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  • Whitgift School

    Croydon County Council Scholar (11 plus)
      Advanced Level GCE in Pure Maths, Applied Maths and Physics; Ordinary Level GCE in Mathematics, English, French, Latin, Greek and History. House Prefect.

1956.09-1962.12
Croydon, United Kingdom

  • Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University

    Open Exhibition in Mathematics
      Open Exhibition in Mathematics. B.A. Honours in Mathematics and Economics. Cox of College rowing crew.

1963.09-1966.05
Cambridge, United Kingdom

  • Institute for Human Sciences, Boston College

    Research Assistant
      Data management and organization, and supervision of computer coding of grievances and concerns drawn up throughout France at a parish level in the course of the "Convocation of the Estates General" in the context of a National Science Foundation funded research project involving quantitative analysis of the French Revolution.

1966.06-1967.08
Boston, U.S.A.

  • The Johns Hopkins University, Social Relations Department

    Graduate Fellow & Research Assistant
      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 and measurement of interpersonal behaviour and personality. M.A. 1973, completing all Ph.D. requirements except dissertation.

1967.09-1972.10
Baltimore, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • An Experiment Concerning the Transmission of Social Values: Master's Thesis
      Unpublished Master's Thesis. Methodology, research design and data analysis of an experiment designed to test a relationship between personality type and susceptibility to change in values.

1972.11

  • Baltimore Interfaith Peace Mission

    Member
      Participated in meetings, organized by the late Father Phillip Berrigan, of advocates for peace in Vietnam; distributed leaflets, etc. Following the Baltimore Four and the Catonsville Nine draft protests, the organization evolved in the the Baltimroe Defense Committee.

1967.10-1968.03
Baltimore, U.S.A.

  • Baltimore Defense Committee

    Member
      Participated in support activitites for the Baltimore Defense Committee, which the Interfaith Peace Committee became after the burning of draft records by the "Catonsville Nine", led by the later Fasther Phillip Berrigan; assisted in planning meetings, rallies, etc., folded and stapled flyers, and stuffed and sorted envelopes, and prepared them for non-profit mail delivery.

1968.03-1972.01
Baltimore, U.S.A.

  • People's Free Medical Clinic

    Co-Founder, Counselor
      Hosted initial meeting for what became a successful community-based free medical clinic. Assisted with information management and as a volunteer counselor.

1970.04-1978.12
Baltimore, U.S.A.

  • Baltimore Experimental High School

    Volunteer Teacher
      Taught classes in the game of Go - the classic Chinese game of strategy that has been a continual source of inspiration and guidance for subsequent strategy - and a workshop that used video as a vehicle for observing and understanding one's presentation of self.

1970.09-1971.12
Baltimore, U.S.A.

  • The Belly Food Cooperative

    Member
      Designed record-keeping card for registration of work and information-sharing activities of members of The Belly Food Cooperative, a community-based storefront natural and organic food co-op. Worked as cashier, stocking and food wrapping, weighing and packaging of foods.

1972.06-1990.04
Baltimore, U.S.A.

  • Baltimore City Jail Volunteer

    Volunteer Social Worker
      Worked with a variety of self-help initiatives established by residents, including newsletter and self-help groups, and provided access to the library and its formerly inaccessible collection of law books.

1972.11-1973.12
Baltimore, U.S.A.

  • Baltimore City Jail

    Correction Officer
      Received basic training and experience in security procedures, key control and report writing. Principal duties were staffing key posts - and on occasion having responsibility for a cell block.

1973.12-1974.02
Baltimore, U.S.A.

  • Baltimore City Jail Library

    Librarian
      Established the first library at Baltimore City Jail; developed and implemented methodologies that became a model for prison law libraries in the State of Maryland; initiated education programs; designed and developed a simple cataloging system that was able to be managed directly by the inmate staff; trained and supervised staff of 10-12 inmate volunteers in a range of library procedures, including basic law library research in State and Federal criminal law; wrote successful proposal funding 7 full time and 5 part time positions under the Public Service Employment Program of the U.S. Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA); developed and managed budgets for the library; designed and implemented audiovisual productions; supervised inmate newsletter and inmate self-help programs.

1974.02-1981.09
Baltimore, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Boneyard News
      Inmate newsletter at Baltimore City Jail. Generally published monthly using "ditto" duplication.

1973.01

    • Integrated Internal Information and Communication System: Baltimore City Jail
      Proposal to utilize technological developments in cable television and computer systems for an integrated system to address information and communication needs of Baltimore City Jail. Proposed component parts include cable television serving training, educational and information needs and an integrated records system.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/iics-bcj.htm

1977.09

  • Chesapeake Energy Alliance

    Co-Coordinator
      Organized and staffed literature tables on the dangers of nuclear energy and the advantages of alternative energy sources, sold bumper stickers and buttons, organized meetings and rallies. Mimeographed, collated and sorted flyers and mailings; stuffed and sorted envelopes.

      Represented the Chesapeake Energy Alliance on a pro se basis in the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) proceedings concerning the re-start of Three Mile Island, Unit 1. In response to the flood of legal briefs in the case, proposed that a coherent system be established for identification of, and referral to briefs - leading to the subsequent adoption of such procedures by the NRC.


1978.09-1982.07
Baltimore, U.S.A.

  • Baltimore Environmental Center

    Chairperson; Secretary; Board Member
      Organized a successful coalition of environmental and community groups opposed to incineration of Baltimore City's sewage sludge, leading to the adoption of plans to compost the sludge in place of incineration; maintained membership database; secured a small grant for, and implemented a successful Recycling Resource Packet, that was disseminated in partnership with the Recycling Committee of the Citizens' Planning and Housing Association.

1980.01-1991.01
Baltimore, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • The Beacon
      Monthly Newsletter of the Baltimore Environmental Center. Maintenance of a database - BEC - of members and subscribers.

1980.01

    Databases

    • BEC - Baltimore Environmental Center
      Directory of members and committee membership. Used to generate mailing labels and to generate calendar listings for the monthly newsletter - The Beacon - that was edited and produced using WordPerfect 4.2

1987.01

  • North Greenmount Community Development Federal Credit Union

    Secretary; Board Member
      Proposed the development of a microcomputer-based credit union accounting system; wrote initial feasibility study and chaired sub-committee that planned the successful adoption of such a system.

1980.09-1984.04
Baltimore, U.S.A.

  • Baltimore Information Cooperative

    Co-Founder; Co-Chair; Coordinator
      Wrote successful grant proposal for initial funding of the organization, which was established to provide support and assistance to small charitable and community organizations in the use of microcomputers. Served as Co-ordinator - in conjunction with a cooperative arrangment with the Baltimore City Jail for a half-time leave of absence to work with the Baltimore Information Cooperative; support and training in use of database, spreadsheets and word processing and recommendations for microcomputer purchase.

1980.10-1984.04
Baltimore, U.S.A.

    Databases

    • BIC - BIC Database
      Database, written in BASIC, designed for organizational membership contact information, for generating mailing labels, membership directories, etc.

1981.08

  • Workers' Action Press

    Consultant
      Desktop publishing and training in word processing and desktop publishing.

1981.01-1988.12
Baltimore, U.S.A.

  • Greater Waverly Urban Farming Cooperative

    Founder
      Set up neighborhood support network for urban farmers, established community garden on a 1/3 acre plot that sought to balance a small organic urban farm with an abundance of wildlife. Since 1991, the garden has been used by an experimental High School in the Baltimore City Public Schools.

1981.04-1991.06
Baltimore, U.S.A.

  • Baltimore City Jail Administrative Analyst

    Administrative Analyst
      Developed microcomputer plans, training and recommendations; developed and edited Policy and Procedures Manual for compliance with Maryland State standards; published staff newsletter; produced audiovisual materials for orientation of incoming residents; developed plans and proposals; prepared budgets and position descriptions; served as in-house consultant to mid-level correctional and administrative staff, including the design and management of a process for maintenance of an orderly schedule for meals, recreation and other services to inmates.

1981.10-1986.03
Baltimore, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Audiovisual Resident Orientation
      Designed and developed audiovisual - sound-on-slide - orientation presentation that was shown to all City Jail residents on their arrival.

1981.02

    • Inside Out
      Edited and published Staff Newsletter at Baltimore City Jail - 1982-1986

1982.01

    • Baltimore City Jail Policy & Procedures Manual
      Compiled, edited, formatted, and produced - in WordPerfect 4.0 - a comprehensive 200-page policy and procedures manual for the Baltimore City Jail in response to requirements established by Maryland State law.

1982.06

    • Attendance Monitoring & Analysis Policy
      Compiled and edited Policy and Procedure for City-wide attendance monitoring and analysis policy. Generated through a participatory management process, and through a series of revisions and reorganizations.

1984.05

  • Baltimore Area Community Organizations

    Consultant
      Technical support and training in the application of microcomputer technology in support of increased effectiveness of community organizations. Clients were community-based organizations working in community development, social justice, health, environment and peace. A primary focus was the integration of database and desktop publishing.

1982.02-1991.03
Baltimore, U.S.A.

  • Alternative Press Centre

    Consultant
      Designed and developed relational database system for classifying and organizing coding of articles in alternative and panrogressive 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.

1982.06-1989.09
Baltimore, U.S.A.

    Databases

    • APC - Alternative Press Centre
      Database for the Alternative Press Index, a quarterly index of alternative publications. APC directly generated the body of the Index, creating massive secondary merge files - based on a multiple classification of the articles included in the index. The output from APC was merged into WordPerfect 4, and with the application of a few keystroke macros and the use of styles, generated the final, camera-ready copy for the body of the Index.

1984.01

  • Maryland State Foster Care Review Board

    Consultant
      Development and supervision of database for tracking the status of children under the jurisdiction of the Foster Care Review Board for the State of Maryland.

1983.03-1983.06
Baltimore, U.S.A.

  • Homewood Monthly Meeting, Religious Society of Friends

    Member and Attender
      Clerk of Ad Hoc Committee on Unity with Nature, compiled and edited a set of Queries on Unity with Nature based on identification and organization of themes included in a compilation of related queries developed by othe Quaker Monthly and Yearly Meetings. The Queries on Unity with Nature were later incorporated as the Quaker contribution to the Environmental Sabbath programme of the United Nations Environmental Programme. Developed a database of Members and Attenders of the Meeting.

1984.01-
Baltimore, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Queries on Unity with Nature
      Queries, or probing questions, representing a compilation and synthesis of queries on Unity with Nature that had been developed by Friends (Quakers) at Monthly and Yearly meetings across the U.S.A., from a perspective that sees people in unity with nature, not apart from it. These queries were subsequently published as the Quaker contribution to the 1989 Environmental Sabbath resource guide developed by the U.N. Environment Programme.
      habitat.igc.org/queries/uwn.htm

1989.04

    Databases

    • HOMEWOOD - Homewood Friends Meeting, Baltimore
      Homewood Friends Meeting, Baltimore

1989.05

  • Computer Users in Social Services: Maryland Regional Chapter

    Steering Committee member
      Developed directory of social service professionals involved in microcomputer applications; participated in planning meetings; provided training and support in word processing and database applications.

1984.03-1987.06
Baltimore, U.S.A.

  • Robert Pollard, Consulting

    Consultant
      Technical support and professional services in microcomputer uses including electronic mail, database design and development, document organization and management, web site design and development, set up and mangement of small local area networks. Clients have included community-based organizations working in community development, social justice, health, environment and peace. A primary focus has been the integration of database and desktop publishing, organization of desktop, and support and training in the use of Eudora email software and the establisment and maintenance of electronic mailing lists.

1984.09-
Baltimore, U.S.A.

  • Waverly Family Center

    Co-Chair; Treasurer; Board Member
      Member of Board at a time when the Waverly Family Center - one of the initial small group of such centers to be recogized and partially funded by the State of Maryland - was in a major growth period that focused on planning and building a new Family Center geared towards providing support for young low-income single mothers and their children.

1985.04-1990.04
Baltimore, U.S.A.

  • City College of Baltimore

    Part-Time Student
      Courses in Systems Analysis and Human Anatomy.

1985.06-1986.06
Baltimore, U.S.A.

  • Better Waverly Community Organization

    Co-Chair; Board Member
      Designed and maintained integrated database for membership and organizational records, including ownership records for all property in the neighborhood; established and edited neighborhood newsletter; initiated community gardening project.

1985.10-1990.05
Baltimore, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Better Waverly News
      Edited and "desk-top published" - in WordPerfect 5.0 - the Monthly Newsletter of the Better Waverly Community Organization. Maintenance of database of Better Waverly members, and of mailing addresses and ownership of houses in the Better Waverly community.

1986.01

    Databases

    • BWCO - Better Waverly Community Organization
      Database for the Better Waverly Community Organization, including listing of members, homeowners, all properties in the neighborhood, the registered ownership of the properties and other information on the properties and their ownership. Used for newsletter mailing labels, sorted by postal code, and in conjunction with a campaign to identify owners of deteriorating or delinquent properties.

1987.09

  • People's Homesteading Group

    Consultant
      Set up database for mailing list, and provided training and technical support in use of the database and word processing for this organization that enabled low-income home ownership through an innovative sweat equity initiative.

1986.04-1986.09
Baltimore, U.S.A.

  • Community Law Center

    Consultant
      Database design, typesetting, and training in word processing, database and general computer operations for the Community Law Center which provided legal and strategic support for communities addressing housing and land use needs and problems.

1986.06-1989.09
Baltimore, U.S.A.

    Databases

    • CLC - Community Law Center
      Database of the Community Law Center in Baltimore; an organization committed to making legal support available to grassroots, neighborhood associations, especially in low income neighborhoods. Used to generate mailing labels and address listings.

1988.05

  • Various National and International NGOs

    Consultant
      Technical support and training in the use of microcomputers, including electronic mail, database development, desktop publishing, word processing, and document management. Projects included design and implementation of a database and publication of the Alternative Press Index, concept development and design of the database and layout for Who Is Who: People, Projects and Organizations in Service to the Earth and organization and publication of the proceedings of the November 1989 Globescope Pacific Assembly.

1987.03-
Baltimore, U.S.A.

  • Ultra Technology Computers

    Systems Consultant
      Assisted clients in identifying microcomputer hardware and software needs; microcomputer training, sales and marketing.

1987.07-1987.10
Baltimore, U.S.A.

  • Protologics Corporation

    Sales Manager
      Responsible for sales of professional practice management software systems for small medical practices.

1987.11-1988.04
Baltimore, U.S.A.

  • Friends Committee on Unity with Nature

    Clerk, Publications & Communication
      Coordinated and edited "Queries on Unity with Nature" that were included as the Quaker contribution to the Environmental Sabbath materials published by the United Nations Environment Programme; edited and produced Unity with Nature Resource Packet; compiled and edited "Queries on Environment and Development" submitted to the Globescope Pacific Assembly.
      www.fcun.org

1988.02-1991.01
Ann Arbor, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Walking Gently on the Earth
      A checklist, compiled by the Friends Committee on Unity with Nature and supported by appropriate queries, to encourage exploration as to how gently we are walking on the earth, what changes in actions and attitudes and what resources can support our transition towards a right relationship with the earth.
      habitat.igc.org/values/wgote.htm

1989.04

    • Queries on Unity with Nature
      Queries, or probing questions, representing a compilation and synthesis of queries on Unity with Nature that had been developed by Friends (Quakers) at Monthly and Yearly meetings across the U.S.A., from a perspective that sees people in unity with nature, not apart from it. These queries were subsequently published as the Quaker contribution to the 1989 Environmental Sabbath resource guide developed by the U.N. Environment Programme.
      habitat.igc.org/queries/uwn.htm

1989.04

    • Queries on Environment and Development
      A set of queries developed for submission as testimony to the Globescope Pacific Assembly in Los Angeles intended to examine spiritual dimensions of environment and development. The Queries were later used as key themes by the organizers of The Other Economic Summit in 1997 (TOES-97).
      habitat.igc.org/queries/qed.htm

1989.08

    • Spiritual Reflections on Unity with Nature
      Reflections on the convergence of interests that are leading towards an interfaith, holistic, spiritual understanding of the importance of redefining our relationship with nature.
      habitat.igc.org/values/srouwn.htm

1989.08

    • An Earthcare Interfaith Network: A proposal for preparing input into the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
      Proposal for organizing faith communities to focus attention on the preparations for the 1992 UNCED process, with special reference to the Justice Peace and Integrity of Creation (JPIC) process of the World Council of Churches.

1989.08

    Databases

    • FCUN - Friends Committee on Unity with Nature
      Database of people involved with Friends Committee on Unity with Nature, including subscribers to the Befriending Creation newsletter, and Clerks of Monthly Meetings in Baltimore Yearly Meeting.

1988.10

  • The Learning Bank

    Consultant
      Database design and implementation for registration and performance data in Adult Literacy program; training in data entry and word processing using DataPerfect and WordPerfect.

1988.05-1988.08
Baltimore, U.S.A.

    Databases

    • LEARNING -

1988.05

  • Save Our Streams

    Consultant
      Desk top publishing of brochures and materials, and training in word processing and desk top publishing in support of community-based monitoring of stream quality.

1988.06-1990.01
Glen Burnie, U.S.A.

  • Friends of the Family

    Consultant
      Design, development and training for database and survey design used to record intake and daily participation in Family Suport Centers funded by the Maryland State Government. Also provided tranining in word processing and in generating and formatting activity reports from the database.

1988.09-1991.04
Baltimore, U.S.A.

    Databases

    • FOF - Friends of the Family
      Friends of the Family

1988.09

  • Baltimore Area Recycling Committee

    Co-Chair, 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.

1988.09-1991.06
Baltimore, U.S.A.

    Databases

    • RECYCLE - Baltimore Recycling Committee
      Participants, committees, committee membership, etc. of the Baltimore Recycling Committee of the Citizens Planning and Housing Association, and for participants in the Recycling Conference organized by the Committee and follow up commitments made by Confernce participants. RECYCLE was used to generate mailing labels, and generate a series of updated directories

1988.10

  • Morgan State University

    Consultant
      Desk top publishing of Wellspring: A Journal for the teaching of the Humanities in the High Schools; training in word processing and computer operations.

1989.01-1990.03
Baltimore, U.S.A.

  • Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg

    Information Ecologist
      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.

1989.05-
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • The First Step
      "To have no thought and put forth no effort is the first step towards understanding the tao ..." From the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, circa 2500 B.C.E.
      habitat.igc.org/first


    • Queries on Opening to the Light
      An inspiring set of Quaker Queries on Opening to the Light, presented by Barry Morley at Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in 1988.
      habitat.igc.org/queries

1988.08

    • Walking Gently on the Earth
      A checklist, compiled by the Friends Committee on Unity with Nature and supported by appropriate queries, to encourage exploration as to how gently we are walking on the earth, what changes in actions and attitudes and what resources can support our transition towards a right relationship with the earth.
      habitat.igc.org/values/wgote.htm

1989.04

    • Queries on Unity with Nature
      Queries, or probing questions, representing a compilation and synthesis of queries on Unity with Nature that had been developed by Friends (Quakers) at Monthly and Yearly meetings across the U.S.A., from a perspective that sees people in unity with nature, not apart from it. These queries were subsequently published as the Quaker contribution to the 1989 Environmental Sabbath resource guide developed by the U.N. Environment Programme.
      habitat.igc.org/queries/uwn.htm

1989.04

    • Foundations for a Sustainable Common Future
      Identification of value issues that are key to a transition to a sustainable future; need for holistic approaches, interfaith cooperation, integrating faith and practice, networking skills, and participation in UNCED preparations. Testimony presented at the Globescope Pacific Assembly, Los Angeles, November 1989.
      habitat.igc.org/values/fscf.htm

1989.08

    • Queries on Environment and Development
      A set of queries developed for submission as testimony to the Globescope Pacific Assembly in Los Angeles intended to examine spiritual dimensions of environment and development. The Queries were later used as key themes by the organizers of The Other Economic Summit in 1997 (TOES-97).
      habitat.igc.org/queries/qed.htm

1989.08

    • Spiritual Reflections on Unity with Nature
      Reflections on the convergence of interests that are leading towards an interfaith, holistic, spiritual understanding of the importance of redefining our relationship with nature.
      habitat.igc.org/values/srouwn.htm

1989.08

    • An Earthcare Interfaith Network: A proposal for preparing input into the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
      Proposal for organizing faith communities to focus attention on the preparations for the 1992 UNCED process, with special reference to the Justice Peace and Integrity of Creation (JPIC) process of the World Council of Churches.

1989.08

    • Notes on a Nature Rights Amendment
      Preliminary notes discussing considerations for a Nature Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and proposed text of such an amendment that would give legal standing in the courts to the earth, or any part of it, any species of plant or animal, or any member of such species.

1989.11

    • Balance with Nature
      Identification of an imbalance with nature as a central theme underlying the major global crises we face, and the need for a spiritual response. Testimony presented at the Globescope Pacific Assembly, Los Angeles, 1989.11
      habitat.igc.org/values/balance.htm

1989.11

    • U.S. Citizens' Response to Sustainable Development: A Preliminary Report
      Action recommendations of the eight working groups -- organized by sector of society -- that met during the Globescope Pacific Assembly in Los Angeles, November 1989, in US National Public Hearings on the Brundtland Report and in preparation for participation in the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development - the Earth Summit.

1989.11

    • Oh Say Can You See By the One Light in All!
      "Oh Say Can You See By the One Light in All!" was dedicated as the Fifth Verse of the US National Anthem at an Interfaith Sunrise service at Fort McHenry, home of the Star-Spangled Banner and a brief description of how the Star Spangled Banner became adopted - through a grassroots process - as the U.S. National Anthem.
      habitat.igc.org/oh-say-can-you-see

1990.04

    • United Nations Conference on Environment & Development: Information, Public Participation & Comunication System: A Preliminary Proposal & Discussion of the Proposal
      Discussion of NGO communication and information needs as they relate to effective participation in the process of preparing for the 1992 UNCED; recommendations for design and structuring on-line electronic conferences to facilitate communications and access to information.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/ippcs.htm

1990.06

    • Workshop on Environmental Computer Networks: Report on the Proceedings
      Workshop discussion and recommendations focussed on strategies for increasing access to electronic communications in developing countries, including analysis of needs and the availability of existing resources.

1990.07

    • On-Line and Real-time Conferences
      Discussion and notes on a proposal for structuring the use of on-line conferences in conjunction with real-time (conventional) conferences. Developed for the organizers of the Global Plant Species Information System, held in Delphi in 1990.07.

1990.07

    • Environment & Development Information Institute & Clearinghouse
      Draft proposal for the establishment of an Institute & Clearinghouse on the application of information technology to environment and development issues.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/ediic.htm

1990.07

    • Computer Communications & the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development: Alternative Technology for Communication and Participation by Non-government Organizations: A Concise Guide
      A brief overview of UNCED-related computer communications, the Concise Guide was produced for the first PrepCom meeting, and widely distributed by the UNCED Secretariat and vie electronic conferences and electronic mail.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/cc-unced.htm

1990.08

    • Citizens' Consultation on the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development: Conference Resources
      Compilation of information on UNCED, including brochure on the Citizens Alliance on UNCED (the proposed name of the U.S. Citizens Network before the consultation), proposed structure of the Alliance/Network, and directory of participants, generated from a DataPerfect database.

1990.10

    • Information, Environment & Development
      Proposal for the development of a cooperative U.S. initiative for the application of information technology resources in support of addressing environment and development issues.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/ied.htm

1990.11

    • Report Card on Baltimore City Elementary Schools
      Systematic compilation and presentation of data in easy-to-read tables, on measures of performance and characteristics of all the elementary schools in Baltimore City. Prepared for the Education Committee of the Citizens Housing and Planning Assocation, in preparation for the City's compliance with the Maryland State Performance Standards. The data were compiled from multiple sources and imported into a DataPerfect relational database; the entire body of the report was generated from an exported file merged into a WordPerfect 5.1 table.

1990.11

    • Information Clearinghouse: US Citizens Network on UNCED
      Concept paper for an Information Clearinghouse to coordinate the compilation and dissemination of information relating the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).
      habitat.igc.org/docs/clearing.htm

1990.11

    • US Citizens Network on UNCED: Proposal and Plan of Action
      Successful funding proposal for the US Citizens Network defining objectives and structure. The proposal serves as a "boilerplate" format for national and regional citizen/NGO networks.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/uscnu.htm

1990.12

    • Communication Protocols for Keeping Information Alive
      Identification of formatting considerations that enhance clarity and readability when sending electronic mail and posting messages to online conferences.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/protocol.htm

1991.03

    • On The Line: Interactive Preparations for the First Earth Summit. A Project Proposal
      Successful proposal for a project of Econet / Institute of Global Communications -- funded by the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation -- with a conceptual framework and overview of methodology for On The Line, a publication to facilitate interactive preparation for the Earth Summit (UNCED), and designed for global electronic distribution as a typeset microcomputer document.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/otl-prop.htm

1991.04

    • Towards an Earth Charter
      Proposed elements for inclusion in an Earth Charter; developed in response to an Interfaith workshop organized by the International Coordinating Committee on Religion and the Earth at Wainwright House in March 1991.
      habitat.igc.org/values/towards.htm

1991.04

    • Some Issues in Technology Transfer
      Critical analysis of technology transfer issues, seeking to unveil the full impact of technology transfer. including locus of power, ownership and control of economic institutions and the social, cultural, economic and environmental impact. Criteria and proposed conditions for alternative models of technology transfer are suggested.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/techtran.htm

1991.04

    • Who Is Who: People, Projects and Organizations In Service to the Earth
      Cross-referenced, indexed database-generated directory of people, projects and organizations in service to the Earth.

1991.05

    • Expansion of Access to On-Line Communications
      Proposal for major expansion of access to computer and on-line resources among NGOs in developing countries and Eastern Europe.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/eaolc.htm

1991.07

    • Participating in the en.unced.general conference: Electronic conferencing in preparation for the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment & Development
      Overview of the need for using electronic communications for UNCED, and discussion of the nature of participation in an electronic conference.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/partic.htm

1991.08

    • On The Line: Interactive Preparations for the First Earth Summit
      Guide to on-line communication issues and resources related to the UNCED / Earth Summit preparations; highlights some key issues for PrepCom 3; overview of PrepCom 3 documents and UNCED-related electronic conferences.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/otl-1.htm

1991.08

    • Information, Communications, Eastern Europe and UNCED
      Analysis/discussion of critical information and communications needs of Eastern European NGOs, analysis of Eastern European information environment, and identification of strategic considerations.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/icee.htm

1991.09

    • Sailing to Rio: Part I - PrepBoat
      A proposal for a Cairo-Gibraltar-New York boat, with an on-board conference, for NGO delegates to the 4th UNCED PrepCom in New York in March 1992. European and African delegates would join the boat at various ports in the Mediterranean; Arab and Asian delegates via the Suez Canal. A key focus of the on-board conference would be the geo-politics of trade.

1991.09

    • Eastern European Participation in UNCED
      Discussion of the critical need for Eastern European NGOs to participate in the UNCED preparations, identification of key benefits, and strategic recommendations.

1991.10

    • Network & Communication Resources Exhibition/Demonstration, International NGO Conference, Paris
      Proposal for a demonstration of computer-based networking and communication resources during Roots of the Future, the major International NGO conference to be held in Paris in December 1991 - through the support of the government of France - in preparation for the Earth Summit. The proposal outlined plans for an on-site electronic network; the management of interactive documents, including a participatory newsletter; and the use of databases for UNCED-related documents and membership/contact information.
      habitat.igc.org/pims/ncred.htm

1991.10

    • UNCED Beyond Rio?
      Discussion of the need for follow up of UNCED developments beyond Rio, including a proposal to extend the UNCED process through the year 2000.

1991.11

    • Weaving the Threads of the NGO Process: Paris - New York- Rio de Janeiro - Beyond
      Discussion of ways to strengthen the continuity of the NGO preparatory process for UNCED, and of ways to bridge the gap between intergovernmental and NGO events in Rio.

1991.11

    • Roots of the Future - Database and Directory of Participants
      Directory of participants in Roots of the Future - a major international NGO conference organized by the Environment Liaison Centre International and sponsored by the government of France.

1991.11

    • Da Zi Bao: An Interactive Process
      A "participant interactive message system" that was based on a compilation of concise (50 words or less) messages from the participants of the Roots of the Future International NGO Conference in Paris. A total of nine issues were published during the four days of the conference.
      habitat.igc.org/dazibao

1991.12

    • Interactive, Integrative Networking & Communication Processes in Support of Participation in the Earth Summit / Global Forum '92
      Draft proposal for a strategy for the use of microcomputers to strengthen communication and networking among NGOs in French-speaking areas of Africa.

1992.01

    • Da Zi Bao: An Interactive Process - Messages from Roots of the Future, International NGO Conference
      A database-generated compilation of all the Da Zi Bao messages published at the Roots of the Future NGO Conference in Paris, organized by keyword. The compilation provides a clear identification of the critical issues - and the diversity of perspectives - that were of concern to NGOs in the UNCED process.
      habitat.igc.org/dazibao/compile.pdf

1992.01

    • UNCED Interactive Document System
      Preliminary design notes for an interactive document system for the intergovernmental negotiaions process at the 4th PrepCom for UNCED, incorporating features of the Da Zi Bao participant interactive message system.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/uids.htm

1992.01

    • Da Zi Bao: Global Structures Convocation
      Seven one-sided issues - in six different colours - of Da Zi Bao. The issues were sold for 25 cents apiece, and revenue from sales more than covered the immediate material costs of production.

1992.02

    • Da Zi Bao: Global Heart Magnanimous Planning Session
      Four one-sided issues of a participatory interactive message system, with fifty-one messages from thirty-five participants.

1992.02

    • Bulletin de Liaison Interactif
      Four issues - one French-English, two English-French, and one French-Castellano - eighteen pages, using "Da Zi Bao" style processes.

1992.03

    • Da Zi Bao: UNCED PrepCom 4
      Database and bulletin published during the four week final Preparatory Committee. 17 issues, 275 messages. With Nathalie Liamine, Claire Marsden and others.

1992.03

    • Da Zi Bao in Rio
      Proposal for the implementation of the Da Zi Bao interactive bulletin system at the '92 Global Forum in Rio.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/dzb-rio.htm

1992.04

    • Synergistic Community Communication and Interactive Processes
      Outline of proposed activities of the Synergistic Communications project for the Earth Summit & '92 Global Forum in Rio. The elements include work with the alternative treaty on Information and Communications, the publication of Da Zi Bao, the compilation of a directory of participants, the utilization of multilingual translation software, and the compilation of UNCED-related disk-based resources.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/sccip.htm

1992.05

    • Da Zi Bao: Inter-Sectoral Dialogue Meeting, '92 Global Forum
      Da Zi Bao was the principal document that was produced at the Inter-Sectoral Dialogue Meeting, preceding the official opening of the '92 Global Forum.

1992.06

    • Da Zi Bao
      Fifty-eight issues of the Da Zi Bao interactive bulletin were published during the '92 Global Forum in Rio; 21 issues were in English, 25 in Portuguese, 8 in Spanish and 4 in French. More than 2,200 separate messages in all were published. An additional 10 issues of Da Zi Bao were published in conjunction with the Inter-Sectoral Dialogue meetings at the Global Forum.

1992.06

    • Communications & Information -- 1993 Global Forum
      Concept paper for an integrated communications and information strategy for a 1993 Global Forum that was to have been hosted by the UK Government.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/ci-gf93.htm

1992.07

    • Notes on a United Kingdom Global Forum, 1993
      Discussion paper on decision making, design, process and participation issues to be considered by the NGO community in response to the proposed 1993 Global Forum to be hosted by the UK Government.

1992.08

    • Database of NGOs Accredited to UNCED
      Relational database of the 1,420 NGOs accredited to UNCED, their 2,850 representatives, a description of their UNCED-related activities, and classification by area of interest and sector; includes 10 page manual/guide.

1992.08

    • Alternative Treaty-Making Process: Education in Sustainability and Global Responsibility (Pre-Publication edition)
      A compilation of the Alternative Treaties developed by non-government organizations at the '92 Global Forum in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. (An earlier version was published in September 1992)

1992.10

    • Alternative Treaties Bulletin
      Bulletin with news and reports on the implementation of the Alternative Treaties developed in Rio de Janeiro at the '92 Global Forum.

1992.11

    • Alternative Treaties: Synergistic Processes for Sustainable Communities and Global Responsibility
      An edited version of the alternative treaties developed by non-government organizations at the '92 Global Forum in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. The edition incorporates an enhanced classification system that, inter alia, facilitated the incorporation of the treaties in a searchable full-text database and an expanded introduction to the alternative treaty process.
      habitat.igc.org/treaties

1993.01

    • The Rio Agreements: A Full Text Database
      The official Rio agreements -- Agenda 21, Climate and Biodiversity Conventions, the Forest Principles and the Rio de Janeiro Declaration -- are combined with the Alternative Treaties from the International NGO Forum and the Women's Action Agenda 21 in a DataPerfect database format with built-in menus that permits easy search and retrieval of all section of these historic agreements that include any specified word or phrase.

1993.03

    • Applying Information and Communication Technology for Sustainability
      Intervention at the first session of the Commission on Sustainable Development recommending, inter alia, that procedures be adopted requesting all documents submitted to the Commission be also provided in electronic format.
      habitat.igc.org/interven/csd-93.htm

1993.06

    • Your Voice
      Twelve issues of Your Voice -- an interactive bulletin based on the Da Zi Bao model -- were published during the 1993 Parliament of World Religions. Three of the issues were dedicated to the proceedings of a "Parliament of the People" and one issue was a report based on the meetings of the Assembly of Religious and Spiritual Leaders.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice

1993.08

    • Participating in the Convention on Combatting Desertification and Effects of Drought
      Provided an overview of the Convention, and of the opportunities for participation and for exchange and access to documentation by NGOs and the academic community.

1993.09

    • Summary Report of the Assembly of Religous and Spiritual Leaders
      Compilation of a Summary Report based on the meetings of the Assembly of Religious and Spiritual Leaders, based on multi-level classification scheme for comments, observations and recommendations of participants, as recorded by members of the Facilitation Team.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice/asrl.pdf

1993.09

    • Model Process for Interactive Participation
      Description of the interactive participation process used at the Parliament of the People at the 1993 Parliament of World Religions - a grassroots parallel process to the Assembly of Spiritual and Religious Leaders.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice/process.htm

1993.09

    • The NGO Alternative Treaties and the NGO Treaty Process
      The offical edition of the alternative treaties from the International NGO Forum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil June 1-14 1992, published by the Canadian Council on International Cooperation, and incorporating the text and format as edited and published by International Synergy Institute and Ideas for Tomorrow Today.

1994.02

    • Dissemination of this Working Group's Papers in Electronic Format: Intervention of International Synergy Institute
      Intervention at the Intersessional Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group on Technology Transfer and Cooperation of the Commission on Sustainable Development noting the benefits of electronic dissemination of the documents before the Working Group as well as the broader role of strengthening information infrastructure in support of sustainable development.
      habitat.igc.org/interven/csdis-94.htm

1994.02

    • International Synergy Institute
      The first web site - while serving as the UN Representative for the International Synergy Institute, a previous home of Information Habitat, and an accredited Non-Governmental Organization to the 1992 Earth Summit and subsequently to the Roster of the UN Economic and Social Council for the purposes of participation in the Commission on Sustainable Development.
      [www.igc.org/synergy]

1994.05

    • On-line Access to United Nations Documents - in Newsletter of the South-North Centre for Environmental Policy
      Overview of current United Nations proceedings directly or indirectly relating to the follow-up from the Earth Summit in Rio, including information on how to obtain access to electronic copies of documents from the proceedings.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/ola-und.htm

1994.06

    • Some Critical Issues for the NGO Review
      Identification of key areas that had been addressed by the Open-Ended Working Group on the Review of Arrangements for Consultations with Non-Governmental Organizations.
      habitat.igc.org/interven/critical.htm

1994.06

    • Key Issues for the Open-ended Working Group on the Review of Arrangements for Consultations with Non-Governmental Organizations
      Identification of some of the priority concerns for NGOs from among those that were addressed during the First Session of the Open-Ended Working Group
      habitat.igc.org/interven/ngoadhoc.htm

1994.06

    • Strengthening Procedures for Consultation
      Statement submitted at the First Session of the Open-Ended Working Group on the Review of Arrangements for Consultations with Non-Governmental Organizations. Recommendations for consistency of procedures for consultation, on the role on national non-governmental organizations, practical arrangements, provisions for timely and effective access to documents, and modalities for consultation.
      habitat.igc.org/interven/oewg9406.htm

1994.06

    • Proposal: Establishment of a Consolidated DPCSD Database
      Proposal for the establishment of an electronic database of NGO contacts, to support the long-term strategy of the Department of Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development regarding the new relationship emerging between the United Nations and the non-governmental sector. The proposal is based on a review of the existing arrangements for maintaining information on non-governmental organizations, information needs of NGO focal points, and an assessment of software alternatives.

1994.08

    • The Commission on Sustainable Development & The World Summit on Social Development Gophers
      The initial online compilation of all available official documents from the first two Sessions of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development - and an extensive set of documents submitted by Governments, Intergovernmental Orgathnzations and NGO Networks - and for the World Summit on Social Development. The site included a guide to use of the gopher and a comprehensive listing of the available documents.
      [gopher://gopher.un.org:70/11/esc/ecosocdocs/csd]

1994.10

    • Procedures for electronic dissemination of documents
      Procedure manual and forms for formatting and dissemination of UN documents on Internet gopher site.

1994.10

    • Women Engaging The UN Online: WEDO's Electronic Communications in Action
      A guide to the Internet gopher of the Women's Environment and Development Organization, including a table of contents of the available documents - including reports of WEDO's activities at the global, regional, national, and local levels - and information on how to access the documents.
      gopher.igc.apc.org:70/11/orgs/wedo

1994.11

    • Strengthening NGO Participation at the United Nations
      Statement submitted at the Inter-sessional Meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group on the Review of Arrangements for Consultations with Non-Governmental Organizations. Recommendations for strengthening NGO participation at the UN, including the creative application of information and communication technology in support of systematic arrangements for broader and more timely access to UN documents and the establishment of an Information and Communication Center for compilation and dissemination of UN documents.
      habitat.igc.org/interven/oewg9411.htm

1994.11

    • Towards an Agenda for Information
      A very preliminary draft - in parts in outline format - to initiate a process of dialogue concerning the need for an Agenda for Information, to parallel and complement the Agenda for Peace and the Agenda for Development.
      habitat.igc.org/agenda

1995.02

    • Utilization of information and communication technology in support of broad-based participation and access to information
      Statement submitted by the International Synergy Institute at the Second Meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group on the Review of Arrangements for Consultations with Non-Governmental Organizations. Recommendations for the systematic application of information and communication technology in support of arrangements for broader and more timely access to UN documents and for consultation with non-governmental organizations.
      habitat.igc.org/interven/oewg9505.htm

1995.05

    • Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
      Information Habitat promotes the understanding and practice of information ecology - based on the recognition of information systems as ecosystems - sets of interrelated and interdependent structures and processes that can best be understood if viewed as a whole - and in the context of the critical relationships between information ecosystems and other ecosystems - social, institutional, economic, legal, cultural and natural. Information Habitat is a Non-Governmental Organization in Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council.
      habitat.igc.org

1995.06

    • Information Habitat: Where Information Lives - Overview
      An overview of Information Habitat and some of the conceptual perpectives of an information ecosystem approach to the use of information technology to enable broad-based participation in decision-making, action and access to information in relation to international, national and local processes relating to sustainability, human rights and peace.
      habitat.igc.org/concept

1995.07

    • Agenda 21, Other UNCED Agreements and the NGO Alternative Treaties
      The first - and for a long time, the only - web-based version of Agenda 21 and the other agreements of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development - the Earth Summit - held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, including the NGO Alternative Treaties.
      habitat.igc.org/agenda21

1995.08

    • Habitat Online Partnership Plan of Action
      Plan for an integrated online framework to support the role of partners in the implementation of and follow-up to the Habitat Agenda through the systematic use of electronic communications to strengthen cooperation between partners; capacity-building initiative in the use of information technology for Habitat partners. The Partnership Plan of Action was semi-formally incorporated into the Habitat follow up plans by UNCHS (Habitat) however the incorporation was lost when the unhabitat.org domain was "hijacked" and not restored when UN Habitat subsequently acquired the domain.

