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Multi-dimensional
scope
- International focus
- Interdisciplinary commitment
- Intersectoral relationships
- Intercultural sensitivity
- Complexity of all fields of human activity
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Governance
context
- Profiling international advocacy groups (+working links)
- Profiling articulated world issues (+systemic links)
- Profiling advocated world strategies (+systemic links)
- Registering international meetings
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Paradoxical
viability
- Improbable range of initiatives
- Minimal institutional support
- Minimal operating budget
- Difficult-to-explain coherence
- Uncertainty
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Continuity
& Future orientation
- Century of activity
- Long-term clearinghouse commitment
- Collective memory function
- Future orientation
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Integrated
databases
- International organizations
- International meetings
- Bibliographies
- Biographies
- World problems
- Global strategies
- Human development
- Human values
- Integrative concepts
- Logos, emblems
- Statutes of international associations
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“Negative
capability”
- Non-profit legal status
- Non-governmental
- Non-political commitment
- Non-dependent
- Non-national
- Non-thematic
- Non-formal dimensions
- Non-traditional focus
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Civil
society (NGOs)
- Facilitation through information
- Legal status
- Preoccupations
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Reference
information
- Interactive data collection
- Comprehensive data sets
- Registry function
- Referral services
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Self-financing
capacity
- Income generation
- Minimal subsidies / sponsorship
- Project contracts
- Partnerships
- Commercial associates
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Ethical
commitment
- Statutory commitments
- Facilitative commitments
- Global preoccupations
- Personnel commitment
- Accountability / Transparency
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Knowledge
organization
- Knowledge management
- Profiling
- Network emphasis
- Hyperlink editing
- Multi-lingual thesaurus
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Innovative
capacity (Applications)
- Technology uptake
- Information products
- Multimedia
- Remote collaboration
- Facilitative communication
- Work organization
- Thematic innovation
- Cutting edge initiatives
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Facilitation
/ Services
- International associations
- Meetings
- Inter-sectoral links
- Organizational development
- Relationship with institutions
- Meeting / Dialogue innovation
- Distance learning
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Multimedia
/ Web
- Text data (books, CD, web)
- Visualization
- Sonification
- Web initiatives
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Production
capacity
- Profiling: 10,000 printed pages / year
- Computer generated network maps
- Software applications
- Statistics
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Interfaces
/ Audiences
- International associations
- Intergovernmental (UN, EU, etc)
- Documentation / Library
- Academic community
- Governments
- Corporations
- Markets
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Research
& Statistics
- Civil society (NGOs)
- International organizations
- World problems / strategies
- Bibliographical
- Biographical
- Studies, Surveys
- Legal status, Statutes
- Statistics (organizations, meetings)
- Network (loop) analyses
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Information
work culture
- Registry function
- Technological innovation
- Visualization initiatives
- Networking technology
- Information consultation
- Computer enhanced editorial operations
- Self-organizing operations
- Long-term staff commitment
- Facilitative communication
- Cutting edge initiatives
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Recognition
- League of Nations
- United Nations
- UN Specialized Agencies
- Regional intergovernmental
- Academic (UNU, statistics)
- Reference libraries
- Meetings industry
- Registry capacity
- Prognostic capacity
- Technical capacity
- Nobel Peace Prize (1913)
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Publications
/ Documents
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Ongoing
work
- Knowledge-bases
- Sources Web, CD-Rom, and Books
- Multi-lingual challenge
- Knowledge-building processes
- Hyperlink editing
- Knowledge mapping
- Participative knowledge-base development
- Meaning vs Information
- Bridge-building (“gaps”)
- Challenges and Opportunities
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"Re-presentation"
- Promoting recognition
- Membership
- Contextual reframing
- Catalytic role
- Interactive participation
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Complexity
comprehension
- Meaning vs Information
- Integrative comprehension
- Multi-lingual access
- Multi-media
- Metaphor
- Experimental representation
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Projects
/ Proposals
- CiviLynx
- GRID
- LADY
- EcoLynx
- Gardening Knowledge
- INTERCEPT
- DIVERSITAS
- InfoDev
- Coordination templates
- Aesthetics of governance
- Intelli-Work
- Internet dialogue
- Facilitation Suite
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