Lifeline Lottery Organization
Creating Lifeline Lottery, a global lottery dedicated to raising funds for Disaster Relief and Humanitarian Aid to communities around the world in desperate need.
Since the times of the ancient Romans lotteries have been used for raising funds to finance large-scale community, regional or national projects that benefit society such as schools.
London Bridge and the British Museum were both financed through British national lotteries.
In America, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Dartmouth universities were financed by lotteries. Well-run lotteries raise billions of dollars per year for various good causes requiring massive funding amounts such as our California state school system.In 1997, Digital Corporation, before it was bought out by first Compaq, then H-P, wanted the contract for building our Bear River Tribe's Heartlands Project’s lottery processing center. Digital did a market study of potential lottery earnings and told our Heartlands team that "if set up right" our statewide lottery system could earn "up to a billion dollars a year." G-Tech too, was interested in our Heartlands Project lottery in 1997 before they got the California lottery management contract. G-Tech is the world's largest lottery management company.
In 2005, International Lottery and Totalizer Systems, Europe's counterpart to G-Tech, wanted me to keep them up to date and notify them when our Heartlands Project again received Bear River Tribal Council backing. That did finally happen however briefly for three days in March of this year before once again being shelved by the Tribal Council–such is tribal politics in Indian Country.
The Lifeline Lottery's new cell-phone/satellite phone lottery system
Since 2005 I been developing plans for a new state-of-the-art lottery system that is ahead of the competition in every way. Ahead in cost of setting the system up, ahead in cost of system operation, and ahead in marketing coverage by using new smart phone and global satellite phone technologies that have been developed in recent years.
Instead of a vast outlay needed to set up lottery ticket outlets in thousands of stores, gas stations, etc,, with reliance on billboard and expensive TV advertising to sell lottery tickets, our lottery system is built right into the new, cheaper, but just as well built cell phones and later on, satellite phones that will eventually replace cell-phones. Briefly flashing on the hour and half-hour across the screens of our inexpensive smart "Lotto Phones" will be the current lottery prize amount. The prize amount is what sells the tickets and that's all lottery customers really are interested in. This system doesn't require any billboard or TV advertising or even tickets for that matter. It's all done electronically on the screens of our new smart Lotto Phones or whatever we decide to call them.
Why will lottery customers buy Lotto Phones over other cell-phones? One big reason? Lotto Phones will be just as cheap as cell-phones, if not cheaper, but still built to last and with satellite phones these phones will have a great advantage over cell phones--satellite phones don't run out of range. Seeing the current lottery amount for a few seconds twice an hour will be a small inconvenience to pay for better technology and global coverage.
Satellite phones are the direction phone technology is inevitably going because cell phones need cell towers and cell towers are increasingly unwelcome environmental risks and eyesores in any community but cell phone technology is available now while our satellite phone system is still in the developmental stage.
Other possible universal phone systems
Smart phones/smaller but more powerful laptops, and worldwide web phone connection possibilities are out there too to investigate for our Lifeline Lottery system. I'm hardly a computer or telecommunications expert so there's room for further research on our lottery system. The satellite phone system seems a winner if we can make satellite phones competitive in manufacturing and distribution costs with current cell phone systems.
But our new cell phone/satellite phone lottery system is only potential now. It needs a business plan to present to investors for start-up capitalization. This is where the Lifeline Lottery Organization needs bodies and brains, members who can create the world’s biggest and best cause lottery–-the Lifeline Lottery.
But organizing the Lifeline Lottery system isn't the final goal of the LLO. Using Lifeline Lottery Organization's lottery management income, LLO will finance the start up of its emergency aid and community self-sufficiency systems research and development and production arm, Communikits Inc. For those interested in using in disaster relief and humanitarian aid many of the skills being creatively developed in Humboldt County by students and homesteaders, Communikits and Communikit R&D may be of special interest.
If you want to be part of this historic endeavor,, check us out and if you see something you want to be part of, come and join in Lifeline Lottery Organization's BLOG discussions at: http://lifelinelottery.blogspot.com/.
Stephen Lewis
Project Coordinator