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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
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
Intent reframed within the Union of International Associations
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
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
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
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
Associates
Contact
Languages
English to French
English to German
English to Italian
English to Portuguese
English to Spanish
2007
Intent of the Union of Intelligible Associations
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As articulated in the introduction to the
Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential
(anticipating
subsequent online initiatives
)
Contextual Concerns
Pseudo-objectivity of analyses of problems
Withholding of relevant information
Issue avoidance
Misrepresentation of information
Biased expertise
Corruption
Harassment
Short-termism
Ambiguity
Unaccountability
Violation of commitments
Loss of integrity
Loss of credibility
Disparagement of complementary initiatives
Dubious standards of proof
Policy vacuum
Existential Challenge
Proliferation of explanations and injunctions
Simplistic responses
Paradigmatic entrapment
Failure to act on knowledge
Unaccountability
Disempowerment
Unchallenged self-image
Unchallenged relationship to the environment
Need for a different mode of thought
Existential sacrifice
Change vs pseudo-change
Distorted value of life
Value sacrifice
Personal transformation
Existential discipline
Transformation of perspective
Unacknowledged circumstances
Strategic Assumptions
Maintenance orientation
Solution production
Questionable truths
Gladiatorial arena
Irrelevance of alternatives
Projection of blame
Assumption of innocence
Reinforcement of fragmentation
Narrow information base
Single-focus dependence
Initiative obsolescence
Disagreement phobia
Self-reflective paradox
Embodiment of discord
Objectives
Organizational context
Core concerns
Clarification of "fuzzy" domains
Recognition of "vectors of concern"
Bridging between incommensurable domains
Anchoring transient insights
Transformation enablement
Objectives
Collection and presentation of information
(
Metaphor:
star mapping
)
Clarification of conceptual challenge
(Metaphor:
electricity generation
)
Enablement of paradigm alternation
(
Metaphor:
fusion reactor
)
Significance
Antiquated concepts and attitudes
Inadequacy of fractional approaches
Crisis of crises
Interwoven networks
Mismatch between organizations and problems
Entrapment by problems
Arrogance of the disciplines
Helplessness in the face of complexity
Dependence on information
Information overload
Category obsolescence
Evocation of fragmentation
Challenge of synthesis
Integration of elements of thought
Facilitation of new forms of knowledge
Need for unified personalities
Mental defences
Fostering self-knowledge
Concealed neurotic processes
New vision of selfhood
Choice
Distinguishing Uses of the Encyclopedia
Empirical level (as a conventional directory)
Logical context level
Functional context level
Classification level
Alternative perspective level
Complementarity level
Mapping level
Self-constraining configuration level
Transformational level
Metaphoric level
Bridge-building
Uses of the Encyclopedia
Commercial enterprises and entrepreneurs
Education
Integrative studies
Policy development
Management sciences
Foresight and futures research
Government
Briefings
Law and treaty preparation
International organizations
Information sciences
Expert systems
Values and ethics research
International relations
Security
Challenge to creativity
Foundations and funding agencies
Media
Human development programme design
Imaginative responses to intractable problems
Choice
Interactive Access and Future Developments
Further research possibilities
New kinds of information
Interactive relationship with information providers/users
Quality of information
Capturing the dynamic
Display possibilities
Section Interrelationships
Relationship of world problems with...
International organizations
Human values and wisdom
Human development
Integrative knowledge
Relationship of human development with....
Human values and wisdom
International organizations
Integrative knowledge
Interweaving world problems, human development and human values
Negative commonality
Positive commonality
Basic incommensurability
Juxtaposition of incommensurables
Comprehension of Sustainable Integration
Integrative concepts
Computer graphics
Metaphors
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