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DataPerfect Digital Engines
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Mesopotamian Summer: Between the Rivers - A Cradle of Civlization
An evolving network of cooperation circles to observe the summer season as a time for appreciative inquiry into holistic approaches to the restoration of the Southern Marshes of Iraq, keystone ecosystem of the Shatt al-Arab watershed and home of the cradle of civilization.
information-habitat.net/projects/ms-br-cc.htm
dataperfect digital engines,
freshwater,
information ecology,
interfaith dialogue,
peace
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New York, NY
2004.06-
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DataPerfect Digital Engines - an Open Source Curriculum
The development of a open source curriculum on DataPerfect Digital Engines, based on the MS-DOS classic, DataPerfect 2.6F - a companion program to the word processing class, WordPerfect 5.1+ - and the application of information ecology principles and protocols. The DataPerfect Digital Engine is being designed as a prototype digital engine designed to make available the wealth - to the extent that information can be wealth - that the zero-based properties of information - zero mass, zero physical size and virtually zero travel-time - offer since digital information is free from the historical constraints on wealth imposed by the laws of conservation of mass and energy.
information-habitat.net/projects/dde-osc.htm
access to information,
conference documents,
conference registration,
database-generated web sites,
dataperfect digital engines,
digital bridges,
ecological design,
education,
electronic publishing,
information architecture,
information ecology,
light and colour,
ngo networks, committees & caucuses,
peace cubes,
peaceful properties of the internet,
sustainable economics,
virtual light & colour cubes
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New York, NY
2004.02-
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2004 Gandhi-King Season - Compassionate Action for Global Healing
Development of a reorganized web site for the Gandhi-King Season, with the goal of compiling an open source curriculum in compassionate activism for global healing, and of inviting participants in a People's Agenda for Economic Justice to observe the Season - which runs from Friday, January 30 to Sunday, April 4 and honours the anniversaries of the deaths of Mohandas K. "Mahatma" Gandhi and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - as a time to engage in interactive dialogue on, and development of, a People's Agenda. Management of a set of electronic mailing lists relating to the Gandhi-King Season.
information-habitat.net/projects/gks-2004.htm
children,
culture,
dataperfect digital engines,
education,
healing,
information ecology,
interfaith dialogue,
nonviolence,
peace,
peace cubes,
values
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New York, NY
2003.11-
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Digital Bridges in Peace
Development of a learning and teaching framework and network dedicated to the understanding, creation and maintenance of digital bridges to span gulfs between people and organizations, and to demonstrate how the properties of information, information systems and networks can help to make manifest the interconnectedness of all life on Earth and the healing properties of information ecology.
information-habitat.net/projects/dbp.htm
art,
culture,
dataperfect digital engines,
digital bridges,
ecological design,
economics,
information ecology,
mathematics,
ngo networks, committees & caucuses,
nonviolence,
peace,
september 11, 2001
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New York, NY
2003.06-
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Information Habitat: Taking IT Global
A project to take the vision and practice of Information Habitat: Where Information Lives global through the platform of Taking IT GLobal, in the process building on a set of related initiatives on Taking IT Global.
information-habitat.net/projects/ih-tig.htm
art,
children,
community-based organizations,
culture,
dataperfect digital engines,
digital bridges,
digital economics,
ecological design,
freshwater,
information architecture,
information ecology,
knowledge-based economics,
law and the courts,
light and colour,
mathematics,
nonviolence,
one light in all,
open source,
peace,
public participation,
reconciliation,
sustainable economics,
values
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New York, NY
2003.06-
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Elements of Information Ecology - An Open Source Curriculum
Elements of Information Ecology has been created with the goal of facilitating the creation of a K-12+ curriculum in information ecology, and of developing it on a participatory open source platform. The projects is one of a set of projects being developed on the platform of TakingITGlobal, with the goal of strengthening the global reach of the projects and of increasing the participation of young people.
information-habitat.net/projects/eie.htm
database,
dataperfect digital engines,
digital bridges,
education,
information ecology
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New York, NY
2003.03-
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Peace & Nonviolence Resource Network
The Nonviolence Resource Network is being set up as an open network to facilitate dialogue and exchange of information and resources between networks, organizations and projects that focus on nonviolence, and to promote the understanding and practice of nonviolence.
