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) Global Strategies Project (Explanations) World Problems and Global Strategies Statistics on Profiles and Relationships (1996-2000) -- / -- Indication of the developments in the course of the Ecolynx Project (Information Context for Biodiversity Conservation) funded by the European Union within the framework of Info2000. See also statistics on Feedback Loops Linking World Problems 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) but a summary indicating their equivalence is given below   Problems – Issues Strategies—Solutions   Profiles Relationships Profiles Relationships   1996 2000 % 1996 2000 % 1996 2000 % 1996 2000 % A 0 196 n.a. 0 3,507 n.a. 0 1,518 n.a. 0 16,767 n.a. B 170 187 10 5,300 7,090 34 158 154 -3 3,697 4,253 15 C 575 722 26 13,816 19,347 40 1,100 1,089 -1 17,096 25,206 47 D 2,162 2,740 27 30,613 52,451 71 3,315 3,452 4 19,374 43,329 124 E 3,857 5,378 39 29,626 52,587 78 3,008 5,298 76 11,092 50,677 357 F 3,072 3,917 28 38,625 61,604 59 1,382 1,972 43 7,015 19,580 179 G 2,153 30,279 1306 5,979 47,112 688 7,685 13,107 71 3,604 69,059 1,816 Other 214 12,716 5,842 905 26,255 2,801 12,850 6,105 -52 61,129 34,070 -44 Total 12,203 56,135 360 124,864 269,953 116 29,498 32,695 11 123,007 262,941 114 *** Types Problems – Issues Strategies—Solutions A Abstract fundamental problems Abstract fundamental strategies B Basic universal problems Basic universal strategies C Cross-sectoral problems Cross-sectoral strategies D Detailed problems Detailed strategies E Emanations of other problems Emanations of other strategies F Exceptional problems Exceptional strategies G Very specific problems Very specific strategies

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