This is a brief note intended to
provide direction for any disbursement of all funds and property
belonging to myself, Barrett Brown, in the case of my death. A copy has
been sent to my attorney, who will not be named here but who will be
able to verify my status as her client. This document may be replaced by
a more formal version, time permitting; if so, it will be held by the
same lawyer.
All of my cash is in a Chase account.
This, along with any other funds that may derive from the sale of any of
my work and other funds that would go to my estate, is to be put into a
fund which will itself be administered by my lawyer in conjunction with
one U.S. citizen and one Australian citizen who themselves are channel
operators at irc.project-pm.org (hereafter known as the "triumvirate."
The money is to be used for the following program:
Ten villages in East Africa, preferably
Tanzania, are to be chosen with the intent of each village being
similar in population and standard of living. The money will be divided
into ten parts. A contest will be held whereby would-be participants
will provide a 1,000-word treatise on the subject of how a village may
best have its standard of living improved with a small amount of funds.
The ten winners will be chosen by the triumvirate, after which point
each winner will be assigned a village and given access to the money,
which will be dispensed in each case in accordance with whatever plan is
produced by each winner. After a year, an assessment will be made, and
an honorary "winner" will be chosen based on the results. Regardless of
who wins and what village he has overseen, those implementations made
across the contest that are deemed to be of most use will be chosen and
combined into a new package which will then serve as a model for further
implementations across the region and elsewhere. Any additional money
that derives from my work or which is raised by the Triumvirate and its
representatives will go to implementing this plan.