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) Patterning strategies: Patterning the resolutique Global Strategies Project | (table) See separate commentary. For a different approach (with table) see Typology of 12 complementary strategies essential to sustainable development ; also Chinese strategems; confidence ploys ; strategic dilemmas Figure 1. Tentative set of strategy "action qualifiers" organized in the light of strategy clusters (see also equivalent table for "problems")   Nature   (being)     + Existing   appearing   emerging   presenting   Valuing/Qualifying   raising standards   controlling quality   designing   Evolving   developing   maturing   unfolding   Self-appreciating   (Pride)   Showing humility -- disappearing   dying   eliminating reducing standards   allowing poor quality   producing defective... degrading   regressing   deteriorating Sufficiency    (accumulating) + Quantifying   creating surplus   overproducing   exceeding   Distributing   flooding   transporting   carrying   Exposing   overexposing   publicizing   making available   Coveting   (Greed)   Showing mercy -- lacking   wanting   needing   withholding maldistributing   concentrating   imbalancing   monopolizing abstaining   underexposing  Dynamics    (motivating) +  Activating   hastening   speeding   expediting    Changing   proliferating   propagating   Transforming   accelerating   overturning   revolting  Desiring inordinately   (Lust)   Being chaste   Being continent -- deactivating   paralysing   retarding   slowing decelerating   rigidifying Representation  (assessing) + Encompassing   complexifying   comprehending   diversifying   Verifying   reporting   confirming   recounting   Certifying   clarifying   validating   authenticating   Envying   Loving God,   neighbour or enemy -- trivializing   oversimplifying   reducing variety covering-up / obscuring   suppressing information   biasing   hyping up   misleading questioning   confusing   doubting   taking on trust   believing  Organization    (governing) + Structuring   organizing   formalizing   integrating   coordinating   arranging    Regulating   restricting   constraining   controlling   normalizing   homogenizing   disciplining   Phasing   harmonizing   "routinizing"   ritualizing   regularizing   programming   Acting insatiably   (Gluttony)   Abstaining   Tempering -- fragmenting   disintegrating   deconstructing   deregulating   freeing / liberating   "heterogenizing"   deprogramming   depatterning   randomizing Action    (reacting) + Orienting   indoctrinating   converting   propagandizing   conditioning   Utilizing   using efficiently   using ethically   husbanding   tending   Acting appropriately   preparing   acting sensitively   proactively   ethically etc   Resenting   (Anger)   Awaiting -- discriminating   denying rights   disparaging   demeaning   deprecating abusing   manipulating   squandering   neglecting   evading rules acting inappropriately   unsustainably   inequitably   etc Consequence    (of not acting) + Exposing to environment   risking   being a victim   being vulnerable   being destroyed by   Impacting environment      endangering   violating   harassing   disrupting   Learning      remembering   building confidence   appreciating   intuiting   gaining insight   Stagnating   (Sloth)   Fortifying -- unstimulating   unchallenging   being perverted by   being corrupted by   depending corrupting   destroying   perverting   polluting forgetting   unlearning   losing integrity/will   self-depreciating   losing self-esteem From Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential

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