1996.03

    • Habitat II Online: Invitation to a Journey
      Statement at 1996 Earth Day celebration at the Peace Bell at United Nations Headquarters, extending an invitation to participate in a journey - to Istanbul and beyond; a journey of recommitment to the principles and values of Earth Day; a journey of discovery and exploration of new ways and tools with which we can work together in fulfilling the vision of Earth Day.
      habitat.igc.org/journey

1996.03

    • Habitat II Online: An Ecological Design Process
      An overview of ecological design considerations in the development of the Habitat II Online initiative to enable coherent, intelligent response to the agenda of the Habitat II conference incorporating an ecology of information, an ecology of education, and an ecology of participation.
      habitat.igc.org/h2o/design.htm

1996.05

    • Virtual Light & Colour Cubes
      The virtual light & color cubes are virtual structures in the form of cubes with dimensions of red, green and blue, within which the colour at any point is equal to the sum of the point's red, green and blue coordinates. The pair of cubes - mirror images and photographic negatives of each other - embody fundamental properties of light and colour, and demonstrate the additive and subtractive primary colours.
      habitat.igc.org/cube

1996.11

    • Methodology for the General Assembly to examine the question of the participation of NGOs in all areas of the work of the United Nations
      Speaking notes for Information Habitat at the Informal Soundings on ECOSOC Decision 1996/297. Recommendations, inter alia, on an inclusive approach to participation of NGOs, on the value of systematic use of information and communication technology, and on examination of innovative participation processes used in the Habitat II conference.
      habitat.igc.org/interven/is-9611.htm

1996.12

    • The application of modern information and communication technology to improve practical arrangements in support of strengthened participation of non-governmental organizations in the work of the United Nations
      Recommendations for use of information technology to strengthen participation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) including enhanced access to United Nations documents, the Daily Journal and press releases by NGOs in Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council.
      habitat.igc.org/interven/app9701.htm

1997.01

    • Village Meetings on the Internet: Theory and Practice of Information Ecology
      Conference presentation on the use of Internet Relay Chat as a simple, accessible and viable methodology for holding online "village meetings".

1997.02

    • Earthday on the Equinox on the Internet
      Web site for the 1997 celebration of Earth Day on the Equinox at the Peace Bell at United Nations Headquarters, with the theme "A Culture of Peace". The ceremony was broadcast live on the Internet via streaming video.
      habitat.igc.org/earthday

1997.03

    • Non-Governmental Organizations at the Commission for Sustainable Development
      Compilation of information resources and documents in support of participation by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the work of the Commission on Sustainable Development and preparations for Earth Summit II. The site highlighted the consensus NGO document "Toward Earth Summit Two: NGO Recommendations for Commitments and Action" which included a key section on Information Ecology. The NGO Steering Committee now maintains its own web site - http://www.csdngo.org/csdngo
      habitat.igc.org/csdngo

1997.03

    • Dedication of the Peace Cube
      Dedication of the Virtual Light and Colour Cube as a Peace Cube at the Earthday on the Equinox on the Internet ceremony at United Nations Headquarters on 1997.03.20
      habitat.igc.org/one-light/dedicate.htm

1997.03

    • Innovative Ideas and Procedures for Interactions between NGOs and the U.N.
      Statement of Information Habitat at the NGO Consultation on Increasing Access to the UN General Assembly and its Committees and all areas of the work of the UN. Recommendations for an inclusive approach to NGO participation based on information ecology, methodology, and on Government/NGO partnership.
      habitat.igc.org/interven/ih-9704.htm

1997.04

    • Colour Equations / Faces of the Peace Cube
      An early visual presentation of some of the basic colour equations between the additive (light) and subtractive (pigment) primary colours as expressed through the faces of the light and colour cubes.
      habitat.igc.org/equations

1997.05

    • Images from the Peace Cube
      Images developed from the presentation of the "virtual light and colour cube" at its dedication as a peace cube at the Earthday on the Equinox on the Internet Ceremony at the Peace Bell at United Nations Headquarters, New York. The images highlight rhythmic qualities, photographic negativity, and the primary lights and pigments of the cubes.
      habitat.igc.org/images

1997.05

    • The Digital Date Clock as a Universal Date Format
      Proposes the adoption of the digital date clock as a universal format for recording dates - using yyyy.mm.dd - eg 1998.12.20 - format that eliminates ambiguity and cultural variation in recording dates, uses characters compatible with prevailing standards for file names, exhibits the properties of an ordinal number and as a result promotes orderliness, and is not only fully year 2000 compliant but can also be used as a public awareness learning mechanism in preparing for the millennium bug / crisis / bomb - Y2K.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/y2k-counting.pdf

1997.06

    • Whole Earth Partnership, Informatics and Participation
      Web site with a listing and description of the electronic mailing list networks - Habitat Partners networks, Habitat Peace Caucus, the Huairou Commission, NGO Committees on Social Development, Sustainable Development, Human Settlements, Ad Hoc Working Group on the MAI, and Year2000 list.
      habitat.igc.org/wepip

1997.06

    • Towards Earth Summit II: Recommendations for Actions and Commitments at Earth Summit II
      Consensus document presenting NGO recommendations for Actions and Commitments at Earth Summit II, the five year review of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
      habitat.igc.org/csdngo/1997/es2ngo1.html

1997.06

    • Sustainable Energy - Energy After Rio
      Online publication of major UNDP policy documents on sustainable energy, including Energy After Rio: Prospects and Challenges, the UNDP Initiative on Sustainable Energy, and Energy as an Instrument for Socio-Economic Policy.
      www.undp.org/seed/energy

1997.08

    • NGO Committee on Human Settlements
      A demonstration template for a committee of the Conference of Non-governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO), and developed in the context of the Partnership Informatics and Participation initiative.
      habitat.igc.org/ngochs

1997.09

    • Resolution on Information and Communications
      Resolution on Information and Communications - proposed by Information Habitat: Where Information Lives and International Council of Jewish Women and adopted by the 20th General Assembly of the Conference of NGOs - to recgnize the oppotunities offered by modern information and communications technology to increase their effectiveness and to strengthen the participation of NGOs in the work of the United Nations.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/ic-congo.htm

1997.11

    • dpu-pip - Partnership, Informatics and Participation for implementing the Habitat Agenda
      Seedbed for the development and implementation of a curriculum in information ecology designed to establish templates for the participatory use of information technology by local governnments and local communities and organizations. The site has also been used to make available - via e-mail and or a world wide web browser - key documents relating to public participation in consultation and decision-making relating to water, sustainability and health and the implementation of the agreement in the Habitat Agenda and Agenda 21.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dpu-pip

1998.02

    • Holistic Approaches to Freshwater Vitality: An Information Ecology Approach
      Outline framework for the use of an information ecology approach - focussing on watershed-based interactive public access to freshwater information - developed on the basis of NGO recommendations from the Freshwater Caucus and the Informaton Ecology Cacus of the NGO/CSD Ste fering Committee in response to "Integrated Management of Freshwater Resources" recommendations from a 1998.01 Expert Group meeting in Harare.
      habitat.igc.org/h2o-partners/hafv.pdf

1998.03

    • Holistic Approaches to Freshwater: An Information Ecology Orientation
      Outline framework for the use of an information ecology approach - focussing on watershed-based interactive public access to freshwater information - developed from "Integrated Management of Freshwater Resources" recommendations from a 1998.01 Expert Group meeting in Harare.

1998.04

    • Essential Economics: Towards a Holistic Framework
      Preliminary schematic representation for "Essential Economics". The model, developed in the context of "Holistic approaches to freshwater" and the consideration of the nature of water as an economic good at the 6th Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, describes an economic transaction as a process at the intersection of flows of labour, money, knowledge, material resources, energy, infrastructure, etc.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-essence.pdf

1998.04

    • Virtual Light & Colour Cubes - Properties of Light, Gifts of Nature, Catalysts of Peace
      Compelling visual introduction to the Virtual Light and Colour Cubes. Provides a brief visual overview of the principal characteristics of the Virtual Light and Colour Cubes / Peace Cubes
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/cop-llc-cubes.ppt

1998.07

    • Primary Colours: A Proof
      Introductory presentation on the nature of primary colours based on the existence of - and symmetry and complementarity between - two sets of primary colours - red, green & blue for light; cyan, magenta & yellow for pigment.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/cop-llc-primary.ppt

1998.09

    • Y2K Three States Network
      Web site for the Y2K Three States Network of representatives of public agencies and managers of public utilities and transportation networks concerned with computer-date-related Year 2000 preparations in the New York City tri-state area - New York, Connecticut and New Jersey.
      [www.y2k3states.org]

1998.09

    • Information Ecology and Information Society
      A brief overview of information ecology focussing on the emerging significance of information space, of the need for public information space and the development of such spaces through the use of information and communications technology in the course of the series of global conferences of the 1990, and of the electronic mailing list as the key tool in support of non-governmental participation in the global conferences, with an overview of properties of electronic mailing lists and recommendations. Presented at "The Challenges of Information Technology for the Non-Profit Sector". Powerpoint presentation.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-ie-is.ppt

1998.11

    • Information Ecology for a Millennium Forum
      An outline of a general information ecology approach in support of information and communication needs of a Millennium Forum - or set of Forums. An overview of of some historical roots of information ecology and its evolution in support of the participation of non-governmental organizations in preparations for and follow-up to the global conferences of the 1990s. (Draft, in progress)

1998.12

    • Information Ecology: Holistic Framework for Empowerment & Transformation
      A holistic perspective on information flows, recognizing three fundamental dimensions of information space - content / substance, personal / community relationships, and the nature of information technology - and three basic phases of information processing - compilation / organization, communication / dissemination, and reception / utilisation. Powerpoint presentation.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-ie-hf.ppt

1998.12

    • Istanbul + 2.5 - Half Way on a Journey to Istanbul + 5: A Status Report
      Case study / report on a partnership-based information ecology framework for integrated follow-up to the Habitat Agenda and the global agreements of the 1990s. Presented at the "New Partnerships for Action" conference at the United Nations Staff College. Powerpoint presentation.
      habitat.igc.org/ie/wepip.ppt

1998.12

    • Introduction to Information Ecology
      A preliminary overview of some basics of information ecology and the relationship between information systems and other ecosystems; the nature of key properties of information and information flows and exchanges, including implications of physical properties of information - zero mass and size, light-speed; and overview of the application of information technology in support of the participation of NGOs in the preparation for and follow-up to the agreements of the global conferences of the 1990s. (Draft, in progress)
      habitat.igc.org/ie/ien-iie.ppt

1998.12

    • Mailbase Online Micro-Library Service
      An overview of the design of an online micro-library service, using the mailbase electronic mailing list system developed by and for British universities. Documents would be maintained in plain text, WordPerfect 5.1, and portable document format, and would be accessible by electronic mail as well as via the world wide web. (Draft, in progress)
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-mmls.ppt

1998.12

    • Soesterberg Declaration
      Declaration adopted at a Conference in Soesterberg, The Netherlands, by Non-Governmental Organizations preparing for participation in the European Ministerial Conference on Environment & Health organized World Health Organization that includes recommendations on protocols for public participation and access to information based on the principles of the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/99soesterberg.txt

1999.01

1999.01

    • Light and Colour Tiles - Cycles
      Templates for domino-format tiles, with pairs of adjacent faces. jpg format available for printing on A3 or 11x17, to copy on card stock. Discover some of the patterns, cycles and symmetry. pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/cop-tiles-c.jpg

1999.01

    • Light and Colour Tiles - Mirrors One
      Templates for domino-format tiles, with mirror faces. A4 / 8.5x11"; also available in jpg format for printing on A3 or 11x17, to copy on card stock. Infinite variations, patterns, symmetry, rhythms and cycles. pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/cop-tiles-m1.jpg

1999.01

    • ngos@un - Non-Governmental Organizations at the United Nations
      Non-Governmental Organizations at the United Nations - a partnership to assist the UN Secretary-General in responding to the decision 1996/31 of the Economic and Social Council on Consultative Arangements for Non-Governmental Organizations" through a comprehensive approach to the application of modern information and communications technology in support of facilitation and documentation of NGOs in the work of the United Nations.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-ngosun.txt

1999.02

    • Swords into Plowshares: Peace Park at the UN
      A slide show of photographs that focus on the Ralph Bunch Peace Park opposite the entrance to the UN Secreariat - beginning with the "Isaiah Wall" with the verse" "They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nations; neither shall they study war any more."
      habitat.igc.org/peace-park

1999.05

    • Faces of the Peace Cube
      Introduction to the faces of the light and colour cubes - and to a three-dimensional mathematics of light and colour. 10 slides / pages. Generated in Powerpoint; pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/cop-lcc-faces.pdf

1999.10

1999.10

    • Full Cost Electronic Market
      Schematic outline of key characteristics and relationships, and elements of the ecological properties relational database - engine of the market, incorporating "double entry bookkeeping for the earth". Outline, generated in Inspiration(r), in pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-fullcost.pdf

1999.10

1999.10

1999.10

    • Information Ecology of Electronic Mail
      Key material, economic, social and practical factors, in the context of electronic mail as a common and economical medium for communication and information exchange. Outline, generated in Inspiration(r), in pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-ieem.pdf

1999.10

    • Network Properties
      Fundamental properties and characteristics of networks, including integrity, connectivity, governance and groundedness. Outline, generated in Inspiration(r) in pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-network.pdf

1999.10

    • Y2K Countdown Digital Date Clock
      Presentation of the basis for the use of the Digital Date Clock - with yyyy.mm.dd format - as the ideal solution for a universal format for recording dates of transactions. pdf file from an HTML page.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/y2k-counting.pdf

1999.10

    • Information Ecology Partners for a Sustainable Millennium
      Partnership initiatives using information and communication technologies to support orderly broad-based public participation in local, national, regional, and global decision-making processes relating to sustainability, equity, human rights & peace.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-iepsm.txt

1999.10

1999.10

    • ngos@un Database - An Outline
      Sketch of major areas of database elements in ngos@un - a comprehensive relational database of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at the United Nations. Inspiration-generated file, in pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-ngosun-db.pdf

1999.10

1999.10

    • Properties and Principles of Information
      Properties of zero mass, zero physical size, speed of light, common access to properties of the whole; principles governing value, flow, management and understanding of information. Outline in pdf format, generated in Inspiration(r).
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-informat.pdf

1999.11

    • Properties of Information
      Properties of information - zero mass, zero physical size, speed of light, common access to properties of the whole; principles governing information. Outline in pdf format, generated in Inspiration.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-informat.pdf

1999.11

    • Huntington Beach: Life, Death, Rebirth, Light and Water
      Photographic slide show - leaves and new growth in a wooded garden and pebbles, shells and more on Huntington Beach.
      habitat.igc.org/huntington

2000.03

    • Spring Waters at Saratoga Springs
      A set of three photographic slide shows, taken in Saratoga Springs, NY - center of perhaps the most important mineral resource waters in the world. The s;ide shows are: Congress Park near the center of town, An unconventional set of images from the Congress Springs, at the edge of the Park; and the Saratoga Surf and Spa Motel - a very reasonably priced motel - outside the racing season - with a mineral water hot tub where one can soak to one's heart's content.
      habitat.igc.org/saratoga

2000.04

    • United Nations Through the Trees
      A set of photographic slide shows taken from outside and inside the United Nations Garden at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The first set is of U.N. buildings seen though trees; and some of the sculptures in the garden.
      habitat.igc.org/un-garden

2000.04

    • The Evolving Knowledge-Based Global Economy
      An outline of background and context relating to cosideration of the Ministerial Declaration of the high-level segment of ECOSOC on "Development and international cooperation in the twenty-first century: the role of information technology in the context of a knowledge-based global economy" submitted by Information Habitat at the meeting of the High-Level Panel of Experts at the United Nations in preparation for the High-level segment of ECOSOC.
      habitat.igc.org/ie/nonpaper.htm

2000.04

    • Whitehaven-and-Whitgift.net
      Whitehaven-and-Whitgift.net is the home base of a large family of Internet domains - from gaia-university.net to gifts-of-light.net, digital-bridges.net, millennium-forum.net, housing-court-of-kings.net to maine-ecology.net and more. [under construction]

2000.06

    • Motion for Recognition of John Doe's Competence to Represent Respondents as a pro se Attorney in this Case
      Pro se Motion filed in Rama and Manjula, a Corporation against Fye and Doe, Index No. 70826/00, in the Housing Part of the Civil Court of Kings County, New York, presenting arguments for the recognition of John Doe's competence to proceed on a pro se basis in the case.
      habitat.igc.org/housing-court-of-kings/70826/00/pro-se.pdf

2000.06

    • Motion to Vacate Stipulation of Settlement as Fatally Defective
      Pro se Motion in the case of Rama and Manjula, a Corporation, against Fye and Doe, in the Housing Part of the Civil Court of Kings County, New York, on the grounds that the stipulation of settlement in the case was fatally defective, presenting arguments and evidence, inter alia, as to illegal actions by Petitioner (Rama and Manjula) including failure to register the premises as a multiple dwelling and failure to provide adequate heat and hot water, defects in the Court's information system, arguing for consideration of the principles of Agenda 21 and the Habitat Agenda in the Housing Court and for the introduction of a comprehensive housing information system and the provision of opportunities for electronic filing and service of documents.
      habitat.igc.org/housing-court-of-kings/70826/00/vacate.pdf

2000.06

    • Motion to Rescind Five Day Notice on the Grounds of Lack of Jurisdiction
      Pro se Motion in Rama and Manjula, a Corporation, against Fye and Doe in the Housing Part of the Civil Court of the County of Kings, New York arguing to rescind a five day eviction notice on the grounds of lack of jurisdiction.
      habitat.igc.org/housing-court-of-kings/70826/00/rescind.pdf

2000.06

    • Housing Court of Kings: A framework for information ecology and the administration of Justice
      Information ecology, justice and the law. A framework and a test case / case study in an information ecology-enabled transformation of the Housing Part of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Kings County - better known as Brooklyn. Housing Court of kings is also intended to serve as a model framework to strengthen the role of Housing Courts to do justice to the rights of tenants, and to the responsibilities of landlords to maintain their properties in a lawful, ecologically-sound manner in keeping with the language and the spirit of international agreements on sustainable housing and sustainable communities and cities, and on sustainable, participatory development.
      habitat.igc.org/housing-court-of-kings/overview.pdf

2000.07

    • Gaia University
      A web-based home for Gaia University and for a preliminary presentation of the Gaia Mind Hypothesis, including a presentation of an extensive set of Interet domains that were registered by members of the Gaia University family of organizations. Each of the domains was intended to play a central role in the curriculum and administration of Gaia University, and are being designed and developed within an information ecology domain framework.

2000.07

    • Nine Primary Colours
      A presentation of the primary equations of colour and light, the symmetry of light and pigment, and the nine primary colours. Nine Primary Colors is also a demonstration and appreciation of the power of zero in the three-dimensional mathematics of colour - and in any numeric system.

2000.07

    • Respondents' Overview of Events Concerning Landlord's Failure to Provide Adequate Heat and Hot Water - among Many Other Failures to Maintain Warrant of Habitability - and Landlord's Retaliatory Refusal to Renew Lease
      Overview of the Landlord's failure to provide heat, and Landlord's retaliatory response to a legitimate and validated complaint to the approate authority of the City of New York, with submission of relevant weather records obtained from from the official web site of the National Weather Center at La Guardia Airport.

2000.08

    • Affidavit #2 in Support of an Order to Show Cause to Vacate Judgement and to Restore to the Calendar
      Affidavit providing an overview of the grounds for the judge to vacate a Stipulation of Settlement that had been entered into without the jurisdiction of the Court and that had failed to provide reasonable due process.
      habitat.igc.org/housing-court-of-kings/70826/00/affidavit-2000.08.17.pdf

2000.08

    • Vital information - the life-blood of a society
      Summary of design and information ecology conceptual framework for architecture for UN-NGO Collaboration: Pilot Program for MAMAS - Mothers Against Military Aggression in Sierra Leone.

2000.09

    • Diagonal Faces of the Light and Colour Cubes
      A set of twenty-four of the forty-eight diagonal faces of the cubes - the twelve in which either black is at bottom or top, or where white is at the top or bottom. Click on any images that gets your attention - when you see it at the center, its negative is in the lower right.
      habitat.igc.org/faces-vertical

2000.09

    • Affidavit #3 in Support of an Order to Show Cause to Vacate Judgement and to Restore to the Calendar
      Affidavit filed in Rama and Manjula, a Corporation against Fye and Doe, Index No. 70826/00, in the Housing Part of the Civil Court of Kings Conuty, New York, summarizing arguments as to why the Court's Judgments, raising issues, inter alia, of jurisdictional and procedural errors, and the Court's failure to uphold 14th Amendment requirements to provide equal protection under the law.
      habitat.igc.org/housing-court-of-kings/70826/00/affidavit-2000.09.07.pdf

2000.09

    • Peace Cubes - Gifts of Light
      Home for the Peace Cubes - Virtual Light and Colour Cubes that are at the centre of a three-dimensional mathematics of colour and light and that can transform our understanding of the nature and dimensions of light and colour. The Peace Cubes can also serve as vital elements in a new global curriculum on mathematics, colour and light, as symbols for the One Light in all of Creation, and as teaching tools on the properties of knowledge-based economies, and as an introduction to the properties of zero-based economy. All of the images are computer-generated, the most recent images based on HTML tables generated from a DataPerfect database, as were most of the sets of web pages of images.
      habitat.igc.org/peace-cubes

2000.10

    • Digital Bridges
      A home for the establishment and maintenance of digital bridges - across the many gulfs - digital and otherwise - that have divided and separated people, communities, organizations and governments. Digital Bridges designs and architecture draw on the fundamental properties of information, information systems and networks, including the fact that information has zero mass, zero physical size and can travel at the speed of light, and that information systems now make possible common access to and observation of properties of the whole. [under construction]

2000.10

    • Peace Tiles - Gifts of Light
      A set of the ninety-six peace tiles - based on mirror images of the faces and the cycles of all possible pairs of contiguous faces of the Peace Cubes. Each colourful tile is framed below a frieze of the corresponding faces. The bottom frieze contains the photographic negative of the tile. Below that are the sixteen "cycle tiles" corresponding to the faces of the main tile. Sound complicated? In practice it is easy - and fun if you let your eyes and feelings guide you. Virtually no words, yet simple to grasp visually.

      The web site for the Peace Tiles was launched on October 24, United Nations Day, 2000.
      habitat.igc.org/tiles


2000.10

    • Peace Faces - Faces of the Peace Cubes
      A meditation on the forty-eight faces of the light and colour cubes. Each face represents a meeting place of four primary colours and may evoke a unique feeling. Each face is framed below a frieze of the eight rotations and reflections of itself. At the loer right of the face is its photographic negative. A bottom frieze contains small icons of the forty eight faces. Easy - and enjoyable; forget about words; let your eyes and feelings guide you.
      habitat.igc.org/faces

2000.10

    • Financing for Development and Transition to the Knowledge-Based Economy
      An analysis of the critical need for the Financing for Development (FfD) process at the United Nations to focus attention on the need for financing development that enables participation of developing countries in the new knowledge-based economy, and an identification of some of the key issues that need to be considered in the transition to a knowledge-based economy. Prepared for the FfD Business Hearings.
      habitat.igc.org/ffd-kbe

2000.12

    • Financing for Development Forum
      A partnership-based online framework to enable access to information and broad-based participation in consultations relating to the preparations for the High Level United Nations event on Financing for Development scheduled for the first quarter of 2002.

2000.12

    • Healing a Nation
      Healing a Nation is intended to serve as a home for an online forum in support of President-Elect Gearge W. Bush's commitment to engage in a process of healing the divides in the U.S. that had become visible in the U.S. Presidential Election in the year 2000. The site highlights a fifth verse of the U.S. National Anthem, beginning with "Oh say can you see, by the one light in all", dedicated at a sunrise interfaith Earth Day ceremony held in April 1990 at Fort McHenry, birthplace of the National Anthem.

2000.12

    • Rivers of Light Variations
      Rhythmic rivers of light based on the fundamental cycles of the Peace Cubes / Virtual Light and Colour Cubes, above a phoographic negative of the same. Exhibited at Isha Shabaka's IdefineArt studio in Brooklyn, NY at the natural turn of the Millennium, the Winter Solstice, 2000.
      habitat.igc.org/bridges/river.htm

2000.12

    • Documents submitted by Respondents in Response to Interim Order of 2001.02.08
      Listing of documents filed by pro se tenants in response to an Interim Order of the Court requesting resubmission of the documents as the Court was unable to find the original documents.
      habitat.igc.org/housing-court-of-kings/70286/00/documents.pdf

2001.02

    • hiv-aids-care - a graphic representation
      "A picture is worth a thousand words." A graphic representation of the incidence of HIV/AIDS infection through the use of geographic information system maps comiled by the UN-AIDS programme. The maps vividly and directly make visible both the extent of infection, and and its growth, at five year intervals in Africa, South America and Asia.
      habitat.igc.org/hiv-aids-care

2001.03

    • Revised form for Tenant's Affidavit in Support of an Order to Show Cause to Vacate Judgement and to Restore to the Calendar
      A revised form for Tenant's Affidavit offered for use by the Housing Court of Kings County, New York (Brooklyn), The form - which would be accessible online, with interactive help options, and in portable electronic formats - makes provision for documentation of the specifics of the Landlord's failure to maintain a "warrant of habitability", and provides optional additional space for describing additional details related to a Tenant's defense.
      habitat.igc.org/housing-court-of-kings/tenant-affidavit-form.pdf

2001.03

    • Tenant's Affidavit in Support of an Order to Show Cause to Vacate Judgement and to Restore to the Calendar
      Final, unsuccessful affidavit - submitted on the newly-designed form for Tenant's Affidavits - that documents clearly violations of Housing Code - the resolution of which was supposed to be a precondition for any payment of rent, presents other detailed arguments in the Tenant's defense, and describes how the newly-designed form would work.
      habitat.igc.org/housing-court-of-kings/70826/00/affidavit-2001.03.30.pdf

2001.03

    • Birth of the Rainbow Cubic Sine Waves
      An exploration in connections between the Light and Colour Cubes and the colours of the rainbow, Rainbow Cubic Sine Waves represents a mapping of the colurs of the cubes onto a sine wave, in which the cycle of colours seems to evoke the colour sequence of the rainbow. The development of the Rainbow Cubic Sine Wave took place over two days very shortly on the birth of the Cubic Colour Wheel, reflecting an openness to softening the sharp edges of the Cubes, as well as to focus attention on some of the rhythmic and cyclical properties of the cubes.

2001.11

2001.11

2001.11

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Rainbow Cubic Sine Waves
      An endless sequence of cycling "rainbow cubic sine waves" - based on a mapping of the colours of the Light and Colour Cubes onto the shape of a sine wave in a quest to reconcile and connect the cubes and the rainbow, as well as to bridge the gulf between the square and cube and the circle and sphere.
      habitat.igc.org/reconcile/rcsw.htm

2001.12

    • Meditation on One Light in All: Queries on Opening to the Light
      A meditative online presentation of the Queries on Opening to the Light - a presentation that serves as the opening segment of a Journey of Light, Reconcilation and Peace prepared in response to September 11, 2001 and its aftermath.
      habitat.igc.org/queries

2001.12

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Twin Beacons of Light and Colour
      A cycle of eight images of the skyline of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center - illuminated by the arrival and receding of the Light and Colour Cubes in an endless cycle. Clicking on the image enables more information, and access to prior and next steps in A Journey of Light, Reconciliation and Peace.
      habitat.igc.org/twin-beacons

2001.12

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Twin Cubes of Light and Colour
      A set of twelve cycling page with images of mirrored twin pairs of Light and Colour Cubes, showing all possible regular presentations from the white and black apexes of the cubes. The images are clickable, providing access to more information and to other phases of the Journey of Light, Reconciliation and Peace.
      habitat.igc.org/twin-cubes

2001.12

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Twisted Pairs of Light and Colour Cubes
      A cycling series of twenty-four pages with images of "Twisted Pairs of Light and Colour Cubes" - pairs of cubes in which the one is the unseen side of the other.
      habitat.igc.org/twisted-pairs

2001.12

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Reconciliation in Primary Colours
      A set of eight cycling images with the principal protagonists in a War of - President George W. Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney, and Secretary of State Colin Powell and Osama bin Laden - against backgrounds of the Light and Colour Cubes and of the six non-zero primary colours.
      habitat.igc.org/reconcile/primary.htm

2001.12

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Reconciliation in 16 Colour Palettes
      A set of seventy-two images with the primary representatives of the September 11 protagonists - President George W. Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney, and Secretary of State Colin Powell and Osama bin Laden against backgrounds of the Light and Colour Cubes transposed into sixteen colour images, and serving as visual metaphors for ways that our perception of our enemies can be distorted when we see them from a limited palette, and one in which our enemies' colours are only partially represented.
      habitat.igc.org/reconcile/16colour.htm

2001.12

    • The Great Invocation in the Cubic Colour Wheel
      A cycling series with the text of the Great Invocation against the background of a rotating "Cubic Colour Wheel" - a "true" colour wheel that was generated by mapping the Light and Colour Cubes into a circle.
      habitat.igc.org/reconcile/invocation.htm

2001.12

    • A Journey of Light, Reconciliation and Peace
      Interfaith journey invoking light, reconciliation and peace in response to the World Trade Center bombings of September 11 and the aftermath of the bombings. The journey is a series of eight brief passages: Queries on Opneing to the Light; Twin Beacons of Light; Twin Light and Colour Cubes; Tsited Pairs of Cubes; Oh Say Can You See By the One Light in All; Reconciliation in Primary Colours; Reconciliation in 16 Colour Palettes; and The Great Invocation.
      habitat.igc.org/reconcile

2001.12

    • Gandhi-King 2002 Season for Nonviolence - Calendar
      Illustrated daily calendar of themes and quotations prepared for the New York City Season for Nonviolence Task Force based on "64 Ways - 64 Days" developed by the Association for Global New Thought.
      habitat.igc.org/snv-2002

2002.01

    • Information, Data and Communication in Agenda 21
      A systematic hypertext-based compilation and organization of all references in Agenda 21 to the words: information, data and communication. The set of 38 web pages were generated from the TREATIES database using a web-page generating report allowing the selection of any three words of phrases.
      habitat.igc.org/agenda21/idc.htm

2002.02

    • Access, Participate and Participation in Agenda 21
      A systematic hypertext-based compilation and organization of all references in Agenda 21 to the words: access, participate and participation. The set of 37 web pages were generated from the TREATIES database using a web-page generating report allowing the selection of any three words of phrases.
      habitat.igc.org/agenda21/app.htm

2002.02

2002.02

    • Towards a Curriculum in Information Ecology: Partnership, Informatics and Participation
      A compilation of documents and images relating to the development of a curriculum in Information Ecology in cooperation with the Development Planning Unit - Partnership, Informatics and Participation University College, London

2002.03

    • Educate, Education and Aware in Agenda 21
      A systematic hypertext-based compilation and organization of all references in Agenda 21 to the words: educate, education and awareness. The set of 35 web pages were generated from the TREATIES database using a web-page generating report allowing the selection of any three words of phrases.
      habitat.igc.org/agenda21/eea.htm

2002.03

    • Recommendations prepared by Information Habitat: Where Information Lives: Holistic, Earth-Centred Responses to the Chairman's Paper, Preliminary Draft.
      A draft set of recommended changes, presented in HTML format, to the Chairman's Paper transmitted from the second session of the Commission on Sustainable Development acting as the preparatory committee for the World Summit on Sustainable Development. In addition to incorporating specific changes in language, the recommendations included the addition of links and URLs for all the documents refered to in the footnotes plus the inclusion of other relevant footnotes.
      habitat.igc.org/wssd2002/amend.htm

2002.03

    • Proposed Additions to Vice-Chairs' Paper on Sustainable Development Governance
      Recommendations for inclusion of language relating to use of information and communications technology in governance including access to information and boad-based participation in consultation and decision-making; integrated, linked online database of relevant agreements; use of geographic information systems at local, national and international levels.
      habitat.igc.org/wssd2002/ih-gov.htm

2002.03

    • Introduction to Information Ecology: A Journey from Rio to Johannesburg
      Overview of key concepts and issues in information ecology as it evolved in the course of a focus on information and communications technology in the context of NGO participation in UN Conferences and related NGO and intergovernmental proceedings beginning with preparations for the 1992 Earth Summit and leading into the 10 year review of the Earth Summit in Johannesburg. Presented to the Information Technology SIG at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies,
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk.edu/files/dpu-pip/

2002.04

    • The Ark of Hope at the Hudson River Clearwater Revival Festival
      A set of nine slide shows, with photos taken in conjunction with the exhibition of the Ark of Hope, the Earth Charter, Temenos Books and the light and Colour Cubes during the 2002 Great Hudson River Clearwater Festival at Croton Park, in New York, on the banks of the Huson River. series are titled: The Ark of Hope at Clearwater, Light and Colour Cubes, Around and About the Booth, Fair Grounds - Fair People, Green Energy, Water Views, Trees and Skies, Shore Lines and Closing Skies.
      habitat.igc.org/clearwater

2002.06

    • Reflections and Observations at Dogwood Hill
      A set of the photographic slide shows from Dogwood Hill, New Jersey - on and adjacent to an 11 acre natural reserve in the rapidly exurbanizing Chester, New Jersey.

2002.06

    • A Castle Retreat: CCC/UN Communication & Decision-Making Project
      A set of two slide shows: one of the participants in a retreat for the CCC/UN Communication & Decision-Making Project at Beth Lamont's Castle in Ossining, NY; the second slide show offers images from a brief walk aroud the castle, and in the castle grounds.
      habitat.igc.org/cdmp/rp01.htm

2002.07

    • Morningside Heights
      Two slide shows: Starbucks on the Cathedral Steps and A Walk in Morningside Heights - the Cathedral being that of St. John the Divine.

2002.09

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [light-cubes] - Virtual Light and Colour Cubes


    • [ifg-habitat] - International NGO Facilitating Group for Habitat II

1995.05

    • [h2oplan] - Habitat II Online planning group

1996.01

    • [hic-hab2] - Habitat International Coalition - Habitat II

1996.02

    • [peace] - Habitat Peace Caucus / Peace Odyssey 2001

1996.05

    • [partners] - Habitat Partners Network

1996.12

    • [csdgen] - NGO Steering Committee to the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development

1997.01

    • [habifem] - Huairou Commission - Women, Homes and Communities Supercoalition

1997.01

    • [ngocsd] - NGO Committee on Sustainable Development

1997.02

    • [ngochs] - NGO Committee on Human Settlements

1997.03

    • [csdsteer] - CSD/NGO Steering Committee Members

1997.08

    • [passem] - Millennium Peoples Assembly Network

1997.09

    • [pip] - Partnership, Informatics and Participation

1997.10

    • [mai] - Ad Hoc Working Group on the MAI

1997.12

    • [socdev] - NGO Committee on Social Development

1997.12

    • [eh99] - 1999 European Ministerial Conference on Environment & Health

1998.03

    • [y2000] - Ad Hoc NGO Working Group on the Year 2000 Crisis

1998.06

    • [mf-ex] - Millennium Forum Executive Committee

1998.07

    • [mf] - Millennium Forum

1998.08

    • [values] - NGO Values Caucus

1998.10

    • [ngo-tfc] - NGO Taskforce on Communications

1998.10

    • [earth-trustees] - Earth Trustees Program

1998.10

    • [mpan-steer] - Steering Committee of the Millennium Peoples Assembly Network

1998.10

    • [dpu-pip] - Development Planning Unit - Partnership, Informatics, Participation

1999.01

    • [eh99gen] - WHO 1999 Environment & Health Conference

1999.01

    • [cccun] - Communications Coordinating Committee for the United Nations

1999.01

    • [cccun-lt] - CCCUN Leadership Training

1999.11

    • [earth-values-caucus-un] - Earth Values Caucus at the UN

2001.11

    • [information-ecology] - Information Ecology Caucus

2001.12

    • [snv-task-force - Season for Nonviolence New York City Task Force

2001.12

    • [season-for-nonviolence] - Gandhi-King Season for Nonviolence

2002.01

    • [cccun-board] - Board Members of CCC/UN

2002.03

    • [digital-tree-of-life] - Digital Tree of Life

2002.08

    • [unitingforpeace] - Uniting for Peace Coalition

2003.02

    • [np-nyc] - Nonviolent Peaceforce - New York City Chapter

2003.02

    • [ufp-drafting] - Uniting for Peace Coalition - Drafting Group

2003.04

    Databases

    • FCUN - Friends Committee on Unity with Nature
      Database of people involved with Friends Committee on Unity with Nature, including subscribers to the Befriending Creation newsletter, and Clerks of Monthly Meetings in Baltimore Yearly Meeting.

1988.10

    • EIN - Earthcare Interfaith Network
      Core database for Earthcare Interfaith Network; framework for Who Is Who: People and Organizations in Service to the Earth. EIN also served as the database for the Citizens Alliance for UNCED (the United Nations Conference of Environment and Development aka the Earth Summit) that evolved into the U.S. Citizens Network on UNCED, an organization that facilitated and helped to coordinate most U.S. based NGOs that were accredited to UNCED. EIN maintained contact information, committee affiliation and areas of interest for members and participants in the Citizens Network. In this capacity, EIN enabled frequently updated generation and distribution of directories of Network participants, including a directory of participants in the founding meeting of the U.S. Citizens Network on UNCED. EIN also served as a database for the Information and Communications Committee of the NGO Strategy Group for UNCED.

1989.02

    • HOMEWOOD - Homewood Friends Meeting, Baltimore
      Homewood Friends Meeting, Baltimore

1989.05

    • LICENCES - Licences for Software and Hardware
      Record of software and hardware purchases, vendor and manufacturer name and information, date of purchase, phone numbers, licence numbers, web location for support information, etc.

1990.01

    • CFC - Caring For Creation
      Participants, with registration information, at the Caring for Creation interfaith conference on religion and responsibility for caring for the earth and all creation. It was here that the name "Information Habitat: Where Information Lives" was conceived, and was given expression in a booth exhibit by that name at the conference.

1990.04

    • WHOISWHO - Who Is Who: People, Projects and Organizations in Service to the Earth
      Database designed and developed to enable the publication of Who Is Who: People, Projects and Organizations in Service to the Earth. WHOISWHO enabled the compilation, classification and organization of the people and projects, abd the directory - the core of the book - was directly created though WordPerfect 5.0 from a file generated from WHOISWHO.

1990.06

    • SCHOOLS - Report Card on Baltimore City Elementary Schools
      Data compiled on measures of academic achievement and student behavior, in response to an initiative of the Education Committee of the Citizens Planning and Housing Association in Baltimore. The data were made available by the Baltimore City Public Schools Department and were used to generate a Report Card on Elementary Schools with clearly presented table format. The Report Card focused attention on schools with records of poor performance and behavior.

1990.09

    • READIT - READIT
      Calendar database for READIT - a compilation of meetings and events relating to the environment and to sustainable development assembled by the Environmental Research & Development Centre, Brussels.

1991.03

    • DATES - Day of the week
      Gives the day of the week for any date between March 1900 and 2078, and displays the date in expanded Digital Date Forma: yyyy.mm.dd - Day, Date, Month, Year.

1991.04

    • FAMILY - Family Tree
      Simple two panel database to maintain records and generate reports for a family tree. One panel is for people, the other for their marriages / relationships. Generates a four generation family tree, in either direction.

1991.05

    • PARIS - Participants in Roots of the Future, International NGO Conference, Paris
      Organizational affiliation, addresses, etc. of participants in the International NGO Conference in Paris in December 1991. Source of directory of conference participants.

1991.09

    • DAZIBAO - First Draft of Da Zi Bao Database Design
      First draft of the database for participant interactive message system

1991.11

    • DZB-1 - Da Zi Bao - Roots of the Future
      The database for a "participant interactive message system" that was based on a compilation of concise (50 words or less) messages from the participants of the Roots of the Future International NGO Conference in Paris. The issues of Da Zi Bao were generated from WP5.1 secondary merge files generated from the database and the use of WP5.1 macros and styles. A total of nine issues were published during the four days of the conference, and a compilation of all the messages, organized by key word, was generated from DZB-1.

