Dr. Franklin,
Director of SE2Ci
Pictured here attending meetings
at the National Water
Center (N.O.A.A.), at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa "Roll Tide" ,
Director Franklin,
of SE2Ci
At meetings in Puebla, Mexico to collaborate with innovative engineers on the packaging and form factors available for drone-sized, pressurized hydrogen cylinders (DrinkAIR™). Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Ciudad de México,
Dr. Franklin collaborating
with Colleagues
Shown here at the UCGIS program collaborating with NSF funded, CyberGIS and Geospatial Data Science thought-leaders at the NCSA (National Center for Super-computing Applications) at the U. Illinois, Urban-Champagne, IL
Doctor Franklin (4th from right-front row) with the C.U.A.H.S.I. Teams at the N.O.A.A.-National Water Center Building, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.
Professor Franklin collaborating with engineering PhD Research Scholar Arun Raj S. on GIS & Flood Management and prediction techniques at the Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod, India
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Professor Franklin,
Director of SE2Ci.com
Director Franklin discussing the importance of clean drinking water (e.g., DrinkAIR™) for India as part of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG #6) at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras-I.I.T., Chennai, India
Professor Franklin and Adjunct Professor Jayashree Sreedharan congratulating co-author and environmentalist Krishna Das on his successful pollution litigation and activism lawsuit against Kerala's Regional Waterways Government for failing to enforce pollution laws & standards in Kollam, Kerala, India
Welcome
to
SE2Ci
"Sustainable Entrepreneurial Climate-Change Innovations and Initiatives"
Brief Bio
Dr. Franklin received rigorous training as a Demographer at the University of California Irvine's School of Social Science, in demographic & social analysis (DASA). In addition, Professor Franklin is also a trained Information Research Scientist, specializing in Location Intelligence and Geospatial & Temporal data analytics. He earned his Doctorate at the University of Texas at Dallas in the GISc (geospatial information sciences) program, jointly offered by the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science (ECSS), the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NSM) and the School of Economic, Political and Policy Science (EPPS) with a specialty in Market Research, Innovation & Entrepreneurship from the Blackstone LaunchPad program under the auspices of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Naveen Jindal School of Management (JSOM).
Dr. Franklin's unique practitioner/academic perspectives are supported by his many published spatial temporal insights for peer-reviewed empirical research conferences, model development projects and other investigative work and studies. Information science’s confluence at the junction of many disciplines, includes but is not limited to, marketing & management science, computer science, engineering, geography & geology and various social, policy and applied sciences in areas of research interest such as Location Intelligence, Innovation Diffusion Theory, Presence Data and the Maximum Entropy Principle.
Because of this rigor, combined with a robust teaching philosophy anchored in the concepts of collaborative andragogical approaches, Professor Franklin can offer his mature graduate students, co-authors, investors, stakeholders and supporters valuable trans-disciplinary solutions to a host of complex, non-intuitive problems facing business & Society and typical of urgent climate change scenarios.
As a Qualitative and Quantitative teacher and researcher, Dr. Franklin and his team, have a vast horizon of trans-disciplinary expertise and innovative technological knowledge available for use to solve complex climate change challenges. These challenges require collaborative ideation and creative inputs from many multi-disciplinary personalities with diverse technical skill levels.
We conceptually fuse, Focused Minds and Global Thinking™, to achieve optimum solution effects in the shortest period of time. We have unique and collaborative leadership skills and consulting expertise. These skills have been developed over many years of executive/practitioner roles in senior management and partnership consulting firms across key industries, in both the, business-to-business and business-to-consumer economic sectors.
Our mission at SE2Ci
(1) To explore, deeply study, understand, create, develop, and test entrepreneurial, water-related innovations & initiatives.
(2) To organize, (and in some cases fund), "innovations & initiatives" for successful, sustainable launches of socially beneficial product/service solution sets for our stakeholders. Our stakeholders include end-users, and many times also include advocates, financially supportive of our goals, objectives, strategies and tactics. We also partner with governments, NGO's and others e.g., social change agents like Charitable Trusts and Foundations.
The current overall "goal" is to provide micro-water resources to alleviate the negative impacts of resource poor cohorts of global populations with insufficient quantities of safe clean drinking water. "DrinkAIR™" is one of our global innovative initiative concepts that addresses SDG#6 of the United Nations comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals.
