Justification for the OBF

Should the Open Business Foundation even exist? What are the
things it strives to provide that are either not currently provided or
not provided well?

A quick sketch of areas that the OBF would like to address... the hierarchy is currently arbitrary and not organized:

Mission Divisions:

Innovation
 - contributions from related research

 - contributions from the community
 
Infomation dissemination
 * Community
 - communication (input/feedback) via forums/maillists
 - standard email

 - user-contributed web content
 - document downloads/uploads (OSS model)
 * Assimilation
 - organization of standard materials, both easily availible and those hard to come by
 - lessons learned from the nations best businesses
Economy
 * what activities of a business help secure economic stabliity?
 * what encourages the evolution of the economy?
 
Society
 * Ethical/social responsibility

Planning
 - fiscal
 - management
 - corporate culture