1991.12

    • DZB-GH - Da Zi Bao - Global Heart Convocation
      Four single page issues of Da Zi Bao were published in a small-scale, informal implementation of the Da Zi Bao process at the gathering of people on the basis of a Heart-centered concern for the issues of the upcoming Earth Summit.

1992.02

    • DZB-GS - Da Zi Bao - Second Global Structures Convocation
      Seven one-sided issues, one hundred and three messages - in six different colours - of Da Zi Bao at a major conference to explores the need for new global structures in the context of preparatio. ns for the Earth Summit. The issues were sold for 25 cents apiece, and revenue from sales more than covered the immediate material costs of the issues.

1992.02

    • SYNERGY - International Synergy Institute
      Primary database for the International Synergy Institute, successor to EIN, and served as a database of NGOs participating in the final stages of preparation for the Earth Summit and the followup to the Summit, and participation in subsequent UN Conferences, especially for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in Copenhagen in 1995.

1992.02

    • DZB-PC4 - Da Zi Bao - UNCED PrepCom 4
      Full-text database of all the Da Zi Bao issues during the final Preparatory Committee for UNCED (the Earth Summit). 17 issues, 175 messages published.

1992.03

    • VOL-DZB - Volunteers and team members for Da Zi Bao at Rio
      Volunteers, including active team members for Da Zi Bao at Rio

1992.04

    • DZB-IS - Da Zi Bao - Inter-Sectoral Dialogue Meeting, '92 Global Forum

1992.06

    • DZB-RIO - Da Zi Bao - '92 Global Forum
      Full text database containing the fifty-eight issues of the Da Zi Bao interactive bulletin that were published during the '92 Global Forum in Rio; 21 issues were in English, 25 in Portuguese, 8 in Spanish and 4 in French. More than 2,200 separate messages in all were published - more than 2,800 records were gathered. An additional 10 issues of Da Zi Bao were published in conjunction with the Inter-Sectoral Dialogue meetings at the Global Forum.

1992.06

    • IPC-PR - International Press Centre Press Releases, from Rio
      Full text searchable database of the press releases from the International Press Centre at the Global Forum in Rio de Janeiro

1992.06

    • DZB-GEN - Da Zi Bao - General version
      Template for Da Zi Bao database with multiple languages.

1992.06

    • NGOUNCED - NGOs Accredited to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
      Documentation of information pertaining to Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) accredited to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) Conference - and made available by the NGIO Liaison Office of the UNCED Secretariat. NGOUNCED incorporated information on NGO representatives, relevance, sectors, key words, accreditation dates and record of the official Conference document approving the accreditation.

1992.08

    • INGOF - International NGO Forum
      Registrants for and Signatories of the Alternative Treaties at the '92 Global Forum

1992.09

    • ANPED - Alliance of Northern People for Environment & Development
      Members of the Alliance of Northern People for Environment & Development (ANPED) and participants at its November 1992 Annual meeting - in Budapest, Hungary - to discuss plans, visions and strategy for European NGO follow-up to the Earth Summit and the Global Forum.

1992.11

    • DZB-AN - Da Zi Bao at ANPED Annual Meeting
      Da Zi Bao treatment of comments in the consumption and production working group at the 1992 Annual Meeting of ANPED (Alliance of Northern People for Environment and Development) in Budapest.

1992.11

    • RIO-92 - Who is Who in Rio
      Edited and partially corrected data from the "Who is Who in Rio" - a directory of the more than 22,000 participants - governmental, intergovernmental, non-governmental and press - who were registered participants in Rio de Janeiro at the Earth Summit.

1993.01

    • TREATIES - Rio Agreements: Agenda 21, Biodiversity & Climate Conventions, etc.
      Full text searchable database of all the Rio Agreements: Agenda 21, Rio Declaration, Biodiversity & Climate Conventions, Forest Principles, Alternative Treates and Women's Action Agenda 21. TREATIES was used to generate the first version of Agenda 21 to be published in HTML format on the World Wide Web, in June 1995.

      Based on recent revisions, TREATIES is able to generate an interlinked set of web pages with the identification of all the occurrences in Agenda 21 and the Rio Declaration of selected words and phrases - presently for up to three words or phrases.


1993.01

    • ASSEMBLY - Assembly of Religious and Spiritual Leaders at the Parliament of World Religions
      Database that was used - in conjunction with WordPerfect 5.1 styles and macros - to classify, organize and format the report of the facilitating group based on facilitator's observations and notes on the proceedings of the Assembly.

1993.08

    • CAMDUN-S - Survey of 1993 CAMDUN participants
      Contact information and survey responses for participants in the 1993 Conference for A More Democratic United Nations (CAMDUN), held in New York City, in September 1993.

1993.09

    • ACCENT - Accent variations
      A database of alternative character sets and their correspondences, ACCENT allows easy lookup of alternative represntation of non-ASCII characters used under different protocols - e.g. ASCII, ANSI/Windows, HTML-N, HTML-A, IBASCII, etc. ACCENT can generate conversion files to be used in conjunction with CNV-41, a simple DOS-based program - made available on line and by e-mail request - that can convert between any two sets of character representations.

1994.01

    • HBP-PUBS - Hazel Barbara Pollard Publications
      Database of writings - with some brief excerpts - of Hazel Barbara Pollard - the mother of Information Habitat's Founder - including a remarkable set of diaries she wrote as a brilliant young writer and artist who had been accepted to University College, London - in Bloomsbury - to study English Literature - at the time when the Bloomsbury Group - Virginia Wolf, et al - was a creative center of arts, literature and progressive ideas.

      Although Hazel was not able to realize that dream - following her father's office indiscretions, her mother insisted that Hazel was the only person who could be trusted to be his secretary - she never expressed disappointment or anger, and continued to follow the lives of the Bloomsbury Group, and by the time of her death, had accumulated a wonderful small library of and about Bloomsbury Group participants.


1994.12

    • COWDEN - Cowden Conservation Society
      Database of the names and addresses in the address book of Hazel Pollard, compiled in the context of plans for the conversion of Friendly Green Cottage, Cowden, Kent - where she and Geoffrey Pollard had lived since their retirement - as a model village-based global participatory communications centre, with a concern to resolving local, national and global policies, practices and procedures on issues relating to environment and development, including curricula on "Addressing the Future" including developing a generalised form of the uniform resource locator, mathematical geography and geographic relational database / information systems.

1995.01

    • INFOHAB - Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
      The initial database for Information Habitat: Where Information Lives; succeeded by the NGOS@UN database. During the active life of INFOHAB, it was the locus of major growth in its structure and contents, and was used to manage, inter alia, databases for key NGO Committees - on Human Settlements, Social Development, Sustainable Development, the NGO Steering Committee to the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development, and the preliminry database for participants in preparations for the Millennium Forum.

1995.05

    • DATABASE - Database of databases
      Database on the structure, contents and organization of Dataperfect databases developed by Robert Pollard, under the auspices of Information Habitat and a number of earlier organizations. Contains data on file names, descriptions, sizes, data links, reports, et cetera. Generates listings and reports of database characteristics and descriptions, including the report you are reading.

1995.06

    • HAB2-NGO - NGOs Accredited to Habitat II
      Accreditation and participation relational database for NGOs oarticipating in the Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and in the meetings of the Preparatory Committees for the conference.

1995.09

    • CSDNGO - NGO Steering Committee for the UN Commission on Sustainable Development
      Database for the Coordinator of the Northern Clearinghoues for the NGO Steering Committee for maintenance of information on Steering COmmittee members and participants, and membership in Caucuses of the Steering Committee.

1996.12

    • NGOS@UN - ngos@un - Non-Governmental Organizations at the United Nations
      NGOS@UN was designed as a catalyst for a cooperative information ecology framework to work with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in response to a request from the Economic and Social Council to make every effort to enhance and streamline, as appropriate, practical arrangements to facilitate the participation of non-governmental organizations in the work of the United Nations - and specifically to make effective use of database technology.

      NGOS@UN grew out of the INFOHAB database, and integrated extensive information - from disparate sources - of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) accredited to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and to the Global Conferences of the 1990s. As it developed, NGOS@UN grew significantly in size and structure incorporating major new sections, including record of NGOs in the process of seeking accreditation with ECOSOC, historical data on NGO accreditation, and information on official United Nations documents pertaining to NGO Accreditation and the work of the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations.


1999.02

    • INTERNET - Networked knowledge and information
      The Internet database is the successor to the NGOS@UN database, incorporating a significant number of new data files - now totalling 99, including the water-body oriented geographic data structure that were developed in preparation for Y2K contingency planning, and a set of data files for Internet domain names, the registration of which was a major focus of activity in the year 2000, and that are central components in the design of Gaia University and in an evolving proof of the Gaia Mind hypothesis.

2000.06

    • COLOURS - Light & Colour Cube Engine
      Database engine of light and colour for the Virtual Light and Colour Cubes, and of more than a thousand images based on the Cubes. COLOURS was used to generate the set of images of the faces of the Light and Colour Cubes, as well as to generate many sets of web pages with images based on the cubes.

2000.09

    • ECOLOGY - Gaia University network of knowledge, information ecology database
      ECOLOGY is the successor to the INTERNET database, renamed to focus attention on its ecological properties, and incorporating minor revisions and updates to its structure, in addition to the conceptual shift associated with the change of name.

2000.11

    • HABITAT3 - Habitat Three
      An evolution from the ECOLOGY database, Habitat Three is conceived of both as a preliminary organizing database for an anticipated Habitat III Conference to be held in 2016, and as a prototype digital habitat for the Third Millennium. The HABITAT3 database serves as the primary database of Information Habitat and as the engine that generates the pages for Project Information Habitat.

2001.03

    • GKSNV - Gandhi-King Season for Nonviolence
      Developed initially to generate the calendar pages for the 2002 Gandhi-King Season for Nonviolence, GKSNV was merged into the DIGITAL database in January 2003 in preparation for a substantially enhanced web site for the 2003 Gandhi-King Season for Nonviolence.

2001.12

    • MEMORIAL - Memorial Database Rebuilding at World Trade Center
      The MEMORIAL database incorporates a database of public comments at Listening to the City on the original designs for the World Trade Center site. The database incorporates a coding system incorporating a database of key elements of the site, within an overall structured conceptual framework, and linked to appropriate views from the original designs.

2002.08

    • DIGITAL - Digital Engine
      The Digital Engine is a prototype for an open source digital engine based on information ecology design principles. The digital engine incorporates a set of related databases designed to enable the establishment and maintenance of interactive public fora, and incorporates an evolving set of protocols for the structure, field formats of data files, and a rule-based framework for relationships between data files.

      DIGITAL is being created using DataPerfect 2.6F - a remarkably powerful, versatile, robust and elegant remarkable DOS-based relational database that was released in 1985 as a key element of the WordPerfect Library - a library that included WordPerfect 3.0, and a powerful menu driven Shell program that allows rapid switching and data exchange between Shell-compatible programs.

      The use of WordPerfect Shell 4.0 - the latest version - is integral to the design and development of the DIGITAL database, for example through the use of Shell macros that can, for example, automatically generate a set of data fields and set up formulas that define the field values; through the screen capture feature that is invaluable in documentation of the database; and enable full integration with WordPerfect 5.1+ - the still unrivalled classic of word-processing software.


2002.08

    • LIGHT - Let there be Light
      The success to the COLOURS database, LIGHT is evolving as an engine to generate light - through the generation of sets of web pages - for images based on the Light and Colour Cubes, and for sets of digital or digitized photos - and the integration of the images with text, documents, web sites, and relevant links.

2003.01

  • Earth Day 1990

    Co-Chair, Religious Outreach Committee
      Organized an Interfaith sunrise dedication on Earth Day 20 at Fort McHenry - "birthplace of the Star Spangled Banner" - of a fifth verse of the U.S. National Anthem, the Peacemakers Planetary Anthem that begins "Oh say can you see, by the one light in all?"

1989.06-1990.05
Baltimore, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Oh Say Can You See By the One Light in All!
      "Oh Say Can You See By the One Light in All!" was dedicated as the Fifth Verse of the US National Anthem at an Interfaith Sunrise service at Fort McHenry, home of the Star-Spangled Banner and a brief description of how the Star Spangled Banner became adopted - through a grassroots process - as the U.S. National Anthem.
      habitat.igc.org/oh-say-can-you-see

1990.04

  • Global Tomorrow Coalition

    Consultant
      Directed, organized, supervised and edited the production of the U.S. Citizens' Response to Sustainable Development: A Preliminary Report at the Globescope Pacific Assembly, the U.S. National Public Hearings on Our Common Future. Provided database and word-processing support.

1989.07-1989.11
Washington, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Foundations for a Sustainable Common Future
      Identification of value issues that are key to a transition to a sustainable future; need for holistic approaches, interfaith cooperation, integrating faith and practice, networking skills, and participation in UNCED preparations. Testimony presented at the Globescope Pacific Assembly, Los Angeles, November 1989.
      habitat.igc.org/values/fscf.htm

1989.08

    • Queries on Environment and Development
      A set of queries developed for submission as testimony to the Globescope Pacific Assembly in Los Angeles intended to examine spiritual dimensions of environment and development. The Queries were later used as key themes by the organizers of The Other Economic Summit in 1997 (TOES-97).
      habitat.igc.org/queries/qed.htm

1989.08

    • Balance with Nature
      Identification of an imbalance with nature as a central theme underlying the major global crises we face, and the need for a spiritual response. Testimony presented at the Globescope Pacific Assembly, Los Angeles, 1989.11
      habitat.igc.org/values/balance.htm

1989.11

    • U.S. Citizens' Response to Sustainable Development: A Preliminary Report
      Action recommendations of the eight working groups -- organized by sector of society -- that met during the Globescope Pacific Assembly in Los Angeles, November 1989, in US National Public Hearings on the Brundtland Report and in preparation for participation in the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development - the Earth Summit.

1989.11

  • Friends in Global Networks

    Convenor
      Developed a proposal for an Interfaith approach to the UN Conference on Environment and Development, building on the Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation movement in the World Council of Churches.

1989.07-1989.12
Baltimore, U.S.A.

  • Baltimore Yearly Meeting, Religious Society of Friends

    Member, Ad Hoc Unity with Nature Committee
      Consideration of Queries on Unity With Nature and compilation of related information for presentation to Baltimore Yearly Meeting - leading to the establishment of an ongoing Unity with Nature Committee - and organization and participation in Unity with Nature workshops during Baltimore Yearly Meeting.

1989.08-1991.08
Baltimore, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Unity With Nature Resource Packet
      A compilation of resources, including an extensive bibliography, on spiritual aspects of our relationship with nature.

1988.08

    • Queries on Opening to the Light
      An inspiring set of Quaker Queries on Opening to the Light, presented by Barry Morley at Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in 1988.
      habitat.igc.org/queries

1988.08

    • Queries on Unity with Nature
      Queries, or probing questions, representing a compilation and synthesis of queries on Unity with Nature that had been developed by Friends (Quakers) at Monthly and Yearly meetings across the U.S.A., from a perspective that sees people in unity with nature, not apart from it. These queries were subsequently published as the Quaker contribution to the 1989 Environmental Sabbath resource guide developed by the U.N. Environment Programme.
      habitat.igc.org/queries/uwn.htm

1989.04

    • Spiritual Reflections on Unity with Nature
      Reflections on the convergence of interests that are leading towards an interfaith, holistic, spiritual understanding of the importance of redefining our relationship with nature.
      habitat.igc.org/values/srouwn.htm

1989.08

  • Earthcare Interfaith Network

    Founder and pro bono Coordinator
      Developing "Foundations for a Sustainable Common Future", based on the vision of a global Interfaith network - united in their common faith-based acknowledgment vision presented at the November 1989 Globescope Pacific Assembly, in Los Angeles and key member of the organizing committee for the U.S. Citizens Network on UNCED (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development) and initial interim secretariat for the Citizens Network.

1989.08-1992.06
Baltimore, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Walking Gently on the Earth
      A checklist, compiled by the Friends Committee on Unity with Nature and supported by appropriate queries, to encourage exploration as to how gently we are walking on the earth, what changes in actions and attitudes and what resources can support our transition towards a right relationship with the earth.
      habitat.igc.org/values/wgote.htm

1989.04

    • Queries on Unity with Nature
      Queries, or probing questions, representing a compilation and synthesis of queries on Unity with Nature that had been developed by Friends (Quakers) at Monthly and Yearly meetings across the U.S.A., from a perspective that sees people in unity with nature, not apart from it. These queries were subsequently published as the Quaker contribution to the 1989 Environmental Sabbath resource guide developed by the U.N. Environment Programme.
      habitat.igc.org/queries/uwn.htm

1989.04

    • Foundations for a Sustainable Common Future
      Identification of value issues that are key to a transition to a sustainable future; need for holistic approaches, interfaith cooperation, integrating faith and practice, networking skills, and participation in UNCED preparations. Testimony presented at the Globescope Pacific Assembly, Los Angeles, November 1989.
      habitat.igc.org/values/fscf.htm

1989.08

    • An Earthcare Interfaith Network: A proposal for preparing input into the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
      Proposal for organizing faith communities to focus attention on the preparations for the 1992 UNCED process, with special reference to the Justice Peace and Integrity of Creation (JPIC) process of the World Council of Churches.

1989.08

    • Notes on a Nature Rights Amendment
      Preliminary notes discussing considerations for a Nature Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and proposed text of such an amendment that would give legal standing in the courts to the earth, or any part of it, any species of plant or animal, or any member of such species.

1989.11

    • Balance with Nature
      Identification of an imbalance with nature as a central theme underlying the major global crises we face, and the need for a spiritual response. Testimony presented at the Globescope Pacific Assembly, Los Angeles, 1989.11
      habitat.igc.org/values/balance.htm

1989.11

    • Workshop on Environmental Computer Networks: Report on the Proceedings
      Workshop discussion and recommendations focussed on strategies for increasing access to electronic communications in developing countries, including analysis of needs and the availability of existing resources.

1990.07

    • Environment & Development Information Institute & Clearinghouse
      Draft proposal for the establishment of an Institute & Clearinghouse on the application of information technology to environment and development issues.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/ediic.htm

1990.07

    • Citizens' Consultation on the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development: Conference Resources
      Compilation of information on UNCED, including brochure on the Citizens Alliance on UNCED (the proposed name of the U.S. Citizens Network before the consultation), proposed structure of the Alliance/Network, and directory of participants, generated from a DataPerfect database.

1990.10

    • Information Clearinghouse: US Citizens Network on UNCED
      Concept paper for an Information Clearinghouse to coordinate the compilation and dissemination of information relating the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).
      habitat.igc.org/docs/clearing.htm

1990.11

    • Towards an Earth Charter
      Proposed elements for inclusion in an Earth Charter; developed in response to an Interfaith workshop organized by the International Coordinating Committee on Religion and the Earth at Wainwright House in March 1991.
      habitat.igc.org/values/towards.htm

1991.04

    • Some Issues in Technology Transfer
      Critical analysis of technology transfer issues, seeking to unveil the full impact of technology transfer. including locus of power, ownership and control of economic institutions and the social, cultural, economic and environmental impact. Criteria and proposed conditions for alternative models of technology transfer are suggested.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/techtran.htm

1991.04

    • Who Is Who: People, Projects and Organizations In Service to the Earth
      Cross-referenced, indexed database-generated directory of people, projects and organizations in service to the Earth.

1991.05

    • Expansion of Access to On-Line Communications
      Proposal for major expansion of access to computer and on-line resources among NGOs in developing countries and Eastern Europe.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/eaolc.htm

1991.07

    Databases

    • EIN - Earthcare Interfaith Network
      Core database for Earthcare Interfaith Network; framework for Who Is Who: People and Organizations in Service to the Earth. EIN also served as the database for the Citizens Alliance for UNCED (the United Nations Conference of Environment and Development aka the Earth Summit) that evolved into the U.S. Citizens Network on UNCED, an organization that facilitated and helped to coordinate most U.S. based NGOs that were accredited to UNCED. EIN maintained contact information, committee affiliation and areas of interest for members and participants in the Citizens Network. In this capacity, EIN enabled frequently updated generation and distribution of directories of Network participants, including a directory of participants in the founding meeting of the U.S. Citizens Network on UNCED. EIN also served as a database for the Information and Communications Committee of the NGO Strategy Group for UNCED.

1989.02

  • The Enterprise Foundation

    Consultant
      Desk top publishing, and training in desk top publishing features of WordPerfect.

1989.09-1989.12
Columbia, U.S.A.

  • Institute for Global Communications

    Pro bono Associate
      Facilitated international electronic conferences for public participation in preparation for the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development; design and presentation of workshops on electronic conferencing. Provided technical assistance and support to key information providers - e.g. Centre for Our Common Future, UN Non Government Liaison Service, Environmental Liaison Centre International and the Environment and Energy Study Institute - in disseminating their newsletters and information on-line plus training and technical support to many NGO representatives. During UNCED PrepCom II and III in Geneva, managed the electronic communications room for NGOs at the Palais des Nations, providing technical support, assistance and resources in word processing and electronic communications for NGO representatives.

1989.11-1992.09
San Francisco, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Computer Communications & the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development: Alternative Technology for Communication and Participation by Non-government Organizations: A Concise Guide
      A brief overview of UNCED-related computer communications, the Concise Guide was produced for the first PrepCom meeting, and widely distributed by the UNCED Secretariat and vie electronic conferences and electronic mail.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/cc-unced.htm

1990.08

    • Information, Environment & Development
      Proposal for the development of a cooperative U.S. initiative for the application of information technology resources in support of addressing environment and development issues.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/ied.htm

1990.11

    • Information Clearinghouse: US Citizens Network on UNCED
      Concept paper for an Information Clearinghouse to coordinate the compilation and dissemination of information relating the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).
      habitat.igc.org/docs/clearing.htm

1990.11

    • US Citizens Network on UNCED: Proposal and Plan of Action
      Successful funding proposal for the US Citizens Network defining objectives and structure. The proposal serves as a "boilerplate" format for national and regional citizen/NGO networks.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/uscnu.htm

1990.12

    • Communication Protocols for Keeping Information Alive
      Identification of formatting considerations that enhance clarity and readability when sending electronic mail and posting messages to online conferences.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/protocol.htm

1991.03

  • Citizens Planning & Housing Association - Education Committee

    Consultant
      Database design, desk top publishing; word processing training. Developed Report Card on Elementary Schools for CPHA's Education Committee in conjunction with the Baltimore City Public Schools using DataPerfect 2.3 and WordPerfect 5.0.

1990.01-1990.06
Baltimore, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Report Card on Baltimore City Elementary Schools
      Systematic compilation and presentation of data in easy-to-read tables, on measures of performance and characteristics of all the elementary schools in Baltimore City. Prepared for the Education Committee of the Citizens Housing and Planning Assocation, in preparation for the City's compliance with the Maryland State Performance Standards. The data were compiled from multiple sources and imported into a DataPerfect relational database; the entire body of the report was generated from an exported file merged into a WordPerfect 5.1 table.

1990.11

    Databases

    • SCHOOLS - Report Card on Baltimore City Elementary Schools
      Data compiled on measures of academic achievement and student behavior, in response to an initiative of the Education Committee of the Citizens Planning and Housing Association in Baltimore. The data were made available by the Baltimore City Public Schools Department and were used to generate a Report Card on Elementary Schools with clearly presented table format. The Report Card focused attention on schools with records of poor performance and behavior.

1990.09

  • Baltimore City Public Schools

    Consultant
      Organized, formatted and presented data and produced a comprehensive Report Card on Elementary Schools in Baltimore with comprehensive statistics on measures of school performance and behavior. The Report was prepared and disseminated under the auspices of the Education Committee of the Citizens' Planning and Housing Association in Baltimore. The data were compiled and integrated in a DataPerfect relational database - and the report was generated as a single, massive - by prevailing standards - mail-merge document in Wordperfect 5.0 with data from an assortment of data sources within the Baltimore City Public School system, resulting in the first-ever integrated presentation of performance data for the public schools in Baltimore.

1990.02-1990.04
Baltimore, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Report Card on Baltimore City Elementary Schools
      Systematic compilation and presentation of data in easy-to-read tables, on measures of performance and characteristics of all the elementary schools in Baltimore City. Prepared for the Education Committee of the Citizens Housing and Planning Assocation, in preparation for the City's compliance with the Maryland State Performance Standards. The data were compiled from multiple sources and imported into a DataPerfect relational database; the entire body of the report was generated from an exported file merged into a WordPerfect 5.1 table.

1990.11

    Databases

    • SCHOOLS - Report Card on Baltimore City Elementary Schools
      Data compiled on measures of academic achievement and student behavior, in response to an initiative of the Education Committee of the Citizens Planning and Housing Association in Baltimore. The data were made available by the Baltimore City Public Schools Department and were used to generate a Report Card on Elementary Schools with clearly presented table format. The Report Card focused attention on schools with records of poor performance and behavior.

1990.09

  • U.S. Citizens Network on UNCED

    Co-founder, Member of Executive Committee
      Chair, Communications and Clearinghouse committee. Wrote successful grant proposal that provided initial funding for the Network; active participant and facilitator in the design of the formal structure of the network, designed and maintained the original database of Network participants; designed, implemented and promoted strategies for the use of electronic conferences on the Association for Progressive Communications networks by NGOs involved in UNCED; set up and facilitated UNCED-related on-line conferences; during UNCED PrepCom I, in conjunction with Langston "Kimo" Goree, was responsible for on-line distribution of NGO reports sent from Nairobi; provided support and technical assistance in computer use to NGO representatives during UNCED PrepCom II.

1990.03-1992.06
Washington, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Environment & Development Information Institute & Clearinghouse
      Draft proposal for the establishment of an Institute & Clearinghouse on the application of information technology to environment and development issues.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/ediic.htm

1990.07

    • Computer Communications & the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development: Alternative Technology for Communication and Participation by Non-government Organizations: A Concise Guide
      A brief overview of UNCED-related computer communications, the Concise Guide was produced for the first PrepCom meeting, and widely distributed by the UNCED Secretariat and vie electronic conferences and electronic mail.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/cc-unced.htm

1990.08

    • Citizens' Consultation on the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development: Conference Resources
      Compilation of information on UNCED, including brochure on the Citizens Alliance on UNCED (the proposed name of the U.S. Citizens Network before the consultation), proposed structure of the Alliance/Network, and directory of participants, generated from a DataPerfect database.

1990.10

    • Information, Environment & Development
      Proposal for the development of a cooperative U.S. initiative for the application of information technology resources in support of addressing environment and development issues.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/ied.htm

1990.11

    • Information Clearinghouse: US Citizens Network on UNCED
      Concept paper for an Information Clearinghouse to coordinate the compilation and dissemination of information relating the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).
      habitat.igc.org/docs/clearing.htm

1990.11

    • US Citizens Network on UNCED: Proposal and Plan of Action
      Successful funding proposal for the US Citizens Network defining objectives and structure. The proposal serves as a "boilerplate" format for national and regional citizen/NGO networks.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/uscnu.htm

1990.12

    • Communication Protocols for Keeping Information Alive
      Identification of formatting considerations that enhance clarity and readability when sending electronic mail and posting messages to online conferences.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/protocol.htm

1991.03

    • Alternative Treaty-Making Process: Education in Sustainability and Global Responsibility (Pre-Publication edition)
      A compilation of the Alternative Treaties developed by non-government organizations at the '92 Global Forum in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. (An earlier version was published in September 1992)

1992.10

    Databases

    • EIN - Earthcare Interfaith Network
      Core database for Earthcare Interfaith Network; framework for Who Is Who: People and Organizations in Service to the Earth. EIN also served as the database for the Citizens Alliance for UNCED (the United Nations Conference of Environment and Development aka the Earth Summit) that evolved into the U.S. Citizens Network on UNCED, an organization that facilitated and helped to coordinate most U.S. based NGOs that were accredited to UNCED. EIN maintained contact information, committee affiliation and areas of interest for members and participants in the Citizens Network. In this capacity, EIN enabled frequently updated generation and distribution of directories of Network participants, including a directory of participants in the founding meeting of the U.S. Citizens Network on UNCED. EIN also served as a database for the Information and Communications Committee of the NGO Strategy Group for UNCED.

1989.02

  • United Nations Conference on Environment and Development

    Accredited NGO
      Active participant in and facilitator of the NGO participation process, beginning with preparations for the organizing session of the Preparatory Committee. Initially attending under the auspices of an Earthcare Interfaith Network, and was one of the key organizers of the US Citizens Network on UNCED. Pioneered the use of electronic communication, email in support of broad-based participation. Served as primary support for NGO computer centers at PrepComs. Active participant in the NGO Strategy Group, and Chair of its Information and Communications Committee. Eventually received accreditation under the auspices of the International Synergy Institute. Created database of accredited NGOs and NGO Representatives and full-text searchable database of the Rio Agreements.

1990.03-1992.06
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Documents

    • Queries on Unity with Nature
      Queries, or probing questions, representing a compilation and synthesis of queries on Unity with Nature that had been developed by Friends (Quakers) at Monthly and Yearly meetings across the U.S.A., from a perspective that sees people in unity with nature, not apart from it. These queries were subsequently published as the Quaker contribution to the 1989 Environmental Sabbath resource guide developed by the U.N. Environment Programme.
      habitat.igc.org/queries/uwn.htm

1989.04

    • Foundations for a Sustainable Common Future
      Identification of value issues that are key to a transition to a sustainable future; need for holistic approaches, interfaith cooperation, integrating faith and practice, networking skills, and participation in UNCED preparations. Testimony presented at the Globescope Pacific Assembly, Los Angeles, November 1989.
      habitat.igc.org/values/fscf.htm

1989.08

    • Queries on Environment and Development
      A set of queries developed for submission as testimony to the Globescope Pacific Assembly in Los Angeles intended to examine spiritual dimensions of environment and development. The Queries were later used as key themes by the organizers of The Other Economic Summit in 1997 (TOES-97).
      habitat.igc.org/queries/qed.htm

1989.08

    • Spiritual Reflections on Unity with Nature
      Reflections on the convergence of interests that are leading towards an interfaith, holistic, spiritual understanding of the importance of redefining our relationship with nature.
      habitat.igc.org/values/srouwn.htm

1989.08

    • An Earthcare Interfaith Network: A proposal for preparing input into the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
      Proposal for organizing faith communities to focus attention on the preparations for the 1992 UNCED process, with special reference to the Justice Peace and Integrity of Creation (JPIC) process of the World Council of Churches.

1989.08

    • Notes on a Nature Rights Amendment
      Preliminary notes discussing considerations for a Nature Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and proposed text of such an amendment that would give legal standing in the courts to the earth, or any part of it, any species of plant or animal, or any member of such species.

1989.11

    • Balance with Nature
      Identification of an imbalance with nature as a central theme underlying the major global crises we face, and the need for a spiritual response. Testimony presented at the Globescope Pacific Assembly, Los Angeles, 1989.11
      habitat.igc.org/values/balance.htm

1989.11

    • U.S. Citizens' Response to Sustainable Development: A Preliminary Report
      Action recommendations of the eight working groups -- organized by sector of society -- that met during the Globescope Pacific Assembly in Los Angeles, November 1989, in US National Public Hearings on the Brundtland Report and in preparation for participation in the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development - the Earth Summit.

1989.11

    • Oh Say Can You See By the One Light in All!
      "Oh Say Can You See By the One Light in All!" was dedicated as the Fifth Verse of the US National Anthem at an Interfaith Sunrise service at Fort McHenry, home of the Star-Spangled Banner and a brief description of how the Star Spangled Banner became adopted - through a grassroots process - as the U.S. National Anthem.
      habitat.igc.org/oh-say-can-you-see

1990.04

    • United Nations Conference on Environment & Development: Information, Public Participation & Comunication System: A Preliminary Proposal & Discussion of the Proposal
      Discussion of NGO communication and information needs as they relate to effective participation in the process of preparing for the 1992 UNCED; recommendations for design and structuring on-line electronic conferences to facilitate communications and access to information.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/ippcs.htm

1990.06

    • Workshop on Environmental Computer Networks: Report on the Proceedings
      Workshop discussion and recommendations focussed on strategies for increasing access to electronic communications in developing countries, including analysis of needs and the availability of existing resources.

1990.07

    • On-Line and Real-time Conferences
      Discussion and notes on a proposal for structuring the use of on-line conferences in conjunction with real-time (conventional) conferences. Developed for the organizers of the Global Plant Species Information System, held in Delphi in 1990.07.

1990.07

    • Environment & Development Information Institute & Clearinghouse
      Draft proposal for the establishment of an Institute & Clearinghouse on the application of information technology to environment and development issues.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/ediic.htm

1990.07

    • Computer Communications & the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development: Alternative Technology for Communication and Participation by Non-government Organizations: A Concise Guide
      A brief overview of UNCED-related computer communications, the Concise Guide was produced for the first PrepCom meeting, and widely distributed by the UNCED Secretariat and vie electronic conferences and electronic mail.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/cc-unced.htm

1990.08

    • Citizens' Consultation on the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development: Conference Resources
      Compilation of information on UNCED, including brochure on the Citizens Alliance on UNCED (the proposed name of the U.S. Citizens Network before the consultation), proposed structure of the Alliance/Network, and directory of participants, generated from a DataPerfect database.

1990.10

    • Information, Environment & Development
      Proposal for the development of a cooperative U.S. initiative for the application of information technology resources in support of addressing environment and development issues.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/ied.htm

1990.11

    • Information Clearinghouse: US Citizens Network on UNCED
      Concept paper for an Information Clearinghouse to coordinate the compilation and dissemination of information relating the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).
      habitat.igc.org/docs/clearing.htm

1990.11

    • US Citizens Network on UNCED: Proposal and Plan of Action
      Successful funding proposal for the US Citizens Network defining objectives and structure. The proposal serves as a "boilerplate" format for national and regional citizen/NGO networks.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/uscnu.htm

1990.12

    • Communication Protocols for Keeping Information Alive
      Identification of formatting considerations that enhance clarity and readability when sending electronic mail and posting messages to online conferences.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/protocol.htm

1991.03

    • On The Line: Interactive Preparations for the First Earth Summit. A Project Proposal
      Successful proposal for a project of Econet / Institute of Global Communications -- funded by the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation -- with a conceptual framework and overview of methodology for On The Line, a publication to facilitate interactive preparation for the Earth Summit (UNCED), and designed for global electronic distribution as a typeset microcomputer document.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/otl-prop.htm

1991.04

    • Towards an Earth Charter
      Proposed elements for inclusion in an Earth Charter; developed in response to an Interfaith workshop organized by the International Coordinating Committee on Religion and the Earth at Wainwright House in March 1991.
      habitat.igc.org/values/towards.htm

1991.04

    • Some Issues in Technology Transfer
      Critical analysis of technology transfer issues, seeking to unveil the full impact of technology transfer. including locus of power, ownership and control of economic institutions and the social, cultural, economic and environmental impact. Criteria and proposed conditions for alternative models of technology transfer are suggested.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/techtran.htm

1991.04

    • Who Is Who: People, Projects and Organizations In Service to the Earth
      Cross-referenced, indexed database-generated directory of people, projects and organizations in service to the Earth.

1991.05

    • Expansion of Access to On-Line Communications
      Proposal for major expansion of access to computer and on-line resources among NGOs in developing countries and Eastern Europe.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/eaolc.htm

1991.07

    • Participating in the en.unced.general conference: Electronic conferencing in preparation for the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment & Development
      Overview of the need for using electronic communications for UNCED, and discussion of the nature of participation in an electronic conference.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/partic.htm

1991.08

    • On The Line: Interactive Preparations for the First Earth Summit
      Guide to on-line communication issues and resources related to the UNCED / Earth Summit preparations; highlights some key issues for PrepCom 3; overview of PrepCom 3 documents and UNCED-related electronic conferences.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/otl-1.htm

1991.08

    • Information, Communications, Eastern Europe and UNCED
      Analysis/discussion of critical information and communications needs of Eastern European NGOs, analysis of Eastern European information environment, and identification of strategic considerations.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/icee.htm

1991.09

    • Sailing to Rio: Part I - PrepBoat
      A proposal for a Cairo-Gibraltar-New York boat, with an on-board conference, for NGO delegates to the 4th UNCED PrepCom in New York in March 1992. European and African delegates would join the boat at various ports in the Mediterranean; Arab and Asian delegates via the Suez Canal. A key focus of the on-board conference would be the geo-politics of trade.

1991.09

    • Eastern European Participation in UNCED
      Discussion of the critical need for Eastern European NGOs to participate in the UNCED preparations, identification of key benefits, and strategic recommendations.

1991.10

    • Network & Communication Resources Exhibition/Demonstration, International NGO Conference, Paris
      Proposal for a demonstration of computer-based networking and communication resources during Roots of the Future, the major International NGO conference to be held in Paris in December 1991 - through the support of the government of France - in preparation for the Earth Summit. The proposal outlined plans for an on-site electronic network; the management of interactive documents, including a participatory newsletter; and the use of databases for UNCED-related documents and membership/contact information.
      habitat.igc.org/pims/ncred.htm

1991.10

    • UNCED Beyond Rio?
      Discussion of the need for follow up of UNCED developments beyond Rio, including a proposal to extend the UNCED process through the year 2000.

1991.11

    • Roots of the Future - Database and Directory of Participants
      Directory of participants in Roots of the Future - a major international NGO conference organized by the Environment Liaison Centre International and sponsored by the government of France.

1991.11

    • Interactive, Integrative Networking & Communication Processes in Support of Participation in the Earth Summit / Global Forum '92
      Draft proposal for a strategy for the use of microcomputers to strengthen communication and networking among NGOs in French-speaking areas of Africa.

1992.01

    • Da Zi Bao: An Interactive Process - Messages from Roots of the Future, International NGO Conference
      A database-generated compilation of all the Da Zi Bao messages published at the Roots of the Future NGO Conference in Paris, organized by keyword. The compilation provides a clear identification of the critical issues - and the diversity of perspectives - that were of concern to NGOs in the UNCED process.
      habitat.igc.org/dazibao/compile.pdf

1992.01

    • UNCED Interactive Document System
      Preliminary design notes for an interactive document system for the intergovernmental negotiaions process at the 4th PrepCom for UNCED, incorporating features of the Da Zi Bao participant interactive message system.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/uids.htm

1992.01

    • Da Zi Bao: Global Structures Convocation
      Seven one-sided issues - in six different colours - of Da Zi Bao. The issues were sold for 25 cents apiece, and revenue from sales more than covered the immediate material costs of production.

1992.02

    • Da Zi Bao: Global Heart Magnanimous Planning Session
      Four one-sided issues of a participatory interactive message system, with fifty-one messages from thirty-five participants.

1992.02

    • Da Zi Bao in Rio
      Proposal for the implementation of the Da Zi Bao interactive bulletin system at the '92 Global Forum in Rio.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/dzb-rio.htm

1992.04

    • Synergistic Community Communication and Interactive Processes
      Outline of proposed activities of the Synergistic Communications project for the Earth Summit & '92 Global Forum in Rio. The elements include work with the alternative treaty on Information and Communications, the publication of Da Zi Bao, the compilation of a directory of participants, the utilization of multilingual translation software, and the compilation of UNCED-related disk-based resources.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/sccip.htm

1992.05

    • Da Zi Bao: Inter-Sectoral Dialogue Meeting, '92 Global Forum
      Da Zi Bao was the principal document that was produced at the Inter-Sectoral Dialogue Meeting, preceding the official opening of the '92 Global Forum.

1992.06

    • Da Zi Bao
      Fifty-eight issues of the Da Zi Bao interactive bulletin were published during the '92 Global Forum in Rio; 21 issues were in English, 25 in Portuguese, 8 in Spanish and 4 in French. More than 2,200 separate messages in all were published. An additional 10 issues of Da Zi Bao were published in conjunction with the Inter-Sectoral Dialogue meetings at the Global Forum.

1992.06

    • Communications & Information -- 1993 Global Forum
      Concept paper for an integrated communications and information strategy for a 1993 Global Forum that was to have been hosted by the UK Government.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/ci-gf93.htm

1992.07

    • Database of NGOs Accredited to UNCED
      Relational database of the 1,420 NGOs accredited to UNCED, their 2,850 representatives, a description of their UNCED-related activities, and classification by area of interest and sector; includes 10 page manual/guide.