To accomplish delivery of solutions, everyone now comprising the human social ecology, not just traditional STEM domain and siloed disciplinary researchers, must insist "no stone be left unturned" to discover innovative, immediate creative and potentially paradigm-shifting options. There likely will be no "one-size-fits-all" solution. Particularly since the scientific climate change models are unable to predict the rapidly increasing empirical temperatures measurements and other exponential global warming changing effects (e.g., dangerous reductions and impacts on species diversity, increased spread of pandemic viruses) and food chain factors. These developments will rapidly and surreptitiously destroy the planets bio-diversity and thus our ability to survive as a species on this planet. These changes will not be linear - but exponential!
Critical Need for Crucial Innovations
According to Director Kathi Vidal, (Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office). "There is a crucial need for a new era of innovation and for all of us to unite in helping every potential innovator in our country bring their innovation to impact. We can help make those dreams become reality and, in the process, turbocharge access to the American innovation system for everyone". (June 9, 2022).
Thus we need an ecosystem of ideation and experimentation that supports many simultaneous novel ideas, innovations, initiatives, and of course pivots and undertakes mid-course corrections while being developed, down this rapid-prototyping roadmap. The permutations of innovations (i.e., an A-B-C order of implementation may create synergy (Gestalt) or a different order say, B-A-C, or B-C-A may create a whole much greater than its parts). This is how entrepreneurs test and rapidly progress forward toward unique solutions. All of this needs to take place in addition to the other policy efforts being undertaken by governments globally.
Dr. Steven Moore, Director of the Center for Spatial Studies (CSS) and Director of Sponsored Programs at the University of Redlands, "I think that business is going to have to lead the way in addressing climate change. Governments are pretty much stalled in the effort.” (June 2, 2021).
Dr. Christopher Franklin, Director of the Sustainable Climate Change Innovations & Initiatives Institute (SE2Ci) and Co-founding Director of the Center for GIS Innovation in Industry and Institutions (CG3i), also believes that business innovators and social entrepreneurs are going to have to lead the way in addressing global warming and the effects of excessive GHG pollution carbon in the planet's atmosphere.
For example, the SE2Ci Institute's Strategic Innovation Initiative (S2i) is already leading the way with collaborations with creative Innovators around the world (e.g., London, Doha, Bangalore, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Brisbane and so on) while providing the robust and rigorous information sciences necessary to create the most powerful location intelligent tools available for rapid-prototyping and delivery of targeted climate change solutions anywhere in the world.
On our platforms, our Innovators can easily view complex temporal-spatial, climate-change/global-warming parameters & trends through the use of GIS (geographical information systems) dashboards, while pursuing Strategic Innovation Initiative (S2i) solution pathways, directly leading to potential strategic science-based solutions to immediately reduce green house gases (GHG) e.g., CO2 (carbon dioxide) while addressing Sustainable Development Goals (SDG #6 Water).
"S2i" was developed and designed by Dr. Franklin and his professional staff. It is a conceptual mode that supports various suites of algorithmic analytics and dashboards developed and designed for proactive and progressive IS/IT organizations competing in the carbon neutrality race to "net-zero" global emissions by 2030!
Internationally, Dr. Franklin has helped shape the marketing approaches of several large and expanding private European companies. Well versed in technological innovation diffusion & adoption theory and (HW/SW) practices; Dr. Franklin currently leans into improving and enhancing value-chain management (with a focus on predictive marketing values for demand chain processes versus supply chain management & sourcing). As a marketing practitioner and theorist (i.e., economic geographer and geospatial information social scientist), Professor Franklin is well versed in large data-driven business science and management decision-making ensembles across multiple disciplines and geographies, e.g., North America, Europe and Asia.
As Director for SE2Ci, Dr. Franklin collaborates and leads Postdocs , Non-Resident Fellows, Faculty and Graduate students via his unique interpersonal communications skills, andragogical (adult-learning) teaching philosophy and in-depth industry experience, to synergistically (i.e., "Gestalt") and collaboratively forge innovation solutions to our most pressing and urgent, life-threatening challenges.
From concept to sustainable and commercially viable products and services - the SE2Ci platforms support management/executive decision making. This approach provides GISc location intelligence for analysis and insights utilizing successful marketing sciences methodologies for strategic implementation success.
Also, Dr. Franklin is Director and Principal Investigator (i.e., P.I.) for the Center for GIS Innovation in Industry and Institutions (CG3i); a center which he co-founded at the University of Texas at Dallas in 2012 and now hosts at the SE2Ci Institute. In that ongoing role, he is a member of an international panel of experts, who constantly evaluate potential new creative global warming and climate change innovations (e.g., DrinkAIR*) and who assist with development, market research and planning to successfully execute development, testing, prototyping and market entry and diffusion of the innovation through sustainable growth planning and modeling systems. Not only delivering technology solution bu infrastructure, training jobs and other developmental effects to the local implementations.