information-habitat.net/projects/pnvrn.htm
access to information,
dataperfect digital engines,
digital bridges,
interfaith dialogue,
ngo networks, committees & caucuses,
nonviolence,
peace
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New York, NY
2003.03-
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Open Source Curriculum in DataPerfect and Firestorm
The development of an online, open source, curriculum in DataPefect and Firestorm, in support of the development of a global community to design and develop open source Digital Engines. The project was the precursor of DataPerfect Digital Engines - An Open Source Curriculum
information-habitat.net/projects/osc-dpfs.htm
database,
dataperfect digital engines,
digital bridges,
education
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New York, NY
2003.01-
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Elements of Light and Colour - An Open Source Curriculum
Design, development and implementation of an open source curriculum in the elements of light and colour, based on the properties of the Peace Cubes / Virtual Light and Colour Cubes, incorporating an elementary three-dimensional mathematics of light and colour and a new appreciation and understanding of the nature and characteristics of the primary colours of light and pigment.
information-habitat.net/projects/elc.htm
art,
children,
database,
dataperfect digital engines,
education,
information ecology,
light and colour,
one light in all,
open source,
peace cubes,
reconciliation
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New York, NY
2003.01-
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Journal Log Engine
Design, development and implementation of an open source database engine for organizing activity and reflection logs. The Journal Log Engine allows for the integration of log entries with applicable databases, projects, images, and thematic and geographical classification.
The Journal Log Engine will generated linked sets of web pages allowing multiple options for viewing logs - e.g. chronologically or organized by Project or substantive focus.
information-habitat.net/projects/jle.htm
dataperfect digital engines
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New York, NY
2003.01-
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Image Habitat Engine
Design, development and implementation of an open source database engine for organizing images, and generating sets of web pages for sets and sub-sets of digital images - including digital or scanned photographs and images based on the Light and Colour Cubes.
information-habitat.net/projects/ihe.htm
database-generated web sites,
dataperfect digital engines,
electronic publishing,
information ecology,
light and colour,
peace cubes
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New York, NY
2003.01-
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Project Information Habitat
Project Information Habitat is an evolving design and demonstration of an online habitat for project information, with a set of approximately 200 web pages on projects that have been part of Information Habitat's history. The Project Information Habitat web pages are directly generated from the HABITAT3 DataPerfect relational database that serves as one of the primary digital engines for Information Habitat.
Project Information Habitat will also draw on the body of information that it has accumulated - incorporating the design, and where appropriate, the contents, of a set of databases in Information Habitat's possession - including databases developed by Information Habitat, as well as those it has inherited from its predecessors; archives from the electronic mailing lists managed, moderated and/or subscribed to by Information Habitat; and Information Habitat's digital library of documents.
information-habitat.net/projects/pih.htm
access to information,
database-generated web sites,
dataperfect digital engines,
ecological design,
economics,
education,
electronic publishing,
information ecology,
information economics,
mathematics
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New York, NY
2002.12-
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World Summit on Sustainable Development, PrepCom 3
Active participant in Preparatory Committee meetings; developed set of proposed amendments to the Chairman's Paper; generated sets of web pages with the full text of Agenda 21 references to information, data and communication; access, participate and participation; and educate, education and awareness; made oral presentation of information ecology recommendations on sustainable development governance.
information-habitat.net/projects/wssd-pc3.htm
access to information,
dataperfect digital engines,
holistic approaches,
information ecology,
information economics,
preparatory committee,
sustainable development,
unced / earth summit,
united nations
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New York, NY
2002.03-2002.04
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Gandhi-King Season for Nonviolence - Taking IT Global
Project planning for taking the Gandhi-King Season for Nonviolence global, using the platform of Taking IT Global, and connecting with a number of other related projects on Taking IT Global.
information-habitat.net/projects/gks-tig.htm
database,
dataperfect digital engines,
digital bridges,
information ecology,
interfaith dialogue,
nonviolence,
one light in all,
peace
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New York, NY
2001.01-
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Information Ecology Curriculum
Development of framework and outline for an open source curriculum in the elements of information ecology, with the goal of cultivating awareness of the nature and dynamics of information ecosystems and of the evolving information age based on an appreciation of the fundamental properties of information, information systems and networks and an appreciation of the one light in all of creation.
