fuseGap

We are making it cool to become informed! By making it fun, easy, and rewarding to learn new information, we can ensure that citizens become educated voters. Democracy requires participation, so how do you get people involved?

With fuseGap, that’s how!

We are partnering with students on college campuses, non-profit organizations, and major brands to build a social media application that can bring about real social change.

Unfortunately, 1 out of 5 American adults thinks that the sun revolves around the earth.
This is a problem.
We need to inform society, but it’s way too hard to learn about basic information, let alone political and social topics. At fuseGap, we are building a database that has the most efficient coverage of complex topics, and we are making it rewarding for users to consume and create content. The problem is not that it's difficult to find good sources, it's that people don't know the basic facts. Emotion and bias beat the facts over the short term, but facts prevail over the long term. We are trying to exponentially speed up that transition. By making tons of people aware of the facts, informed voting can occur.
This is the central element of an effective, lasting Democracy.

Lets say that I’m a citizen that cares about human rights.
I’m aware of important human rights issues and information, but how do I get that information out to other people? With fuseGap, I post my facts (and source citations) and create quizzes and games based on this information.
I can use facebook and other social media to share these games with friends.

Maybe it turns out some of my friends also have info about human rights that they can add in.
Maybe these friends have other friends who would be interested in these issues too but don’t have any other practical options to take action.
Maybe these friends begin making lawmakers aware of these facts. Maybe such a large number of people are sharing these facts and games that brands are paying to advertise to these users. Maybe this ad money is given to causes that actually work to support human rights. And maybe the citizens in our Democracy have become informed in the process.

American academic historian Howard Zinn once said, “We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.” We believe that if we endeavor to educate ourselves and then share our knowledge with others, positive change will occur within our Democratic society.

Is all of this possible? Maybe. And fuseGap aims to find out! We owe it to our Democratic society to try.