-South Africa investment conference on investing in African brainpower, hosted by Bill Graham and former Minister of Finance Michael Wilson to invite President Cyril Ramaphosa to attract investment from Canada to South Africa during the G7 Summit, 2018.
Stratospheric Balloon
Developed financing and regulatory approval for stratospheric balloon program with successful launch of balloon into stratosphere.
Africa National Park Aerostat Network
Developed a strategic plan using a network of self-reliant aerostats and mobile aerostats for national parks in 5 African countries to provide a wide area network of internet connectivity and aerial surveillance for park managers, entrepreneurs and communities in greater parks ecosystems and economies. The project provided services for protecting species-at-risk, preventing illegal logging, anti-poaching, promoting ecotourism, providing a healthcare network and creating a farmer’s soil health service.
Remote Area Health Network
Designed a healthcare system for remote areas in Africa combining telemedicine for prediction of health threats with distribution of diagnostics from points of care to points of need using solar powered mobile aerostat drones, with rapid diagnostics connecting points of threat with supplies, delivered by mobile aerostat.
Soil Care System
Develop financing for a technology to provide farmers with a system of sensors in soil detecting nutrients, moisture and disease connected to a handheld app providing early warning of issues and continual improvement of soil health resulting in 2x to 10x greater productivity of soil per acre or hectare.
COVID Prevention and Management
Developed financing for triage diagnostics platform in late 2019, early 2020 to be used in hospitals, airports and primary locations for potential superspreading events. Matched this with Mazava ranking of hot zone hubs and areas of global collaboration. Connected top ranking infectious disease officials in Canada, US, China, Africa and the Middle East to encourage knowledge sharing on threats and strategies to manage threats.
COVID Corporate Policy
Developed a series of corporate policies on building a culture of health, safety, respect around the realities of managing a business during COVID. Policies included how to diagnose COVID, how to predict threats for spreading COVID, human resource policies on when to come to work, how to prevent infection at work, how to travel during COVID and reduce exposure to infection, how to develop remote work plans and a culture of improvement.
Economic Model for Reefs and Rainforests
Developed an economic model for coral reefs and rainforests, with global investors, local communities and governance of the commons for biodiversity, measuring change, diagnosing threats and investing in remedies to threats.
Self-Reliant Remote Real Estate
Designed and developed a self-reliant remote real estate venture to enable remote work during COVID. The design focused used decades of experience and contacts in remote area infrastructure design for transport, internet connectivity and energy along with infectious disease diagnostics, prevention and management. The venture used a mixed ownership economic model to enable ownership of individual units with shared costs for the development, operation and maintenance of self-reliant infrastructure for transport, communications, energy and waste management.
Field Research University
Developed a field research university with campuses in areas of high biodiversity threats. Developed collaborations with universities from around the world offering an exchange between teaching systems and learning systems: complement the classes and teaching model offered by universities with a learning model by offering access to problems, mentorship and experimentation.
Solar Radiation Modification (SRM)
Developed a strategy for African universities, innovators and governments to create policies governing SRM. This included policies ranging from voting on climate engineering policy at the United Nations to financing African innovators in this space, particularly on local solar radiation management of specific areas such as national parks to find ways to reduce sudden rises in temperature in fragile and threatened ecosystems.
Peace + Freedom
Recruited the founding team and investors to launch Peace + Freedom, connecting innovators, investors and mentors to build ventures for climate adaptation.
Virtual Aerospace Innovation Platform
Recruited the founding team and investors to launch a virtual aerospace innovation platform enabling anyone to design and test fly their aerospace innovation idea.
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