Home Overview Projects Method Visuals Resources Context Associates Contact Overview   Significance of the domain name: www.un-intelligible.org Challenge to comprehension implied by the logo Knowledge Management Initiatives Intent exemplified by Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential Intent reframed within the Union of International Associations Reclaiming the heritage of misappropriated collective endeavour Intent exemplified by Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential   Press releases Contextual Concerns Existential Challenge Strategic Assumptions Objectives Significance Distinguishing Uses of the Encyclopedia Uses of the Encyclopedia Interactive Access and Future developments Section Interrelationships Comprehension of Sustainable Integration Encyclopedia Illusions: Rationale for an Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential Press releases   Cycles de problèmes vicieux et stratégies dissipatrices (Nov 1996) Sustainable Strategies vs Cycles of Vicious Problems (March 1996) International Organization Data on CD-ROM (Dec 1995) Sustainable Strategies vs Cycles of Vicious Problems (Sept 1995) Sustainable Development of the Individual? (Jan 1995) A la chasse de cycles vicieux de problemes(1994) Australians Hunting 10,000 World Problems in Brussels (1994) Mapping Pandora's Heritage (1988) Intent reframed within the Union of International Associations   Multi-dimensional long-term commitment Paradoxical and "negative" viability Integrated strategic context Long-term viability Civil society and ethical commitment Knowledge management & Reference information Audiences, recognition & "re-presentation" Research, publications & comprehension Information culture / Ongoing work / Projects Multi-dimensional long-term commitment   Multi-dimensional scope Continuity & Future orientation Paradoxical and "negative" viability   Paradoxical viability "Negative capability" Integrated strategic context   Governance context Integrated databases Long-term viability   Self-financing capacity Innovative capacity (Application development) Production capacity Civil society and ethical commitment   Civil society (NGOs) Ethical commitment Facilitation services Knowledge management & Reference information   Reference information Knowledge organization Multimedia / Web Audiences, recognition & "re-presentation"   Interfaces / Audiences Recognition "Re-presentation" Research, publications & comprehension   Research & Statistics Publications Complexity comprehension Information culture / Ongoing work / Projects   Information culture Ongoing work Projects Reclaiming the heritage of misappropriated collective endeavour   Conflicting claims to territory and property: real or virtual "Existence" of collective entities Value context Deprecated arguments Exploitation of contractual relationships Reclaiming a heritage Projects   Projects overview Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential Articulation / Implementation of web strategy Systematic solicitation of institutional project funding Cessation of the Union of Intelligible Associations Projects overview   World problems project Global strategies project Human development project Human values project Integrative knowledge project Metaphor and patterns project Transformative approaches project Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential   1972-1976: Yearbook 1983-1995: Editions 2,3,4 and CD 1997-2000: Web-based developments Articulation / Implementation of web strategy   Simulating a global brain Diversitas bid for management of the .ORG web domain registry Systematic solicitation of institutional project funding   Ecolynx: Information Context for Biodiversity Conservation Interactive Conceptual Environmental Planning Tool for Developing Countries Cultivating Knowledge Ecosystems: adapting visual arts and music Local Action Dynamics: Knowledge patterns for the Lisbon Strategy Global Knowledge Grid for Understanding Globalization CiviLynx: Gateway to Civil Society Organization Information Cessation of the Union of Intelligible Associations   Enabling a Living Library Generating a Million Questions from UIA Databases Method   Explanatory commentaries on set of projects Explanatory commentaries on World Problems Project Explanatory commentaries on Global Strategies Project Explanatory commentaries on Human Development Project Explanatory commentaries on Integrative Knowledge Project Explanatory commentaries on Human Values Project Explanatory commentaries on Transformative Approaches Project Explanatory commentaries on Metaphors/Patterns Project Visuals   Selected presentations of interrelationships between UIA databases Selected Screen-shots of Problem and Organization Networks in Virtual Reality (PDF images) Gallery of screen shots of virtual reality displays (interrelated problems or organizations) Experimental