1992.08

    • The Rio Agreements: A Full Text Database
      The official Rio agreements -- Agenda 21, Climate and Biodiversity Conventions, the Forest Principles and the Rio de Janeiro Declaration -- are combined with the Alternative Treaties from the International NGO Forum and the Women's Action Agenda 21 in a DataPerfect database format with built-in menus that permits easy search and retrieval of all section of these historic agreements that include any specified word or phrase.

1993.03

    • The NGO Alternative Treaties and the NGO Treaty Process
      The offical edition of the alternative treaties from the International NGO Forum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil June 1-14 1992, published by the Canadian Council on International Cooperation, and incorporating the text and format as edited and published by International Synergy Institute and Ideas for Tomorrow Today.

1994.02

    • International Synergy Institute
      The first web site - while serving as the UN Representative for the International Synergy Institute, a previous home of Information Habitat, and an accredited Non-Governmental Organization to the 1992 Earth Summit and subsequently to the Roster of the UN Economic and Social Council for the purposes of participation in the Commission on Sustainable Development.
      [www.igc.org/synergy]

1994.05

    • On-line Access to United Nations Documents - in Newsletter of the South-North Centre for Environmental Policy
      Overview of current United Nations proceedings directly or indirectly relating to the follow-up from the Earth Summit in Rio, including information on how to obtain access to electronic copies of documents from the proceedings.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/ola-und.htm

1994.06

    • Agenda 21, Other UNCED Agreements and the NGO Alternative Treaties
      The first - and for a long time, the only - web-based version of Agenda 21 and the other agreements of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development - the Earth Summit - held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, including the NGO Alternative Treaties.
      habitat.igc.org/agenda21

1995.08

    Databases

    • NGOUNCED - NGOs Accredited to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
      Documentation of information pertaining to Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) accredited to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) Conference - and made available by the NGIO Liaison Office of the UNCED Secretariat. NGOUNCED incorporated information on NGO representatives, relevance, sectors, key words, accreditation dates and record of the official Conference document approving the accreditation.

1992.04

    • TREATIES - Rio Agreements: Agenda 21, Biodiversity & Climate Conventions, etc.
      Full text searchable database of all the Rio Agreements: Agenda 21, Rio Declaration, Biodiversity & Climate Conventions, Forest Principles, Alternative Treates and Women's Action Agenda 21. TREATIES was used to generate the first version of Agenda 21 to be published in HTML format on the World Wide Web, in June 1995.

      Based on recent revisions, TREATIES is able to generate an interlinked set of web pages with the identification of all the occurrences in Agenda 21 and the Rio Declaration of selected words and phrases - presently for up to three words or phrases.


1993.01

  • North American Conference on Religion & Ecology

    Consultant
      Design and supervision of the registration database for the Caring for Creation interfaith conference; desktop publishing; set up and implement accounting system; provided training and supervision in database use, word processing and electronic communication.

1990.04-1990.06
Washington, U.S.A.

    Databases

    • CFC - Caring For Creation
      Participants, with registration information, at the Caring for Creation interfaith conference on religion and responsibility for caring for the earth and all creation. It was here that the name "Information Habitat: Where Information Lives" was conceived, and was given expression in a booth exhibit by that name at the conference.

1990.04

  • International NGO Strategy Group

    Chair, Information and Communications Committee
      Facilitation oaccess to and organization, exchange and dissemination of, information within the NGO Strategy Group, and among NGOs accredited to the UN Conference on Environment and Development and participating in the PrepComms, and provision of technical support and guidance, etc. to NGO representatives.

1990.04-1990.05
,

    Documents

    • On The Line: Interactive Preparations for the First Earth Summit. A Project Proposal
      Successful proposal for a project of Econet / Institute of Global Communications -- funded by the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation -- with a conceptual framework and overview of methodology for On The Line, a publication to facilitate interactive preparation for the Earth Summit (UNCED), and designed for global electronic distribution as a typeset microcomputer document.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/otl-prop.htm

1991.04

    • Some Issues in Technology Transfer
      Critical analysis of technology transfer issues, seeking to unveil the full impact of technology transfer. including locus of power, ownership and control of economic institutions and the social, cultural, economic and environmental impact. Criteria and proposed conditions for alternative models of technology transfer are suggested.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/techtran.htm

1991.04

    • Expansion of Access to On-Line Communications
      Proposal for major expansion of access to computer and on-line resources among NGOs in developing countries and Eastern Europe.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/eaolc.htm

1991.07

    • Participating in the en.unced.general conference: Electronic conferencing in preparation for the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment & Development
      Overview of the need for using electronic communications for UNCED, and discussion of the nature of participation in an electronic conference.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/partic.htm

1991.08

    • On The Line: Interactive Preparations for the First Earth Summit
      Guide to on-line communication issues and resources related to the UNCED / Earth Summit preparations; highlights some key issues for PrepCom 3; overview of PrepCom 3 documents and UNCED-related electronic conferences.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/otl-1.htm

1991.08

    • Information, Communications, Eastern Europe and UNCED
      Analysis/discussion of critical information and communications needs of Eastern European NGOs, analysis of Eastern European information environment, and identification of strategic considerations.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/icee.htm

1991.09

    • Sailing to Rio: Part I - PrepBoat
      A proposal for a Cairo-Gibraltar-New York boat, with an on-board conference, for NGO delegates to the 4th UNCED PrepCom in New York in March 1992. European and African delegates would join the boat at various ports in the Mediterranean; Arab and Asian delegates via the Suez Canal. A key focus of the on-board conference would be the geo-politics of trade.

1991.09

    • Eastern European Participation in UNCED
      Discussion of the critical need for Eastern European NGOs to participate in the UNCED preparations, identification of key benefits, and strategic recommendations.

1991.10

    • Network & Communication Resources Exhibition/Demonstration, International NGO Conference, Paris
      Proposal for a demonstration of computer-based networking and communication resources during Roots of the Future, the major International NGO conference to be held in Paris in December 1991 - through the support of the government of France - in preparation for the Earth Summit. The proposal outlined plans for an on-site electronic network; the management of interactive documents, including a participatory newsletter; and the use of databases for UNCED-related documents and membership/contact information.
      habitat.igc.org/pims/ncred.htm

1991.10

    • UNCED Interactive Document System
      Preliminary design notes for an interactive document system for the intergovernmental negotiaions process at the 4th PrepCom for UNCED, incorporating features of the Da Zi Bao participant interactive message system.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/uids.htm

1992.01

  • Caring for Creation

    Consultant
      Designed and maintained the registration database for the Caring for Creation conference hosted by the North American Conference on Religion and Ecology with a religious and spiritual perpectives on the upcoming Earth Summit.

1990.04-1999.06
Washington, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • U.S. Citizens' Response to Sustainable Development: A Preliminary Report
      Action recommendations of the eight working groups -- organized by sector of society -- that met during the Globescope Pacific Assembly in Los Angeles, November 1989, in US National Public Hearings on the Brundtland Report and in preparation for participation in the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development - the Earth Summit.

1989.11

  • Hands-on Healing

    Founder
      Although Hand-on Healing has had virtually no visibility, conceptually it is at the heart of the vision of Information Habitat and holds a vision - and encourages the practice - of discovering a wealth of opportunities to engage in a hands-on healing relationship with the Earth and with other people - whether it be in cultivating a living organic garden, preparation of healthy food, through healing massage, picking up and recycling waste, or even with hands on the keyboard - discovering ways that electronic communication, new forms of public dialogue and access to information can become a healing force - in part by restoring common access to the properties of the whole, and making it possible for all voices to be heard.

1990.05-
Baltimore, U.S.A.

  • Information Habitat: Where Information Lives

    Founder, Information Ecologist, UN Representative
      Guides and directs Information Habitat - a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council - with a focus on promoting the understanding and practice of information ecology as a holistic life science and as a framework to support a global transition to knowledge-based economies, societies and environments. Throughout the global conferences of the 1990s, Information Habitat has been the leading pioneer in the systematic application of information and communications technologies in support of broad-based participation, access to information and networking by NGOs involved in the work of the United Nations, and the development of an information ecology framework that can support a transition to sustainability, human rights, justice and peace, in the context of an integrated follow up to the agreements of the United Nations Conferences of the 1990s and their reconciliation with international trade and investment agreements.
      habitat.igc.org

1990.05-
Baltimore, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Oh Say Can You See By the One Light in All!
      "Oh Say Can You See By the One Light in All!" was dedicated as the Fifth Verse of the US National Anthem at an Interfaith Sunrise service at Fort McHenry, home of the Star-Spangled Banner and a brief description of how the Star Spangled Banner became adopted - through a grassroots process - as the U.S. National Anthem.
      habitat.igc.org/oh-say-can-you-see

1990.04

    • United Nations Conference on Environment & Development: Information, Public Participation & Comunication System: A Preliminary Proposal & Discussion of the Proposal
      Discussion of NGO communication and information needs as they relate to effective participation in the process of preparing for the 1992 UNCED; recommendations for design and structuring on-line electronic conferences to facilitate communications and access to information.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/ippcs.htm

1990.06

    • On-Line and Real-time Conferences
      Discussion and notes on a proposal for structuring the use of on-line conferences in conjunction with real-time (conventional) conferences. Developed for the organizers of the Global Plant Species Information System, held in Delphi in 1990.07.

1990.07

    • Computer Communications & the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development: Alternative Technology for Communication and Participation by Non-government Organizations: A Concise Guide
      A brief overview of UNCED-related computer communications, the Concise Guide was produced for the first PrepCom meeting, and widely distributed by the UNCED Secretariat and vie electronic conferences and electronic mail.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/cc-unced.htm

1990.08

    • Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
      Information Habitat promotes the understanding and practice of information ecology - based on the recognition of information systems as ecosystems - sets of interrelated and interdependent structures and processes that can best be understood if viewed as a whole - and in the context of the critical relationships between information ecosystems and other ecosystems - social, institutional, economic, legal, cultural and natural. Information Habitat is a Non-Governmental Organization in Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council.
      habitat.igc.org

1995.06

    • Information Habitat: Where Information Lives - Overview
      An overview of Information Habitat and some of the conceptual perpectives of an information ecosystem approach to the use of information technology to enable broad-based participation in decision-making, action and access to information in relation to international, national and local processes relating to sustainability, human rights and peace.
      habitat.igc.org/concept

1995.07

    • Habitat II: Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements
      Official web site for documents and information for the preparation for and follow up to the Habitat Agenda. The site included links to all major partner initiatives with an online presence, the agreements of the 1976 Habitat Conference in Vancouver, a compilation of UN documents on Housing as a Human Right, and all official documents available in electronic format in English, French and Spanish.

1996.01

    • Habitat Online Partnership Plan of Action
      Plan for an integrated online framework to support the role of partners in the implementation of and follow-up to the Habitat Agenda through the systematic use of electronic communications to strengthen cooperation between partners; capacity-building initiative in the use of information technology for Habitat partners. The Partnership Plan of Action was semi-formally incorporated into the Habitat follow up plans by UNCHS (Habitat) however the incorporation was lost when the unhabitat.org domain was "hijacked" and not restored when UN Habitat subsequently acquired the domain.

1996.03

    • Habitat II Online: Invitation to a Journey
      Statement at 1996 Earth Day celebration at the Peace Bell at United Nations Headquarters, extending an invitation to participate in a journey - to Istanbul and beyond; a journey of recommitment to the principles and values of Earth Day; a journey of discovery and exploration of new ways and tools with which we can work together in fulfilling the vision of Earth Day.
      habitat.igc.org/journey

1996.03

    • Habitat II Online: An Ecological Design Process
      An overview of ecological design considerations in the development of the Habitat II Online initiative to enable coherent, intelligent response to the agenda of the Habitat II conference incorporating an ecology of information, an ecology of education, and an ecology of participation.
      habitat.igc.org/h2o/design.htm

1996.05

    • Methodology for the General Assembly to examine the question of the participation of NGOs in all areas of the work of the United Nations
      Speaking notes for Information Habitat at the Informal Soundings on ECOSOC Decision 1996/297. Recommendations, inter alia, on an inclusive approach to participation of NGOs, on the value of systematic use of information and communication technology, and on examination of innovative participation processes used in the Habitat II conference.
      habitat.igc.org/interven/is-9611.htm

1996.12

    • The application of modern information and communication technology to improve practical arrangements in support of strengthened participation of non-governmental organizations in the work of the United Nations
      Recommendations for use of information technology to strengthen participation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) including enhanced access to United Nations documents, the Daily Journal and press releases by NGOs in Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council.
      habitat.igc.org/interven/app9701.htm

1997.01

    • Commission on Human Settlements - Sixteenth session
      Publication in html format of all available official documents - in English, Spanish and French - of the Sixteenth Session of the United Nations Commission for Human Settlements. The web-based publication was accompanied by dissemination of key documents and of the availability of all documents through an extensive network of electronic mailing lists.

1997.02

    • Earthday on the Equinox on the Internet
      Web site for the 1997 celebration of Earth Day on the Equinox at the Peace Bell at United Nations Headquarters, with the theme "A Culture of Peace". The ceremony was broadcast live on the Internet via streaming video.
      habitat.igc.org/earthday

1997.03

    • Non-Governmental Organizations at the Commission for Sustainable Development
      Compilation of information resources and documents in support of participation by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the work of the Commission on Sustainable Development and preparations for Earth Summit II. The site highlighted the consensus NGO document "Toward Earth Summit Two: NGO Recommendations for Commitments and Action" which included a key section on Information Ecology. The NGO Steering Committee now maintains its own web site - http://www.csdngo.org/csdngo
      habitat.igc.org/csdngo

1997.03

    • Dedication of the Peace Cube
      Dedication of the Virtual Light and Colour Cube as a Peace Cube at the Earthday on the Equinox on the Internet ceremony at United Nations Headquarters on 1997.03.20
      habitat.igc.org/one-light/dedicate.htm

1997.03

    • Innovative Ideas and Procedures for Interactions between NGOs and the U.N.
      Statement of Information Habitat at the NGO Consultation on Increasing Access to the UN General Assembly and its Committees and all areas of the work of the UN. Recommendations for an inclusive approach to NGO participation based on information ecology, methodology, and on Government/NGO partnership.
      habitat.igc.org/interven/ih-9704.htm

1997.04

    • "Information Ecology" in Towards Earth Summit II: NGO Recommendations for Actions and Commitments at Earth Summit II
      A call for a major commitment to analyze and explore the opportunities and implications of the rapidly evolving "information and communication ecosystem" and to identify critical information ecology issues relating to sustainability; also a call for the design and establishment of, and support for participatory enabling environments within which information and communications technologies, systems and processes - including traditional and non-electronic forms - can facilitate a transition to more open, equitable and sustainable communities and society.
      habitat.igc.org/csdngo/1997/ie.htm

1997.04

    • Colour Equations / Faces of the Peace Cube
      An early visual presentation of some of the basic colour equations between the additive (light) and subtractive (pigment) primary colours as expressed through the faces of the light and colour cubes.
      habitat.igc.org/equations

1997.05

    • Images from the Peace Cube
      Images developed from the presentation of the "virtual light and colour cube" at its dedication as a peace cube at the Earthday on the Equinox on the Internet Ceremony at the Peace Bell at United Nations Headquarters, New York. The images highlight rhythmic qualities, photographic negativity, and the primary lights and pigments of the cubes.
      habitat.igc.org/images

1997.05

    • Partners and the Implementation of the Habitat Agenda
      Publication of Guides to the implementation of the Habitat Agenda, and a framework - the Habitat Online Partnership Plan of Action designed to enable monitoring and implementation of the Habitat Agenda.

1997.06

    • Towards Earth Summit II: Recommendations for Actions and Commitments at Earth Summit II
      Consensus document presenting NGO recommendations for Actions and Commitments at Earth Summit II, the five year review of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
      habitat.igc.org/csdngo/1997/es2ngo1.html

1997.06

    • NGO Committee on Human Settlements
      A demonstration template for a committee of the Conference of Non-governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO), and developed in the context of the Partnership Informatics and Participation initiative.
      habitat.igc.org/ngochs

1997.09

    • Resolution on Information and Communications
      Resolution on Information and Communications - proposed by Information Habitat: Where Information Lives and International Council of Jewish Women and adopted by the 20th General Assembly of the Conference of NGOs - to recgnize the oppotunities offered by modern information and communications technology to increase their effectiveness and to strengthen the participation of NGOs in the work of the United Nations.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/ic-congo.htm

1997.11

    • Information Technology, Public Participation & Global Agreements
      Statement submitted to the UN Commission on Social Development on the critical need and opportunity to develop virtual structures for public participation to complement conventional and traditional structures, with particular reference to the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), the threats the MAI poses to social development goals, and the need for its reconciliation with the global agreements from Rio to Istanbul.
      habitat.igc.org/socdev/ngo10.htm

1998.02

    • dpu-pip - Partnership, Informatics and Participation for implementing the Habitat Agenda
      Seedbed for the development and implementation of a curriculum in information ecology designed to establish templates for the participatory use of information technology by local governnments and local communities and organizations. The site has also been used to make available - via e-mail and or a world wide web browser - key documents relating to public participation in consultation and decision-making relating to water, sustainability and health and the implementation of the agreement in the Habitat Agenda and Agenda 21.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dpu-pip

1998.02

    • Holistic Approaches to Freshwater: An Information Ecology Orientation
      Outline framework for the use of an information ecology approach - focussing on watershed-based interactive public access to freshwater information - developed from "Integrated Management of Freshwater Resources" recommendations from a 1998.01 Expert Group meeting in Harare.

1998.04

    • Essential Economics: Towards a Holistic Framework
      Preliminary schematic representation for "Essential Economics". The model, developed in the context of "Holistic approaches to freshwater" and the consideration of the nature of water as an economic good at the 6th Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, describes an economic transaction as a process at the intersection of flows of labour, money, knowledge, material resources, energy, infrastructure, etc.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-essence.pdf

1998.04

    • Primary Colours: A Proof
      Introductory presentation on the nature of primary colours based on the existence of - and symmetry and complementarity between - two sets of primary colours - red, green & blue for light; cyan, magenta & yellow for pigment.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/cop-llc-primary.ppt

1998.09

    • Information Ecology and Information Society
      A brief overview of information ecology focussing on the emerging significance of information space, of the need for public information space and the development of such spaces through the use of information and communications technology in the course of the series of global conferences of the 1990, and of the electronic mailing list as the key tool in support of non-governmental participation in the global conferences, with an overview of properties of electronic mailing lists and recommendations. Presented at "The Challenges of Information Technology for the Non-Profit Sector". Powerpoint presentation.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-ie-is.ppt

1998.11

    • Information Ecology for a Millennium Forum
      An outline of a general information ecology approach in support of information and communication needs of a Millennium Forum - or set of Forums. An overview of of some historical roots of information ecology and its evolution in support of the participation of non-governmental organizations in preparations for and follow-up to the global conferences of the 1990s. (Draft, in progress)

1998.12

    • Information Ecology: Holistic Framework for Empowerment & Transformation
      A holistic perspective on information flows, recognizing three fundamental dimensions of information space - content / substance, personal / community relationships, and the nature of information technology - and three basic phases of information processing - compilation / organization, communication / dissemination, and reception / utilisation. Powerpoint presentation.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-ie-hf.ppt

1998.12

    • Istanbul + 2.5 - Half Way on a Journey to Istanbul + 5: A Status Report
      Case study / report on a partnership-based information ecology framework for integrated follow-up to the Habitat Agenda and the global agreements of the 1990s. Presented at the "New Partnerships for Action" conference at the United Nations Staff College. Powerpoint presentation.
      habitat.igc.org/ie/wepip.ppt

1998.12

    • Introduction to Information Ecology
      A preliminary overview of some basics of information ecology and the relationship between information systems and other ecosystems; the nature of key properties of information and information flows and exchanges, including implications of physical properties of information - zero mass and size, light-speed; and overview of the application of information technology in support of the participation of NGOs in the preparation for and follow-up to the agreements of the global conferences of the 1990s. (Draft, in progress)
      habitat.igc.org/ie/ien-iie.ppt

1998.12

    • Mailbase Online Micro-Library Service
      An overview of the design of an online micro-library service, using the mailbase electronic mailing list system developed by and for British universities. Documents would be maintained in plain text, WordPerfect 5.1, and portable document format, and would be accessible by electronic mail as well as via the world wide web. (Draft, in progress)
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-mmls.ppt

1998.12

    • Soesterberg Declaration
      Declaration adopted at a Conference in Soesterberg, The Netherlands, by Non-Governmental Organizations preparing for participation in the European Ministerial Conference on Environment & Health organized World Health Organization that includes recommendations on protocols for public participation and access to information based on the principles of the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/99soesterberg.txt

1999.01

1999.01

    • Light and Colour Tiles - Cycles
      Templates for domino-format tiles, with pairs of adjacent faces. jpg format available for printing on A3 or 11x17, to copy on card stock. Discover some of the patterns, cycles and symmetry. pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/cop-tiles-c.jpg

1999.01

    • Light and Colour Tiles - Mirrors One
      Templates for domino-format tiles, with mirror faces. A4 / 8.5x11"; also available in jpg format for printing on A3 or 11x17, to copy on card stock. Infinite variations, patterns, symmetry, rhythms and cycles. pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/cop-tiles-m1.jpg

1999.01

1999.01

    • ngos@un - Non-Governmental Organizations at the United Nations
      Non-Governmental Organizations at the United Nations - a partnership to assist the UN Secretary-General in responding to the decision 1996/31 of the Economic and Social Council on Consultative Arangements for Non-Governmental Organizations" through a comprehensive approach to the application of modern information and communications technology in support of facilitation and documentation of NGOs in the work of the United Nations.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-ngosun.txt

1999.02

    • Faces of the Peace Cube
      Introduction to the faces of the light and colour cubes - and to a three-dimensional mathematics of light and colour. 10 slides / pages. Generated in Powerpoint; pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/cop-lcc-faces.pdf

1999.10

1999.10

    • Full Cost Electronic Market
      Schematic outline of key characteristics and relationships, and elements of the ecological properties relational database - engine of the market, incorporating "double entry bookkeeping for the earth". Outline, generated in Inspiration(r), in pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-fullcost.pdf

1999.10

1999.10

1999.10

    • Information Ecology of Electronic Mail
      Key material, economic, social and practical factors, in the context of electronic mail as a common and economical medium for communication and information exchange. Outline, generated in Inspiration(r), in pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-ieem.pdf

1999.10

    • Network Properties
      Fundamental properties and characteristics of networks, including integrity, connectivity, governance and groundedness. Outline, generated in Inspiration(r) in pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-network.pdf

1999.10

    • Information Ecology Partners for a Sustainable Millennium
      Partnership initiatives using information and communication technologies to support orderly broad-based public participation in local, national, regional, and global decision-making processes relating to sustainability, equity, human rights & peace.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-iepsm.txt

1999.10

1999.10

    • ngos@un Database - An Outline
      Sketch of major areas of database elements in ngos@un - a comprehensive relational database of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at the United Nations. Inspiration-generated file, in pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-ngosun-db.pdf

1999.10

1999.10

    • Properties and Principles of Information
      Properties of zero mass, zero physical size, speed of light, common access to properties of the whole; principles governing value, flow, management and understanding of information. Outline in pdf format, generated in Inspiration(r).
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-informat.pdf

1999.11

    • Properties of Information
      Properties of information - zero mass, zero physical size, speed of light, common access to properties of the whole; principles governing information. Outline in pdf format, generated in Inspiration.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-informat.pdf

1999.11

    • Housing Court of Kings: A framework for information ecology and the administration of Justice
      Information ecology, justice and the law. A framework and a test case / case study in an information ecology-enabled transformation of the Housing Part of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Kings County - better known as Brooklyn. Housing Court of kings is also intended to serve as a model framework to strengthen the role of Housing Courts to do justice to the rights of tenants, and to the responsibilities of landlords to maintain their properties in a lawful, ecologically-sound manner in keeping with the language and the spirit of international agreements on sustainable housing and sustainable communities and cities, and on sustainable, participatory development.
      habitat.igc.org/housing-court-of-kings/overview.pdf

2000.07

    • Gaia University
      A web-based home for Gaia University and for a preliminary presentation of the Gaia Mind Hypothesis, including a presentation of an extensive set of Interet domains that were registered by members of the Gaia University family of organizations. Each of the domains was intended to play a central role in the curriculum and administration of Gaia University, and are being designed and developed within an information ecology domain framework.

2000.07

    • Nine Primary Colours
      A presentation of the primary equations of colour and light, the symmetry of light and pigment, and the nine primary colours. Nine Primary Colors is also a demonstration and appreciation of the power of zero in the three-dimensional mathematics of colour - and in any numeric system.

2000.07

    • Diagonal Faces of the Light and Colour Cubes
      A set of twenty-four of the forty-eight diagonal faces of the cubes - the twelve in which either black is at bottom or top, or where white is at the top or bottom. Click on any images that gets your attention - when you see it at the center, its negative is in the lower right.
      habitat.igc.org/faces-vertical

2000.09

    • Peace Cubes - Gifts of Light
      Home for the Peace Cubes - Virtual Light and Colour Cubes that are at the centre of a three-dimensional mathematics of colour and light and that can transform our understanding of the nature and dimensions of light and colour. The Peace Cubes can also serve as vital elements in a new global curriculum on mathematics, colour and light, as symbols for the One Light in all of Creation, and as teaching tools on the properties of knowledge-based economies, and as an introduction to the properties of zero-based economy. All of the images are computer-generated, the most recent images based on HTML tables generated from a DataPerfect database, as were most of the sets of web pages of images.
      habitat.igc.org/peace-cubes

2000.10

    • Digital Bridges
      A home for the establishment and maintenance of digital bridges - across the many gulfs - digital and otherwise - that have divided and separated people, communities, organizations and governments. Digital Bridges designs and architecture draw on the fundamental properties of information, information systems and networks, including the fact that information has zero mass, zero physical size and can travel at the speed of light, and that information systems now make possible common access to and observation of properties of the whole. [under construction]

2000.10

    • Peace Tiles - Gifts of Light
      A set of the ninety-six peace tiles - based on mirror images of the faces and the cycles of all possible pairs of contiguous faces of the Peace Cubes. Each colourful tile is framed below a frieze of the corresponding faces. The bottom frieze contains the photographic negative of the tile. Below that are the sixteen "cycle tiles" corresponding to the faces of the main tile. Sound complicated? In practice it is easy - and fun if you let your eyes and feelings guide you. Virtually no words, yet simple to grasp visually.

      The web site for the Peace Tiles was launched on October 24, United Nations Day, 2000.
      habitat.igc.org/tiles


2000.10

    • Peace Faces - Faces of the Peace Cubes
      A meditation on the forty-eight faces of the light and colour cubes. Each face represents a meeting place of four primary colours and may evoke a unique feeling. Each face is framed below a frieze of the eight rotations and reflections of itself. At the loer right of the face is its photographic negative. A bottom frieze contains small icons of the forty eight faces. Easy - and enjoyable; forget about words; let your eyes and feelings guide you.
      habitat.igc.org/faces

2000.10

    • Financing for Development and Transition to the Knowledge-Based Economy
      An analysis of the critical need for the Financing for Development (FfD) process at the United Nations to focus attention on the need for financing development that enables participation of developing countries in the new knowledge-based economy, and an identification of some of the key issues that need to be considered in the transition to a knowledge-based economy. Prepared for the FfD Business Hearings.
      habitat.igc.org/ffd-kbe

2000.12

    • Financing for Development Forum
      A partnership-based online framework to enable access to information and broad-based participation in consultations relating to the preparations for the High Level United Nations event on Financing for Development scheduled for the first quarter of 2002.

2000.12

    • Healing a Nation
      Healing a Nation is intended to serve as a home for an online forum in support of President-Elect Gearge W. Bush's commitment to engage in a process of healing the divides in the U.S. that had become visible in the U.S. Presidential Election in the year 2000. The site highlights a fifth verse of the U.S. National Anthem, beginning with "Oh say can you see, by the one light in all", dedicated at a sunrise interfaith Earth Day ceremony held in April 1990 at Fort McHenry, birthplace of the National Anthem.

2000.12

    • hiv-aids-care - a graphic representation
      "A picture is worth a thousand words." A graphic representation of the incidence of HIV/AIDS infection through the use of geographic information system maps comiled by the UN-AIDS programme. The maps vividly and directly make visible both the extent of infection, and and its growth, at five year intervals in Africa, South America and Asia.
      habitat.igc.org/hiv-aids-care

2001.03

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Rainbow Cubic Sine Waves
      An endless sequence of cycling "rainbow cubic sine waves" - based on a mapping of the colours of the Light and Colour Cubes onto the shape of a sine wave in a quest to reconcile and connect the cubes and the rainbow, as well as to bridge the gulf between the square and cube and the circle and sphere.
      habitat.igc.org/reconcile/rcsw.htm

2001.12

    • Meditation on One Light in All: Queries on Opening to the Light
      A meditative online presentation of the Queries on Opening to the Light - a presentation that serves as the opening segment of a Journey of Light, Reconcilation and Peace prepared in response to September 11, 2001 and its aftermath.
      habitat.igc.org/queries

2001.12

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Twin Beacons of Light and Colour
      A cycle of eight images of the skyline of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center - illuminated by the arrival and receding of the Light and Colour Cubes in an endless cycle. Clicking on the image enables more information, and access to prior and next steps in A Journey of Light, Reconciliation and Peace.
      habitat.igc.org/twin-beacons

2001.12

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Twin Cubes of Light and Colour
      A set of twelve cycling page with images of mirrored twin pairs of Light and Colour Cubes, showing all possible regular presentations from the white and black apexes of the cubes. The images are clickable, providing access to more information and to other phases of the Journey of Light, Reconciliation and Peace.
      habitat.igc.org/twin-cubes

2001.12

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Twisted Pairs of Light and Colour Cubes
      A cycling series of twenty-four pages with images of "Twisted Pairs of Light and Colour Cubes" - pairs of cubes in which the one is the unseen side of the other.
      habitat.igc.org/twisted-pairs

2001.12

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Reconciliation in Primary Colours
      A set of eight cycling images with the principal protagonists in a War of - President George W. Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney, and Secretary of State Colin Powell and Osama bin Laden - against backgrounds of the Light and Colour Cubes and of the six non-zero primary colours.
      habitat.igc.org/reconcile/primary.htm

2001.12

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Reconciliation in 16 Colour Palettes
      A set of seventy-two images with the primary representatives of the September 11 protagonists - President George W. Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney, and Secretary of State Colin Powell and Osama bin Laden against backgrounds of the Light and Colour Cubes transposed into sixteen colour images, and serving as visual metaphors for ways that our perception of our enemies can be distorted when we see them from a limited palette, and one in which our enemies' colours are only partially represented.
      habitat.igc.org/reconcile/16colour.htm

2001.12

    • A Journey of Light, Reconciliation and Peace
      Interfaith journey invoking light, reconciliation and peace in response to the World Trade Center bombings of September 11 and the aftermath of the bombings. The journey is a series of eight brief passages: Queries on Opneing to the Light; Twin Beacons of Light; Twin Light and Colour Cubes; Tsited Pairs of Cubes; Oh Say Can You See By the One Light in All; Reconciliation in Primary Colours; Reconciliation in 16 Colour Palettes; and The Great Invocation.
      habitat.igc.org/reconcile

2001.12

    • Gandhi-King 2002 Season for Nonviolence - Calendar
      Illustrated daily calendar of themes and quotations prepared for the New York City Season for Nonviolence Task Force based on "64 Ways - 64 Days" developed by the Association for Global New Thought.
      habitat.igc.org/snv-2002

2002.01

    • Proposed Additions to Vice-Chairs' Paper on Sustainable Development Governance
      Recommendations for inclusion of language relating to use of information and communications technology in governance including access to information and boad-based participation in consultation and decision-making; integrated, linked online database of relevant agreements; use of geographic information systems at local, national and international levels.
      habitat.igc.org/wssd2002/ih-gov.htm

2002.03

    • Introduction to Information Ecology: A Journey from Rio to Johannesburg
      Overview of key concepts and issues in information ecology as it evolved in the course of a focus on information and communications technology in the context of NGO participation in UN Conferences and related NGO and intergovernmental proceedings beginning with preparations for the 1992 Earth Summit and leading into the 10 year review of the Earth Summit in Johannesburg. Presented to the Information Technology SIG at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies,
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk.edu/files/dpu-pip/

2002.04

    Databases

    • INFOHAB - Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
      The initial database for Information Habitat: Where Information Lives; succeeded by the NGOS@UN database. During the active life of INFOHAB, it was the locus of major growth in its structure and contents, and was used to manage, inter alia, databases for key NGO Committees - on Human Settlements, Social Development, Sustainable Development, the NGO Steering Committee to the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development, and the preliminry database for participants in preparations for the Millennium Forum.

1995.05

    • INTERNET - Networked knowledge and information
      The Internet database is the successor to the NGOS@UN database, incorporating a significant number of new data files - now totalling 99, including the water-body oriented geographic data structure that were developed in preparation for Y2K contingency planning, and a set of data files for Internet domain names, the registration of which was a major focus of activity in the year 2000, and that are central components in the design of Gaia University and in an evolving proof of the Gaia Mind hypothesis.

2000.06

    • ECOLOGY - Gaia University network of knowledge, information ecology database
      ECOLOGY is the successor to the INTERNET database, renamed to focus attention on its ecological properties, and incorporating minor revisions and updates to its structure, in addition to the conceptual shift associated with the change of name.

2000.11

    • HABITAT3 - Habitat Three
      An evolution from the ECOLOGY database, Habitat Three is conceived of both as a preliminary organizing database for an anticipated Habitat III Conference to be held in 2016, and as a prototype digital habitat for the Third Millennium. The HABITAT3 database serves as the primary database of Information Habitat and as the engine that generates the pages for Project Information Habitat.

2001.03

  • Save America's Future

      General computer support, and training in word processing and desktop publishing.

1990.05-1990.08
Washington, U.S.A.

  • VisionLink Education Foundation

    Consultant
      Database design, development and management and desk top publishing for Who Is Who: People, Projects and Organizations in Service to the Earth. Training in word processing, data entry, report generation and routine database management.

1990.05-1991.04
Waynesville, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Who Is Who: People, Projects and Organizations In Service to the Earth
      Cross-referenced, indexed database-generated directory of people, projects and organizations in service to the Earth.

1991.05

    Databases

    • WHOISWHO - Who Is Who: People, Projects and Organizations in Service to the Earth
      Database designed and developed to enable the publication of Who Is Who: People, Projects and Organizations in Service to the Earth. WHOISWHO enabled the compilation, classification and organization of the people and projects, abd the directory - the core of the book - was directly created though WordPerfect 5.0 from a file generated from WHOISWHO.

1990.06

  • Institute for Global Communications / On The Line

    Project Director
      Wrote and directed the successful proposal for On The Line: Interactive Preparations for the First Earth Summit, a project funded by the MacArthur Foundation, that was designed to promote the effective use of electronic communications by NGOs involved in the UNCED preparatory process, and included the publication of a newsletter that incorporated methodological breakthroughs in on-line publishing.

1991.03-1991.09
San Francisco, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • On The Line: Interactive Preparations for the First Earth Summit. A Project Proposal
      Successful proposal for a project of Econet / Institute of Global Communications -- funded by the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation -- with a conceptual framework and overview of methodology for On The Line, a publication to facilitate interactive preparation for the Earth Summit (UNCED), and designed for global electronic distribution as a typeset microcomputer document.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/otl-prop.htm

1991.04

    • On The Line: Interactive Preparations for the First Earth Summit
      Guide to on-line communication issues and resources related to the UNCED / Earth Summit preparations; highlights some key issues for PrepCom 3; overview of PrepCom 3 documents and UNCED-related electronic conferences.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/otl-1.htm

1991.08

  • Fifth World Conference of Friends

    Delegate
      Representative of Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends at the Conference. Drafted a resolution on the UN Conference on Environment and Development that was adopted by the Conference.

1991.05-1991.05
Elspeet, The Netherlands

  • Alliance of Northern People for Environment & Development

    Member
      Active participant in the formative stages of ANPED including the establishment of by-laws and statement of purpose. Editor / author of the structure of the U.S. Citizens Network for UNCED that served as the template for ANPED's constituion.

1991.05-1993.01
Brussels, Belgium

    Databases

    • ANPED - Alliance of Northern People for Environment & Development
      Members of the Alliance of Northern People for Environment & Development (ANPED) and participants at its November 1992 Annual meeting - in Budapest, Hungary - to discuss plans, visions and strategy for European NGO follow-up to the Earth Summit and the Global Forum.

1992.11

    • DZB-AN - Da Zi Bao at ANPED Annual Meeting
      Da Zi Bao treatment of comments in the consumption and production working group at the 1992 Annual Meeting of ANPED (Alliance of Northern People for Environment and Development) in Budapest.

1992.11

  • International NGO Forum

    Participant, Consultant
      Active participant in alternative treaties on "Communication, Information, Media and Networking". Compilation, organization and online dissemination of drafts and final versions of treaties; compiled, edited, organized and published a series of bound publications of the NGO Alternative Treaties preliminary at the US Citizens Network on UNCED's conference in October 1992, and at the Eco Ed conference in Ottawa, Canada in October 1992. Editor of official version of the NGO Alternative Treaties.

1991.08-1994.03
Ontario, Canada

    Documents

    • Roots of the Future - Database and Directory of Participants
      Directory of participants in Roots of the Future - a major international NGO conference organized by the Environment Liaison Centre International and sponsored by the government of France.

1991.11

    • Da Zi Bao: An Interactive Process - Messages from Roots of the Future, International NGO Conference
      A database-generated compilation of all the Da Zi Bao messages published at the Roots of the Future NGO Conference in Paris, organized by keyword. The compilation provides a clear identification of the critical issues - and the diversity of perspectives - that were of concern to NGOs in the UNCED process.
      habitat.igc.org/dazibao/compile.pdf

1992.01

    • Da Zi Bao: UNCED PrepCom 4
      Database and bulletin published during the four week final Preparatory Committee. 17 issues, 275 messages. With Nathalie Liamine, Claire Marsden and others.

1992.03

    • Da Zi Bao
      Fifty-eight issues of the Da Zi Bao interactive bulletin were published during the '92 Global Forum in Rio; 21 issues were in English, 25 in Portuguese, 8 in Spanish and 4 in French. More than 2,200 separate messages in all were published. An additional 10 issues of Da Zi Bao were published in conjunction with the Inter-Sectoral Dialogue meetings at the Global Forum.

1992.06

    • Alternative Treaty-Making Process: Education in Sustainability and Global Responsibility (Pre-Publication edition)
      A compilation of the Alternative Treaties developed by non-government organizations at the '92 Global Forum in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. (An earlier version was published in September 1992)

1992.10

    • Alternative Treaties Bulletin
      Bulletin with news and reports on the implementation of the Alternative Treaties developed in Rio de Janeiro at the '92 Global Forum.

1992.11

    • Alternative Treaties: Synergistic Processes for Sustainable Communities and Global Responsibility
      An edited version of the alternative treaties developed by non-government organizations at the '92 Global Forum in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. The edition incorporates an enhanced classification system that, inter alia, facilitated the incorporation of the treaties in a searchable full-text database and an expanded introduction to the alternative treaty process.
      habitat.igc.org/treaties

1993.01

    • The NGO Alternative Treaties and the NGO Treaty Process
      The offical edition of the alternative treaties from the International NGO Forum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil June 1-14 1992, published by the Canadian Council on International Cooperation, and incorporating the text and format as edited and published by International Synergy Institute and Ideas for Tomorrow Today.

1994.02

    Databases

    • INGOF - International NGO Forum
      Registrants for and Signatories of the Alternative Treaties at the '92 Global Forum

1992.09

    • TREATIES - Rio Agreements: Agenda 21, Biodiversity & Climate Conventions, etc.
      Full text searchable database of all the Rio Agreements: Agenda 21, Rio Declaration, Biodiversity & Climate Conventions, Forest Principles, Alternative Treates and Women's Action Agenda 21. TREATIES was used to generate the first version of Agenda 21 to be published in HTML format on the World Wide Web, in June 1995.

