The first thing to note in Science City is that education is largely based around practical projects; each individual sub city has a speciality. For instance Oil City consecrates on alternate energy projects. This said the overall collective project to design, develop and implement is the Sienna.Gov software to 500,000 Greek businesses in 4 years.

However that does not mean everyone learns how to programme software, far from it. The basic software as applied to travel is not particularly complicated to create, its creating the networks, individually going from business to business, creating API links and in general installing and teaching companies how to get the best out of it.

To replicate this in other industries, we must first understand the industries, its no good saying to a software designer, see the way we have done this for travel, now apply it to a company that sells bathroom supplies. They would not know where to start, take someone who used to work for that company, put them in a brainstorming group, including software designers, business analysts, database developers and general software reps and you start to get somewhere.

A fair amount of time will need to be spent with the business owner, developing the relationship holding their hand through the process, collecting data and in general trying to explain the process as best as possible to the business owner, so as the owner can ask for things to be done that will benefit him or her.

If we consider there would be maybe 200 bathroom supply businesses in Greece, we will have 100 teams, collectively working on the project, give them 4 years and by the end, the software will be next generation.

Remember it’s not just about the code, it’s just as much about what we wish the software to achieve.
If we go into a little detail, we have a $50,000 per year budget per business, and we have budgeted for 4 years, so if we are looking at 100 bathroom businesses we will have a $5,000,000 a year budget, so what will that get us..

Software and Database Developers 25 @ $40,000 a year
Junior Developers 50 @ $20,000 a year
Business Analysts 10 @ $40,000 a year
Managers 10 @ $40,000 a year
Part Time Representatives 100 @ $8,000 a year
Expenses @ $1,000,000 a year

That’s quite a team, on bathroom software and networks, especially when you consider, a lot of basic concepts of the travel software will adapt to any industry, and we have another 5,000 teams working on other industries where breakthrough ideas are shared. For instance, if someone in China plate manufacturing finds a way to make or import raw materials more cost effectively, the bathroom companies may benefit.

So that’s the practical collective project for students and teachers alike and if 50% of study time was spent on this collective project. 25% of time will be spent on the specific science being taught in the sub city i.e. Alternative energy in Oil City, and 25% will be spent studying individual strengths, for example Managers will study management skills, developers, development skills etc.

So someone studying computer science will spend 25% of their time specifically studying Computer Science, 50% of their time, putting their skills into action in a practical way and 25% studying the science behind alternative energy.

Who are the students in Science City, and what do they study?

Everyone who lives in Science City is a student. If we look at the above example “Part Time Representatives”
The job of a representative is to go and spend time with the business owners, get the business owners input and hopefully enthusiasm, but it takes time to develop relationships and business owners are often very busy. But what if the business owner already knew the representative, what if they were family, friends or a previous or current employee. With over a million jobs not requiring academic qualification available in New Sparta, largely in construction, every business owner will have either a friend, relative or current worker that could fill the vacancy.

The minimum pay is $20,000 which is not bad, but instead of just working on a building site, New Sparta construction workers will work for 3 days, and be at college for 2. Their educational time will be spent as highlighted above, half of working with the team being the direct contact and representative to the individual business the team is working on either brainstorming the project or communicating with the business owner, who they already know well, a quarter of their time will be spent learning the basics of alternative energy, the last quarter, education into their specific job.

If we look at another example, a single Greek mother and her 4 year old daughter, depending on what experience the mother has will depend on the work to education ratio. Of course child care is available so the mother is free to work or study. A typical example world be to work for 3 days at a local restaurant and study for 2 days, as a year passes enough study will have been put in to join a Software development Group, in an industry she is comfortable with (maybe heath care and nursing), and so the ratio changes from 3 days at the restaurant, to 2 and 3 days study and so on.

The bottom line is, absolutely everybody in each sub city is in a constant state of education, from construction worker to lawyer, all spend time on the City wide Greek software and networks and all spend time on the science behind their particular town’s speciality.

My premise is simple.

What is the best way to make a significant scientific discovery in the construction industry, get 100 scientists, 100 teachers and 2000 students who have never laid a brick in their lives,

Or teach 2000 Construction workers science and put them in a group think tank?

It’s not about the software it’s about what we want the software to achieve. How can 1000 students that have not laid a brick, know what they wish to achieve?

There is a lot more to write, I have however illustrated my point, that everyone in Science City studies.