MindTel, LLC

Headed by  David Warner and Edward Lipson, MindTel was established as a limited liability company (LLC) in Syracuse, New York in May 1997 to commercialize intelligent communication products for healthcare, education, and recreation.
Two of MindTel's humanitarion efforts are the Strong Angel and the Sustainable Settlement Charrettes projects. A summary for each project is provided below.

Objectives
Project Strong Angel is a humanitarian focused extension to the RIMPAC 2000 Naval exercise conducted jointly by the Pacific Rim countries.The Strong Angel project is bringing focus, energy and resources to the development of new knowledge for refining advanced applications of emerging technologies to meet the requirements of developing a globally deployable, intelligently configurable medical communication matrix.

Sustainable Settlement Charrette Objectives

• To develop specific methods for providing sustainable and durable solutions for displaced persons;
  
  
• To reduce the pain and suffering of displaced persons through providing a successful model of agency cooperation and sustainable settlement in the real world;
  
  
• To decrease the reluctance of host nations to offer asylum to refugees during times of conflict through improving resource use and outcomes, thereby easing the ongoing burden and expense on the countries and agencies taking responsibility for the displaced;
  
  
• To increase the national security and the international persona of the United States and its coalition partners through improving the effectiveness of our humanitarian.

The Sustainable Village is working with MindTel to help redesign refugee camps as ecologically sustainable settlements. For more information about this project, click here. If you are interested in learning more about the MindTel, please visit their web site.