Projects Overview
Knowledge management initiatives
integrated as the Union of Intelligible Associations
| funded (implemented) | Year | Continuing sub-projects variously associated with project intiatives (databases currently accessible via Diversitas online archive) |
. | Complementary projects of the UIA |
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| Project initiatives (comments below) |
. | World problems -- method |
Global strategies -- method |
Human develop. -- method |
Human values -- method |
Integrative concepts -- method |
Transform. approach. -- method |
Metaphor Patterns -- method |
Bibliog (a) |
Internat. orgs. |
Internat.. meetings |
Biographies |
| Encyclopedia: Problems & Potential |
1972 1995 |
x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| Ecolynx
(Biodiversity) |
1997 2000 |
x | x | (x) | (x) | . | . | . | x | x | x | x |
| Information visualization and sonification (b) | 1998 2006 |
x | x | x | x | x | x | x | . | x | x | . |
| Intercept
(Development
Planning) |
1998 2000 |
x | x | . | . | . | . | . | x | x | x | x |
| Humour (International Challenges) | 1998 | x | x | . | . | . | . | x | ||||
| Gardening Knowledge Ecosystems | 1999 | x | x | . | . | . | . | x | . | . | . | . |
| Diversitas (.ORG web domain) (c) | 2000 2002 |
x | x | . | . | . | . | . | . | x | x | x |
| LADY: Local Action Dynamics | 2003 | x | x | . | . | . | . | . | . | x | x | . |
| Global Knowledge Grid | 2003 2004 |
x | x | . | . | . | . | . | x | x | x | . |
| CiviLynx: civil society organization information | 2004 | x | x | . | . | . | . | . | x | x | x | . |
| Enabling a Living Library | 2006 | x | x | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| Generation of questions databases | 2006 | x | x | . | x | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Notes:
- (a) Bibliographical databases: those developed regarding the Enclopedia and subsequent initiatives are effectively separate from those developed in relation to the international organization preoccupations of the UIA.
- (b) Visualization and sonification: these facilities were developed as a means of providing an integrative approach to the various databases
- (c) Diversitas was adopted as the name of the online archive for the full range of databases
Comments on projects (detailed descriptions are provided through links; sub-project databases are accessible through online archive):
- 1972-1995: Encyclopedia
of World Problems
and Human Potential (1972-1995), initiated by Mankind
2000 in collaboration
with the Union
of International Associations
(UIA)
- 1996: Facilitating
Community through Information: a suite of software-enabled participation
tools. A proposal to Esprit (DG XII) 'Intelligent - Information - Interfaces'
within the programme schema 'The Connected Community'. 1996
- 1997-2000: Ecolynx
- Information Context for Biodiversity
Conservation: (1997-2000), an
INFO2000 Project of the European Commission.
linking data on threatened species and habitats with information
about responses by society to threats to biodiversity. Complete
report. Summary movie
- 1998-2006: Information Visualization
and Sonification:
- Displaying complexes of problems, strategies, values and organizations (Commentary)
- Communication between Network Visualization and Music (Commentary)
- 1998-2000: Interactive
Conceptual Environmental Planning Tool for Developing Countries (INTERCEPT):
approved for funding through the World Bank's InfoDev program (submitted
25 March 1998; approved 2 June 1999; removed from proposal pool March 2000).
See also Reviewers
comments and Responses
to reviewers Comments
- 1998: Humour
and International Challenges: Augmenting problem and strategy comprehension
through psycho-cultural catalysts (Partially implemented in an experimental
mode)
- 1999-2000: Cultivating
Knowledge Ecosystems: Adapting visual arts and music to sustain new patterns
of knowledge work in community (Gardening Knowledge): Submitted to
Information Society Technologies program of the European Commission13 September
1999; refused 19 April 2000)
- 2001-2002: Diversitas:
Application to Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
to become the successor operator of the registry for the .ORG top-level
web domain in association with Verisign. (Executive
summary and contents) (Refused 2002)
- 2003: Local Action Dynamics: Knowledge patterns for local, participatory
implementation of the Lisbon Strategy LADY. (The integrated project (IP)
is EU Framework Programme 6's instrument for objective-driven research. The
IP LADY addresses the subject of collective knowledge for organisational
transition.)
- 2004: Global Knowledge Grid: a new infrastructure for understanding globalization.
Project proposal to the US National Science Foundation (refused September
2004)
- 2004: CiviLynx: Gateway to Civil Society Organization Information (Proposal
to DG Information Society for a Demonstration Project in the framework of
the eContent programme, Action Line 1: Improving access to and use of public
sector information Subline 1.1: Cross-border information services based on
public sector information)
- 2006: Living
Library project of Dropping Knowledge, enabled through collaboration
with the German Research Center for Artificial
Intelligence (DFKI)
- 2006: Generating a Million Questions from UIA Databases Problems, Strategies, Values
| Various presentations of subproject
database relationships (1976-2001) [larger representation of images together; click on each for individual enlargement] |
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| Database relationships (1976) |
Subset of databases (1997) |
Database match with EU strategy (2001) |
Integrative
strategic representation (2001) |
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