      Based on recent revisions, TREATIES is able to generate an interlinked set of web pages with the identification of all the occurrences in Agenda 21 and the Rio Declaration of selected words and phrases - presently for up to three words or phrases.


1993.01

  • On The Line: Interactive Preparations for the First Earth Summit

    Project Director
      On The Line served as an interim organizational name that was used between the time that funding for the publication of On The Line was terminated in the context of differences in evaluation of priorities with the Institute for Global Communications and the establishment of a relationship with the International Synergy Institute.

1991.09-1992.02
Geneve, Switzerland

    Documents

    • Expansion of Access to On-Line Communications
      Proposal for major expansion of access to computer and on-line resources among NGOs in developing countries and Eastern Europe.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/eaolc.htm

1991.07

    • Participating in the en.unced.general conference: Electronic conferencing in preparation for the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment & Development
      Overview of the need for using electronic communications for UNCED, and discussion of the nature of participation in an electronic conference.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/partic.htm

1991.08

    • On The Line: Interactive Preparations for the First Earth Summit
      Guide to on-line communication issues and resources related to the UNCED / Earth Summit preparations; highlights some key issues for PrepCom 3; overview of PrepCom 3 documents and UNCED-related electronic conferences.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/otl-1.htm

1991.08

    • Information, Communications, Eastern Europe and UNCED
      Analysis/discussion of critical information and communications needs of Eastern European NGOs, analysis of Eastern European information environment, and identification of strategic considerations.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/icee.htm

1991.09

    • Sailing to Rio: Part I - PrepBoat
      A proposal for a Cairo-Gibraltar-New York boat, with an on-board conference, for NGO delegates to the 4th UNCED PrepCom in New York in March 1992. European and African delegates would join the boat at various ports in the Mediterranean; Arab and Asian delegates via the Suez Canal. A key focus of the on-board conference would be the geo-politics of trade.

1991.09

    • Eastern European Participation in UNCED
      Discussion of the critical need for Eastern European NGOs to participate in the UNCED preparations, identification of key benefits, and strategic recommendations.

1991.10

    • Network & Communication Resources Exhibition/Demonstration, International NGO Conference, Paris
      Proposal for a demonstration of computer-based networking and communication resources during Roots of the Future, the major International NGO conference to be held in Paris in December 1991 - through the support of the government of France - in preparation for the Earth Summit. The proposal outlined plans for an on-site electronic network; the management of interactive documents, including a participatory newsletter; and the use of databases for UNCED-related documents and membership/contact information.
      habitat.igc.org/pims/ncred.htm

1991.10

    • UNCED Beyond Rio?
      Discussion of the need for follow up of UNCED developments beyond Rio, including a proposal to extend the UNCED process through the year 2000.

1991.11

    • Interactive, Integrative Networking & Communication Processes in Support of Participation in the Earth Summit / Global Forum '92
      Draft proposal for a strategy for the use of microcomputers to strengthen communication and networking among NGOs in French-speaking areas of Africa.

1992.01

    • UNCED Interactive Document System
      Preliminary design notes for an interactive document system for the intergovernmental negotiaions process at the 4th PrepCom for UNCED, incorporating features of the Da Zi Bao participant interactive message system.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/uids.htm

1992.01

  • Environmental Liaison Centre International

    Consultant
      Developed comprehensive proposal for information, communication and networking resources at the Roots of the Future international conference for NGOs held in Paris in preparation for UNCED; designed and implemented Da Zi Bao: An Interactive Exchange Process, an interactive bulletin for participants in the conference, supervising staff of nine people; designed and supervised database and related reports of conference invitees and participants; provided technical assistance in word processing, desk top publishing and electronic communications.

      Disseminated conference information and documents online and on disk. Organized and published Da Zi Bao at the final Preparatory Committee for the UN Conference on Environment and Development.


1991.09-1992.05
Nairobi, Kenya

    Documents

    • Roots of the Future - Database and Directory of Participants
      Directory of participants in Roots of the Future - a major international NGO conference organized by the Environment Liaison Centre International and sponsored by the government of France.

1991.11

    • Da Zi Bao: An Interactive Process
      A "participant interactive message system" that was based on a compilation of concise (50 words or less) messages from the participants of the Roots of the Future International NGO Conference in Paris. A total of nine issues were published during the four days of the conference.
      habitat.igc.org/dazibao

1991.12

    • Interactive, Integrative Networking & Communication Processes in Support of Participation in the Earth Summit / Global Forum '92
      Draft proposal for a strategy for the use of microcomputers to strengthen communication and networking among NGOs in French-speaking areas of Africa.

1992.01

    • Bulletin de Liaison Interactif
      Four issues - one French-English, two English-French, and one French-Castellano - eighteen pages, using "Da Zi Bao" style processes.

1992.03

    • Da Zi Bao: UNCED PrepCom 4
      Database and bulletin published during the four week final Preparatory Committee. 17 issues, 275 messages. With Nathalie Liamine, Claire Marsden and others.

1992.03

    Databases

    • PARIS - Participants in Roots of the Future, International NGO Conference, Paris
      Organizational affiliation, addresses, etc. of participants in the International NGO Conference in Paris in December 1991. Source of directory of conference participants.

1991.09

    • DZB-1 - Da Zi Bao - Roots of the Future
      The database for a "participant interactive message system" that was based on a compilation of concise (50 words or less) messages from the participants of the Roots of the Future International NGO Conference in Paris. The issues of Da Zi Bao were generated from WP5.1 secondary merge files generated from the database and the use of WP5.1 macros and styles. A total of nine issues were published during the four days of the conference, and a compilation of all the messages, organized by key word, was generated from DZB-1.

1991.12

  • Da Zi Bao: An Interactive Exchange Process

    Project Director
      Designed, developed and implemented an relational database version of a "participant interactive message system" that was used to document and disseminate ideas, recommendations and observations of non-govermental participants at meetings and consultations in preparation for the 1992 Earth Summit.

1991.12-1992.06
Baltimore, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Network & Communication Resources Exhibition/Demonstration, International NGO Conference, Paris
      Proposal for a demonstration of computer-based networking and communication resources during Roots of the Future, the major International NGO conference to be held in Paris in December 1991 - through the support of the government of France - in preparation for the Earth Summit. The proposal outlined plans for an on-site electronic network; the management of interactive documents, including a participatory newsletter; and the use of databases for UNCED-related documents and membership/contact information.
      habitat.igc.org/pims/ncred.htm

1991.10

    • Da Zi Bao: An Interactive Process
      A "participant interactive message system" that was based on a compilation of concise (50 words or less) messages from the participants of the Roots of the Future International NGO Conference in Paris. A total of nine issues were published during the four days of the conference.
      habitat.igc.org/dazibao

1991.12

    • Da Zi Bao: Global Structures Convocation
      Seven one-sided issues - in six different colours - of Da Zi Bao. The issues were sold for 25 cents apiece, and revenue from sales more than covered the immediate material costs of production.

1992.02

    • Da Zi Bao: Global Heart Magnanimous Planning Session
      Four one-sided issues of a participatory interactive message system, with fifty-one messages from thirty-five participants.

1992.02

    • Bulletin de Liaison Interactif
      Four issues - one French-English, two English-French, and one French-Castellano - eighteen pages, using "Da Zi Bao" style processes.

1992.03

    • Da Zi Bao: UNCED PrepCom 4
      Database and bulletin published during the four week final Preparatory Committee. 17 issues, 275 messages. With Nathalie Liamine, Claire Marsden and others.

1992.03

    • Da Zi Bao in Rio
      Proposal for the implementation of the Da Zi Bao interactive bulletin system at the '92 Global Forum in Rio.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/dzb-rio.htm

1992.04

    • Da Zi Bao: Inter-Sectoral Dialogue Meeting, '92 Global Forum
      Da Zi Bao was the principal document that was produced at the Inter-Sectoral Dialogue Meeting, preceding the official opening of the '92 Global Forum.

1992.06

    • Da Zi Bao
      Fifty-eight issues of the Da Zi Bao interactive bulletin were published during the '92 Global Forum in Rio; 21 issues were in English, 25 in Portuguese, 8 in Spanish and 4 in French. More than 2,200 separate messages in all were published. An additional 10 issues of Da Zi Bao were published in conjunction with the Inter-Sectoral Dialogue meetings at the Global Forum.

1992.06

    • Your Voice
      Twelve issues of Your Voice -- an interactive bulletin based on the Da Zi Bao model -- were published during the 1993 Parliament of World Religions. Three of the issues were dedicated to the proceedings of a "Parliament of the People" and one issue was a report based on the meetings of the Assembly of Religious and Spiritual Leaders.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice

1993.08

    • Hopes, Dreams and Visions. Your Voice, Issue 7
      Publication - as a special issue of Your Voice - of the "hopes, dreams and visions" - thematically organized - expressed by participants on Post-it notes in small group sessions in the first day of the four-day Parliament of the People held in parallel to the Parliament of World Religions.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice/yv--7.pdf

1993.09

    • Proposals. Your Voice, Issue 9
      Publication - as a special issue of Your Voice - of the proposal that were made by participants on Post-it notes in small group sessions in the third session of the four-day Parliament of the People that was held in parallel to the Parliament of World Religions.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice/yv--9.pdf

1993.09

    • Commitments. Your Voice, Issue 10
      Publication - as a special issue of Your Voice - of the personal commitments that were shared by participants - on Post-it notes in small group sessions - in the final session of the four-day Parliament of the People that was held in parallel to the Parliament of World Religions.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice/yv-10.pdf

1993.09

    • Model Process for Interactive Participation
      Description of the interactive participation process used at the Parliament of the People at the 1993 Parliament of World Religions - a grassroots parallel process to the Assembly of Spiritual and Religious Leaders.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice/process.htm

1993.09

    Databases

    • DZB-1 - Da Zi Bao - Roots of the Future
      The database for a "participant interactive message system" that was based on a compilation of concise (50 words or less) messages from the participants of the Roots of the Future International NGO Conference in Paris. The issues of Da Zi Bao were generated from WP5.1 secondary merge files generated from the database and the use of WP5.1 macros and styles. A total of nine issues were published during the four days of the conference, and a compilation of all the messages, organized by key word, was generated from DZB-1.

1991.12

    • DZB-GH - Da Zi Bao - Global Heart Convocation
      Four single page issues of Da Zi Bao were published in a small-scale, informal implementation of the Da Zi Bao process at the gathering of people on the basis of a Heart-centered concern for the issues of the upcoming Earth Summit.

1992.02

    • DZB-GS - Da Zi Bao - Second Global Structures Convocation
      Seven one-sided issues, one hundred and three messages - in six different colours - of Da Zi Bao at a major conference to explores the need for new global structures in the context of preparatio. ns for the Earth Summit. The issues were sold for 25 cents apiece, and revenue from sales more than covered the immediate material costs of the issues.

1992.02

    • DZB-PC4 - Da Zi Bao - UNCED PrepCom 4
      Full-text database of all the Da Zi Bao issues during the final Preparatory Committee for UNCED (the Earth Summit). 17 issues, 175 messages published.

1992.03

    • DZB-GEN - Da Zi Bao - General version
      Template for Da Zi Bao database with multiple languages.

1992.06

    • DZB-IS - Da Zi Bao - Inter-Sectoral Dialogue Meeting, '92 Global Forum

1992.06

    • DZB-RIO - Da Zi Bao - '92 Global Forum
      Full text database containing the fifty-eight issues of the Da Zi Bao interactive bulletin that were published during the '92 Global Forum in Rio; 21 issues were in English, 25 in Portuguese, 8 in Spanish and 4 in French. More than 2,200 separate messages in all were published - more than 2,800 records were gathered. An additional 10 issues of Da Zi Bao were published in conjunction with the Inter-Sectoral Dialogue meetings at the Global Forum.

1992.06

  • International Synergy Institute

    United Nations Representative
      Active participation in, and monitoring of, the proceedings of the Commission on Sustainable Development, the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a Convention on Desertification, the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, the World Summit for Social Development, the International Conference on Population and Development, the Fourth World Conference on Women and the Open-Ended Working Group on the Review of Arrangements for Consultations with Non-Governmental Organizations; in all these proceedings, this involved a leadership role in promoting the compilation and dissemination of documents in electronic format -- on disk and via electronic communications -- and the provision of support in the use of information and communication technology by representatives of non-governmental organizations participating in the above proceedings.

1992.01-1995.06
Baltimore, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Da Zi Bao: An Interactive Process - Messages from Roots of the Future, International NGO Conference
      A database-generated compilation of all the Da Zi Bao messages published at the Roots of the Future NGO Conference in Paris, organized by keyword. The compilation provides a clear identification of the critical issues - and the diversity of perspectives - that were of concern to NGOs in the UNCED process.
      habitat.igc.org/dazibao/compile.pdf

1992.01

    • Da Zi Bao: Global Structures Convocation
      Seven one-sided issues - in six different colours - of Da Zi Bao. The issues were sold for 25 cents apiece, and revenue from sales more than covered the immediate material costs of production.

1992.02

    • Da Zi Bao: Global Heart Magnanimous Planning Session
      Four one-sided issues of a participatory interactive message system, with fifty-one messages from thirty-five participants.

1992.02

    • Bulletin de Liaison Interactif
      Four issues - one French-English, two English-French, and one French-Castellano - eighteen pages, using "Da Zi Bao" style processes.

1992.03

    • Da Zi Bao: UNCED PrepCom 4
      Database and bulletin published during the four week final Preparatory Committee. 17 issues, 275 messages. With Nathalie Liamine, Claire Marsden and others.

1992.03

    • Da Zi Bao in Rio
      Proposal for the implementation of the Da Zi Bao interactive bulletin system at the '92 Global Forum in Rio.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/dzb-rio.htm

1992.04

    • Synergistic Community Communication and Interactive Processes
      Outline of proposed activities of the Synergistic Communications project for the Earth Summit & '92 Global Forum in Rio. The elements include work with the alternative treaty on Information and Communications, the publication of Da Zi Bao, the compilation of a directory of participants, the utilization of multilingual translation software, and the compilation of UNCED-related disk-based resources.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/sccip.htm

1992.05

    • Da Zi Bao: Inter-Sectoral Dialogue Meeting, '92 Global Forum
      Da Zi Bao was the principal document that was produced at the Inter-Sectoral Dialogue Meeting, preceding the official opening of the '92 Global Forum.

1992.06

    • Da Zi Bao
      Fifty-eight issues of the Da Zi Bao interactive bulletin were published during the '92 Global Forum in Rio; 21 issues were in English, 25 in Portuguese, 8 in Spanish and 4 in French. More than 2,200 separate messages in all were published. An additional 10 issues of Da Zi Bao were published in conjunction with the Inter-Sectoral Dialogue meetings at the Global Forum.

1992.06

    • Communications & Information -- 1993 Global Forum
      Concept paper for an integrated communications and information strategy for a 1993 Global Forum that was to have been hosted by the UK Government.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/ci-gf93.htm

1992.07

    • Notes on a United Kingdom Global Forum, 1993
      Discussion paper on decision making, design, process and participation issues to be considered by the NGO community in response to the proposed 1993 Global Forum to be hosted by the UK Government.

1992.08

    • Database of NGOs Accredited to UNCED
      Relational database of the 1,420 NGOs accredited to UNCED, their 2,850 representatives, a description of their UNCED-related activities, and classification by area of interest and sector; includes 10 page manual/guide.

1992.08

    • Alternative Treaty-Making Process: Education in Sustainability and Global Responsibility (Pre-Publication edition)
      A compilation of the Alternative Treaties developed by non-government organizations at the '92 Global Forum in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. (An earlier version was published in September 1992)

1992.10

    • Alternative Treaties Bulletin
      Bulletin with news and reports on the implementation of the Alternative Treaties developed in Rio de Janeiro at the '92 Global Forum.

1992.11

    • Alternative Treaties: Synergistic Processes for Sustainable Communities and Global Responsibility
      An edited version of the alternative treaties developed by non-government organizations at the '92 Global Forum in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. The edition incorporates an enhanced classification system that, inter alia, facilitated the incorporation of the treaties in a searchable full-text database and an expanded introduction to the alternative treaty process.
      habitat.igc.org/treaties

1993.01

    • The Rio Agreements: A Full Text Database
      The official Rio agreements -- Agenda 21, Climate and Biodiversity Conventions, the Forest Principles and the Rio de Janeiro Declaration -- are combined with the Alternative Treaties from the International NGO Forum and the Women's Action Agenda 21 in a DataPerfect database format with built-in menus that permits easy search and retrieval of all section of these historic agreements that include any specified word or phrase.

1993.03

    • Applying Information and Communication Technology for Sustainability
      Intervention at the first session of the Commission on Sustainable Development recommending, inter alia, that procedures be adopted requesting all documents submitted to the Commission be also provided in electronic format.
      habitat.igc.org/interven/csd-93.htm

1993.06

    • Your Voice
      Twelve issues of Your Voice -- an interactive bulletin based on the Da Zi Bao model -- were published during the 1993 Parliament of World Religions. Three of the issues were dedicated to the proceedings of a "Parliament of the People" and one issue was a report based on the meetings of the Assembly of Religious and Spiritual Leaders.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice

1993.08

    • Participating in the Convention on Combatting Desertification and Effects of Drought
      Provided an overview of the Convention, and of the opportunities for participation and for exchange and access to documentation by NGOs and the academic community.

1993.09

    • Hopes, Dreams and Visions. Your Voice, Issue 7
      Publication - as a special issue of Your Voice - of the "hopes, dreams and visions" - thematically organized - expressed by participants on Post-it notes in small group sessions in the first day of the four-day Parliament of the People held in parallel to the Parliament of World Religions.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice/yv--7.pdf

1993.09

    • Proposals. Your Voice, Issue 9
      Publication - as a special issue of Your Voice - of the proposal that were made by participants on Post-it notes in small group sessions in the third session of the four-day Parliament of the People that was held in parallel to the Parliament of World Religions.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice/yv--9.pdf

1993.09

    • Commitments. Your Voice, Issue 10
      Publication - as a special issue of Your Voice - of the personal commitments that were shared by participants - on Post-it notes in small group sessions - in the final session of the four-day Parliament of the People that was held in parallel to the Parliament of World Religions.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice/yv-10.pdf

1993.09

    • Summary Report of the Assembly of Religous and Spiritual Leaders
      Compilation of a Summary Report based on the meetings of the Assembly of Religious and Spiritual Leaders, based on multi-level classification scheme for comments, observations and recommendations of participants, as recorded by members of the Facilitation Team.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice/asrl.pdf

1993.09

    • Model Process for Interactive Participation
      Description of the interactive participation process used at the Parliament of the People at the 1993 Parliament of World Religions - a grassroots parallel process to the Assembly of Spiritual and Religious Leaders.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice/process.htm

1993.09

    • The NGO Alternative Treaties and the NGO Treaty Process
      The offical edition of the alternative treaties from the International NGO Forum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil June 1-14 1992, published by the Canadian Council on International Cooperation, and incorporating the text and format as edited and published by International Synergy Institute and Ideas for Tomorrow Today.

1994.02

    • Dissemination of this Working Group's Papers in Electronic Format: Intervention of International Synergy Institute
      Intervention at the Intersessional Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group on Technology Transfer and Cooperation of the Commission on Sustainable Development noting the benefits of electronic dissemination of the documents before the Working Group as well as the broader role of strengthening information infrastructure in support of sustainable development.
      habitat.igc.org/interven/csdis-94.htm

1994.02

    • International Synergy Institute
      The first web site - while serving as the UN Representative for the International Synergy Institute, a previous home of Information Habitat, and an accredited Non-Governmental Organization to the 1992 Earth Summit and subsequently to the Roster of the UN Economic and Social Council for the purposes of participation in the Commission on Sustainable Development.
      [www.igc.org/synergy]

1994.05

    • On-line Access to United Nations Documents - in Newsletter of the South-North Centre for Environmental Policy
      Overview of current United Nations proceedings directly or indirectly relating to the follow-up from the Earth Summit in Rio, including information on how to obtain access to electronic copies of documents from the proceedings.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/ola-und.htm

1994.06

    • Some Critical Issues for the NGO Review
      Identification of key areas that had been addressed by the Open-Ended Working Group on the Review of Arrangements for Consultations with Non-Governmental Organizations.
      habitat.igc.org/interven/critical.htm

1994.06

    • Key Issues for the Open-ended Working Group on the Review of Arrangements for Consultations with Non-Governmental Organizations
      Identification of some of the priority concerns for NGOs from among those that were addressed during the First Session of the Open-Ended Working Group
      habitat.igc.org/interven/ngoadhoc.htm

1994.06

    • Strengthening Procedures for Consultation
      Statement submitted at the First Session of the Open-Ended Working Group on the Review of Arrangements for Consultations with Non-Governmental Organizations. Recommendations for consistency of procedures for consultation, on the role on national non-governmental organizations, practical arrangements, provisions for timely and effective access to documents, and modalities for consultation.
      habitat.igc.org/interven/oewg9406.htm

1994.06

    • Women Engaging The UN Online: WEDO's Electronic Communications in Action
      A guide to the Internet gopher of the Women's Environment and Development Organization, including a table of contents of the available documents - including reports of WEDO's activities at the global, regional, national, and local levels - and information on how to access the documents.
      gopher.igc.apc.org:70/11/orgs/wedo

1994.11

    • Strengthening NGO Participation at the United Nations
      Statement submitted at the Inter-sessional Meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group on the Review of Arrangements for Consultations with Non-Governmental Organizations. Recommendations for strengthening NGO participation at the UN, including the creative application of information and communication technology in support of systematic arrangements for broader and more timely access to UN documents and the establishment of an Information and Communication Center for compilation and dissemination of UN documents.
      habitat.igc.org/interven/oewg9411.htm

1994.11

    • Towards an Agenda for Information
      A very preliminary draft - in parts in outline format - to initiate a process of dialogue concerning the need for an Agenda for Information, to parallel and complement the Agenda for Peace and the Agenda for Development.
      habitat.igc.org/agenda

1995.02

    • Utilization of information and communication technology in support of broad-based participation and access to information
      Statement submitted by the International Synergy Institute at the Second Meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group on the Review of Arrangements for Consultations with Non-Governmental Organizations. Recommendations for the systematic application of information and communication technology in support of arrangements for broader and more timely access to UN documents and for consultation with non-governmental organizations.
      habitat.igc.org/interven/oewg9505.htm

1995.05

    Databases

    • SYNERGY - International Synergy Institute
      Primary database for the International Synergy Institute, successor to EIN, and served as a database of NGOs participating in the final stages of preparation for the Earth Summit and the followup to the Summit, and participation in subsequent UN Conferences, especially for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in Copenhagen in 1995.

1992.03

    • NGOUNCED - NGOs Accredited to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
      Documentation of information pertaining to Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) accredited to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) Conference - and made available by the NGIO Liaison Office of the UNCED Secretariat. NGOUNCED incorporated information on NGO representatives, relevance, sectors, key words, accreditation dates and record of the official Conference document approving the accreditation.

1992.08

  • Synergistic Processes project

    Project Director
      The principal focus project has been the application of information and communication technology in support of effective communication, access to information, and broad-based participation for the non-governmental organization community in the UNCED process and follow-up activities.

      Member of facilitation team at the 1993 Parliament of World Religions in Chicago, co-edited Your Voice interactive bulletin, with responsibility for special issues that organized and presented reports from a Parliament of the People and from the Assembly of Religious and Spiritual Leaders.

      During the UNCED preparations, project activities included the publication of the Da Zi Bao interactive bulletin at PrepCom IV and at the Global Forum in Rio; the latter involved publication of the bulletin in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French with a total staff, including volunteers, of 115 people. After Rio, the work involved compilation and publication of the Alternative Treaties, dissemination on disk of the official Rio agreements and the alternative treaties in several languages, the design, implementation and dissemination of a database of the NGOs accredited to UNCED and the organization of the text of the Rio agreements and the alternative treaties into a full text searchable database.


1992.01-1995.06
Baltimore, U.S.A.

  • Da Zi Bao at Rio

    Director
      Published Da Zi Bao: An Interactive Exchange Process during the '92 Global Forum at Rio de Janeiro. Modified and refined Da Zi Bao database, installed software on a 20 workstation local area network. A total of fifty-eight issues of Da Zi Bao were published - in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French - with a total staff, mostly university student volunteers, of 115 people.

1992.06-1992.06
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Documents

    • Da Zi Bao in Rio
      Proposal for the implementation of the Da Zi Bao interactive bulletin system at the '92 Global Forum in Rio.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/dzb-rio.htm

1992.04

    • Synergistic Community Communication and Interactive Processes
      Outline of proposed activities of the Synergistic Communications project for the Earth Summit & '92 Global Forum in Rio. The elements include work with the alternative treaty on Information and Communications, the publication of Da Zi Bao, the compilation of a directory of participants, the utilization of multilingual translation software, and the compilation of UNCED-related disk-based resources.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/sccip.htm

1992.05

    • Da Zi Bao: Inter-Sectoral Dialogue Meeting, '92 Global Forum
      Da Zi Bao was the principal document that was produced at the Inter-Sectoral Dialogue Meeting, preceding the official opening of the '92 Global Forum.

1992.06

    • Your Voice
      Twelve issues of Your Voice -- an interactive bulletin based on the Da Zi Bao model -- were published during the 1993 Parliament of World Religions. Three of the issues were dedicated to the proceedings of a "Parliament of the People" and one issue was a report based on the meetings of the Assembly of Religious and Spiritual Leaders.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice

1993.08

    • Hopes, Dreams and Visions. Your Voice, Issue 7
      Publication - as a special issue of Your Voice - of the "hopes, dreams and visions" - thematically organized - expressed by participants on Post-it notes in small group sessions in the first day of the four-day Parliament of the People held in parallel to the Parliament of World Religions.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice/yv--7.pdf

1993.09

    • Proposals. Your Voice, Issue 9
      Publication - as a special issue of Your Voice - of the proposal that were made by participants on Post-it notes in small group sessions in the third session of the four-day Parliament of the People that was held in parallel to the Parliament of World Religions.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice/yv--9.pdf

1993.09

    • Commitments. Your Voice, Issue 10
      Publication - as a special issue of Your Voice - of the personal commitments that were shared by participants - on Post-it notes in small group sessions - in the final session of the four-day Parliament of the People that was held in parallel to the Parliament of World Religions.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice/yv-10.pdf

1993.09

    Databases

    • VOL-DZB - Volunteers and team members for Da Zi Bao at Rio
      Volunteers, including active team members for Da Zi Bao at Rio

1992.04

    • DZB-RIO - Da Zi Bao - '92 Global Forum
      Full text database containing the fifty-eight issues of the Da Zi Bao interactive bulletin that were published during the '92 Global Forum in Rio; 21 issues were in English, 25 in Portuguese, 8 in Spanish and 4 in French. More than 2,200 separate messages in all were published - more than 2,800 records were gathered. An additional 10 issues of Da Zi Bao were published in conjunction with the Inter-Sectoral Dialogue meetings at the Global Forum.

1992.06

  • Ideas for Tomorrow Today

    Visiting Associate
      Edited and published final version of the NGO Alternative Treaties - in book form and on diskette - as "Alternative Treaties: Synergistic Processes for Sustainable Communities and Global Responsibility". Made available diskette copies of the Rio Agreements and the database of UNCED-accredited NGOs. Created a full-text relational database of the Rio Agreements - Rio Declaration, Agenda 21, Convention on Biodiversity, Framework Climate Convention, NGO Alternative Treaties and the Women's Action Agenda. Created, corrected and updated a database of signatories of the treaties. Edited and published an issue of NGO Alternative Treaties Bulletin.

1992.09-1993.03
Milbrook, United Kingdom

    Documents

    • Communications & Information -- 1993 Global Forum
      Concept paper for an integrated communications and information strategy for a 1993 Global Forum that was to have been hosted by the UK Government.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/ci-gf93.htm

1992.07

    • Notes on a United Kingdom Global Forum, 1993
      Discussion paper on decision making, design, process and participation issues to be considered by the NGO community in response to the proposed 1993 Global Forum to be hosted by the UK Government.

1992.08

    • Alternative Treaty-Making Process: Education in Sustainability and Global Responsibility (Pre-Publication edition)
      A compilation of the Alternative Treaties developed by non-government organizations at the '92 Global Forum in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. (An earlier version was published in September 1992)

1992.10

    • Alternative Treaties Bulletin
      Bulletin with news and reports on the implementation of the Alternative Treaties developed in Rio de Janeiro at the '92 Global Forum.

1992.11

    • Alternative Treaties: Synergistic Processes for Sustainable Communities and Global Responsibility
      An edited version of the alternative treaties developed by non-government organizations at the '92 Global Forum in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. The edition incorporates an enhanced classification system that, inter alia, facilitated the incorporation of the treaties in a searchable full-text database and an expanded introduction to the alternative treaty process.
      habitat.igc.org/treaties

1993.01

    Databases

    • INGOF - International NGO Forum
      Registrants for and Signatories of the Alternative Treaties at the '92 Global Forum

1992.09

    • TREATIES - Rio Agreements: Agenda 21, Biodiversity & Climate Conventions, etc.
      Full text searchable database of all the Rio Agreements: Agenda 21, Rio Declaration, Biodiversity & Climate Conventions, Forest Principles, Alternative Treates and Women's Action Agenda 21. TREATIES was used to generate the first version of Agenda 21 to be published in HTML format on the World Wide Web, in June 1995.

      Based on recent revisions, TREATIES is able to generate an interlinked set of web pages with the identification of all the occurrences in Agenda 21 and the Rio Declaration of selected words and phrases - presently for up to three words or phrases.


1993.01

  • NGO Steering Committee to the UN Commission on Sustainable Development

    Member
      Compilation of information and documents relating to the Commission in electronic format and dissemination on diskette and online. Set up and maintained membership database, electronic mailing lists and world wide web site for the Committee to strengthen communications and access to information among non-governmental organizations participating in the Commission on Sustainable Development. Hosted initial office for the Northern Clearinghouse and provided supervision and technical support. Established Information Ecology Caucus and has served as its Northern Chair.

1993.05-
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Applying Information and Communication Technology for Sustainability
      Intervention at the first session of the Commission on Sustainable Development recommending, inter alia, that procedures be adopted requesting all documents submitted to the Commission be also provided in electronic format.
      habitat.igc.org/interven/csd-93.htm

1993.06

    • Dissemination of this Working Group's Papers in Electronic Format: Intervention of International Synergy Institute
      Intervention at the Intersessional Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group on Technology Transfer and Cooperation of the Commission on Sustainable Development noting the benefits of electronic dissemination of the documents before the Working Group as well as the broader role of strengthening information infrastructure in support of sustainable development.
      habitat.igc.org/interven/csdis-94.htm

1994.02

    • Agenda 21, Other UNCED Agreements and the NGO Alternative Treaties
      The first - and for a long time, the only - web-based version of Agenda 21 and the other agreements of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development - the Earth Summit - held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, including the NGO Alternative Treaties.
      habitat.igc.org/agenda21

1995.08

    • Non-Governmental Organizations at the Commission for Sustainable Development
      Compilation of information resources and documents in support of participation by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the work of the Commission on Sustainable Development and preparations for Earth Summit II. The site highlighted the consensus NGO document "Toward Earth Summit Two: NGO Recommendations for Commitments and Action" which included a key section on Information Ecology. The NGO Steering Committee now maintains its own web site - http://www.csdngo.org/csdngo
      habitat.igc.org/csdngo

1997.03

    • Towards Earth Summit II: Recommendations for Actions and Commitments at Earth Summit II
      Consensus document presenting NGO recommendations for Actions and Commitments at Earth Summit II, the five year review of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
      habitat.igc.org/csdngo/1997/es2ngo1.html

1997.06

    • Y2K Countdown Digital Date Clock
      Presentation of the basis for the use of the Digital Date Clock - with yyyy.mm.dd format - as the ideal solution for a universal format for recording dates of transactions. pdf file from an HTML page.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/y2k-counting.pdf

1999.10

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [csdgen] - NGO Steering Committee to the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development

1997.01

    • [csdsteer] - CSD/NGO Steering Committee Members

1997.08

    Databases

    • INFOHAB - Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
      The initial database for Information Habitat: Where Information Lives; succeeded by the NGOS@UN database. During the active life of INFOHAB, it was the locus of major growth in its structure and contents, and was used to manage, inter alia, databases for key NGO Committees - on Human Settlements, Social Development, Sustainable Development, the NGO Steering Committee to the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development, and the preliminry database for participants in preparations for the Millennium Forum.

1995.05

    • CSDNGO - NGO Steering Committee for the UN Commission on Sustainable Development
      Database for the Coordinator of the Northern Clearinghoues for the NGO Steering Committee for maintenance of information on Steering COmmittee members and participants, and membership in Caucuses of the Steering Committee.

1996.12

  • UN Commission on Sustainable Development

    Representative of NGO in Consultative Status
      Active participant in the NGO community during the meetings of the Commission. Compilation and distribution of official documents in electronic format.

1993.06-
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Weaving the Threads of the NGO Process: Paris - New York- Rio de Janeiro - Beyond
      Discussion of ways to strengthen the continuity of the NGO preparatory process for UNCED, and of ways to bridge the gap between intergovernmental and NGO events in Rio.

1991.11

    • Applying Information and Communication Technology for Sustainability
      Intervention at the first session of the Commission on Sustainable Development recommending, inter alia, that procedures be adopted requesting all documents submitted to the Commission be also provided in electronic format.
      habitat.igc.org/interven/csd-93.htm

1993.06

    • Dissemination of this Working Group's Papers in Electronic Format: Intervention of International Synergy Institute
      Intervention at the Intersessional Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group on Technology Transfer and Cooperation of the Commission on Sustainable Development noting the benefits of electronic dissemination of the documents before the Working Group as well as the broader role of strengthening information infrastructure in support of sustainable development.
      habitat.igc.org/interven/csdis-94.htm

1994.02

    • International Synergy Institute
      The first web site - while serving as the UN Representative for the International Synergy Institute, a previous home of Information Habitat, and an accredited Non-Governmental Organization to the 1992 Earth Summit and subsequently to the Roster of the UN Economic and Social Council for the purposes of participation in the Commission on Sustainable Development.
      [www.igc.org/synergy]

1994.05

    • The Commission on Sustainable Development & The World Summit on Social Development Gophers
      The initial online compilation of all available official documents from the first two Sessions of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development - and an extensive set of documents submitted by Governments, Intergovernmental Orgathnzations and NGO Networks - and for the World Summit on Social Development. The site included a guide to use of the gopher and a comprehensive listing of the available documents.
      [gopher://gopher.un.org:70/11/esc/ecosocdocs/csd]

1994.10

    • Agenda 21, Other UNCED Agreements and the NGO Alternative Treaties
      The first - and for a long time, the only - web-based version of Agenda 21 and the other agreements of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development - the Earth Summit - held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, including the NGO Alternative Treaties.
      habitat.igc.org/agenda21

1995.08

    • Non-Governmental Organizations at the Commission for Sustainable Development
      Compilation of information resources and documents in support of participation by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the work of the Commission on Sustainable Development and preparations for Earth Summit II. The site highlighted the consensus NGO document "Toward Earth Summit Two: NGO Recommendations for Commitments and Action" which included a key section on Information Ecology. The NGO Steering Committee now maintains its own web site - http://www.csdngo.org/csdngo
      habitat.igc.org/csdngo

1997.03

    • "Information Ecology" in Towards Earth Summit II: NGO Recommendations for Actions and Commitments at Earth Summit II
      A call for a major commitment to analyze and explore the opportunities and implications of the rapidly evolving "information and communication ecosystem" and to identify critical information ecology issues relating to sustainability; also a call for the design and establishment of, and support for participatory enabling environments within which information and communications technologies, systems and processes - including traditional and non-electronic forms - can facilitate a transition to more open, equitable and sustainable communities and society.
      habitat.igc.org/csdngo/1997/ie.htm

1997.04

    • Towards Earth Summit II: Recommendations for Actions and Commitments at Earth Summit II
      Consensus document presenting NGO recommendations for Actions and Commitments at Earth Summit II, the five year review of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
      habitat.igc.org/csdngo/1997/es2ngo1.html

1997.06

    • Holistic Approaches to Freshwater Vitality: An Information Ecology Approach
      Outline framework for the use of an information ecology approach - focussing on watershed-based interactive public access to freshwater information - developed on the basis of NGO recommendations from the Freshwater Caucus and the Informaton Ecology Cacus of the NGO/CSD Ste fering Committee in response to "Integrated Management of Freshwater Resources" recommendations from a 1998.01 Expert Group meeting in Harare.
      habitat.igc.org/h2o-partners/hafv.pdf

1998.03

    • Holistic Approaches to Freshwater: An Information Ecology Orientation
      Outline framework for the use of an information ecology approach - focussing on watershed-based interactive public access to freshwater information - developed from "Integrated Management of Freshwater Resources" recommendations from a 1998.01 Expert Group meeting in Harare.

1998.04

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [csdgen] - NGO Steering Committee to the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development

1997.01

    • [csdsteer] - CSD/NGO Steering Committee Members

1997.08

    Databases

    • CSD - Commission on Sustainable Development
      Accredited and Participating NGOs at the First Session of the Commisison for Sustainable Development, 1st PrepCom of the Global Conference on Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, and 2nd & 3rd Sessions of the Intergovernmental Negotiation Committee for a Convention to Combat Desertification and the Effects of Drought.

1993.06

  • One World Now

    Consultant
      Set up and managed database of contact information; provided training and technical support in DataPerfect and WordPerfect.

1993.08-1993.12
Houston, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Your Voice
      Twelve issues of Your Voice -- an interactive bulletin based on the Da Zi Bao model -- were published during the 1993 Parliament of World Religions. Three of the issues were dedicated to the proceedings of a "Parliament of the People" and one issue was a report based on the meetings of the Assembly of Religious and Spiritual Leaders.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice

1993.08

    • Hopes, Dreams and Visions. Your Voice, Issue 7
      Publication - as a special issue of Your Voice - of the "hopes, dreams and visions" - thematically organized - expressed by participants on Post-it notes in small group sessions in the first day of the four-day Parliament of the People held in parallel to the Parliament of World Religions.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice/yv--7.pdf

1993.09

    • Proposals. Your Voice, Issue 9
      Publication - as a special issue of Your Voice - of the proposal that were made by participants on Post-it notes in small group sessions in the third session of the four-day Parliament of the People that was held in parallel to the Parliament of World Religions.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice/yv--9.pdf

1993.09

    • Commitments. Your Voice, Issue 10
      Publication - as a special issue of Your Voice - of the personal commitments that were shared by participants - on Post-it notes in small group sessions - in the final session of the four-day Parliament of the People that was held in parallel to the Parliament of World Religions.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice/yv-10.pdf

1993.09

    • Summary Report of the Assembly of Religous and Spiritual Leaders
      Compilation of a Summary Report based on the meetings of the Assembly of Religious and Spiritual Leaders, based on multi-level classification scheme for comments, observations and recommendations of participants, as recorded by members of the Facilitation Team.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice/asrl.pdf

1993.09

    Databases

    • ONEWORLD - One World Now
      Contact information database of One World Now.

1993.08

  • Parliament of World Religions

    Facilitating team
      Co-opted member of a thirty-person facilitating team for the Parliament. Active participant on the facilitating team; compiled, edited and published a Summary Report of the Assembly of Religious and Spiritual Leaders for the Facilitating Team based on the reports and observations of the members of the team.

1993.08-1993.09
Chicago, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Summary Report of the Assembly of Religous and Spiritual Leaders
      Compilation of a Summary Report based on the meetings of the Assembly of Religious and Spiritual Leaders, based on multi-level classification scheme for comments, observations and recommendations of participants, as recorded by members of the Facilitation Team.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice/asrl.pdf

1993.09

    Databases

    • ASSEMBLY - Assembly of Religious and Spiritual Leaders at the Parliament of World Religions
      Database that was used - in conjunction with WordPerfect 5.1 styles and macros - to classify, organize and format the report of the facilitating group based on facilitator's observations and notes on the proceedings of the Assembly.

