The Idea is one that is great, if you are looking for a lost method a wiki format would be a cheap method and also would get around copyrighting laws and international laws as well, seeing as how these authors would be under the age for certain legal aspects.

As for ideas on funding and/or sponsorship, Google would be a great company with the international resources (legal team, servers, technology, support and translation). Other companies and organizations would be: wikiepedia, Gutenberg, and ebooks.com, unesco (the UN's department of education). Another option would be to contact publishing companies, although they may be less inclined to do such a project without any profit. Universities are also a great place to start with as they would be able to offer much assistance with creating a project like this, as would national geographic

Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
Phone: +1 650-253-0000
Fax: +1 650-253-0001

eBooks.com
121 Mount Vernon Street
Boston MA 02108
USA

Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
P.O. Box 78350
San Francisco, CA 94107-8350
USA

Phone: +1-415-839-6885
Email: info(at)wikimedia.org
Fax: +1-415-882-0495

UNESCO
7, place de Fontenoy
75352 Paris 07 SP
France

1, rue Miollis
75732 Paris Cedex 15
France

UNESCO general phone number: +33 (0)1 45 68 10 00
Fax number: +33 (0)1 45 67 16 90
Telex: 204461 Paris; 270602 Paris
Website: http://www.unesco.org

Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
809 North 1500 West
Salt Lake City, UT 84116

National Geographic
Education and Children's Programs
National Geographic Society
1145 17th Street N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036-4688

if you are in need of more information, or assistance with getting such a project started please feel free to contact.

~Joey V.~

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