Finally as a teacher and mentor, Professor Franklin has supported and developed a number of graduate and undergraduate students (e.g., U. of Illinois - Collaborative Problem Solving with CyberGIS and Geospatial Data Science; the University of Alabama Tuscaloosa's Innovators Summer Institute Program; the University of Texas at Dallas - Center for GIS Innovation in Industry & Institutions (CG3i) and the University of Redlands, School of Business & Society. Students consistently rank Professor Franklin among the highest and preferred professors. His teaching philosophy is solidly based on the andragogical (Alexander Kapp, 1833) method, well tested and further developed through the intellectual work of Dr. Malcolm Shepherd Knowles at the University Boston. Dr. Franklin has lead senior MBA graduate-level, mature student capstone projects in geospatial information sciences "location analytics & intelligence" including utilization of ESRI's geographical information systems software.
More generally he donates his time to participate in local Independent School District (ISD) programs (e.g., "Principle for a Day" (at the Dallas Environmental Science Academy (DESA).
Dr. Franklin collaborates and participates with various Foundations and Trusts such as the Kaufman Foundation's innovation programs and the Blackstone Foundation & Institution programs at UT Dallas, Texas.
About
Team Associate
Christopher Franklin, PhD
Director
Sustainable Entrepreneurial Climate-Change Innovations & Initiatives (SE2Ci) Institute.
Professional preparation:
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Doctor of Philosophy, Geospatial Information Sciences (GISc). Schools of EPPS, JSOM, SE&CS & NS&M. UT Dallas, USA
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Bachelor of Arts, Sociology (B A). Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Department of Sociology & Anthropology. Concordia U., Montreal, Canada
"SE2Ci unites my business interests and my academic skills/knowledge in a very unique way. It is my sincere hope that SE2Ci will gradually build a community of like-minded scientists, innovators, inventors and social entrepreneurs, dedicated and determined to supply sustainable and successful "Climate-Change Innovations and Initiatives" to creatively solve and eliminate further global environmental damage to the planet." , (Franklin, C., SE2Ci Institute, June 21, 2021)
Dr. Franklin visiting the T.A.C.C., Super Computer Center, at the University of Texas at Austin
for climate change research - with the center's mascot, "Lucky")
Take a Closer Look
J. Sreedharan
Global Development
Chief "Focused Minds & Global Thinking" Officer
Team Associate
BACKGROUNDER
Solution thinking, to the existential threat of continued global warming, must be unbounded (i.e., outside the box").
From "Focused Minds" and "Global Thinking" comes social entrepreneurs and innovators capable of solving the climate challenges around the world. The need to facilitate every potential inventor and innovation "in the world", seems like an impossible dream. But such a high goal must be set to generate adequate rapid proto-typing solutions to deploy against the existential global warming threat and its rapidly worsening and unraveling effects for life on planet Earth.
Arts & Science (ART-SCI) projects, developing and integrating teaching and mentorship for Focused minds of all ages engaged in strategic Global thinking is another valuable approach for seeking existential solutions to the disastrous effects of continued global warming. The world is well positioned in science and art to realize potential creative and innovative strategic technology solutions in rapidly advancing scientific areas like machine learning, A.I., geospatial information sciences and location intelligence to mention just a few.
About
Team Associate Jayashree Sreedharan
Chief Focused-Minds&Global-Thinking™ Officer
Clinical Professor - Outreach & Global Development
SE2Ci Institute
Education
MS-GISc
MBA
BBA-CIS
C&G-SW/IT
BA-BIO
Professor J. Sreedharan has decades of managerial experience in corporate information systems in the energy economic sector. She also has successfully led groups within organizations to adopt innovations, advance technologies, and embrace data-driven cultures. In addition, she is a practicing artist and appreciates the creative value of integrating arts and science.
Motto (Latin):
"Focused mentes, Global cogitationem"
Motto (English): "Focused minds, Global thinking"*
* - Service Mark
J. Sreedharan
Shown here at a Southern Methodist University (SMU) book signing in Dallas. with Dr. Edwin Eugene.Aldrin, Jr., the second man to step on the Moon. No Dream Is Too High is the title of "Buzz" Aldrin's book and can also frame the SE2Ci concepts of "Focused Thinking" required to ignite "Global Minds" i.e., SE2Ci's motto - "Focused Minds - Global Thinking" Copyright 2010.