1993.08

  • Your Voice

    Co-Editor & Publisher
      Facilitated and published eleven issues of Your Voice - a participant interactive message system for participants to record their thoughts, observations, and ideas and reflections during the 1993 Parliament of the World's Religions, including three special issues for a "Parliament of the People."

1993.08-1993.09
Chicago, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Your Voice
      Twelve issues of Your Voice -- an interactive bulletin based on the Da Zi Bao model -- were published during the 1993 Parliament of World Religions. Three of the issues were dedicated to the proceedings of a "Parliament of the People" and one issue was a report based on the meetings of the Assembly of Religious and Spiritual Leaders.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice

1993.08

    • Hopes, Dreams and Visions. Your Voice, Issue 7
      Publication - as a special issue of Your Voice - of the "hopes, dreams and visions" - thematically organized - expressed by participants on Post-it notes in small group sessions in the first day of the four-day Parliament of the People held in parallel to the Parliament of World Religions.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice/yv--7.pdf

1993.09

    • Proposals. Your Voice, Issue 9
      Publication - as a special issue of Your Voice - of the proposal that were made by participants on Post-it notes in small group sessions in the third session of the four-day Parliament of the People that was held in parallel to the Parliament of World Religions.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice/yv--9.pdf

1993.09

    • Commitments. Your Voice, Issue 10
      Publication - as a special issue of Your Voice - of the personal commitments that were shared by participants - on Post-it notes in small group sessions - in the final session of the four-day Parliament of the People that was held in parallel to the Parliament of World Religions.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice/yv-10.pdf

1993.09

  • Parliament of the People

    Facilitating team
      Co-opted member of the Facilitating team for a Parliament of the People that was covened as a grassroots parallel process to the Parliament of World Religions; Facilitated and published three special issues of "Your Voice" to record the proceedings of a Parliament of the People.

1993.09-1993.09
Chicago, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Hopes, Dreams and Visions. Your Voice, Issue 7
      Publication - as a special issue of Your Voice - of the "hopes, dreams and visions" - thematically organized - expressed by participants on Post-it notes in small group sessions in the first day of the four-day Parliament of the People held in parallel to the Parliament of World Religions.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice/yv--7.pdf

1993.09

    • Proposals. Your Voice, Issue 9
      Publication - as a special issue of Your Voice - of the proposal that were made by participants on Post-it notes in small group sessions in the third session of the four-day Parliament of the People that was held in parallel to the Parliament of World Religions.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice/yv--9.pdf

1993.09

    • Commitments. Your Voice, Issue 10
      Publication - as a special issue of Your Voice - of the personal commitments that were shared by participants - on Post-it notes in small group sessions - in the final session of the four-day Parliament of the People that was held in parallel to the Parliament of World Religions.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice/yv-10.pdf

1993.09

    • Model Process for Interactive Participation
      Description of the interactive participation process used at the Parliament of the People at the 1993 Parliament of World Religions - a grassroots parallel process to the Assembly of Spiritual and Religious Leaders.
      habitat.igc.org/your-voice/process.htm

1993.09

  • RIOD - Desertification Network

    Member
      Active participant in setting up the structure for the desertification network, and support for use of electronic communications for exchange of information, news and plans, and for access to documents.

1993.09-
Geneva, Switzerland

    Documents

    • Participating in the Convention on Combatting Desertification and Effects of Drought
      Provided an overview of the Convention, and of the opportunities for participation and for exchange and access to documentation by NGOs and the academic community.

1993.09

    • On-line Access to United Nations Documents - in Newsletter of the South-North Centre for Environmental Policy
      Overview of current United Nations proceedings directly or indirectly relating to the follow-up from the Earth Summit in Rio, including information on how to obtain access to electronic copies of documents from the proceedings.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/ola-und.htm

1994.06

  • Campaign for a More Democratic United Nations

    Participant, Consultant
      Active participant in conference; designed and developed database of conference participants incorporating the data from a survey of participants and generated survey reports.

1993.09-1993.09
New York, U.S.A.

    Databases

    • CAMDUN - Campaign for a More Democratic United Nations
      Participants in the 3rd Conference for a More Democratic United Nations. The basis for a listing of names and addresses of participants, and subsequently of incorporating the data from a survey of participants.

1993.09

  • World Summit on Social Development

    Accredited NGO Representative
      Served as Chair of the NGO Information and Communications Committee; facilitation of access to and exchange of information; provision of technical computer and electronic communications support; and assistance in conversion, formatting, spell-checking and printing NGO documents and in removal of computer viruses.

1994.03-1995.05
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • International Synergy Institute
      The first web site - while serving as the UN Representative for the International Synergy Institute, a previous home of Information Habitat, and an accredited Non-Governmental Organization to the 1992 Earth Summit and subsequently to the Roster of the UN Economic and Social Council for the purposes of participation in the Commission on Sustainable Development.
      [www.igc.org/synergy]

1994.05

    • The Commission on Sustainable Development & The World Summit on Social Development Gophers
      The initial online compilation of all available official documents from the first two Sessions of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development - and an extensive set of documents submitted by Governments, Intergovernmental Orgathnzations and NGO Networks - and for the World Summit on Social Development. The site included a guide to use of the gopher and a comprehensive listing of the available documents.
      [gopher://gopher.un.org:70/11/esc/ecosocdocs/csd]

1994.10

    Databases

    • SYNERGY - International Synergy Institute
      Primary database for the International Synergy Institute, successor to EIN, and served as a database of NGOs participating in the final stages of preparation for the Earth Summit and the followup to the Summit, and participation in subsequent UN Conferences, especially for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in Copenhagen in 1995.

1992.02

  • United Nations Department for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development

    Consultant
      Designed and developed an Internet gopher incorporating comprehensive documentation from the Commission on Sustainable Development and the World Summit for Social Development; developed user manual for the gopher and a procedures manual for development and maintenance of the gopher. Member of Department for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development (DPCSD) Task Force of NGO Focal Points; drafted Task Force recommendations on an integrated database for NGO contacts in DPCSD.

1994.06-1994.10
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Proposal: Establishment of a Consolidated DPCSD Database
      Proposal for the establishment of an electronic database of NGO contacts, to support the long-term strategy of the Department of Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development regarding the new relationship emerging between the United Nations and the non-governmental sector. The proposal is based on a review of the existing arrangements for maintaining information on non-governmental organizations, information needs of NGO focal points, and an assessment of software alternatives.

1994.08

    • The Commission on Sustainable Development & The World Summit on Social Development Gophers
      The initial online compilation of all available official documents from the first two Sessions of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development - and an extensive set of documents submitted by Governments, Intergovernmental Orgathnzations and NGO Networks - and for the World Summit on Social Development. The site included a guide to use of the gopher and a comprehensive listing of the available documents.
      [gopher://gopher.un.org:70/11/esc/ecosocdocs/csd]

1994.10

    • Procedures for electronic dissemination of documents
      Procedure manual and forms for formatting and dissemination of UN documents on Internet gopher site.

1994.10

  • Open-Ended Working Group on the Review of Arrangements for Consultation with Non-Government Organizations

    NGO Participant
      Active participant in consultations and presentation of written interventions focusing on the effective and systematic use of eelctronic communications to facilitate the participation of NGOs in the work of the United Nations.

1994.06-1997.06
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • International Synergy Institute
      The first web site - while serving as the UN Representative for the International Synergy Institute, a previous home of Information Habitat, and an accredited Non-Governmental Organization to the 1992 Earth Summit and subsequently to the Roster of the UN Economic and Social Council for the purposes of participation in the Commission on Sustainable Development.
      [www.igc.org/synergy]

1994.05

    • Some Critical Issues for the NGO Review
      Identification of key areas that had been addressed by the Open-Ended Working Group on the Review of Arrangements for Consultations with Non-Governmental Organizations.
      habitat.igc.org/interven/critical.htm

1994.06

    • Key Issues for the Open-ended Working Group on the Review of Arrangements for Consultations with Non-Governmental Organizations
      Identification of some of the priority concerns for NGOs from among those that were addressed during the First Session of the Open-Ended Working Group
      habitat.igc.org/interven/ngoadhoc.htm

1994.06

    • Strengthening Procedures for Consultation
      Statement submitted at the First Session of the Open-Ended Working Group on the Review of Arrangements for Consultations with Non-Governmental Organizations. Recommendations for consistency of procedures for consultation, on the role on national non-governmental organizations, practical arrangements, provisions for timely and effective access to documents, and modalities for consultation.
      habitat.igc.org/interven/oewg9406.htm

1994.06

    • Proposal: Establishment of a Consolidated DPCSD Database
      Proposal for the establishment of an electronic database of NGO contacts, to support the long-term strategy of the Department of Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development regarding the new relationship emerging between the United Nations and the non-governmental sector. The proposal is based on a review of the existing arrangements for maintaining information on non-governmental organizations, information needs of NGO focal points, and an assessment of software alternatives.

1994.08

    • Strengthening NGO Participation at the United Nations
      Statement submitted at the Inter-sessional Meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group on the Review of Arrangements for Consultations with Non-Governmental Organizations. Recommendations for strengthening NGO participation at the UN, including the creative application of information and communication technology in support of systematic arrangements for broader and more timely access to UN documents and the establishment of an Information and Communication Center for compilation and dissemination of UN documents.
      habitat.igc.org/interven/oewg9411.htm

1994.11

    • Utilization of information and communication technology in support of broad-based participation and access to information
      Statement submitted by the International Synergy Institute at the Second Meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group on the Review of Arrangements for Consultations with Non-Governmental Organizations. Recommendations for the systematic application of information and communication technology in support of arrangements for broader and more timely access to UN documents and for consultation with non-governmental organizations.
      habitat.igc.org/interven/oewg9505.htm

1995.05

    • Methodology for the General Assembly to examine the question of the participation of NGOs in all areas of the work of the United Nations
      Speaking notes for Information Habitat at the Informal Soundings on ECOSOC Decision 1996/297. Recommendations, inter alia, on an inclusive approach to participation of NGOs, on the value of systematic use of information and communication technology, and on examination of innovative participation processes used in the Habitat II conference.
      habitat.igc.org/interven/is-9611.htm

1996.12

    • The application of modern information and communication technology to improve practical arrangements in support of strengthened participation of non-governmental organizations in the work of the United Nations
      Recommendations for use of information technology to strengthen participation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) including enhanced access to United Nations documents, the Daily Journal and press releases by NGOs in Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council.
      habitat.igc.org/interven/app9701.htm

1997.01

  • Women's Environment & Development Organization (WEDO)

    Consultant
      Support in the design and implementation of a comprehensive Internet gopher with documents from WEDO and the Women's Caucus and in the preparation of a user's guide to the gopher. Development of streamlined procedures for electronic mail, word processing and file management.
      gopher://gopher.igc.apc.org:70/11/orgs/wedo

1994.07-1994.12
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Women Engaging The UN Online: WEDO's Electronic Communications in Action
      A guide to the Internet gopher of the Women's Environment and Development Organization, including a table of contents of the available documents - including reports of WEDO's activities at the global, regional, national, and local levels - and information on how to access the documents.
      gopher.igc.apc.org:70/11/orgs/wedo

1994.11

  • The Other Economic Summit / US

    Co-Chair, Information & Communications, Board Member
      Hosted workshop on opportunities and implications of information and communications technology. Provided technical assistance and advice in the use of electronic mailing lists and the World Wide Web in support of preparations for TOES '97.

1995.04-1997.06
New York, U.S.A.

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [toeslist] - The Other Economic Summit discussion list


    • [toes97] - The Other Economic Summit 1997

1995.04

  • Habitat II

    Consultant pro bono
      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.

1995.05-1996.10
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
      Information Habitat promotes the understanding and practice of information ecology - based on the recognition of information systems as ecosystems - sets of interrelated and interdependent structures and processes that can best be understood if viewed as a whole - and in the context of the critical relationships between information ecosystems and other ecosystems - social, institutional, economic, legal, cultural and natural. Information Habitat is a Non-Governmental Organization in Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council.
      habitat.igc.org

1995.06

    • Information Habitat: Where Information Lives - Overview
      An overview of Information Habitat and some of the conceptual perpectives of an information ecosystem approach to the use of information technology to enable broad-based participation in decision-making, action and access to information in relation to international, national and local processes relating to sustainability, human rights and peace.
      habitat.igc.org/concept

1995.07

    • Habitat II: Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements
      Official web site for documents and information for the preparation for and follow up to the Habitat Agenda. The site included links to all major partner initiatives with an online presence, the agreements of the 1976 Habitat Conference in Vancouver, a compilation of UN documents on Housing as a Human Right, and all official documents available in electronic format in English, French and Spanish.

1996.01

    • Habitat Online Partnership Plan of Action
      Plan for an integrated online framework to support the role of partners in the implementation of and follow-up to the Habitat Agenda through the systematic use of electronic communications to strengthen cooperation between partners; capacity-building initiative in the use of information technology for Habitat partners. The Partnership Plan of Action was semi-formally incorporated into the Habitat follow up plans by UNCHS (Habitat) however the incorporation was lost when the unhabitat.org domain was "hijacked" and not restored when UN Habitat subsequently acquired the domain.

1996.03

    • Habitat II Online: An Ecological Design Process
      An overview of ecological design considerations in the development of the Habitat II Online initiative to enable coherent, intelligent response to the agenda of the Habitat II conference incorporating an ecology of information, an ecology of education, and an ecology of participation.
      habitat.igc.org/h2o/design.htm

1996.05

    • The Habitat Agenda
      Publication and dissemination - via e-mail, web site and on diskette - of the Habitat Agenda - and of virtually the entire set of official documents - and of most significant NGO communication and documents - that went into the preparation for the Habitat Agenda and for monitoring the implementation of the agreements.

1996.06

    • Virtual Light & Colour Cubes - Properties of Light, Gifts of Nature, Catalysts of Peace
      Compelling visual introduction to the Virtual Light and Colour Cubes. Provides a brief visual overview of the principal characteristics of the Virtual Light and Colour Cubes / Peace Cubes
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/cop-llc-cubes.ppt

1998.07

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [ifg-habitat] - International NGO Facilitating Group for Habitat II

1995.05

    • [partners] - Habitat Partners Network

1996.12

    • [pip] - Partnership, Informatics and Participation

1997.10

    Databases

    • HAB2-NGO - NGOs Accredited to Habitat II
      Accreditation and participation relational database for NGOs oarticipating in the Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and in the meetings of the Preparatory Committees for the conference.

1995.09

  • United Nation Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat)

    Consultant
      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. Designed and initiated integrated online framework for monitoring and implementing the Habitat Agenda.

1995.05-1997.01
Nairobi, Kenya

    Documents

    • Partners and the Implementation of the Habitat Agenda
      Publication of Guides to the implementation of the Habitat Agenda, and a framework - the Habitat Online Partnership Plan of Action designed to enable monitoring and implementation of the Habitat Agenda.

1997.06

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [ifg-habitat] - International NGO Facilitating Group for Habitat II

1995.05

    • [h2oplan] - Habitat II Online planning group

1996.01

    • [partners] - Habitat Partners Network

1996.12

    Databases

    • HAB2-NGO - NGOs Accredited to Habitat II
      Accreditation and participation relational database for NGOs oarticipating in the Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and in the meetings of the Preparatory Committees for the conference.

1995.09

  • Habitat Peace Caucus

    Information & Communications
      Manage and facilitate an electronic mailing list for the NGO Peace Caucus for the UN Conference on Human Settlements - Habitat II.

1995.09-
New York, U.S.A.

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [peace] - Habitat Peace Caucus / Peace Odyssey 2001

1996.05

    • [peace-caucus-un] - Peace Caucus at the United Nations

2002.05

  • U.S. Network on Habitat

    Member
      Support in setting up web site and online communications.

1995.09-1998.01
Washington, U.S.A.

  • NGO Committee on Human Settlements

    Co-Chair; At-Large Member; Member
      Management of electronic mailing lists, membership database and web site for the Committee. Organize and disseminate relevant and timely UN documents and related information relating to Habitat II and to the UN Commission on Human Settlements. Chair of Partnership, Informatics and Participation project.

1995.10-2000.09
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Y2K Countdown Digital Date Clock
      Presentation of the basis for the use of the Digital Date Clock - with yyyy.mm.dd format - as the ideal solution for a universal format for recording dates of transactions. pdf file from an HTML page.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/y2k-counting.pdf

1999.10

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [ngochs] - NGO Committee on Human Settlements

1997.03

    • [ngochs-ex] - NGOCHS Executive Committee

1997.08

    • [pip] - Partnership, Informatics and Participation

1997.10

    Databases

    • INFOHAB - Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
      The initial database for Information Habitat: Where Information Lives; succeeded by the NGOS@UN database. During the active life of INFOHAB, it was the locus of major growth in its structure and contents, and was used to manage, inter alia, databases for key NGO Committees - on Human Settlements, Social Development, Sustainable Development, the NGO Steering Committee to the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development, and the preliminry database for participants in preparations for the Millennium Forum.

1995.05

  • International NGO Facilitating Group for Habitat II (IFG)

    Steering Committee; Coordinator, Information & Communications
      Designed and implemented strategy for communications and access to information among member of the International Facilitating Group (IFG) and non-governmental organizations accredited to Habitat II. Managed the principal electronic mailing Habitat II conference. Disseminated official conference documents and announcements and NGO documents via electronic mailing lists, and on diskette. Maintained web site for the IFG and a database of members and caucuses.

1995.12-1997.06
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Habitat II: Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements
      Official web site for documents and information for the preparation for and follow up to the Habitat Agenda. The site included links to all major partner initiatives with an online presence, the agreements of the 1976 Habitat Conference in Vancouver, a compilation of UN documents on Housing as a Human Right, and all official documents available in electronic format in English, French and Spanish.

1996.01

    • Habitat II Online: An Ecological Design Process
      An overview of ecological design considerations in the development of the Habitat II Online initiative to enable coherent, intelligent response to the agenda of the Habitat II conference incorporating an ecology of information, an ecology of education, and an ecology of participation.
      habitat.igc.org/h2o/design.htm

1996.05

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [ifg-habitat] - International NGO Facilitating Group for Habitat II

1995.05

    • [h2oplan] - Habitat II Online planning group

1996.01

    • [hic-hab2] - Habitat International Coalition - Habitat II

1996.02

  • Partnership Plan of Action

    Initiator
      Developed framework for the contribution of "partners" to the monitoring and implementation of the Habitat Agenda.

1996.02-
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Habitat Online Partnership Plan of Action
      Plan for an integrated online framework to support the role of partners in the implementation of and follow-up to the Habitat Agenda through the systematic use of electronic communications to strengthen cooperation between partners; capacity-building initiative in the use of information technology for Habitat partners. The Partnership Plan of Action was semi-formally incorporated into the Habitat follow up plans by UNCHS (Habitat) however the incorporation was lost when the unhabitat.org domain was "hijacked" and not restored when UN Habitat subsequently acquired the domain.

1996.03

    • Habitat II Online: Invitation to a Journey
      Statement at 1996 Earth Day celebration at the Peace Bell at United Nations Headquarters, extending an invitation to participate in a journey - to Istanbul and beyond; a journey of recommitment to the principles and values of Earth Day; a journey of discovery and exploration of new ways and tools with which we can work together in fulfilling the vision of Earth Day.
      habitat.igc.org/journey

1996.03

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [partners] - Habitat Partners Network

1996.12

  • Habitat II Online

    Coordinator
      Conceived, developed and implemented - in significant part - a comprehensive strategy for exchange of and access to information among partners in the preparation for the 1996 Habitat II Conference. Managed and moderated electronic mailing lists and web site in preparation and follow-up to Habitat II.

1996.03-
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Habitat II: Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements
      Official web site for documents and information for the preparation for and follow up to the Habitat Agenda. The site included links to all major partner initiatives with an online presence, the agreements of the 1976 Habitat Conference in Vancouver, a compilation of UN documents on Housing as a Human Right, and all official documents available in electronic format in English, French and Spanish.

1996.01

    • Habitat Online Partnership Plan of Action
      Plan for an integrated online framework to support the role of partners in the implementation of and follow-up to the Habitat Agenda through the systematic use of electronic communications to strengthen cooperation between partners; capacity-building initiative in the use of information technology for Habitat partners. The Partnership Plan of Action was semi-formally incorporated into the Habitat follow up plans by UNCHS (Habitat) however the incorporation was lost when the unhabitat.org domain was "hijacked" and not restored when UN Habitat subsequently acquired the domain.

1996.03

    • Habitat II Online: Invitation to a Journey
      Statement at 1996 Earth Day celebration at the Peace Bell at United Nations Headquarters, extending an invitation to participate in a journey - to Istanbul and beyond; a journey of recommitment to the principles and values of Earth Day; a journey of discovery and exploration of new ways and tools with which we can work together in fulfilling the vision of Earth Day.
      habitat.igc.org/journey

1996.03

    • Habitat II Online: An Ecological Design Process
      An overview of ecological design considerations in the development of the Habitat II Online initiative to enable coherent, intelligent response to the agenda of the Habitat II conference incorporating an ecology of information, an ecology of education, and an ecology of participation.
      habitat.igc.org/h2o/design.htm

1996.05

    • The Habitat Agenda
      Publication and dissemination - via e-mail, web site and on diskette - of the Habitat Agenda - and of virtually the entire set of official documents - and of most significant NGO communication and documents - that went into the preparation for the Habitat Agenda and for monitoring the implementation of the agreements.

1996.06

    • Towards a Curriculum in Information Ecology: Partnership, Informatics and Participation
      A compilation of documents and images relating to the development of a curriculum in Information Ecology in cooperation with the Development Planning Unit - Partnership, Informatics and Participation University College, London

2002.03

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [ifg-habitat] - International NGO Facilitating Group for Habitat II

1995.05

    • [partners] - Habitat Partners Network

1996.12

    • [habifem] - Huairou Commission - Women, Homes and Communities Supercoalition

1997.01

    • [ngochs] - NGO Committee on Human Settlements

1997.03

    • [pip] - Partnership, Informatics and Participation

1997.10

    Databases

    • INFOHAB - Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
      The initial database for Information Habitat: Where Information Lives; succeeded by the NGOS@UN database. During the active life of INFOHAB, it was the locus of major growth in its structure and contents, and was used to manage, inter alia, databases for key NGO Committees - on Human Settlements, Social Development, Sustainable Development, the NGO Steering Committee to the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development, and the preliminry database for participants in preparations for the Millennium Forum.

1995.05

    • NGOS@UN - ngos@un - Non-Governmental Organizations at the United Nations
      NGOS@UN was designed as a catalyst for a cooperative information ecology framework to work with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in response to a request from the Economic and Social Council to make every effort to enhance and streamline, as appropriate, practical arrangements to facilitate the participation of non-governmental organizations in the work of the United Nations - and specifically to make effective use of database technology.

      NGOS@UN grew out of the INFOHAB database, and integrated extensive information - from disparate sources - of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) accredited to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and to the Global Conferences of the 1990s. As it developed, NGOS@UN grew significantly in size and structure incorporating major new sections, including record of NGOs in the process of seeking accreditation with ECOSOC, historical data on NGO accreditation, and information on official United Nations documents pertaining to NGO Accreditation and the work of the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations.


1999.02

    • COLOURS - Light & Colour Cube Engine
      Database engine of light and colour for the Virtual Light and Colour Cubes, and of more than a thousand images based on the Cubes. COLOURS was used to generate the set of images of the faces of the Light and Colour Cubes, as well as to generate many sets of web pages with images based on the cubes.

2000.09

    • HABITAT3 - Habitat Three
      An evolution from the ECOLOGY database, Habitat Three is conceived of both as a preliminary organizing database for an anticipated Habitat III Conference to be held in 2016, and as a prototype digital habitat for the Third Millennium. The HABITAT3 database serves as the primary database of Information Habitat and as the engine that generates the pages for Project Information Habitat.

2001.03

    • LIGHT - Let there be Light
      The success to the COLOURS database, LIGHT is evolving as an engine to generate light - through the generation of sets of web pages - for images based on the Light and Colour Cubes, and for sets of digital or digitized photos - and the integration of the images with text, documents, web sites, and relevant links.

2003.01

  • Huairou Commission - Women, Homes & Communities SuperCoalition

    Consultant
      Set up and managed electronic mailing list and provided technical support, installation of software, hardware and networks. Wrote the Huairou Commission's application for General Consultative Status with ECOSOC. Co-coordinated Hospitality Program at the Pratt Institute during its Grassroots Women's International Academy and Istanbul + 5 activities.

1996.03-
New York, U.S.A.

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [habifem] - Huairou Commission - Women, Homes and Communities Supercoalition

1997.01

  • Earth Society Foundation

    Member
      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.
      habitat.igc.org/earthday

1996.03-1998.03
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Habitat II Online: Invitation to a Journey
      Statement at 1996 Earth Day celebration at the Peace Bell at United Nations Headquarters, extending an invitation to participate in a journey - to Istanbul and beyond; a journey of recommitment to the principles and values of Earth Day; a journey of discovery and exploration of new ways and tools with which we can work together in fulfilling the vision of Earth Day.
      habitat.igc.org/journey

1996.03

    • Earthday on the Equinox on the Internet
      Web site for the 1997 celebration of Earth Day on the Equinox at the Peace Bell at United Nations Headquarters, with the theme "A Culture of Peace". The ceremony was broadcast live on the Internet via streaming video.
      habitat.igc.org/earthday

1997.03

    • Dedication of the Peace Cube
      Dedication of the Virtual Light and Colour Cube as a Peace Cube at the Earthday on the Equinox on the Internet ceremony at United Nations Headquarters on 1997.03.20
      habitat.igc.org/one-light/dedicate.htm

1997.03

  • World Council of Churches - Commission of the Churches on International Affairs

    Consultant
      Provided technical support and training in electronic mail, file conversion, hardware and software installation and support, management and maintenance of a small local area network.

1996.03-2000.06
New York, U.S.A.

  • NGO Steering Committee to the UN Commission on Sustainable Development

    Consultant
      Compiled, edited and produced Towards Earth Summit II: NGO Recommendations for Action and Commitments, the principal NGO document prepared for the United Nations General Assembly Special Session for Five Year Review of the agreements of the 1992 Earth Summit.

1996.04-1997.07
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • "Information Ecology" in Towards Earth Summit II: NGO Recommendations for Actions and Commitments at Earth Summit II
      A call for a major commitment to analyze and explore the opportunities and implications of the rapidly evolving "information and communication ecosystem" and to identify critical information ecology issues relating to sustainability; also a call for the design and establishment of, and support for participatory enabling environments within which information and communications technologies, systems and processes - including traditional and non-electronic forms - can facilitate a transition to more open, equitable and sustainable communities and society.
      habitat.igc.org/csdngo/1997/ie.htm

1997.04

    • Towards Earth Summit II: Recommendations for Actions and Commitments at Earth Summit II
      Consensus document presenting NGO recommendations for Actions and Commitments at Earth Summit II, the five year review of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
      habitat.igc.org/csdngo/1997/es2ngo1.html

1997.06

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [csdgen] - NGO Steering Committee to the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development

1997.01

    • [csdsteer] - CSD/NGO Steering Committee Members

1997.08

  • NGO Forum '96

    Consultant
      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.

1996.05-1996.06
Istanbul, Turkey

    Databases

    • FORUM96 - NGO Forum '96
      Database created in very short order to manage schedules for the NGO Forum, input and organize details of events and event organizers and presenters, resolve time and/or room conflicts. FORUM96 was used to generate - on-demand - interim schedules for planning purposes, and to generate up-to-date daily printed schedules and event that were posted throught the NGO Forum site.

1996.05

  • Women's Petition for Peace

    Consultant
      Assistance with online dissemination of the Petition in several languages.

1996.09-1997.06
New York, U.S.A.

  • NGO Committee on Sustainable Development

    Member-At-Large
      Set up and managed electronic mailing list and support for the timely dissemination and exchange of information of interest to members of the Committee.

1996.09-1999.06
New York, U.S.A.

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [ngocsd] - NGO Committee on Sustainable Development

1997.02

    Databases

    • INFOHAB - Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
      The initial database for Information Habitat: Where Information Lives; succeeded by the NGOS@UN database. During the active life of INFOHAB, it was the locus of major growth in its structure and contents, and was used to manage, inter alia, databases for key NGO Committees - on Human Settlements, Social Development, Sustainable Development, the NGO Steering Committee to the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development, and the preliminry database for participants in preparations for the Millennium Forum.

1995.05

    • NGOS@UN - ngos@un - Non-Governmental Organizations at the United Nations
      NGOS@UN was designed as a catalyst for a cooperative information ecology framework to work with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in response to a request from the Economic and Social Council to make every effort to enhance and streamline, as appropriate, practical arrangements to facilitate the participation of non-governmental organizations in the work of the United Nations - and specifically to make effective use of database technology.

      NGOS@UN grew out of the INFOHAB database, and integrated extensive information - from disparate sources - of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) accredited to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and to the Global Conferences of the 1990s. As it developed, NGOS@UN grew significantly in size and structure incorporating major new sections, including record of NGOs in the process of seeking accreditation with ECOSOC, historical data on NGO accreditation, and information on official United Nations documents pertaining to NGO Accreditation and the work of the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations.


1999.02

  • Communications Coordinating Committee for the United Nations

    Board Member, former Vice-President
      Co-Chair, Process Committee; Member, Web Site and Dialogue Committees, Project Director, Information Habitat: Where Information Lives. Establishes and supports electronic mailing lists for CCC/UN and its committees.

1996.10-
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • A Castle Retreat: CCC/UN Communication & Decision-Making Project
      A set of two slide shows: one of the participants in a retreat for the CCC/UN Communication & Decision-Making Project at Beth Lamont's Castle in Ossining, NY; the second slide show offers images from a brief walk aroud the castle, and in the castle grounds.
      habitat.igc.org/cdmp/rp01.htm

2002.07

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [cccun] - Communications Coordinating Committee for the United Nations

1999.01

    • [cccun-lt] - CCCUN Leadership Training

2000.01

    • [cccun-board] - Board Members of CCC/UN

2002.03

    • [cccun-dialogue] - Dialogue manual Committee

2002.03

  • Virtual Light and Colour Cubes

    Co-Facilitator and Co-Developer
      Development and dissemination of a proliferating set of images based on developed models of the virtual light and color cubes as embodiments of properties of light and of nature.

      The cubes are virtual structures with dimensions of red, green and blue that contain all colour, and within which the colour at any point is equal to the sum of the point's red, blue and green coordinates.

      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 as well as to dimensions of body, mind and spirit.
      habitat.igc.org/peace-cubes


1996.11-
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Queries on Opening to the Light
      An inspiring set of Quaker Queries on Opening to the Light, presented by Barry Morley at Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in 1988.
      habitat.igc.org/queries

1988.08

    • Queries on Unity with Nature
      Queries, or probing questions, representing a compilation and synthesis of queries on Unity with Nature that had been developed by Friends (Quakers) at Monthly and Yearly meetings across the U.S.A., from a perspective that sees people in unity with nature, not apart from it. These queries were subsequently published as the Quaker contribution to the 1989 Environmental Sabbath resource guide developed by the U.N. Environment Programme.
      habitat.igc.org/queries/uwn.htm

1989.04

    • Oh Say Can You See By the One Light in All!
      "Oh Say Can You See By the One Light in All!" was dedicated as the Fifth Verse of the US National Anthem at an Interfaith Sunrise service at Fort McHenry, home of the Star-Spangled Banner and a brief description of how the Star Spangled Banner became adopted - through a grassroots process - as the U.S. National Anthem.
      habitat.igc.org/oh-say-can-you-see

1990.04

    • Habitat II Online: Invitation to a Journey
      Statement at 1996 Earth Day celebration at the Peace Bell at United Nations Headquarters, extending an invitation to participate in a journey - to Istanbul and beyond; a journey of recommitment to the principles and values of Earth Day; a journey of discovery and exploration of new ways and tools with which we can work together in fulfilling the vision of Earth Day.
      habitat.igc.org/journey

1996.03

    • Earthday on the Equinox on the Internet
      Web site for the 1997 celebration of Earth Day on the Equinox at the Peace Bell at United Nations Headquarters, with the theme "A Culture of Peace". The ceremony was broadcast live on the Internet via streaming video.
      habitat.igc.org/earthday

1997.03

    • Dedication of the Peace Cube
      Dedication of the Virtual Light and Colour Cube as a Peace Cube at the Earthday on the Equinox on the Internet ceremony at United Nations Headquarters on 1997.03.20
      habitat.igc.org/one-light/dedicate.htm

1997.03

    • Images from the Peace Cube
      Images developed from the presentation of the "virtual light and colour cube" at its dedication as a peace cube at the Earthday on the Equinox on the Internet Ceremony at the Peace Bell at United Nations Headquarters, New York. The images highlight rhythmic qualities, photographic negativity, and the primary lights and pigments of the cubes.
      habitat.igc.org/images

1997.05

    • Virtual Light & Colour Cubes - Properties of Light, Gifts of Nature, Catalysts of Peace
      Compelling visual introduction to the Virtual Light and Colour Cubes. Provides a brief visual overview of the principal characteristics of the Virtual Light and Colour Cubes / Peace Cubes
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/cop-llc-cubes.ppt

1998.07

    • Primary Colours: A Proof
      Introductory presentation on the nature of primary colours based on the existence of - and symmetry and complementarity between - two sets of primary colours - red, green & blue for light; cyan, magenta & yellow for pigment.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/cop-llc-primary.ppt

1998.09

    • Y2K Three States Network
      Web site for the Y2K Three States Network of representatives of public agencies and managers of public utilities and transportation networks concerned with computer-date-related Year 2000 preparations in the New York City tri-state area - New York, Connecticut and New Jersey.
      [www.y2k3states.org]

1998.09

1999.01

    • Faces of the Peace Cube
      Introduction to the faces of the light and colour cubes - and to a three-dimensional mathematics of light and colour. 10 slides / pages. Generated in Powerpoint; pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/cop-lcc-faces.pdf

1999.10

1999.10

    • Nine Primary Colours
      A presentation of the primary equations of colour and light, the symmetry of light and pigment, and the nine primary colours. Nine Primary Colors is also a demonstration and appreciation of the power of zero in the three-dimensional mathematics of colour - and in any numeric system.

2000.07

    • Diagonal Faces of the Light and Colour Cubes
      A set of twenty-four of the forty-eight diagonal faces of the cubes - the twelve in which either black is at bottom or top, or where white is at the top or bottom. Click on any images that gets your attention - when you see it at the center, its negative is in the lower right.
      habitat.igc.org/faces-vertical

2000.09

    • Peace Cubes - Gifts of Light
      Home for the Peace Cubes - Virtual Light and Colour Cubes that are at the centre of a three-dimensional mathematics of colour and light and that can transform our understanding of the nature and dimensions of light and colour. The Peace Cubes can also serve as vital elements in a new global curriculum on mathematics, colour and light, as symbols for the One Light in all of Creation, and as teaching tools on the properties of knowledge-based economies, and as an introduction to the properties of zero-based economy. All of the images are computer-generated, the most recent images based on HTML tables generated from a DataPerfect database, as were most of the sets of web pages of images.
      habitat.igc.org/peace-cubes

2000.10

    • Peace Tiles - Gifts of Light
      A set of the ninety-six peace tiles - based on mirror images of the faces and the cycles of all possible pairs of contiguous faces of the Peace Cubes. Each colourful tile is framed below a frieze of the corresponding faces. The bottom frieze contains the photographic negative of the tile. Below that are the sixteen "cycle tiles" corresponding to the faces of the main tile. Sound complicated? In practice it is easy - and fun if you let your eyes and feelings guide you. Virtually no words, yet simple to grasp visually.

      The web site for the Peace Tiles was launched on October 24, United Nations Day, 2000.
      habitat.igc.org/tiles


2000.10

    • Peace Faces - Faces of the Peace Cubes
      A meditation on the forty-eight faces of the light and colour cubes. Each face represents a meeting place of four primary colours and may evoke a unique feeling. Each face is framed below a frieze of the eight rotations and reflections of itself. At the loer right of the face is its photographic negative. A bottom frieze contains small icons of the forty eight faces. Easy - and enjoyable; forget about words; let your eyes and feelings guide you.
      habitat.igc.org/faces

2000.10

    • Rivers of Light Variations
      Rhythmic rivers of light based on the fundamental cycles of the Peace Cubes / Virtual Light and Colour Cubes, above a phoographic negative of the same. Exhibited at Isha Shabaka's IdefineArt studio in Brooklyn, NY at the natural turn of the Millennium, the Winter Solstice, 2000.
      habitat.igc.org/bridges/river.htm

2000.12

    • Birth of the Rainbow Cubic Sine Waves
      An exploration in connections between the Light and Colour Cubes and the colours of the rainbow, Rainbow Cubic Sine Waves represents a mapping of the colurs of the cubes onto a sine wave, in which the cycle of colours seems to evoke the colour sequence of the rainbow. The development of the Rainbow Cubic Sine Wave took place over two days very shortly on the birth of the Cubic Colour Wheel, reflecting an openness to softening the sharp edges of the Cubes, as well as to focus attention on some of the rhythmic and cyclical properties of the cubes.

2001.11

2001.11

2001.11

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Rainbow Cubic Sine Waves
      An endless sequence of cycling "rainbow cubic sine waves" - based on a mapping of the colours of the Light and Colour Cubes onto the shape of a sine wave in a quest to reconcile and connect the cubes and the rainbow, as well as to bridge the gulf between the square and cube and the circle and sphere.
      habitat.igc.org/reconcile/rcsw.htm

2001.12

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Queries on Opening to the Light
      A meditative online presentation of the Queries on Opening to the Light - a presentation that serves as the opening segment of a Journey of Light, Reconcilation and Peace prepared in response to September 11, 2001 and its aftermath.
      habitat.igc.org/queries

2001.12

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Twin Beacons of Light and Colour
      A cycle of eight images of the skyline of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center - illuminated by the arrival and receding of the Light and Colour Cubes in an endless cycle. Clicking on the image enables more information, and access to prior and next steps in A Journey of Light, Reconciliation and Peace.
      habitat.igc.org/twin-beacons

2001.12

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Twin Cubes of Light and Colour
      A set of twelve cycling page with images of mirrored twin pairs of Light and Colour Cubes, showing all possible regular presentations from the white and black apexes of the cubes. The images are clickable, providing access to more information and to other phases of the Journey of Light, Reconciliation and Peace.
      habitat.igc.org/twin-cubes

2001.12

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Twisted Pairs of Light and Colour Cubes
      A cycling series of twenty-four pages with images of "Twisted Pairs of Light and Colour Cubes" - pairs of cubes in which the one is the unseen side of the other.
      habitat.igc.org/twisted-pairs

2001.12

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Reconciliation in Primary Colours
      A set of eight cycling images with the principal protagonists in a War of - President George W. Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney, and Secretary of State Colin Powell and Osama bin Laden - against backgrounds of the Light and Colour Cubes and of the six non-zero primary colours.
      habitat.igc.org/reconcile/primary.htm

2001.12

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Reconciliation in 16 Colour Palettes
      A set of seventy-two images with the primary representatives of the September 11 protagonists - President George W. Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney, and Secretary of State Colin Powell and Osama bin Laden against backgrounds of the Light and Colour Cubes transposed into sixteen colour images, and serving as visual metaphors for ways that our perception of our enemies can be distorted when we see them from a limited palette, and one in which our enemies' colours are only partially represented.
      habitat.igc.org/reconcile/16colour.htm

2001.12

    • Vertical Faces of the Peace Cubes

2002.01

    • Towards a Curriculum in Information Ecology: Partnership, Informatics and Participation
      A compilation of documents and images relating to the development of a curriculum in Information Ecology in cooperation with the Development Planning Unit - Partnership, Informatics and Participation University College, London

2002.03

    • Digital Bridges in Peace
      Installation in the Digital Bridges @ Westbeth exhibit, with Reconciliation in 16 Colour Palettes as the centrepiece, framed by sets of images based on the Light and Colour Cubes.
      habitat.igc.org/bridges

2003.08

    • Elements of Light and Colour - An Open Souce Curriculum
      Design, development and implementation of an open source curriculum in the elements of light and colour, based on the properties of the 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.
      projects.takingitglobal.org/light-elements

2003.10

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [light-cubes] - Virtual Light and Colour Cubes


    Databases

    • COLOURS - Light & Colour Cube Engine
      Database engine of light and colour for the Virtual Light and Colour Cubes, and of more than a thousand images based on the Cubes. COLOURS was used to generate the set of images of the faces of the Light and Colour Cubes, as well as to generate many sets of web pages with images based on the cubes.

