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 (300+) Explanatory commentaries on World Problems Project (30+) Explanatory commentaries on Global Strategies Project (80+) Explanatory commentaries on Human Development Project (20+) Explanatory commentaries on Integrative Knowledge Project (10+) Explanatory commentaries on Human Values Project (20+) Explanatory commentaries on Transformative Approaches Project (90+) Explanatory commentaries on Metaphors/Patterns Project (30+) 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 (Explanations) Global Strategies Project (Explanations) Strategies: 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 strategy relationships Section Entries Hierarchical relations Functional relations Analysis of relationships Section Number of entries Broader strategies Narrower strategies Related strategies Facilitating/ed strategies Undermining/ed strategies Top of hierarchy Bottom of hierarchy Not in hierarchy (no broader/narrower relationships)  Either source or sink (no aggravating/ed relationships) B 164 81 3246 4 785 137 108 0 3 51 C 1101 2630 7870 43 7176 1015 125 8 5 281 D 3434 6466 5713 127 10138 1492 336 1280 290 1307 E 3414 5005 2667 173 6529 1328 326 1754 392 1557 F 1448 1422 2679 50 3892 863 267 363 514 633 G 7396 8633 2481 92 6299 2831 725 5219 502 2770 H (error) 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 J (new) 6060 2244 1912 102 5660 3016 367 1287 4037 2899 K (provisional) 5947 663 591 78 455 73 112 453 5275 288 P (polarity) 242 219 2519 0 6 1 19 64 4 2 S (error) 2 5 9 1 15 1 0 0 1 0 R (role) 224 7 13 6 21 5 6 4 212 14 Q (error) 2 1 5 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 T (complex) 44 0 8 0 1 0 8 0 36 1 U (error) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 V (error) 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 W (error) 17 15 13 8 17 2 1 8 5 4 Z (duplicate) 8743 37 34 0 50 4 10 29 8701 9 Total 38241 27429 29762 684 41046 10768 2411 10470 19979 9816 Adjusted total 29474 27370 29699 675 40962 10761 2399 10432 11270 9803 Previous total 29490 26210 28555 268 40292 10600 2394 10288 11709 9631 3 months increase -16 1160 1144 407 670 161 5 144 -439 172 Percentage increase 0% 4% 4% 60% 2% 1% 0% 1% -4% 2% Total Oct 1995 29498 20981 23265 0 36483 10101 2329 9491 13806 9214 Increase since Oct 95 -24 6389 6434 675 4479 660 70 941 -2536 589 Percentage increase since Oct 95 0% 30% 28% n/a 12% 7% 3% 10% -18% 6% B: Totals of strategy relationships   Section Entries Relationship totals Section Number of entries Total strategies links Total bibliographic links Total organisations links Total problems links Total humdev links Total values links Total web links Total X-refs B 164 4249 86 389 309 0 0 16 10596 C 1101 18691 747 2211 2262 0 0 157 51425 D 3434 23809 818 2914 3761 0 0 350 81505 E 3414 15529 470 1938 2472 0 0 363 62838 F 1448 8856 445 1432 2634 0 0 97 32849 G 7396 20244 124 1712 4781 0 0 162 99916 H (error) 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 15 J (new) 6060 12832 110 1602 4089 0 0 103 74453 K (provisional) 5947 1782 32 4007 1441 0 0 112 52655 P (polarity) 242 2745 0 1 0 0 0 0 7917 S (error) 2 30 1 5 5 0 0 0 85 R (role) 224 46 9 0 3 0 0 0 1916 Q (error) 2 8 0 9 0 0 0 2 39 T (complex) 44 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 369 U (error) 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 10 V (error) 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 W (error) 17 47 3 49 2 0 0 6 273 Z (duplicate) 8743 125 2 1103 233 0 0 32 73627 Total 38241 109005 2847 17372 21995 0 0 1401 550497 Adjusted total 29474 108792 2841 16206 21752 0 0 1360 476439 Previous total 29490 105657 2762 14672 21769 0 0 1001 467987 3 months increase -16 3135 79 1534 -17 0 0 359 8452 Percentage increase 0% 3% 3% 9% 0% n/a n/a 26% 2% Total Oct 1995 29498 90830 2147 13295 21739 0 0 0 128011 Increase since Oct 95 -24 17962 694 2911 13 0 0 1360 348428 Percentage increase since Oct 95 0% 20% 32% 22% 0% n/a n/a n/a 272% Last Updated on 12/10/98 by Nadia McLaren

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