representations of entity interrelationships (using SVG) NetMap visualizations of questions, world problems, global strategies, and values NetMap visualizations of questions, world problems, global strategies, and values   Problems and strategies: Energy / Water / Strategies against violence Questions: Peace-related / Faith/Prosperity-related Pattern-language Human values Resources   Specific documents Collections of documents Other documentary resources Context   Association context (map) Complementary initiatives Research resources Historical associations Complementary initiatives   Cognitive Fusion Reactor (ITER-8) Union of Imaginable Associations University of Earth Union of the Whys Research resources   Laetus in Praesens Historical associations   Union of Intelligible Associations Union of International Associations Mankind 2000 / Humanité 2000

2007 Intent of the Union of Intelligible Associations *** As articulated in the introduction to the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential (anticipating subsequent online initiatives) Contextual Concerns Pseudo-objectivity of analyses of problems Withholding of relevant information Issue avoidance Misrepresentation of information Biased expertise Corruption   Harassment Short-termism Ambiguity Unaccountability Violation of commitments   Loss of integrity Loss of credibility Disparagement of complementary initiatives Dubious standards of proof Policy vacuum Existential Challenge Proliferation of explanations and injunctions Simplistic responses Paradigmatic entrapment Failure to act on knowledge Unaccountability Disempowerment   Unchallenged self-image Unchallenged relationship to the environment Need for a different mode of thought Existential sacrifice Change vs pseudo-change Distorted value of life   Value sacrifice Personal transformation Existential discipline Transformation of perspective Unacknowledged circumstances Strategic Assumptions Maintenance orientation Solution production Questionable truths Gladiatorial arena Irrelevance of alternatives   Projection of blame Assumption of innocence Reinforcement of fragmentation Narrow information base Single-focus dependence   Initiative obsolescence Disagreement phobia Self-reflective paradox Embodiment of discord Objectives Organizational context Core concerns Clarification of "fuzzy" domains Recognition of "vectors of concern" Bridging between incommensurable domains Anchoring transient insights Transformation enablement Objectives Collection and presentation of information (Metaphor: star mapping) Clarification of conceptual challenge (Metaphor: electricity generation) Enablement of paradigm alternation (Metaphor: fusion reactor) Significance Antiquated concepts and attitudes Inadequacy of fractional approaches Crisis of crises Interwoven networks Mismatch between organizations and problems Entrapment by problems Arrogance of the disciplines   Helplessness in the face of complexity Dependence on information Information overload Category obsolescence Evocation of fragmentation Challenge of synthesis Integration of elements of thought   Facilitation of new forms of knowledge Need for unified personalities Mental defences Fostering self-knowledge Concealed neurotic processes New vision of selfhood Choice Distinguishing Uses of the Encyclopedia Empirical level (as a conventional directory) Logical context level Functional context level Classification level   Alternative perspective level Complementarity level Mapping level Self-constraining configuration level   Transformational level Metaphoric level Bridge-building Uses of the Encyclopedia Commercial enterprises and entrepreneurs Education Integrative studies Policy development Management sciences Foresight and futures research Government   Briefings Law and treaty preparation International organizations Information sciences Expert systems Values and ethics research International relations   Security Challenge to creativity Foundations and funding agencies Media Human development programme design Imaginative responses to intractable problems Choice Interactive Access and Future Developments Further research possibilities New kinds of information   Interactive relationship with information providers/users Quality of information   Capturing the dynamic Display possibilities Section Interrelationships Relationship of world problems with... International organizations Human values and wisdom Human development Integrative knowledge Relationship of human development with.... Human values and wisdom International organizations Integrative knowledge Interweaving world problems, human development and human values Negative commonality Positive commonality Basic incommensurability Juxtaposition of incommensurables Comprehension of Sustainable Integration Integrative concepts   Computer graphics Metaphors

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