2000.09

    • LIGHT - Let there be Light
      The success to the COLOURS database, LIGHT is evolving as an engine to generate light - through the generation of sets of web pages - for images based on the Light and Colour Cubes, and for sets of digital or digitized photos - and the integration of the images with text, documents, web sites, and relevant links.

2003.01

  • Information Ecology Caucus

    Founder and Northern Representative
      Established caucus, initially as a Caucus of the NGO Steering Committee to the UN Commission on Sustainable Development. Compiled Information Ecology section of NGO Recommendations for Earth Summit II.

1997.02-
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • "Information Ecology" in Towards Earth Summit II: NGO Recommendations for Actions and Commitments at Earth Summit II
      A call for a major commitment to analyze and explore the opportunities and implications of the rapidly evolving "information and communication ecosystem" and to identify critical information ecology issues relating to sustainability; also a call for the design and establishment of, and support for participatory enabling environments within which information and communications technologies, systems and processes - including traditional and non-electronic forms - can facilitate a transition to more open, equitable and sustainable communities and society.
      habitat.igc.org/csdngo/1997/ie.htm

1997.04

    • Towards Earth Summit II: Recommendations for Actions and Commitments at Earth Summit II
      Consensus document presenting NGO recommendations for Actions and Commitments at Earth Summit II, the five year review of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
      habitat.igc.org/csdngo/1997/es2ngo1.html

1997.06

    • Holistic Approaches to Freshwater Vitality: An Information Ecology Approach
      Outline framework for the use of an information ecology approach - focussing on watershed-based interactive public access to freshwater information - developed on the basis of NGO recommendations from the Freshwater Caucus and the Informaton Ecology Cacus of the NGO/CSD Ste fering Committee in response to "Integrated Management of Freshwater Resources" recommendations from a 1998.01 Expert Group meeting in Harare.
      habitat.igc.org/h2o-partners/hafv.pdf

1998.03

    • Y2K Countdown Digital Date Clock
      Presentation of the basis for the use of the Digital Date Clock - with yyyy.mm.dd format - as the ideal solution for a universal format for recording dates of transactions. pdf file from an HTML page.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/y2k-counting.pdf

1999.10

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [information-ecology] - Information Ecology Caucus

2001.12

  • Global Village Symposium

    Presenter & Participant
      Participant and speaker on the use of Internet Relay Chat as a simple, accessible and viable methodology for holding online "village meetings".

1997.02-1997.02
Vienna, Austria

    Documents

    • Village Meetings on the Internet: Theory and Practice of Information Ecology
      Conference presentation on the use of Internet Relay Chat as a simple, accessible and viable methodology for holding online "village meetings".

1997.02

  • Peace Odyssey 2001

    Steering Committee Member

1997.04-
New York, U.S.A.

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [peace] - Habitat Peace Caucus / Peace Odyssey 2001

1996.05

  • Sustainable Energy & Environment Division, UNDP

    Consultant
      Designed and implemented World Wide Web publication of Sustainable Energy documents produced by the UN Development Programme: Energy After Rio: Prospects and Challenges, UNDP Initiative on Sustainable Energy and Energy as an Instrument for Socio-Economic Policy.
      www.undp.org/seed/energy

1997.05-1997.08
New York, U.S.A.

  • NGO Committee for the Day of the World's Indigenous People

    Member
      Compilation and organization of labels for mailing to indigenous groups; online dissemination of information concerning the Day.

1997.06-1999.08
New York, U.S.A.

  • Partnership, Informatics and Participation

    Convenor
      Developed design for a partnership-based framework using informatics to enable broad-based participation in monitoring and implementation of the Habitat Agenda and the other global conferences of the 1990s.

1997.07-
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Towards a Curriculum in Information Ecology: Partnership, Informatics and Participation
      A compilation of documents and images relating to the development of a curriculum in Information Ecology in cooperation with the Development Planning Unit - Partnership, Informatics and Participation University College, London

2002.03

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [dpu-pip] - Development Planning Unit - Partnership, Informatics, Participation


    • [partners] - Habitat Partners Network

1996.12

    • [pip] - Partnership, Informatics and Participation

1997.10

  • Millennium Peoples Assembly Network

    Steering Committee Member
      Set up, managed, and provided support for the use of electronic mailing lists for the Network.
      www.ourvoices.org

1997.09-
New York, U.S.A.

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [passem] - Millennium Peoples Assembly Network

1997.09

    • [mpan-steer] - Steering Committee of the Millennium Peoples Assembly Network

1998.10

  • Ad Hoc Working Group on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment

    Convenor
      Establishment of web site and administration of electronic mailing list on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), and related proceedings, including those of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The electronic mailing list - adhoc-L@undp.org - serves as a primary source of information on the MAI and WTO for many non-governmental organizations associated with the United Nations.
      habitat.igc.org/mai

1997.10-
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

1998.01

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [mai] - Ad Hoc Working Group on the MAI

1997.12

  • World Wide Fund for Nature

    Consultant
      Facilitating access to and exchange of information concerning the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, including the management of electronic mailing lists.

1997.10-1998.06
Geneva, Switzerland

  • European Ministerial Conference on Environment & Health

    Consultant pro bono
      Management and facilitation of electronic mailing lists to enable public participation in preparations for the conference and provision of electronic access to conference documents.

1997.11-1999.09
London, United Kingdom

    Documents

    • Soesterberg Declaration
      Declaration adopted at a Conference in Soesterberg, The Netherlands, by Non-Governmental Organizations preparing for participation in the European Ministerial Conference on Environment & Health organized World Health Organization that includes recommendations on protocols for public participation and access to information based on the principles of the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/99soesterberg.txt

1999.01

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [eh99] - 1999 European Ministerial Conference on Environment & Health

1998.03

    Databases

    • NGOS@UN - ngos@un - Non-Governmental Organizations at the United Nations
      NGOS@UN was designed as a catalyst for a cooperative information ecology framework to work with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in response to a request from the Economic and Social Council to make every effort to enhance and streamline, as appropriate, practical arrangements to facilitate the participation of non-governmental organizations in the work of the United Nations - and specifically to make effective use of database technology.

      NGOS@UN grew out of the INFOHAB database, and integrated extensive information - from disparate sources - of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) accredited to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and to the Global Conferences of the 1990s. As it developed, NGOS@UN grew significantly in size and structure incorporating major new sections, including record of NGOs in the process of seeking accreditation with ECOSOC, historical data on NGO accreditation, and information on official United Nations documents pertaining to NGO Accreditation and the work of the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations.


1999.02

  • 20th General Assembly of the Conference of NGOs in Consultative Status with ECOSOC

    Participant
      Drafted a resolution - adopted by the General Assembly - on Information and Communications for the Conference of NGOs to consider how to make use of modern information and communications technology to increase their effectiveness and to strengthen the participation of NGOs in the work of the United Nations.

1997.11-1997.11
Geneva, Switzerland

    Documents

    • Resolution on Information and Communications
      Resolution on Information and Communications - proposed by Information Habitat: Where Information Lives and International Council of Jewish Women and adopted by the 20th General Assembly of the Conference of NGOs - to recgnize the oppotunities offered by modern information and communications technology to increase their effectiveness and to strengthen the participation of NGOs in the work of the United Nations.
      habitat.igc.org/docs/ic-congo.htm

1997.11

  • NGO Committee on Social Development

    Member-at-Large
      Founding member and active participant in the Committee; developed and maintained database of Committee members and participants; managed and facilitated electronic mailing list for the Committee; edited by-laws.

1997.12-
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Y2K Countdown Digital Date Clock
      Presentation of the basis for the use of the Digital Date Clock - with yyyy.mm.dd format - as the ideal solution for a universal format for recording dates of transactions. pdf file from an HTML page.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/y2k-counting.pdf

1999.10

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [socdev] - NGO Committee on Social Development

1997.12

    Databases

    • INFOHAB - Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
      The initial database for Information Habitat: Where Information Lives; succeeded by the NGOS@UN database. During the active life of INFOHAB, it was the locus of major growth in its structure and contents, and was used to manage, inter alia, databases for key NGO Committees - on Human Settlements, Social Development, Sustainable Development, the NGO Steering Committee to the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development, and the preliminry database for participants in preparations for the Millennium Forum.

1995.05

    • NGOS@UN - ngos@un - Non-Governmental Organizations at the United Nations
      NGOS@UN was designed as a catalyst for a cooperative information ecology framework to work with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in response to a request from the Economic and Social Council to make every effort to enhance and streamline, as appropriate, practical arrangements to facilitate the participation of non-governmental organizations in the work of the United Nations - and specifically to make effective use of database technology.

      NGOS@UN grew out of the INFOHAB database, and integrated extensive information - from disparate sources - of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) accredited to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and to the Global Conferences of the 1990s. As it developed, NGOS@UN grew significantly in size and structure incorporating major new sections, including record of NGOs in the process of seeking accreditation with ECOSOC, historical data on NGO accreditation, and information on official United Nations documents pertaining to NGO Accreditation and the work of the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations.


1999.02

  • Development Planning Unit, University College London

    Visiting Scholar
      Design and developing a curriculum in information ecology and development planning. The course is based on an evolving understanding of a holistic realization of information ecology as an operating system for a sustainable information age, and more generally on the critical importance and value of an information ecology approach in support of broad-based, transparent, accessible structures and procedures in support of public participation at local, national, regional and global levels.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dpu-pip.html

1998.02-
London, United Kingdom

    Documents

    • dpu-pip - Partnership, Informatics and Participation for implementing the Habitat Agenda
      Seedbed for the development and implementation of a curriculum in information ecology designed to establish templates for the participatory use of information technology by local governnments and local communities and organizations. The site has also been used to make available - via e-mail and or a world wide web browser - key documents relating to public participation in consultation and decision-making relating to water, sustainability and health and the implementation of the agreement in the Habitat Agenda and Agenda 21.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dpu-pip

1998.02

    • Essential Economics: Towards a Holistic Framework
      Preliminary schematic representation for "Essential Economics". The model, developed in the context of "Holistic approaches to freshwater" and the consideration of the nature of water as an economic good at the 6th Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, describes an economic transaction as a process at the intersection of flows of labour, money, knowledge, material resources, energy, infrastructure, etc.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-essence.pdf

1998.04

    • Virtual Light & Colour Cubes - Properties of Light, Gifts of Nature, Catalysts of Peace
      Compelling visual introduction to the Virtual Light and Colour Cubes. Provides a brief visual overview of the principal characteristics of the Virtual Light and Colour Cubes / Peace Cubes
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/cop-llc-cubes.ppt

1998.07

    • Information Ecology and Information Society
      A brief overview of information ecology focussing on the emerging significance of information space, of the need for public information space and the development of such spaces through the use of information and communications technology in the course of the series of global conferences of the 1990, and of the electronic mailing list as the key tool in support of non-governmental participation in the global conferences, with an overview of properties of electronic mailing lists and recommendations. Presented at "The Challenges of Information Technology for the Non-Profit Sector". Powerpoint presentation.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-ie-is.ppt

1998.11

    • Information Ecology: Holistic Framework for Empowerment & Transformation
      A holistic perspective on information flows, recognizing three fundamental dimensions of information space - content / substance, personal / community relationships, and the nature of information technology - and three basic phases of information processing - compilation / organization, communication / dissemination, and reception / utilisation. Powerpoint presentation.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-ie-hf.ppt

1998.12

    • Istanbul + 2.5 - Half Way on a Journey to Istanbul + 5: A Status Report
      Case study / report on a partnership-based information ecology framework for integrated follow-up to the Habitat Agenda and the global agreements of the 1990s. Presented at the "New Partnerships for Action" conference at the United Nations Staff College. Powerpoint presentation.
      habitat.igc.org/ie/wepip.ppt

1998.12

    • Introduction to Information Ecology
      A preliminary overview of some basics of information ecology and the relationship between information systems and other ecosystems; the nature of key properties of information and information flows and exchanges, including implications of physical properties of information - zero mass and size, light-speed; and overview of the application of information technology in support of the participation of NGOs in the preparation for and follow-up to the agreements of the global conferences of the 1990s. (Draft, in progress)
      habitat.igc.org/ie/ien-iie.ppt

1998.12

    • Mailbase Online Micro-Library Service
      An overview of the design of an online micro-library service, using the mailbase electronic mailing list system developed by and for British universities. Documents would be maintained in plain text, WordPerfect 5.1, and portable document format, and would be accessible by electronic mail as well as via the world wide web. (Draft, in progress)
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-mmls.ppt

1998.12

    • Soesterberg Declaration
      Declaration adopted at a Conference in Soesterberg, The Netherlands, by Non-Governmental Organizations preparing for participation in the European Ministerial Conference on Environment & Health organized World Health Organization that includes recommendations on protocols for public participation and access to information based on the principles of the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/99soesterberg.txt

1999.01

1999.01

    • Light and Colour Tiles - Cycles
      Templates for domino-format tiles, with pairs of adjacent faces. jpg format available for printing on A3 or 11x17, to copy on card stock. Discover some of the patterns, cycles and symmetry. pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/cop-tiles-c.jpg

1999.01

    • Light and Colour Tiles - Mirrors One
      Templates for domino-format tiles, with mirror faces. A4 / 8.5x11"; also available in jpg format for printing on A3 or 11x17, to copy on card stock. Infinite variations, patterns, symmetry, rhythms and cycles. pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/cop-tiles-m1.jpg

1999.01

    • ngos@un - Non-Governmental Organizations at the United Nations
      Non-Governmental Organizations at the United Nations - a partnership to assist the UN Secretary-General in responding to the decision 1996/31 of the Economic and Social Council on Consultative Arangements for Non-Governmental Organizations" through a comprehensive approach to the application of modern information and communications technology in support of facilitation and documentation of NGOs in the work of the United Nations.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-ngosun.txt

1999.02

    • Faces of the Peace Cube
      Introduction to the faces of the light and colour cubes - and to a three-dimensional mathematics of light and colour. 10 slides / pages. Generated in Powerpoint; pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/cop-lcc-faces.pdf

1999.10

1999.10

    • Full Cost Electronic Market
      Schematic outline of key characteristics and relationships, and elements of the ecological properties relational database - engine of the market, incorporating "double entry bookkeeping for the earth". Outline, generated in Inspiration(r), in pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-fullcost.pdf

1999.10

1999.10

1999.10

    • Information Ecology of Electronic Mail
      Key material, economic, social and practical factors, in the context of electronic mail as a common and economical medium for communication and information exchange. Outline, generated in Inspiration(r), in pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-ieem.pdf

1999.10

    • Network Properties
      Fundamental properties and characteristics of networks, including integrity, connectivity, governance and groundedness. Outline, generated in Inspiration(r) in pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-network.pdf

1999.10

    • Y2K Countdown Digital Date Clock
      Presentation of the basis for the use of the Digital Date Clock - with yyyy.mm.dd format - as the ideal solution for a universal format for recording dates of transactions. pdf file from an HTML page.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/y2k-counting.pdf

1999.10

1999.10

    • ngos@un Database - An Outline
      Sketch of major areas of database elements in ngos@un - a comprehensive relational database of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at the United Nations. Inspiration-generated file, in pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-ngosun-db.pdf

1999.10

1999.10

    • Properties and Principles of Information
      Properties of zero mass, zero physical size, speed of light, common access to properties of the whole; principles governing value, flow, management and understanding of information. Outline in pdf format, generated in Inspiration(r).
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-informat.pdf

1999.11

    • Properties of Information
      Properties of information - zero mass, zero physical size, speed of light, common access to properties of the whole; principles governing information. Outline in pdf format, generated in Inspiration.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-informat.pdf

1999.11

    • Towards a Curriculum in Information Ecology: Partnership, Informatics and Participation
      A compilation of documents and images relating to the development of a curriculum in Information Ecology in cooperation with the Development Planning Unit - Partnership, Informatics and Participation University College, London

2002.03

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [dpu-pip] - Development Planning Unit - Partnership, Informatics, Participation


    • [pip] - Partnership, Informatics and Participation

1997.10

  • Information Ecology Curriculum

      Development of framework for a curriculum in information ecology.

1998.02-
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Village Meetings on the Internet: Theory and Practice of Information Ecology
      Conference presentation on the use of Internet Relay Chat as a simple, accessible and viable methodology for holding online "village meetings".

1997.02

    • The Digital Date Clock as a Universal Date Format
      Proposes the adoption of the digital date clock as a universal format for recording dates - using yyyy.mm.dd - eg 1998.12.20 - format that eliminates ambiguity and cultural variation in recording dates, uses characters compatible with prevailing standards for file names, exhibits the properties of an ordinal number and as a result promotes orderliness, and is not only fully year 2000 compliant but can also be used as a public awareness learning mechanism in preparing for the millennium bug / crisis / bomb - Y2K.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/y2k-counting.pdf

1997.06

    • Holistic Approaches to Freshwater Vitality: An Information Ecology Approach
      Outline framework for the use of an information ecology approach - focussing on watershed-based interactive public access to freshwater information - developed on the basis of NGO recommendations from the Freshwater Caucus and the Informaton Ecology Cacus of the NGO/CSD Ste fering Committee in response to "Integrated Management of Freshwater Resources" recommendations from a 1998.01 Expert Group meeting in Harare.
      habitat.igc.org/h2o-partners/hafv.pdf

1998.03

    • Information Ecology and Information Society
      A brief overview of information ecology focussing on the emerging significance of information space, of the need for public information space and the development of such spaces through the use of information and communications technology in the course of the series of global conferences of the 1990, and of the electronic mailing list as the key tool in support of non-governmental participation in the global conferences, with an overview of properties of electronic mailing lists and recommendations. Presented at "The Challenges of Information Technology for the Non-Profit Sector". Powerpoint presentation.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-ie-is.ppt

1998.11

    • Information Ecology: Holistic Framework for Empowerment & Transformation
      A holistic perspective on information flows, recognizing three fundamental dimensions of information space - content / substance, personal / community relationships, and the nature of information technology - and three basic phases of information processing - compilation / organization, communication / dissemination, and reception / utilisation. Powerpoint presentation.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-ie-hf.ppt

1998.12

    • Introduction to Information Ecology
      A preliminary overview of some basics of information ecology and the relationship between information systems and other ecosystems; the nature of key properties of information and information flows and exchanges, including implications of physical properties of information - zero mass and size, light-speed; and overview of the application of information technology in support of the participation of NGOs in the preparation for and follow-up to the agreements of the global conferences of the 1990s. (Draft, in progress)
      habitat.igc.org/ie/ien-iie.ppt

1998.12

    • Soesterberg Declaration
      Declaration adopted at a Conference in Soesterberg, The Netherlands, by Non-Governmental Organizations preparing for participation in the European Ministerial Conference on Environment & Health organized World Health Organization that includes recommendations on protocols for public participation and access to information based on the principles of the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/99soesterberg.txt

1999.01

    • Full Cost Electronic Market
      Schematic outline of key characteristics and relationships, and elements of the ecological properties relational database - engine of the market, incorporating "double entry bookkeeping for the earth". Outline, generated in Inspiration(r), in pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-fullcost.pdf

1999.10

1999.10

    • Information Ecology of Electronic Mail
      Key material, economic, social and practical factors, in the context of electronic mail as a common and economical medium for communication and information exchange. Outline, generated in Inspiration(r), in pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-ieem.pdf

1999.10

    • Network Properties
      Fundamental properties and characteristics of networks, including integrity, connectivity, governance and groundedness. Outline, generated in Inspiration(r) in pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-network.pdf

1999.10

    • The Evolving Knowledge-Based Global Economy
      An outline of background and context relating to cosideration of the Ministerial Declaration of the high-level segment of ECOSOC on "Development and international cooperation in the twenty-first century: the role of information technology in the context of a knowledge-based global economy" submitted by Information Habitat at the meeting of the High-Level Panel of Experts at the United Nations in preparation for the High-level segment of ECOSOC.
      habitat.igc.org/ie/nonpaper.htm

2000.04

    • Towards a Curriculum in Information Ecology: Partnership, Informatics and Participation
      A compilation of documents and images relating to the development of a curriculum in Information Ecology in cooperation with the Development Planning Unit - Partnership, Informatics and Participation University College, London

2002.03

    • Introduction to Information Ecology: A Journey from Rio to Johannesburg
      Overview of key concepts and issues in information ecology as it evolved in the course of a focus on information and communications technology in the context of NGO participation in UN Conferences and related NGO and intergovernmental proceedings beginning with preparations for the 1992 Earth Summit and leading into the 10 year review of the Earth Summit in Johannesburg. Presented to the Information Technology SIG at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies,
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk.edu/files/dpu-pip/

2002.04

    Databases

    • BALANCE - Balancing Checking Accounts & Cash Flow
      Checking account balance; elaboration of an original DataPerfect template with increased detail, including provision for multiple bank accounts, Petty Cash accounts, vendor information, etc.

1986.09

    • PARIS - Participants in Roots of the Future, International NGO Conference, Paris
      Organizational affiliation, addresses, etc. of participants in the International NGO Conference in Paris in December 1991. Source of directory of conference participants.

1991.09

    • DAZIBAO - First Draft of Da Zi Bao Database Design
      First draft of the database for participant interactive message system

1991.11

    • DZB-1 - Da Zi Bao - Roots of the Future
      The database for a "participant interactive message system" that was based on a compilation of concise (50 words or less) messages from the participants of the Roots of the Future International NGO Conference in Paris. The issues of Da Zi Bao were generated from WP5.1 secondary merge files generated from the database and the use of WP5.1 macros and styles. A total of nine issues were published during the four days of the conference, and a compilation of all the messages, organized by key word, was generated from DZB-1.

1991.12

    • DZB-GH - Da Zi Bao - Global Heart Convocation
      Four single page issues of Da Zi Bao were published in a small-scale, informal implementation of the Da Zi Bao process at the gathering of people on the basis of a Heart-centered concern for the issues of the upcoming Earth Summit.

1992.02

    • DZB-GS - Da Zi Bao - Second Global Structures Convocation
      Seven one-sided issues, one hundred and three messages - in six different colours - of Da Zi Bao at a major conference to explores the need for new global structures in the context of preparatio. ns for the Earth Summit. The issues were sold for 25 cents apiece, and revenue from sales more than covered the immediate material costs of the issues.

1992.02

    • SYNERGY - International Synergy Institute
      Primary database for the International Synergy Institute, successor to EIN, and served as a database of NGOs participating in the final stages of preparation for the Earth Summit and the followup to the Summit, and participation in subsequent UN Conferences, especially for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in Copenhagen in 1995.

1992.02

    • DZB-PC4 - Da Zi Bao - UNCED PrepCom 4
      Full-text database of all the Da Zi Bao issues during the final Preparatory Committee for UNCED (the Earth Summit). 17 issues, 175 messages published.

1992.03

    • DZB-RIO - Da Zi Bao - '92 Global Forum
      Full text database containing the fifty-eight issues of the Da Zi Bao interactive bulletin that were published during the '92 Global Forum in Rio; 21 issues were in English, 25 in Portuguese, 8 in Spanish and 4 in French. More than 2,200 separate messages in all were published - more than 2,800 records were gathered. An additional 10 issues of Da Zi Bao were published in conjunction with the Inter-Sectoral Dialogue meetings at the Global Forum.

1992.06

    • NGOUNCED - NGOs Accredited to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
      Documentation of information pertaining to Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) accredited to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) Conference - and made available by the NGIO Liaison Office of the UNCED Secretariat. NGOUNCED incorporated information on NGO representatives, relevance, sectors, key words, accreditation dates and record of the official Conference document approving the accreditation.

1992.08

    • INGOF - International NGO Forum
      Registrants for and Signatories of the Alternative Treaties at the '92 Global Forum

1992.09

    • TREATIES - Rio Agreements: Agenda 21, Biodiversity & Climate Conventions, etc.
      Full text searchable database of all the Rio Agreements: Agenda 21, Rio Declaration, Biodiversity & Climate Conventions, Forest Principles, Alternative Treates and Women's Action Agenda 21. TREATIES was used to generate the first version of Agenda 21 to be published in HTML format on the World Wide Web, in June 1995.

      Based on recent revisions, TREATIES is able to generate an interlinked set of web pages with the identification of all the occurrences in Agenda 21 and the Rio Declaration of selected words and phrases - presently for up to three words or phrases.


1993.01

    • ACCENT - Accent variations
      A database of alternative character sets and their correspondences, ACCENT allows easy lookup of alternative represntation of non-ASCII characters used under different protocols - e.g. ASCII, ANSI/Windows, HTML-N, HTML-A, IBASCII, etc. ACCENT can generate conversion files to be used in conjunction with CNV-41, a simple DOS-based program - made available on line and by e-mail request - that can convert between any two sets of character representations.

1994.01

    • INFOHAB - Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
      The initial database for Information Habitat: Where Information Lives; succeeded by the NGOS@UN database. During the active life of INFOHAB, it was the locus of major growth in its structure and contents, and was used to manage, inter alia, databases for key NGO Committees - on Human Settlements, Social Development, Sustainable Development, the NGO Steering Committee to the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development, and the preliminry database for participants in preparations for the Millennium Forum.

1995.05

    • DATABASE - Database of databases
      Database on the structure, contents and organization of Dataperfect databases developed by Robert Pollard, under the auspices of Information Habitat and a number of earlier organizations. Contains data on file names, descriptions, sizes, data links, reports, et cetera. Generates listings and reports of database characteristics and descriptions, including the report you are reading.

1995.06

    • FORUM96 - NGO Forum '96
      Database created in very short order to manage schedules for the NGO Forum, input and organize details of events and event organizers and presenters, resolve time and/or room conflicts. FORUM96 was used to generate - on-demand - interim schedules for planning purposes, and to generate up-to-date daily printed schedules and event that were posted throught the NGO Forum site.

1996.05

    • NGOS@UN - ngos@un - Non-Governmental Organizations at the United Nations
      NGOS@UN was designed as a catalyst for a cooperative information ecology framework to work with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in response to a request from the Economic and Social Council to make every effort to enhance and streamline, as appropriate, practical arrangements to facilitate the participation of non-governmental organizations in the work of the United Nations - and specifically to make effective use of database technology.

      NGOS@UN grew out of the INFOHAB database, and integrated extensive information - from disparate sources - of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) accredited to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and to the Global Conferences of the 1990s. As it developed, NGOS@UN grew significantly in size and structure incorporating major new sections, including record of NGOs in the process of seeking accreditation with ECOSOC, historical data on NGO accreditation, and information on official United Nations documents pertaining to NGO Accreditation and the work of the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations.


1999.02

    • ECOLOGY - Gaia University network of knowledge, information ecology database
      ECOLOGY is the successor to the INTERNET database, renamed to focus attention on its ecological properties, and incorporating minor revisions and updates to its structure, in addition to the conceptual shift associated with the change of name.

2000.11

    • HABITAT3 - Habitat Three
      An evolution from the ECOLOGY database, Habitat Three is conceived of both as a preliminary organizing database for an anticipated Habitat III Conference to be held in 2016, and as a prototype digital habitat for the Third Millennium. The HABITAT3 database serves as the primary database of Information Habitat and as the engine that generates the pages for Project Information Habitat.

2001.03

    • MEMORIAL - Memorial Database Rebuilding at World Trade Center
      The MEMORIAL database incorporates a database of public comments at Listening to the City on the original designs for the World Trade Center site. The database incorporates a coding system incorporating a database of key elements of the site, within an overall structured conceptual framework, and linked to appropriate views from the original designs.

2002.08

    • DIGITAL - Digital Engine
      The Digital Engine is a prototype for an open source digital engine based on information ecology design principles. The digital engine incorporates a set of related databases designed to enable the establishment and maintenance of interactive public fora, and incorporates an evolving set of protocols for the structure, field formats of data files, and a rule-based framework for relationships between data files.

      DIGITAL is being created using DataPerfect 2.6F - a remarkably powerful, versatile, robust and elegant remarkable DOS-based relational database that was released in 1985 as a key element of the WordPerfect Library - a library that included WordPerfect 3.0, and a powerful menu driven Shell program that allows rapid switching and data exchange between Shell-compatible programs.

      The use of WordPerfect Shell 4.0 - the latest version - is integral to the design and development of the DIGITAL database, for example through the use of Shell macros that can, for example, automatically generate a set of data fields and set up formulas that define the field values; through the screen capture feature that is invaluable in documentation of the database; and enable full integration with WordPerfect 5.1+ - the still unrivalled classic of word-processing software.


2002.08

    • LIGHT - Let there be Light
      The success to the COLOURS database, LIGHT is evolving as an engine to generate light - through the generation of sets of web pages - for images based on the Light and Colour Cubes, and for sets of digital or digitized photos - and the integration of the images with text, documents, web sites, and relevant links.

2003.01

  • CONGO Taskforce on Communications

    Member
      Set up and moderated electronic mailing list for the Taskforce of the Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relation with the United Nations (CONGO) that was set up following CONGO's adoption of an Information Habitat resolution on information and communications; participated in planning information communication and design and development of web site of CONGO.

1998.03-
New York, U.S.A.

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [ngo-tfc] - NGO Taskforce on Communications

1998.10

  • UN Commission on Social Development

    Representative of NGO in Consultative Status
      Active participant in the 38th session - principally through the NGO Committee on Social Development - and submitted "Information Technology, Public Participation and Global Agreements" as an official document of the Commission.

1998.03-
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Information Technology, Public Participation & Global Agreements
      Statement submitted to the UN Commission on Social Development on the critical need and opportunity to develop virtual structures for public participation to complement conventional and traditional structures, with particular reference to the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), the threats the MAI poses to social development goals, and the need for its reconciliation with the global agreements from Rio to Istanbul.
      habitat.igc.org/socdev/ngo10.htm

1998.02

  • Essential Economics: Towards a Holistic Framework

    Developer
      Created framework for "Essential Economics" as a basis for revisiting and clarifying assumptions of classical microeconomic pricing theory. The Essential Economics model, developed in the context of Holistic approaches to freshwater and an inquiry into the nature of water as an economic good, sees an economic transaction as a process at the intersection of flows of labour, money, knowledge, material resources, energy, infrastructure, etc. - flows whose properties may be altered by the transaction.

      The Essential Economics framework was a primary catalyst for the development of a general framework for sustainable economics.


1998.04-
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Information Technology, Public Participation & Global Agreements
      Statement submitted to the UN Commission on Social Development on the critical need and opportunity to develop virtual structures for public participation to complement conventional and traditional structures, with particular reference to the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), the threats the MAI poses to social development goals, and the need for its reconciliation with the global agreements from Rio to Istanbul.
      habitat.igc.org/socdev/ngo10.htm

1998.02

    • Essential Economics: Towards a Holistic Framework
      Preliminary schematic representation for "Essential Economics". The model, developed in the context of "Holistic approaches to freshwater" and the consideration of the nature of water as an economic good at the 6th Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, describes an economic transaction as a process at the intersection of flows of labour, money, knowledge, material resources, energy, infrastructure, etc.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-essence.pdf

1998.04

    • Full Cost Electronic Market
      Schematic outline of key characteristics and relationships, and elements of the ecological properties relational database - engine of the market, incorporating "double entry bookkeeping for the earth". Outline, generated in Inspiration(r), in pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-fullcost.pdf

1999.10

    • Network Properties
      Fundamental properties and characteristics of networks, including integrity, connectivity, governance and groundedness. Outline, generated in Inspiration(r) in pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-network.pdf

1999.10

    • Properties of Information
      Properties of information - zero mass, zero physical size, speed of light, common access to properties of the whole; principles governing information. Outline in pdf format, generated in Inspiration.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-informat.pdf

1999.11

    • Financing for Development and Transition to the Knowledge-Based Economy
      An analysis of the critical need for the Financing for Development (FfD) process at the United Nations to focus attention on the need for financing development that enables participation of developing countries in the new knowledge-based economy, and an identification of some of the key issues that need to be considered in the transition to a knowledge-based economy. Prepared for the FfD Business Hearings.
      habitat.igc.org/ffd-kbe

2000.12

  • Holistic Approaches to Freshwater: An Information Ecology Orientation

    Project Director
      Development of an outline framework for a holistic information ecology approach to freshwater resources - revising the document that had been prepared for the by an international Expert Group that met in Zimbabwe, with an integrating focus on the use of an information ecology approach.

      The information ecology approach would take advantages of the powers and economics of information and communications technology to allow broad-based, timely free access to water-related information, and to allow for a systematic process of public feedback on water-related problems, incorporating an online geographic information system / relational database approach that can make vital water-related information readily available and accessible.


1998.04-
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Holistic Approaches to Freshwater: An Information Ecology Orientation
      Outline framework for the use of an information ecology approach - focussing on watershed-based interactive public access to freshwater information - developed from "Integrated Management of Freshwater Resources" recommendations from a 1998.01 Expert Group meeting in Harare.

1998.04

  • Hudson Valley Sustainable Communities Network

    Member
      Made presentation and led discussion on ways that information and communications technologies can support community-based sustainable development initiatives.

1998.04-
Kingston, U.S.A.

  • Whole Earth Partnership Informatics & Participation - wepip

    Facilitator
      wepip is an informal network of electronic mailing lists established and supported by Information Habitat to strengthen the work of networks, committees and caucuses of non-governmental organizations and individuals working for a sustainable and peaceful Earth through enabling widespread and targeted distribution and "cross-pollination" of news and information on issues of NGO participation, sustainability, justice and peace.

1998.04-
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • ngos@un Database - An Outline
      Sketch of major areas of database elements in ngos@un - a comprehensive relational database of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at the United Nations. Inspiration-generated file, in pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-ngosun-db.pdf

1999.10

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [peace] - Habitat Peace Caucus / Peace Odyssey 2001

1996.05

    • [partners] - Habitat Partners Network

1996.12

    • [habifem] - Huairou Commission - Women, Homes and Communities Supercoalition

1997.01

    • [ngocsd] - NGO Committee on Sustainable Development

1997.02

    • [ngochs] - NGO Committee on Human Settlements

1997.03

    • [pip] - Partnership, Informatics and Participation

1997.10

    • [mai] - Ad Hoc Working Group on the MAI

1997.12

    • [socdev] - NGO Committee on Social Development

1997.12

    • [y2000] - Ad Hoc NGO Working Group on the Year 2000 Crisis

1998.06

    • [mf] - Millennium Forum

1998.08

    • [values] - NGO Values Caucus

1998.10

    • [mpan-steer] - Steering Committee of the Millennium Peoples Assembly Network

1998.10

    • [cccun] - Communications Coordinating Committee for the United Nations

1999.01

    • [earth-values-caucus] - Earth Values Caucus

2001.11

    • [information-ecology] - Information Ecology Caucus

2001.12

    • [snv-task-force] - Season for Nonviolence New York City Task Force

2001.12

    • [season-for-nonviolence] - Gandhi-King Season for Nonviolence

2002.04

    • [peace-caucus-un] - Peace Caucus at the United Nations

2002.05

    • [digital-tree-of-life] - Digital Tree of Life

2002.08

    Databases

    • INFOHAB - Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
      The initial database for Information Habitat: Where Information Lives; succeeded by the NGOS@UN database. During the active life of INFOHAB, it was the locus of major growth in its structure and contents, and was used to manage, inter alia, databases for key NGO Committees - on Human Settlements, Social Development, Sustainable Development, the NGO Steering Committee to the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development, and the preliminry database for participants in preparations for the Millennium Forum.

1995.05

    • NGOS@UN - ngos@un - Non-Governmental Organizations at the United Nations
      NGOS@UN was designed as a catalyst for a cooperative information ecology framework to work with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in response to a request from the Economic and Social Council to make every effort to enhance and streamline, as appropriate, practical arrangements to facilitate the participation of non-governmental organizations in the work of the United Nations - and specifically to make effective use of database technology.

      NGOS@UN grew out of the INFOHAB database, and integrated extensive information - from disparate sources - of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) accredited to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and to the Global Conferences of the 1990s. As it developed, NGOS@UN grew significantly in size and structure incorporating major new sections, including record of NGOs in the process of seeking accreditation with ECOSOC, historical data on NGO accreditation, and information on official United Nations documents pertaining to NGO Accreditation and the work of the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations.


1999.02

    • INTERNET - Networked knowledge and information
      The Internet database is the successor to the NGOS@UN database, incorporating a significant number of new data files - now totalling 99, including the water-body oriented geographic data structure that were developed in preparation for Y2K contingency planning, and a set of data files for Internet domain names, the registration of which was a major focus of activity in the year 2000, and that are central components in the design of Gaia University and in an evolving proof of the Gaia Mind hypothesis.

2000.06

    • ECOLOGY - Gaia University network of knowledge, information ecology database
      ECOLOGY is the successor to the INTERNET database, renamed to focus attention on its ecological properties, and incorporating minor revisions and updates to its structure, in addition to the conceptual shift associated with the change of name.

2000.11

    • HABITAT3 - Habitat Three
      An evolution from the ECOLOGY database, Habitat Three is conceived of both as a preliminary organizing database for an anticipated Habitat III Conference to be held in 2016, and as a prototype digital habitat for the Third Millennium. The HABITAT3 database serves as the primary database of Information Habitat and as the engine that generates the pages for Project Information Habitat.

2001.03

  • Ad Hoc Sustainable Kitchen Caucus & Collective

    Convenor
      Convened and managed an Ad Hoc Caucus that provided inexpensive, healthy lunches for NGO participants during the 6th Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development.

1998.04-1998.05
New York, U.S.A.

  • Forum of Researchers on Human Settlements

    Member

1998.05-
Rome, Italy

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [frhs] - Forum of Researchers on Human Settlements


  • Ad Hoc Working Group on the Year 2000 Crisis

    Convenor
      Organized Y2K presentations and briefings with UN Staff, Delegates, experts and NGOs at United Nations Headquarters; disseminated Y2K-related information - including information on community preparedness for Y2K - through numerous electronic mailing lists.

1998.06-2000.12
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • The Digital Date Clock as a Universal Date Format
      Proposes the adoption of the digital date clock as a universal format for recording dates - using yyyy.mm.dd - eg 1998.12.20 - format that eliminates ambiguity and cultural variation in recording dates, uses characters compatible with prevailing standards for file names, exhibits the properties of an ordinal number and as a result promotes orderliness, and is not only fully year 2000 compliant but can also be used as a public awareness learning mechanism in preparing for the millennium bug / crisis / bomb - Y2K.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/y2k-counting.pdf

1997.06

    • Y2K Three States Network
      Web site for the Y2K Three States Network of representatives of public agencies and managers of public utilities and transportation networks concerned with computer-date-related Year 2000 preparations in the New York City tri-state area - New York, Connecticut and New Jersey.
      [www.y2k3states.org]

1998.09

    • Y2K Countdown Digital Date Clock
      Presentation of the basis for the use of the Digital Date Clock - with yyyy.mm.dd format - as the ideal solution for a universal format for recording dates of transactions. pdf file from an HTML page.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/y2k-counting.pdf

1999.10

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [y2000] - Ad Hoc NGO Working Group on the Year 2000 Crisis

1998.06

    Databases

    • NGOS@UN - ngos@un - Non-Governmental Organizations at the United Nations
      NGOS@UN was designed as a catalyst for a cooperative information ecology framework to work with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in response to a request from the Economic and Social Council to make every effort to enhance and streamline, as appropriate, practical arrangements to facilitate the participation of non-governmental organizations in the work of the United Nations - and specifically to make effective use of database technology.

      NGOS@UN grew out of the INFOHAB database, and integrated extensive information - from disparate sources - of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) accredited to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and to the Global Conferences of the 1990s. As it developed, NGOS@UN grew significantly in size and structure incorporating major new sections, including record of NGOs in the process of seeking accreditation with ECOSOC, historical data on NGO accreditation, and information on official United Nations documents pertaining to NGO Accreditation and the work of the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations.


