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Peace Cubes
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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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Uniting for Peace Coalition
Edited a Petition for an Emergency United Nations Resolution on Iraq, and facilitated the online dissemination of the petition. The Uniting for Peace Coalition came into being with the intention of calling on the United Nations General Assembly to invoke the provMsions of General Assembly Resolution 377(V), Uniting for Peace, in response to the failure of the Security Council to reach consnsus on U.S. plans for an illegal pre-emptive war against Iraq.
information-habitat.net/projects/ufp.htm
consensus documents,
electronic publishing,
email lists,
global governance,
law and the courts,
peace,
peace cubes,
public participation,
united nations,
web sites
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New York, NY
2003.02-
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2003 Gandhi-King Season for Nonviolence
Preventing Violence, Promoting Health: Shared Strategies
information-habitat.net/projects/gks-2003.htm
access to information,
interfaith dialogue,
nonviolence,
peace,
peace cubes,
public participation
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New York, NY
2003.01-2003.04
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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, incorporatinM 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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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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Journey of Light, Reconciliation and Peace
The Journey of Light, Reconciliation and Peace was created as a peace memorial in response to the September 11 bombings of the World Trade Center twin towers and the war on terror that was launched in response to the attack on the World Trade Center.
information-habitat.net/projects/jlrp.htm
art,
database,
healing,
light and colour,
new york city,
one light in all,
peace,
peace cubes,
reconciliation,
september 11, 2001
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New York, NY
2001.12-
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September 11 Peace Memorials
Designed, developed and disseminated peace memorials to foster an appreciation of peace, and the vital need to find ways to conduct world trade in peace - not in war - and to remember the power of forgiveness and universal love - to realize that it is not possible to win a war on terrorism; to resolve the challenges of terrorism, we must seek and follow paths of healing and peace based on an appreciation of One Light in All.
information-habitat.net/projects/911peace.htm
art,
database,
economics,
habitat & human settlements,
information ecology,
interfaith dialogue,
light and colour,
mathematics,
new york city,
nonviolence,
one light in all,
peace,
peace cubes
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New York, NY
2001.12-
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Rainbow Cubic Sine Waves
The Rainbow Cubic Sine Waves appear to serve as a bridge between the cycles of light and Colour of the Light and Colour Cubes and the colours of the rainbow. The Rainbow Cubic Sine Waves also represent an experiment in morphing the rectilinear structure of the cubes into softer cyclical and curvilinear forms.
information-habitat.net/projects/rcsw.htm
art,
database-generated web sites,
digital bridges,
light and colour,
mathematics,
one light in all,
peace cubes
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New York, NY
2001.12-
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Gandhi-King Season for Nonviolence - New York Task Force
Active participant in Task Force, established and managed electronic mailing list for the Task Force. Created daily calendar web pages of daily messages that were also sent daily to an electronic mailing list during the Season for Nonviolence - from January 30 to April 4 and honoring the anniversaries of the deaths of Mahatma Gandhi and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
information-habitat.net/projects/gks-nytf.htm
access to information,
children,
database-generated web sites,
digital bridges,
electronic publishing,
health,
information ecology,
interfaith dialogue,
new york city,
ngo networks, committees & caucuses,
nonviolence,
one light in all,
peace,
peace cubes,
september 11, 2001,
united nations,
virtual light & colour cubes,
web sites,
youth
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New York, NY
2001.11-
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The Ark of Hope
The Ark of Hope - and the Temenos Books that it carries - is an artists' vehicle for expressing a commitment to the Earth Charter.
Met the Ark of Hope when it arrived at the 79th Street boat basin in New York, and carried it - with a good load of books inside - to 42nd Street & Fifth Avenue - and on the final section of the journey to the Interfaith Center of New York. Subsequently co-organized an exhibit booth at the Clearwter Hudson River Revival Festival at Croton Point Park in June 2002.
information-habitat.net/projects/ark.htm
art,
children,
electronic publishing,
environment,
global governance,
peace,
peace cubes,
public participation,
sustainable development,
values
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New York, NY
2001.09-
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Financing for Development Forum
Designed, developed and administered the Forum, intended to serve as an accessible, interactive knowledge-based forum for broad-based and informed dialogue by civil society partners in preparation for the International Conference on Financing for Development, to be held in Mexico in the Spring of 2002, with responsibilities for its web site, e-lists, database, Roundtable Dialogues, and Internet Relay Chat meetings, and the development and implementation of knowledge-based strategies to demonstrate the vital significance of a focus on financing the transition to local, national and global knowledge-based economies in conjunction with cultivating an appreciation of the fundamental properties of information, information systems and networks, and the consequent economics of information.
