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) Network visualizations (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 Network visualizations (PDF images)   2001: Spring maps (organizations, problems, strategies, values) 2002: Network analyses (organizations, problems, strategies, values) 2003: Network analyses (organizations, problems, strategies, values) 2004: Network analyses (organizations, problems, strategies, 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 (Explanations) World Problems Project (Explanations) World Problems: Statistics (Relationships) 06/10/1998 -- / -- Indication of the status at the beginning of the Ecolynx Project (Information Context for Biodiversity Conservation) funded by the European Union within the framework of Info2000. See separate document for statistics on text content. The type codes by which problems and strategies are distinguished in the following table are explained in separate documents (World Problems: Type Codes; Global Strategies: Type Codes). A: Analysis of problem relationships   Section Entries Hierarchical relations Functional relations Analysis of relationships Effective section Number of entries Broader problems Narrower problems Related problems Aggravating/ed problems Reducing/ed problems Top of hierarchy Bottom of hierarchy Not in hierarchy (no broader / narrower) Either source or sink (no aggravating/ed relationships) A 198 151 334 2787 61 3 51 84 1 31 B 188 271 2089 559 2156 99 39 2 1 11 C 649 1254 4615 955 6161 279 35 42 1 26 D 2586 5630 8771 2808 15953 691 30 858 8 578 E 4642 9087 6263 3175 13111 609 18 2950 29 1479 F 3227 6402 7319 4356 20668 1169 219 1290 183 821 G 5721 6859 4550 573 2433 106 3 4608 157 810 unassigned = J 231 287 119 112 438 32 15 137 42 104 genus = R 1666 1667 8193 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 species = S 10407 10412 1 2 15 0 0 10406 0 2 unsatisfactory = U 180 172 5 25 90 8 2 144 31 51 duplicates = Z 2384 17 7 0 6 0 6 17 2361 3 Total 32079 42209 42266 15352 61093 2996 418 20538 2814 3917 Adjusted total 29515 42020 42254 15327 60997 2988 410 20377 422 3863 Previous total 29287 41557 41790 15069 60084 2974 398 20268 389 3748 3 months increase 228 463 464 258 913 14 12 109 33 115 Percentage increase 1% 1% 1% 2% 2% 0% 3% 1% 8% 3% 4th Ed (Apr 94) 12203 22855 23177 11743 59716 2714 321 6737 345 602 increase over 4th Ed (Apr 94) 17312 19165 19077 3584 1281 274 89 13640 77 3261 % increase over 4th Ed 142% 84% 82% 31% 2% 10% 28% 202% 22% 542% B: Totals of problem relationships   Section Entries Relationship totals Effective section Number of entries Total problem links Total bibliographic links Total organisation links Total strategy links Total humdev links Total values links Total web links Total X-refs A 198 3336  13 0 7 0 175 0 3531 B 188 5174  312 10 805 0 1 9 6311 C 649 13264  678 0 2382 0 0 13 16337 D 2586 33853  1731 25 7240 0 0 53 42902 E 4642 32245  1442 91 2116 0 0 112 36006 F 3227 39914  832 3 8717 0 1 17 49484 G 5721 14521  14 39 188 0 0 46 14808 unassigned = J 231 988  7 1 36 0 0 4 1036 genus = R 1666 9861  0 0 4 0 0 2 9867 species = S 10407 10430  0 3 11 0 0 4 10448 unsatisfactory = U 180 300  0 0 16 0 0 0 316 duplicates = Z 2384 30  152 1 228 0 14 5 430 Total 32079 163916  5181 173 21750 0 191 265 191476 Adjusted total 29515 163586  5029 172 21506 0 177 260 190730 Previous total 29287 161474  4997 29 21441 0 178 95 188214 3 months increase 228 2112  32 143 65 0 -1 165 2516 Percentage increase 1% 1%  1% 493% 0% n/a -1% 174% 1% 4th Ed (Apr 94) 12203 120205  4659 0 0 0 0 0 124864 increase over 4th Ed (Apr 94) 17312 43381  370 172 21506 0 177 260 65866 % increase over 4th Ed 142% 36%  8% n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 53% Last Updated on 12/10/98 by Nadia McLaren

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