information-habitat.net/projects/ie-curr.htm
access to information,
database,
dataperfect digital engines,
economics,
education,
electronic publishing,
habitat & human settlements,
information ecology,
information economics,
light and colour,
mathematics,
peaceful properties of the internet,
public participation,
social development,
sustainable development
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New York, NY
1998.02-
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Peace Cubes / Virtual Light and Colour Cubes
Development and dissemination of a proliferating set of images based on developed models of the peace cubes / virtual light and color cubes as embodiments of properties of light and of nature. The existence of the cubes was discovered in response to a request from the outgoing Executive Director of UN-Habitat to explore the use of colour to identify the role of partners in a proposed web site for follow-up to Habitat II.
The Light and Colour Cubes were dedicated as Peace Cubes at an Equinox Earthday celebration next to the Peace Bell at United Nations Headquarters in March 1997 and have emerged as icons of Information Ecology and of a holistic approach - with the dimensions of red, blue and green appearing to correspond to dimensions of economy, society and environment - the three "pillars of sustainability" - as well as to dimensions of body, mind and spirit.
information-habitat.net/projects/vlcc.htm
art,
database,
dataperfect digital engines,
electronic publishing,
healing,
information ecology,
light and colour,
mathematics,
nonviolence,
one light in all,
peace,
peace cubes
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New York, NY
1996.11-
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NGO Forum '96 Preparations
Set up, organized and supervised management of the FORUM96 database to organize the schedule of over 1,800 events and activities of NGOs at the NGO Forum '96, incorporating systematic procedures for organizing schedules and resolving schedule conflict; generated daily reports, schedules, web pages and signs for the events.
information-habitat.net/projects/forum96p.htm
access to information,
conference documents,
conference registration,
conferences,
database,
dataperfect digital engines,
dissemination of information,
ecological design,
electronic publishing,
habitat & human settlements,
information ecology,
ngo networks, committees & caucuses,
public participation,
publishing,
training,
united nations
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Istanbul, Turkey
1995.10-1996.06
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Global Heart Convocation
Pubished Da Zi Bao participant interactive message system - four issues with fifty-one messages from thirty-five participants- at the Global Heart Convocation organized by Terra Christa Communications, to support heart-centred and spiritual approaches to the upcoming Earth Summit / UNCED. Distributed diskette-based UNCED documents.
information-habitat.net/projects/ghc.htm
conference documents,
conferences,
dataperfect digital engines,
participant interactive message system,
unced / earth summit
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Tucson, AZ
1992.02-1992.02
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Citizens Planning & Housing Association - Education Committee
Developed Report Card on Elementary Schools for CPHA's Education Committee in conjunction with the Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPS) using a complex DataPerfect 2.3 relational database to integrate elemedantary school data from multiple sources within BCPS and generating export files to merge in WordPerfect 5.0 using styles and tables. Database design, desk top publishing; word processing training.
information-habitat.net/projects/cpha.htm
access to information,
baltimore,
community-based organizations,
database,
dataperfect digital engines,
education,
information ecology,
public participation
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Baltimore, MD
1990.01-1990.06
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Baltimore Area Recycling Committee
Successfully mobilized a broad based - and lasting - coalition of neighborhood, environmental and educational groups in a major re-direction of recycling policy resulting, inter alia, in weekly curb-side pick up of recyclables and a five year City Council moratorium on waste incinerators. Supervised the organization of a successful conference that played a major role in stimulating the growth and development of the committee's activities. Developed and maintained database of coalition participants, edited and desktop-published brochures, reports and directories of committee members.
information-habitat.net/projects/recycle.htm
access to information,
baltimore,
community-based organizations,
conference documents,
conference registration,
conferences,
consensus documents,
database,
dataperfect digital engines,
environment,
public participation,
recycling
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Baltimore, MD
1988.09-1991.06
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Alternative Press Center
Designed and developed DataPerfect relational database system for classifying and organizing coding of articles in alternative and progressive publication. Developed report formats using DataPerfect and WordPerfect that generated the contents of the Alternative Press Index, a quarterly publication that has been a primary library reference resource for alternative progressive periodicals. Provided training in data entry and report generation.
information-habitat.net/projects/apc.htm
baltimore,
database,
dataperfect digital engines,
information ecology,
publishing
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Baltimore, MD
1982.06-1989.09
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Digital Engine