information-habitat.net/projects/ffdforum.htm
access to information,
conference documents,
conferences,
economic development,
economics,
electronic publishing,
information ecology,
interactive processes,
knowledge-based economics,
peace cubes,
public participation,
social development,
sustainable development,
sustainable economics
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New York, NY
2000.11-2001.08
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CSD Exhibit on Water and Health
Spontaneous installation of a complex and evolving multi-material installation / exhibit on the theme of of a UN Commission on Water and Health. The exhibit began in Conference Room C at UN Headquarters, and for its final two days, moved into a space that became open close to the Vienna Café where it provoked interest and discussion among participants in the 8th Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development.
information-habitat.net/projects/csd-2000.htm
freshwater,
habitat & human settlements,
health,
interfaith dialogue,
peace cubes
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New York, NY
2000.05-2000.05
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Gaia University
Design and development of knowledge-based curriculum, structure, information architecture and administrative framework - incorporating an extensive network of .net domains - for an Earth-centred, holistic approach to learning and teaching based on the science of Information Ecology and a recognition of One Light in all that exists - symbolized by the Light and Colour Cubes. Conceived as a key element in an evolving collaborative proof of the Gaia Mind / Global Mind hypothesis, Gaia University seeks to restore the essence of the Pythagorean / Hippocratic Oath - "First do no harm" - as a central commitment of education, and to serve as a model for a general framework for a knowledge-based economy and society based on appreciation of the fundamental properties of information, information systems and networks.
information-habitat.net/projects/gaia-u.htm
access to information,
community development,
economics,
education,
freshwater,
information ecology,
interfaith dialogue,
knowledge-based economics,
mathematics,
one light in all,
peace cubes,
social development
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New York, NY
2000.04-
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Information Ecology Caucus
Established the Information Ecology Caucus as an independent NGO Caucus, in recognition that the scope of its activities and focus had evolved beyond a focus on the Commission on Sustainable Development and a relationship with the CSD/NGO Steering Committee.
information-habitat.net/projects/iec.htm
access to information,
economics,
information ecology,
peace cubes,
public participation
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New York, NY
2000.04-
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Whitehaven and Whitgift Trust
Development and implementation of strategy for growing and cutivating the Whitehaven and Whitgift Trust, charitable body Whitehaven and Whitgift; registered and managed a set of Internet domains as a foundation for Gaia University - based on evidence of an emerging proof of the Gaia Mind hypothesis, and the restoration of the Pythagorean and Hippocractic / Pythagorean Oath to "First do no harm in acknowledment of the presence of One Light in the whole of Creation.
information-habitat.net/projects/wwt.htm
one light in all,
peace cubes
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New York, NY
2000.01-
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Whitehaven and Whitgift
Development and virtual implementation of strategies for a collaborative knowledge-based family partnership.
information-habitat.net/projects/ww.htm
information ecology,
knowledge-based economics,
peace cubes
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New York, NY
2000.01-
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Y2K Tri-State Network
Participated in Steering Committee; designed and implemented web site for the primary Y2K preparedness network for the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut tri-state region with the participation of private sector, local, state and federal government representatives, computer experts and citizen organizations.
information-habitat.net/projects/y2ktsn.htm
access to information,
consulting,
electronic publishing,
millennium,
new york city,
peace cubes,
public participation,
web sites
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New York, NY
1998.09-2000.01
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19th Special Session of the General Assembly
Advocated for the adoption of NGO recommendations, with a focus on recommendations concerning Information Ecology and the use of information and communications technology is support of integrated monitoring frameworks for follow-up to the Earth Summit and the other major UN Conferences of the 1990s.
information-habitat.net/projects/ga-ss-19.htm
information ecology,
peace cubes,
public participation,
sustainable development,
united nations
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New York, NY
1997.06-1997.06
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5th Session, Commission on Sustainable Development
Active participant in NGO Caucuses and strategy meetings, with a focus on compiling, editing and contributing to the NGO Background Paper "Towards Earth Summit II" and developing Information Ecology recommendations.
