OISD is organized by members of our society who are concerned about socioeconomic and ecological issues facing society in Canada and the rest of the world.

OISD’s purpose is to identify and address socioeconomic and ecological issues facing society and formulate approaches to solutions, for debate in communities. Issues that unsolved, cause “market failure” and subsequently social, ecological and political adversity at home and abroad. As a reference; unsolved market failures in Canada caused adversity in; education, health care, forestry, fisheries, including aboriginal issues.

These are examples where unsolved issues in the “allocation mechanism” were needlessly allowed to escalate into market failure causing social and ecological adversity.

The private sector failed in its task and government failed to fulfill its role that which is not private sector’s task; that is to monitor the economy, identify, analyze and recognize the issues and intervene before the issues become acute and cause adversity.