Quest for Bigger Figuring Things Out

give tons more individuals the skills and attitudes to figure things out [ideally using free public education system]
fixing issues in science publishing, funding, review, replication, etc.
"big social science"
better democracy [higher bandwidth? and less gated power?]
other data things [lifelogging? not necessarily the camera version though. stuff like covid risk calculator][trust aggregation? stuff like my other website ideas?]
beyond detailed data, what about:
* "putting things together"? 
* connections between things? 
* filling cracks in systems?
* coordinating?
maybe examples:
* some academic work goes into unifying theory, i suppose
* business models "put together" value chains and such. if anyone ever has a good idea, should it be a startup? does a business model fit everything that could be a good endeavour? and is that the best fit for everything? arguments that individual things in markets inevitably leave cracks they can't fill, coordination problems, externalities, forced bottle-necking, not everything can (best) be fit into a direct transaction? arguments for government-type roles, broad insurance/investment, even the types of arguments that get used around UBI.
*networking...