information-habitat.net/projects/csd-5.htm
access to information,
information ecology,
ngo networks, committees & caucuses,
peace cubes,
public participation,
sustainable development,
un economic and social council
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New York, NY
1997.04-1997.04
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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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Earth Society Foundation
Made presentations at 1996 and 1997 Earth Day ceremonies at the United Nations Peace Bell. Created world wide web site for 1997 Earth Day on the Equinox.
information-habitat.net/projects/esf.htm
education,
electronic publishing,
environment,
peace,
peace cubes,
united nations,
web sites
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New York, NY
1996.03-1998.03
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Habitat II Preparations
Designed and developed web site for Habitat II documents. Designed and managed database of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) - and their representatives - accredited to Habitat II. Designed and supervised NGO registration procedures for PrepCom III and for Habitat II. Generated and formatted data for official reports of NGO accreditation. Set up and staffed "Internet Café" at PrepCom III. Organized and facilitated procedures for NGO access to online communications from conference site in Istanbul.
information-habitat.net/projects/hab2-pre.htm
access to information,
community development,
conference documents,
conferences,
database,
economic development,
freshwater,
habitat & human settlements,
habitat ii,
information architecture,
information ecology,
information infrastructure,
interactive processes,
peace cubes,
public participation,
social development,
sustainable development,
united nations
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New York, NY
1994.09-1996.10
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UN Commission on Sustainable Development
Active participant in the NGO community during the meetings of the Commission. Compilation and distribution of official documents in electronic format.
information-habitat.net/projects/csd.htm
access to information,
conferences,
electronic publishing,
peace cubes,
public participation,
sustainable development,
united nations
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New York, NY
1993.06-
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Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Beyond
A retrospective journey in the form of a chronological annotated listing of documents and web sites - with links where available - electronic mailing lists, and databases that mark some of the highlights, landmarks and processes of the journey in more detail. The journey begins as preliminary preparations are underway for the Preparatory Committee meetings for the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro through a virtual journey to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, by way of the Habitat II Conference in Istanbul.
information-habitat.net/projects/rij.htm
access to information,
art,
conferences,
database,
economics,
electronic publishing,
email lists,
habitat & human settlements,
information ecology,
interfaith dialogue,
millennium,
nonviolence,
peace,
peace cubes,
public participation,
social development,
sustainable development,
unced / earth summit,
united nations
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Baltimore, MD
1989.05-
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The Johns Hopkins University, Social Relations Department
M.A. 1973, completing all Ph.D. requirements except dissertation. Specialized in small group dynamics, interpersonal and organizational behaviour, personality, criminology, quantitative research methods and mathematical sociology. Research Assistant on National Science Foundation projects, with a focus on data management, measurement, analysis and presentation, research design and methodology, computer programming, communication dynamics, and measurement of interpersonal behaviour and personality.
The Johns Hopkins University was founded by Johns Hopkins, a Baltimore Quaker, yet by 1973, it was by far the largest university as measured by military contracts and research grants. An alternative approach to knowledge
information-habitat.net/projects/jhu.htm
baltimore,
education,
information ecology,
mathematics,
peace cubes,
social development
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Baltimore, MD
1967.09-1972.10
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Whitgift School
House Prefect. Advanced Level GCE in Pure Maths, Applied Maths and Physics; Ordinary Level GCE in Mathematics, English, French, Latin, Greek and History.
Whitgift School was founded in 1595 by Archbishop John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge; and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, and served as the principal tutor of Francis Bacon. The root of the name Whitgift is "white gift" - a name that has resonated with the appreciation of the peace cubes as "gifts of light."
information-habitat.net/projects/whitgift.htm
education,
mathematics,
peace cubes
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Croydon, United Kingdom
1956.09-1962.12
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Global Business Hearings on Financing for Development
Circulated a paper on Financing for Development and Transition to a Knowledge-Based Economy sdddressing critical opportunities and challenges in the context of the ECOSOC 2000 Ministerial Declaration on Development and international cooperation in the twenty-first century: the role of information technology in the context of a knowledge-based global economy.
information-habitat.net/projects/ffd-gbh.htm
economics,
information ecology,
information economics,
peace cubes,
sustainable development
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New York, NY
2000.12-2000.12
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