Happy 94th Birthday
Dr. Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.
January 20, 2024
from the
SE2CI Team !
C. Furness-Franklin
The Montreal Protocol of 30 years ago is an example that saved the planet from ozone depletion. I am pictured here, on Mount Royal, overlooking the beautiful city of Montreal and the St. Lawrence river.
C. Furness-Franklin, HTA
Executive VP
Chief "Millennial & Gen-Z" Officer
Team Associate
BACKGROUNDER
Through rigorous study and robust perspectives gained from academic work undertaken at Carleton University in the "History and Theory of Architecture" (HTA) program, it is clear that the worlds myriad cultures and civilizations will not all be affected by global warming equally or even equitably going forward over the next century.
Ukraine President speaks to the united Nations (September 19, 2023), "...people have not yet learned to use climate as a weapon. Even though humanity is failing on its climate policy objectives – this means that extreme weather will still impact the normal global life and some evil state will also weaponize its outcomes...We must act united – to defeat the aggressor and focus all our capabilities and energy on addressing these challenges..." The increase in flooding around the globe (e.g., Derna, Libya 2023) or the devastation from earthquakes (e.g., Douzrou, Morroco 2023), dramatically demonstrate that "exposure risk" mitigation is a function of human needs, cultural values & ideas, location, time of year and the resiliency of historical/current architectural built environments.
I bring critical perspectives and historic/architectural perspectives to SE2CI. The challenges are unprecedented for all flora and fauna currently inhabiting the earth's lands and seas and proactive global-warming/climate-change attitudes and responses are woefully out of date for the planet's future well-being. As a student of environmentalism and bio-diversity, I am also from a global-warming concerned demographic cohort - "Millennials". My cohort (born between the years 1981 and 1995) and those later from the "Gen Z" cohort (born between the years 1997 and 2012 ) are facing up to the realization that we will have to suffer the consequences of past inaction, and rising to the level of crimes against humanity for the foreseeable future.
Sadly, during the 20th century, solution opportunities were squandered and collective-will on global warming issues defused and distracted for the profit motive. Research was done and showed projected Green House Gas emissions were not sustainable (almost 70 years ago) but no meaningful efforts were made to eliminate the man-made global-warming threats confirmed by Big Oil & Gas' own environmental scientists (working for the major polluters ! ) - despite knowing better. Now we have no choice but to take drastic measures to lessen the impact from man-made global-warming to mitigate sea-level rise and reduce the negative impacts from the loss of habitat and bio-diversity throughout the global food chain due to global warming.
And -- it is no longer just about CO2 and methane gases in the upper atmosphere causing global temperature increases - it is about garbage and other ground based illegal waste dumping of polluting substances...
During the September 11, 2001 terrorists attacks in New York air travel was halted and for the first time the empirical reduction on global warming gases by commercial air travel globally was noted by environmentalists."In 2022 aviation accounted for 2% of global energy-related CO2 emissions, having grown faster in recent decades than rail, road or shipping. As international travel demand recovers following the Covid-19 pandemic, aviation emissions in 2022 reached almost 800 Mt CO2, about 80% of the pre-pandemic level. Many technical measures related to low-emission fuels, improvements in air frames and engines, operational optimization and demand restraint solutions are needed to curb growth in emissions and ultimately reduce them this decade in order to get on track with the Net Zero Emissions by 2050 (NZE) Scenario."
During the lock down from COVID-19 we see many commercial real estate development structures vacant, empty or of low occupancy. We should not be trying to go back to pre-COVID work patterns. "The Covid-19 crisis has had staggering consequences for the transport sector. Government lock downs triggered a fall of 50% to 75% in road traffic around the world. In April, with around one-third of the global population in complete lock down, gasoline use dropped by more than 9 million barrels a day – an unprecedented fall – and demand for diesel was down by 6 million barrels a day. With up to 59% of employees in affected countries working from home and some facing redundancy, the effect on rush-hour road traffic was even more striking. Major cities saw a drop in rush-hour congestion of 65% to 95%. There were also widespread declines in air pollution from road traffic. One of the steepest was in New Delhi, where average levels of nitrogen dioxide were around two-thirds lower during lock down compared with the weeks leading up to it." The world needs to repeat this result without invoking another pandemic.
Effects on electrical consumption during the COVID-19 lock down reflected reduced physical social interaction (not virtual, thanks to social media) patterns with dramatically reduced electrical consumption.
