Seldon Plan
Hari Seldon's long-range strategy to shorten a dark age
The Seldon Plan is Hari Seldon's long-range strategy to shorten a post-collapse dark age. Derived from psychohistory, it treats history as something you can steer by designing institutions and incentives that shape long-run trajectories.
In Asimov's story, the Encyclopedia Galactica project is the nominal purpose and the public cover, while the deeper function is to seed a path out of the coming dark night of the soul.