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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
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