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

Projects Overview Knowledge management initiatives integrated as the Union of Intelligible Associations funded (implemented) Year Continuing sub-projects variously associated with project intiatives (databases currently accessible via Diversitas online archive) . Complementary projects of the UIA approved unfunded Project initiatives (comments below) . World problems -- method Global strategies -- method Human develop. -- method Human values -- method Integrative concepts -- method Transform. approach. -- method Metaphor Patterns -- method Bibliog (a) Internat. orgs. Internat.. meetings Biographies Encyclopedia: Problems & Potential 1972 1995 x x x x x x x x x x x Ecolynx (Biodiversity) 1997 2000 x x (x) (x) . . . x x x x Information visualization and sonification (b) 1998 2006 x x x x x x x . x x . Intercept (Development Planning) 1998 2000 x x . . . . . x x x x Humour (International Challenges) 1998 x x . . . . x         Gardening Knowledge Ecosystems 1999 x x . . . . x . . . . Diversitas (.ORG web domain) (c) 2000 2002 x x . . . . . . x x x LADY: Local Action Dynamics 2003 x x . . . . . . x x . Global Knowledge Grid 2003 2004 x x . . . . . x x x . CiviLynx: civil society organization information 2004 x x . . . . . x x x . Enabling a Living Library 2006 x x . . . . . . . . . Generation of questions databases 2006 x x . x . . . . . . . Notes: (a) Bibliographical databases: those developed regarding the Enclopedia and subsequent initiatives are effectively separate from those developed in relation to the international organization preoccupations of the UIA. (b) Visualization and sonification: these facilities were developed as a means of providing an integrative approach to the various databases (c) Diversitas was adopted as the name of the online archive for the full range of databases Comments on projects (detailed descriptions are provided through links; sub-project databases are accessible through online archive): 1972-1995: Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential (1972-1995), initiated by Mankind 2000 in collaboration with the Union of International Associations (UIA) 1996: Facilitating Community through Information: a suite of software-enabled participation tools. A proposal to Esprit (DG XII) 'Intelligent - Information - Interfaces' within the programme schema 'The Connected Community'. 1996 1997-2000: Ecolynx - Information Context for Biodiversity Conservation: (1997-2000), an INFO2000 Project of the European Commission. linking data on threatened species and habitats with information about responses by society to threats to biodiversity. Complete report. Summary movie 1998-2006: Information Visualization and Sonification: Displaying complexes of problems, strategies, values and organizations (Commentary) Communication between Network Visualization and Music (Commentary) 1998-2000: Interactive Conceptual Environmental Planning Tool for Developing Countries (INTERCEPT): approved for funding through the World Bank's InfoDev program (submitted 25 March 1998; approved 2 June 1999; removed from proposal pool March 2000). See also Reviewers comments and Responses to reviewers Comments 1998: Humour and International Challenges: Augmenting problem and strategy comprehension through psycho-cultural catalysts (Partially implemented in an experimental mode) 1999-2000: Cultivating Knowledge Ecosystems: Adapting visual arts and music to sustain new patterns of knowledge work in community (Gardening Knowledge): Submitted to Information Society Technologies program of the European Commission13 September 1999; refused 19 April 2000) 2001-2002: Diversitas: Application to Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to become the successor operator of the registry for the .ORG top-level web domain in association with Verisign. (Executive summary and contents) (Refused 2002) 2003: Local Action Dynamics: Knowledge patterns for local, participatory implementation of the Lisbon Strategy LADY. (The integrated project (IP) is EU Framework Programme 6's instrument for objective-driven research. The IP LADY addresses the subject of collective knowledge for organisational transition.) 2004: Global Knowledge Grid: a new infrastructure for understanding globalization. Project proposal to the US National Science Foundation (refused September 2004) 2004: CiviLynx: Gateway to Civil Society Organization Information (Proposal to DG Information Society for a Demonstration Project in the framework of the eContent programme, Action Line 1: Improving access to and use of public sector information Subline 1.1: Cross-border information services based on public sector information) 2006: Living Library project of Dropping Knowledge, enabled through collaboration with the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) 2006: Generating a Million Questions from UIA Databases Problems, Strategies, Values Various presentations of subproject database relationships (1976-2001) [larger representation of images together; click on each for individual enlargement] Database relationships (1976) Subset of databases (1997) Database match with EU strategy (2001) Integrative strategic representation (2001)

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