Poverty, violence, abuse, over-population, and disease are just some of today’s many problems.

Almost all of our problems are inversely proportional to our levels of education. In order to treat the cause of these problems we need to empower people with education.

Educated people, and educated nations, are thus empowered to transcend a life of mere survival. Educated people and educated nations are empowered to help themselves.

As technology advances the ways of acquiring information drastically change.

Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia® has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference web sites, attracting around 65 million visitors monthly as of 2009.

Yahoo!® launched Yahoo! Answers in July 2005 and as of October 2009 it claims 179 million users worldwide with over 1 billion questions and answers.

I foresee that in the near future, e-Learning will be incorporated in all educational institutions worldwide.

Imagine a free, self-organizing, growing repository of the entire world’s factual knowledge, at every level of education.

Imagine an online video education resource where anyone could submit a virtual lesson on any subject in their own language.

Every individual with an Internet connection can potentially access this rich, empowering world of knowledge. From basic language and numeracy, through to different languages, through to advanced theoretical physics, everyone can learn.

HigherUp.com is my gift to this world; A website that brings about a true global enlightenment.