1999.02

  • Millennium Forum

    Executive Committee
      Design and maintenance of participant database, establishment and management of electronic mailing lists. Coordinator, Information & Communications; Convenor, Information Ecology Working Group.
      www.millenniumforum.org

1998.07-2001.03
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Information Ecology for a Millennium Forum
      An outline of a general information ecology approach in support of information and communication needs of a Millennium Forum - or set of Forums. An overview of of some historical roots of information ecology and its evolution in support of the participation of non-governmental organizations in preparations for and follow-up to the global conferences of the 1990s. (Draft, in progress)

1998.12

1999.01

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [mf-ex] - Millennium Forum Executive Committee


    • [mf-pcc] - Millennium Forum Planning Consultative Council

1998.08

    • [mf] - Millennium Forum

1998.08

    Databases

    • INFOHAB - Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
      The initial database for Information Habitat: Where Information Lives; succeeded by the NGOS@UN database. During the active life of INFOHAB, it was the locus of major growth in its structure and contents, and was used to manage, inter alia, databases for key NGO Committees - on Human Settlements, Social Development, Sustainable Development, the NGO Steering Committee to the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development, and the preliminry database for participants in preparations for the Millennium Forum.

1995.05

    • NGOS@UN - ngos@un - Non-Governmental Organizations at the United Nations
      NGOS@UN was designed as a catalyst for a cooperative information ecology framework to work with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in response to a request from the Economic and Social Council to make every effort to enhance and streamline, as appropriate, practical arrangements to facilitate the participation of non-governmental organizations in the work of the United Nations - and specifically to make effective use of database technology.

      NGOS@UN grew out of the INFOHAB database, and integrated extensive information - from disparate sources - of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) accredited to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and to the Global Conferences of the 1990s. As it developed, NGOS@UN grew significantly in size and structure incorporating major new sections, including record of NGOs in the process of seeking accreditation with ECOSOC, historical data on NGO accreditation, and information on official United Nations documents pertaining to NGO Accreditation and the work of the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations.


1999.02

  • NGO Values Caucus

    Member & List Moderator
      Establishment and management of electronic mailing list for the Caucus.

1998.08-
New York, U.S.A.

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [values] - NGO Values Caucus

1998.10

  • Y2K Tri-State Network

    Steering Committee member
      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, governmental representatives, computer expets and citizen organizations.

1998.09-2000.01
New York, U.S.A.

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [y2000] - Ad Hoc NGO Working Group on the Year 2000 Crisis

1998.06

  • New Partnerships for Action

    Participant and Presenter
      Active participant, Rapporteur of the Information Flows Process Group, and presentation of "Istanbul + 2.5" - a case study in information ecology and participation in human settlements agreements.

1998.12-1998.12
Turin, Italy

    Documents

    • Information Ecology: Holistic Framework for Empowerment & Transformation
      A holistic perspective on information flows, recognizing three fundamental dimensions of information space - content / substance, personal / community relationships, and the nature of information technology - and three basic phases of information processing - compilation / organization, communication / dissemination, and reception / utilisation. Powerpoint presentation.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-ie-hf.ppt

1998.12

    • Istanbul + 2.5 - Half Way on a Journey to Istanbul + 5: A Status Report
      Case study / report on a partnership-based information ecology framework for integrated follow-up to the Habitat Agenda and the global agreements of the 1990s. Presented at the "New Partnerships for Action" conference at the United Nations Staff College. Powerpoint presentation.
      habitat.igc.org/ie/wepip.ppt

1998.12

  • NGO Section, Division of ECOSOC Support & Coordination, Department of Economic & Social Affairs

    Consultant
      Set up a comprehensive database for the NGO Section, integrating data on the participation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the work of the United Nations, especially those in Consultative Status and produced a comprehensive approach to the development of an integrated information system to facilitate sustainable, equitable, timely and cost-effective access to and exchange of information regarding the participation of NGOs in the work of the United Nations.

1998.12-1999.03
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Proposal: Establishment of a Consolidated DPCSD Database
      Proposal for the establishment of an electronic database of NGO contacts, to support the long-term strategy of the Department of Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development regarding the new relationship emerging between the United Nations and the non-governmental sector. The proposal is based on a review of the existing arrangements for maintaining information on non-governmental organizations, information needs of NGO focal points, and an assessment of software alternatives.

1994.08

    • ngos@un - Non-Governmental Organizations at the United Nations
      Non-Governmental Organizations at the United Nations - a partnership to assist the UN Secretary-General in responding to the decision 1996/31 of the Economic and Social Council on Consultative Arangements for Non-Governmental Organizations" through a comprehensive approach to the application of modern information and communications technology in support of facilitation and documentation of NGOs in the work of the United Nations.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-ngosun.txt

1999.02

    • ngos@un Database - An Outline
      Sketch of major areas of database elements in ngos@un - a comprehensive relational database of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at the United Nations. Inspiration-generated file, in pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-ngosun-db.pdf

1999.10

    Databases

    • NGOS@UN - ngos@un - Non-Governmental Organizations at the United Nations
      NGOS@UN was designed as a catalyst for a cooperative information ecology framework to work with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in response to a request from the Economic and Social Council to make every effort to enhance and streamline, as appropriate, practical arrangements to facilitate the participation of non-governmental organizations in the work of the United Nations - and specifically to make effective use of database technology.

      NGOS@UN grew out of the INFOHAB database, and integrated extensive information - from disparate sources - of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) accredited to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and to the Global Conferences of the 1990s. As it developed, NGOS@UN grew significantly in size and structure incorporating major new sections, including record of NGOs in the process of seeking accreditation with ECOSOC, historical data on NGO accreditation, and information on official United Nations documents pertaining to NGO Accreditation and the work of the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations.


1999.02

  • United Nations Fund for Population Activities

    Consultant
      Developed and maintained database of NGOs accredited to the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and to the Five Year Review of the Conference - Cairo plus 5. Designed and managed registration process for the Five-Year Review of ICPD.

1999.04-1999.06
New York, U.S.A.

    Databases

    • NGOS@UN - ngos@un - Non-Governmental Organizations at the United Nations
      NGOS@UN was designed as a catalyst for a cooperative information ecology framework to work with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in response to a request from the Economic and Social Council to make every effort to enhance and streamline, as appropriate, practical arrangements to facilitate the participation of non-governmental organizations in the work of the United Nations - and specifically to make effective use of database technology.

      NGOS@UN grew out of the INFOHAB database, and integrated extensive information - from disparate sources - of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) accredited to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and to the Global Conferences of the 1990s. As it developed, NGOS@UN grew significantly in size and structure incorporating major new sections, including record of NGOs in the process of seeking accreditation with ECOSOC, historical data on NGO accreditation, and information on official United Nations documents pertaining to NGO Accreditation and the work of the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations.


1999.02

  • Whitehaven and Whitgift

    Managing Partner
      Development of business plans and strategies for a knowledge-based corporation

2000.01-
New York, U.S.A.

  • Whitehaven and Whitgift Trust

    Founder
      Develops and implements strategy for the development of the resources of the Whitehaven and Whitgift Trust, the charitable arm of Whitehaven and Whitgift, and the registered administrator of a set of Internet domains, that are based on a conviction as to the proof of the Gaia Mind hypothesis, and of the presence of One Light in all of Creation, and accessible at gaia-university.net

2000.01-
New York, U.S.A.

    Databases

    • NGOS@UN - ngos@un - Non-Governmental Organizations at the United Nations
      NGOS@UN was designed as a catalyst for a cooperative information ecology framework to work with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in response to a request from the Economic and Social Council to make every effort to enhance and streamline, as appropriate, practical arrangements to facilitate the participation of non-governmental organizations in the work of the United Nations - and specifically to make effective use of database technology.

      NGOS@UN grew out of the INFOHAB database, and integrated extensive information - from disparate sources - of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) accredited to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and to the Global Conferences of the 1990s. As it developed, NGOS@UN grew significantly in size and structure incorporating major new sections, including record of NGOs in the process of seeking accreditation with ECOSOC, historical data on NGO accreditation, and information on official United Nations documents pertaining to NGO Accreditation and the work of the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations.


1999.02

    • INTERNET - Networked knowledge and information
      The Internet database is the successor to the NGOS@UN database, incorporating a significant number of new data files - now totalling 99, including the water-body oriented geographic data structure that were developed in preparation for Y2K contingency planning, and a set of data files for Internet domain names, the registration of which was a major focus of activity in the year 2000, and that are central components in the design of Gaia University and in an evolving proof of the Gaia Mind hypothesis.

2000.06

    • COLOURS - Light & Colour Cube Engine
      Database engine of light and colour for the Virtual Light and Colour Cubes, and of more than a thousand images based on the Cubes. COLOURS was used to generate the set of images of the faces of the Light and Colour Cubes, as well as to generate many sets of web pages with images based on the cubes.

2000.09

    • ECOLOGY - Gaia University network of knowledge, information ecology database
      ECOLOGY is the successor to the INTERNET database, renamed to focus attention on its ecological properties, and incorporating minor revisions and updates to its structure, in addition to the conceptual shift associated with the change of name.

2000.11

    • HABITAT3 - Habitat Three
      An evolution from the ECOLOGY database, Habitat Three is conceived of both as a preliminary organizing database for an anticipated Habitat III Conference to be held in 2016, and as a prototype digital habitat for the Third Millennium. The HABITAT3 database serves as the primary database of Information Habitat and as the engine that generates the pages for Project Information Habitat.

2001.03

    • LIGHT - Let there be Light
      The success to the COLOURS database, LIGHT is evolving as an engine to generate light - through the generation of sets of web pages - for images based on the Light and Colour Cubes, and for sets of digital or digitized photos - and the integration of the images with text, documents, web sites, and relevant links.

2003.01

  • Gaia University

    Information Ecologist; Interim President
      Design and development of knowledge-based curriculum, structure, informaton 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.

2000.04-
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Gaia University
      A web-based home for Gaia University and for a preliminary presentation of the Gaia Mind Hypothesis, including a presentation of an extensive set of Interet domains that were registered by members of the Gaia University family of organizations. Each of the domains was intended to play a central role in the curriculum and administration of Gaia University, and are being designed and developed within an information ecology domain framework.

2000.07

    Databases

    • INTERNET - Networked knowledge and information
      The Internet database is the successor to the NGOS@UN database, incorporating a significant number of new data files - now totalling 99, including the water-body oriented geographic data structure that were developed in preparation for Y2K contingency planning, and a set of data files for Internet domain names, the registration of which was a major focus of activity in the year 2000, and that are central components in the design of Gaia University and in an evolving proof of the Gaia Mind hypothesis.

2000.06

    • COLOURS - Light & Colour Cube Engine
      Database engine of light and colour for the Virtual Light and Colour Cubes, and of more than a thousand images based on the Cubes. COLOURS was used to generate the set of images of the faces of the Light and Colour Cubes, as well as to generate many sets of web pages with images based on the cubes.

2000.09

    • ECOLOGY - Gaia University network of knowledge, information ecology database
      ECOLOGY is the successor to the INTERNET database, renamed to focus attention on its ecological properties, and incorporating minor revisions and updates to its structure, in addition to the conceptual shift associated with the change of name.

2000.11

    • HABITAT3 - Habitat Three
      An evolution from the ECOLOGY database, Habitat Three is conceived of both as a preliminary organizing database for an anticipated Habitat III Conference to be held in 2016, and as a prototype digital habitat for the Third Millennium. The HABITAT3 database serves as the primary database of Information Habitat and as the engine that generates the pages for Project Information Habitat.

2001.03

    • DIGITAL - Digital Engine
      The Digital Engine is a prototype for an open source digital engine based on information ecology design principles. The digital engine incorporates a set of related databases designed to enable the establishment and maintenance of interactive public fora, and incorporates an evolving set of protocols for the structure, field formats of data files, and a rule-based framework for relationships between data files.

      DIGITAL is being created using DataPerfect 2.6F - a remarkably powerful, versatile, robust and elegant remarkable DOS-based relational database that was released in 1985 as a key element of the WordPerfect Library - a library that included WordPerfect 3.0, and a powerful menu driven Shell program that allows rapid switching and data exchange between Shell-compatible programs.

      The use of WordPerfect Shell 4.0 - the latest version - is integral to the design and development of the DIGITAL database, for example through the use of Shell macros that can, for example, automatically generate a set of data fields and set up formulas that define the field values; through the screen capture feature that is invaluable in documentation of the database; and enable full integration with WordPerfect 5.1+ - the still unrivalled classic of word-processing software.


2002.08

  • Housing Court of Kings

    Founder and Information Ecologist
      Design, develop and implement a demonstration model of an online information ecology framework to provide increaed equity for tenants - particlarly those proceeding on a pro se basis in Landlord/Tenant cases in Housing Court.

      The initiative takes its name from an real life case involving the defense of Information Habitat's home in the Housing Part of the Civil Court of the City of New York, County of Kings - better known to the world as Brooklyn.

      The Housing Court of Kings offers a design that draws on the power of the Internet and modern information technology - in conjunction with relevant international agreeements - to remedy the Court's antiquated and dysfunctional information system that is a primary means by which equal protection under the law is systematically denied for low income tenants unable to qualify for legal assistance.

      Housing Court of Kings also seeks to remedy current absence of any systematic documentation of the nature of the tenants' counterclaims and of the physical and environmental conditions in the tenant's apartment and building.

      The project was conceived as a model by which local governmental bodies can and to demonstrate the value of consideration of relevant recommendations from the Habitat Agenda and from Agenda 21.


2000.06-
Brooklyn, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Motion for Recognition of John Doe's Competence to Represent Respondents as a pro se Attorney in this Case
      Pro se Motion filed in Rama and Manjula, a Corporation against Fye and Doe, Index No. 70826/00, in the Housing Part of the Civil Court of Kings County, New York, presenting arguments for the recognition of John Doe's competence to proceed on a pro se basis in the case.
      habitat.igc.org/housing-court-of-kings/70826/00/pro-se.pdf

2000.06

    • Motion to Vacate Stipulation of Settlement as Fatally Defective
      Pro se Motion in the case of Rama and Manjula, a Corporation, against Fye and Doe, in the Housing Part of the Civil Court of Kings County, New York, on the grounds that the stipulation of settlement in the case was fatally defective, presenting arguments and evidence, inter alia, as to illegal actions by Petitioner (Rama and Manjula) including failure to register the premises as a multiple dwelling and failure to provide adequate heat and hot water, defects in the Court's information system, arguing for consideration of the principles of Agenda 21 and the Habitat Agenda in the Housing Court and for the introduction of a comprehensive housing information system and the provision of opportunities for electronic filing and service of documents.
      habitat.igc.org/housing-court-of-kings/70826/00/vacate.pdf

2000.06

    • Motion to Rescind Five Day Notice on the Grounds of Lack of Jurisdiction
      Pro se Motion in Rama and Manjula, a Corporation, against Fye and Doe in the Housing Part of the Civil Court of the County of Kings, New York arguing to rescind a five day eviction notice on the grounds of lack of jurisdiction.
      habitat.igc.org/housing-court-of-kings/70826/00/rescind.pdf

2000.06

    • Motion to Permit Submission of Additional Counterclaims
      Motion asserting the right to submit additional counterclaims in response to economic harm suffered by Respondents as a result of the Landlord's unlawful use of the Housing Court in this case.
      habitat.igc.org/ housing-court-of-kings/70826/00/permit.pdf

2000.06

    • Housing Court of Kings: A framework for information ecology and the administration of Justice
      Information ecology, justice and the law. A framework and a test case / case study in an information ecology-enabled transformation of the Housing Part of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Kings County - better known as Brooklyn. Housing Court of kings is also intended to serve as a model framework to strengthen the role of Housing Courts to do justice to the rights of tenants, and to the responsibilities of landlords to maintain their properties in a lawful, ecologically-sound manner in keeping with the language and the spirit of international agreements on sustainable housing and sustainable communities and cities, and on sustainable, participatory development.
      habitat.igc.org/housing-court-of-kings/overview.pdf

2000.07

    • Respondents' Overview of Events Concerning Landlord's Failure to Provide Adequate Heat and Hot Water - among Many Other Failures to Maintain Warrant of Habitability - and Landlord's Retaliatory Refusal to Renew Lease
      Overview of the Landlord's failure to provide heat, and Landlord's retaliatory response to a legitimate and validated complaint to the approate authority of the City of New York, with submission of relevant weather records obtained from from the official web site of the National Weather Center at La Guardia Airport.

2000.08

    • Affidavit #2 in Support of an Order to Show Cause to Vacate Judgement and to Restore to the Calendar
      Affidavit providing an overview of the grounds for the judge to vacate a Stipulation of Settlement that had been entered into without the jurisdiction of the Court and that had failed to provide reasonable due process.
      habitat.igc.org/housing-court-of-kings/70826/00/affidavit-2000.08.17.pdf

2000.08

    • Affidavit #3 in Support of an Order to Show Cause to Vacate Judgement and to Restore to the Calendar
      Affidavit filed in Rama and Manjula, a Corporation against Fye and Doe, Index No. 70826/00, in the Housing Part of the Civil Court of Kings Conuty, New York, summarizing arguments as to why the Court's Judgments, raising issues, inter alia, of jurisdictional and procedural errors, and the Court's failure to uphold 14th Amendment requirements to provide equal protection under the law.
      habitat.igc.org/housing-court-of-kings/70826/00/affidavit-2000.09.07.pdf

2000.09

    • Documents submitted by Respondents in Response to Interim Order of 2001.02.08
      Listing of documents filed by pro se tenants in response to an Interim Order of the Court requesting resubmission of the documents as the Court was unable to find the original documents.
      habitat.igc.org/housing-court-of-kings/70286/00/documents.pdf

2001.02

    • Revised form for Tenant's Affidavit in Support of an Order to Show Cause to Vacate Judgement and to Restore to the Calendar
      A revised form for Tenant's Affidavit offered for use by the Housing Court of Kings County, New York (Brooklyn), The form - which would be accessible online, with interactive help options, and in portable electronic formats - makes provision for documentation of the specifics of the Landlord's failure to maintain a "warrant of habitability", and provides optional additional space for describing additional details related to a Tenant's defense.
      habitat.igc.org/housing-court-of-kings/tenant-affidavit-form.pdf

2001.03

    • Tenant's Affidavit in Support of an Order to Show Cause to Vacate Judgement and to Restore to the Calendar
      Final, unsuccessful affidavit - submitted on the newly-designed form for Tenant's Affidavits - that documents clearly violations of Housing Code - the resolution of which was supposed to be a precondition for any payment of rent, presents other detailed arguments in the Tenant's defense, and describes how the newly-designed form would work.
      habitat.igc.org/housing-court-of-kings/70826/00/affidavit-2001.03.30.pdf

2001.03

  • Maine Ecology Network

    Co-Founder
      Development of design for integrated interactive online framework, incorporating Geographic information system web server, and of information and communication systmes and processes for network of networks of communities, organizations and individuals concerned with the ecology of the State of Maine.

2000.09-
Blue Hill, U.S.A.

  • Financing for Development Forum

    Administrator
      Design, develop and administer 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.
      habitat.igc.org/ffd-kbe

2000.11-2001.08
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Financing for Development and Transition to the Knowledge-Based Economy
      An analysis of the critical need for the Financing for Development (FfD) process at the United Nations to focus attention on the need for financing development that enables participation of developing countries in the new knowledge-based economy, and an identification of some of the key issues that need to be considered in the transition to a knowledge-based economy. Prepared for the FfD Business Hearings.
      habitat.igc.org/ffd-kbe

2000.12

    • Financing for Development Forum
      A partnership-based online framework to enable access to information and broad-based participation in consultations relating to the preparations for the High Level United Nations event on Financing for Development scheduled for the first quarter of 2002.

2000.12

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [ffdngocaucus] - Small NGO Financing for Development Caucus

2000.11

  • United Religions Initiative - UN Cooperation Circle

    Council Member
      Participate in planning and decision-making for events, outreach, communication and organizational development in support of the vision and Charter of the United Religions Initiative.
      www.uri.org

2000.12-
New York, U.S.A.

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [unitedreligions] - United Religions Initiative

2000.06

    • [uricc] - United Religions Initiative - Cooperation Circles

2001.07

  • Gandhi-King Season for Nonviolence - Taking IT Global

    Designer and Developer
      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.
      project.takingitglobal.org/gandhi-king

2001.01-
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Gandhi-King Season for Nonviolence - An Evolving Information Habitat
      With the theme Gandhi-King Season for Nonviolence: Ahimsa - Opening to an Inner Light site is being developed as an information habitat for nonviolence resources, powered by a Digital Engine based on information ecology design principles. The web site incorporates a revised and reorganized calendar of messages for each day of the season, and designed as a framework for a ten-week curriculum in nonviolence.

2003.03

  • hiv-aids-care.net

    Founder and Facilitator
      Preliminary design and development of hiv-aids-care.net as a demonstration project in the healing properties of the Internet as a life-support framework for the mobilization of healing resources for local, national and global partnership-based networks concerned with the prevention of HIV/AIDS and with the availability of care and treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS and their families and communities, in conjunction with preparations for and follow-up to the June 2001 United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS.

2001.03-
Brooklyn, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • hiv-aids-care - a graphic representation
      "A picture is worth a thousand words." A graphic representation of the incidence of HIV/AIDS infection through the use of geographic information system maps comiled by the UN-AIDS programme. The maps vividly and directly make visible both the extent of infection, and and its growth, at five year intervals in Africa, South America and Asia.
      habitat.igc.org/hiv-aids-care

2001.03

  • Spiritual Caucus at the United Nations

    Council Member
      Participated in development of mission statement, structure, processes and information ecology of the Spiritual Caucus.

2001.03-2002.05
New York, U.S.A.

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [spiritualcaucus-un] - Spiritual Caucus at the United Nations

2001.03

  • The Ark of Hope

    Participant
      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.
      www.ark-of-hope.com

2001.09-
New York, U.S.A.

  • Earth Values Caucus

    Member, Electronic Mailing List Manager
      Established and manage the electronic maling list for the Caucus which is raising issues of Earth values at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg.

2001.10-
New York, U.S.A.

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [earth-values-caucus-un] - Earth Values Caucus at the UN

2001.11

    Databases

    • HABITAT3 - Habitat Three
      An evolution from the ECOLOGY database, Habitat Three is conceived of both as a preliminary organizing database for an anticipated Habitat III Conference to be held in 2016, and as a prototype digital habitat for the Third Millennium. The HABITAT3 database serves as the primary database of Information Habitat and as the engine that generates the pages for Project Information Habitat.

2001.03

  • Gandhi-King Season for Nonviolence - New York Task Force

    New York City Task Force Member
      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.

2001.11-
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Gandhi-King 2002 Season for Nonviolence - Calendar
      Illustrated daily calendar of themes and quotations prepared for the New York City Season for Nonviolence Task Force based on "64 Ways - 64 Days" developed by the Association for Global New Thought.
      habitat.igc.org/snv-2002

2002.01

    • Gandhi-King Season for Nonviolence - An Evolving Information Habitat
      With the theme Gandhi-King Season for Nonviolence: Ahimsa - Opening to an Inner Light site is being developed as an information habitat for nonviolence resources, powered by a Digital Engine based on information ecology design principles. The web site incorporates a revised and reorganized calendar of messages for each day of the season, and designed as a framework for a ten-week curriculum in nonviolence.

2003.03

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [snv-task-force] - Season for Nonviolence New York City Task Force

2001.12

    • [season-for-nonviolence] - Gandhi-King Season for Nonviolence

2002.04

    Databases

    • HABITAT3 - Habitat Three
      An evolution from the ECOLOGY database, Habitat Three is conceived of both as a preliminary organizing database for an anticipated Habitat III Conference to be held in 2016, and as a prototype digital habitat for the Third Millennium. The HABITAT3 database serves as the primary database of Information Habitat and as the engine that generates the pages for Project Information Habitat.

2001.03

    • GKSNV - Gandhi-King Season for Nonviolence
      Developed initially to generate the calendar pages for the 2002 Gandhi-King Season for Nonviolence, GKSNV was merged into the DIGITAL database in January 2003 in preparation for a substantially enhanced web site for the 2003 Gandhi-King Season for Nonviolence.

2001.12

    • DIGITAL - Digital Engine
      The Digital Engine is a prototype for an open source digital engine based on information ecology design principles. The digital engine incorporates a set of related databases designed to enable the establishment and maintenance of interactive public fora, and incorporates an evolving set of protocols for the structure, field formats of data files, and a rule-based framework for relationships between data files.

      DIGITAL is being created using DataPerfect 2.6F - a remarkably powerful, versatile, robust and elegant remarkable DOS-based relational database that was released in 1985 as a key element of the WordPerfect Library - a library that included WordPerfect 3.0, and a powerful menu driven Shell program that allows rapid switching and data exchange between Shell-compatible programs.

      The use of WordPerfect Shell 4.0 - the latest version - is integral to the design and development of the DIGITAL database, for example through the use of Shell macros that can, for example, automatically generate a set of data fields and set up formulas that define the field values; through the screen capture feature that is invaluable in documentation of the database; and enable full integration with WordPerfect 5.1+ - the still unrivalled classic of word-processing software.


2002.08

    • LIGHT - Let there be Light
      The success to the COLOURS database, LIGHT is evolving as an engine to generate light - through the generation of sets of web pages - for images based on the Light and Colour Cubes, and for sets of digital or digitized photos - and the integration of the images with text, documents, web sites, and relevant links.

2003.01

  • Rainbow Cubic Sine Waves

    Developer
      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.

2001.12-
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Rainbow Cubic Sine Waves
      An endless sequence of cycling "rainbow cubic sine waves" - based on a mapping of the colours of the Light and Colour Cubes onto the shape of a sine wave in a quest to reconcile and connect the cubes and the rainbow, as well as to bridge the gulf between the square and cube and the circle and sphere.
      habitat.igc.org/reconcile/rcsw.htm

2001.12

    Databases

    • COLOURS - Light & Colour Cube Engine
      Database engine of light and colour for the Virtual Light and Colour Cubes, and of more than a thousand images based on the Cubes. COLOURS was used to generate the set of images of the faces of the Light and Colour Cubes, as well as to generate many sets of web pages with images based on the cubes.

2000.09

    • LIGHT - Let there be Light
      The success to the COLOURS database, LIGHT is evolving as an engine to generate light - through the generation of sets of web pages - for images based on the Light and Colour Cubes, and for sets of digital or digitized photos - and the integration of the images with text, documents, web sites, and relevant links.

2003.01

  • September 11 Peace Memorials

    Designer and Artist
      Design, develop and make available 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.

2001.12-
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Queries on Opening to the Light
      An inspiring set of Quaker Queries on Opening to the Light, presented by Barry Morley at Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in 1988.
      habitat.igc.org/queries

1988.08

    • Oh Say Can You See By the One Light in All!
      "Oh Say Can You See By the One Light in All!" was dedicated as the Fifth Verse of the US National Anthem at an Interfaith Sunrise service at Fort McHenry, home of the Star-Spangled Banner and a brief description of how the Star Spangled Banner became adopted - through a grassroots process - as the U.S. National Anthem.
      habitat.igc.org/oh-say-can-you-see

1990.04

    • Rivers of Light Variations
      Rhythmic rivers of light based on the fundamental cycles of the Peace Cubes / Virtual Light and Colour Cubes, above a phoographic negative of the same. Exhibited at Isha Shabaka's IdefineArt studio in Brooklyn, NY at the natural turn of the Millennium, the Winter Solstice, 2000.
      habitat.igc.org/bridges/river.htm

2000.12

    • Birth of the Rainbow Cubic Sine Waves
      An exploration in connections between the Light and Colour Cubes and the colours of the rainbow, Rainbow Cubic Sine Waves represents a mapping of the colurs of the cubes onto a sine wave, in which the cycle of colours seems to evoke the colour sequence of the rainbow. The development of the Rainbow Cubic Sine Wave took place over two days very shortly on the birth of the Cubic Colour Wheel, reflecting an openness to softening the sharp edges of the Cubes, as well as to focus attention on some of the rhythmic and cyclical properties of the cubes.

2001.11

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Rainbow Cubic Sine Waves
      An endless sequence of cycling "rainbow cubic sine waves" - based on a mapping of the colours of the Light and Colour Cubes onto the shape of a sine wave in a quest to reconcile and connect the cubes and the rainbow, as well as to bridge the gulf between the square and cube and the circle and sphere.
      habitat.igc.org/reconcile/rcsw.htm

2001.12

    • Meditation on One Light in All: Queries on Opening to the Light
      A meditative online presentation of the Queries on Opening to the Light - a presentation that serves as the opening segment of a Journey of Light, Reconcilation and Peace prepared in response to September 11, 2001 and its aftermath.
      habitat.igc.org/queries

2001.12

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Twin Beacons of Light and Colour
      A cycle of eight images of the skyline of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center - illuminated by the arrival and receding of the Light and Colour Cubes in an endless cycle. Clicking on the image enables more information, and access to prior and next steps in A Journey of Light, Reconciliation and Peace.
      habitat.igc.org/twin-beacons

2001.12

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Twin Cubes of Light and Colour
      A set of twelve cycling page with images of mirrored twin pairs of Light and Colour Cubes, showing all possible regular presentations from the white and black apexes of the cubes. The images are clickable, providing access to more information and to other phases of the Journey of Light, Reconciliation and Peace.
      habitat.igc.org/twin-cubes

2001.12

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Twisted Pairs of Light and Colour Cubes
      A cycling series of twenty-four pages with images of "Twisted Pairs of Light and Colour Cubes" - pairs of cubes in which the one is the unseen side of the other.
      habitat.igc.org/twisted-pairs

2001.12

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Reconciliation in Primary Colours
      A set of eight cycling images with the principal protagonists in a War of - President George W. Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney, and Secretary of State Colin Powell and Osama bin Laden - against backgrounds of the Light and Colour Cubes and of the six non-zero primary colours.
      habitat.igc.org/reconcile/primary.htm

2001.12

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Reconciliation in 16 Colour Palettes
      A set of seventy-two images with the primary representatives of the September 11 protagonists - President George W. Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney, and Secretary of State Colin Powell and Osama bin Laden against backgrounds of the Light and Colour Cubes transposed into sixteen colour images, and serving as visual metaphors for ways that our perception of our enemies can be distorted when we see them from a limited palette, and one in which our enemies' colours are only partially represented.
      habitat.igc.org/reconcile/16colour.htm

2001.12

    • The Great Invocation in the Cubic Colour Wheel
      A cycling series with the text of the Great Invocation against the background of a rotating "Cubic Colour Wheel" - a "true" colour wheel that was generated by mapping the Light and Colour Cubes into a circle.
      habitat.igc.org/reconcile/invocation.htm

2001.12

    Databases

    • COLOURS - Light & Colour Cube Engine
      Database engine of light and colour for the Virtual Light and Colour Cubes, and of more than a thousand images based on the Cubes. COLOURS was used to generate the set of images of the faces of the Light and Colour Cubes, as well as to generate many sets of web pages with images based on the cubes.

2000.09

    • HABITAT3 - Habitat Three
      An evolution from the ECOLOGY database, Habitat Three is conceived of both as a preliminary organizing database for an anticipated Habitat III Conference to be held in 2016, and as a prototype digital habitat for the Third Millennium. The HABITAT3 database serves as the primary database of Information Habitat and as the engine that generates the pages for Project Information Habitat.

2001.03

    • MEMORIAL - Memorial Database Rebuilding at World Trade Center
      The MEMORIAL database incorporates a database of public comments at Listening to the City on the original designs for the World Trade Center site. The database incorporates a coding system incorporating a database of key elements of the site, within an overall structured conceptual framework, and linked to appropriate views from the original designs.

2002.08

    • DIGITAL - Digital Engine
      The Digital Engine is a prototype for an open source digital engine based on information ecology design principles. The digital engine incorporates a set of related databases designed to enable the establishment and maintenance of interactive public fora, and incorporates an evolving set of protocols for the structure, field formats of data files, and a rule-based framework for relationships between data files.

      DIGITAL is being created using DataPerfect 2.6F - a remarkably powerful, versatile, robust and elegant remarkable DOS-based relational database that was released in 1985 as a key element of the WordPerfect Library - a library that included WordPerfect 3.0, and a powerful menu driven Shell program that allows rapid switching and data exchange between Shell-compatible programs.

      The use of WordPerfect Shell 4.0 - the latest version - is integral to the design and development of the DIGITAL database, for example through the use of Shell macros that can, for example, automatically generate a set of data fields and set up formulas that define the field values; through the screen capture feature that is invaluable in documentation of the database; and enable full integration with WordPerfect 5.1+ - the still unrivalled classic of word-processing software.


2002.08

  • Nonviolent Peaceforce, New York City Chapter

    Steering Committee
      Development of a New York City chapter of the Nonviolent Peaceforce - a global grassroots initiative to develop a peace army, inspired by the vision of Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi.

2002.05-
New York, U.S.A.

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [np-nyc] - Nonviolent Peaceforce - New York City Chapter

2003.02

  • Peace Caucus at the United Nations

    Facilitator
      Management of the [peace-caucus-un] electronic mailing list; research, compilation and dissemination of peace-related information.

2002.05-
New York, U.S.A.

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [peace-caucus-un] - Peace Caucus at the United Nations

2002.05

  • Listening to the City

    Volunteer Coder and Information Ecologist
      Participated in the historic Listening to the City forum at the Javits Center and have become an active volunteer coder for the responses. In order to prepare summary reports, have been designing and developing an integrated relational database that includes the responses, organized by a coherent and interlinked classification and coding system including elements of the site, responses and images based on the site plans, and that has been conceived of as catalyst for an open source platform for public participation.

2002.07-
New York, U.S.A.

    Databases

    • MEMORIAL - Memorial Database Rebuilding at World Trade Center
      The MEMORIAL database incorporates a database of public comments at Listening to the City on the original designs for the World Trade Center site. The database incorporates a coding system incorporating a database of key elements of the site, within an overall structured conceptual framework, and linked to appropriate views from the original designs.


  • Civic Alliance to Rebuild Downtwown New York

    Member
      Participant in general strategy meetings, and in the Scorecard Working Groups on Green Infrastructure and Public Participation, as an outgrowth of participation in Listening to the City. Advocate of the need to address the information ecology of Lower Manhattan and of the public transit system.

2002.08-
New York, U.S.A.

  • United Religions Initiative - New York Cooperation Circle

    Member of Council
      Participate in planning and decision-making for events, outreach, communication and organizational development in support of the vision and Charter of the United Religions Initiative.

2002.08-
New York, U.S.A.

  • Digital Tree of Life

    Information Ecologist
      The Digital Tree of Life was designed as a tribute in the form of an independent digital counterpart to the Tree of Life campaign of EarthSecure and the Counterpart Foundation that has been promoted through global broadcasting of One Child, One Voice as a way for the voices of children to be heard at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa.

2002.08-
New York, U.S.A.

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [digital-tree-of-life] - Digital Tree of Life

2002.08

    Databases

    • DIGITAL - Digital Engine
      The Digital Engine is a prototype for an open source digital engine based on information ecology design principles. The digital engine incorporates a set of related databases designed to enable the establishment and maintenance of interactive public fora, and incorporates an evolving set of protocols for the structure, field formats of data files, and a rule-based framework for relationships between data files.

      DIGITAL is being created using DataPerfect 2.6F - a remarkably powerful, versatile, robust and elegant remarkable DOS-based relational database that was released in 1985 as a key element of the WordPerfect Library - a library that included WordPerfect 3.0, and a powerful menu driven Shell program that allows rapid switching and data exchange between Shell-compatible programs.

      The use of WordPerfect Shell 4.0 - the latest version - is integral to the design and development of the DIGITAL database, for example through the use of Shell macros that can, for example, automatically generate a set of data fields and set up formulas that define the field values; through the screen capture feature that is invaluable in documentation of the database; and enable full integration with WordPerfect 5.1+ - the still unrivalled classic of word-processing software.



  • Digital Engine

    Facilitator
      The Digital Engine is being developed as a prototype open source relational database engine incorporating informaton ecology principles and protocols, and demonstrating the nature and power of digital - as contrasted with mechanical - engines. The Digital Engine has been created using DataPerfect 2.6F software - a remarkable MS-DOS relational database that can freely downloaded - to be used in conjunction with Firestorm, open source database web-server software that is compatible with DataPerfect. The Digital Engine is being developed as a core element of an information ecology curriculum.

2002.09-
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • ngos@un Database - An Outline
      Sketch of major areas of database elements in ngos@un - a comprehensive relational database of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at the United Nations. Inspiration-generated file, in pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-ngosun-db.pdf

1999.10

    Databases

    • COLOURS - Light & Colour Cube Engine
      Database engine of light and colour for the Virtual Light and Colour Cubes, and of more than a thousand images based on the Cubes. COLOURS was used to generate the set of images of the faces of the Light and Colour Cubes, as well as to generate many sets of web pages with images based on the cubes.

2000.09

    • HABITAT3 - Habitat Three
      An evolution from the ECOLOGY database, Habitat Three is conceived of both as a preliminary organizing database for an anticipated Habitat III Conference to be held in 2016, and as a prototype digital habitat for the Third Millennium. The HABITAT3 database serves as the primary database of Information Habitat and as the engine that generates the pages for Project Information Habitat.

2001.03

    • DIGITAL - Digital Engine
      The Digital Engine is a prototype for an open source digital engine based on information ecology design principles. The digital engine incorporates a set of related databases designed to enable the establishment and maintenance of interactive public fora, and incorporates an evolving set of protocols for the structure, field formats of data files, and a rule-based framework for relationships between data files.

      DIGITAL is being created using DataPerfect 2.6F - a remarkably powerful, versatile, robust and elegant remarkable DOS-based relational database that was released in 1985 as a key element of the WordPerfect Library - a library that included WordPerfect 3.0, and a powerful menu driven Shell program that allows rapid switching and data exchange between Shell-compatible programs.

      The use of WordPerfect Shell 4.0 - the latest version - is integral to the design and development of the DIGITAL database, for example through the use of Shell macros that can, for example, automatically generate a set of data fields and set up formulas that define the field values; through the screen capture feature that is invaluable in documentation of the database; and enable full integration with WordPerfect 5.1+ - the still unrivalled classic of word-processing software.


2002.08

    • LIGHT - Let there be Light
      The success to the COLOURS database, LIGHT is evolving as an engine to generate light - through the generation of sets of web pages - for images based on the Light and Colour Cubes, and for sets of digital or digitized photos - and the integration of the images with text, documents, web sites, and relevant links.

2003.01

  • Project Information Habitat

    Information Ecologist
      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.


2002.12-
New York, U.S.A.

    Databases

    • APC - Alternative Press Centre
      Database for the Alternative Press Index, a quarterly index of alternative publications. APC directly generated the body of the Index, creating massive secondary merge files - based on a multiple classification of the articles included in the index. The output from APC was merged into WordPerfect 4, and with the application of a few keystroke macros and the use of styles, generated the final, camera-ready copy for the body of the Index.

1984.01

    • BALANCE - Balancing Checking Accounts & Cash Flow
      Checking account balance; elaboration of an original DataPerfect template with increased detail, including provision for multiple bank accounts, Petty Cash accounts, vendor information, etc.

1986.09

    • BEC - Baltimore Environmental Center
      Directory of members and committee membership. Used to generate mailing labels and to generate calendar listings for the monthly newsletter - The Beacon - that was edited and produced using WordPerfect 4.2

1987.01

    • BWCO - Better Waverly Community Organization
      Database for the Better Waverly Community Organization, including listing of members, homeowners, all properties in the neighborhood, the registered ownership of the properties and other information on the properties and their ownership. Used for newsletter mailing labels, sorted by postal code, and in conjunction with a campaign to identify owners of deteriorating or delinquent properties.

1987.09

    • RECYCLE - Baltimore Recycling Committee
      Participants, committees, committee membership, etc. of the Baltimore Recycling Committee of the Citizens Planning and Housing Association, and for participants in the Recycling Conference organized by the Committee and follow up commitments made by Confernce participants. RECYCLE was used to generate mailing labels, and generate a series of updated directories

1987.10

    • EIN - Earthcare Interfaith Network
      Core database for Earthcare Interfaith Network; framework for Who Is Who: People and Organizations in Service to the Earth. EIN also served as the database for the Citizens Alliance for UNCED (the United Nations Conference of Environment and Development aka the Earth Summit) that evolved into the U.S. Citizens Network on UNCED, an organization that facilitated and helped to coordinate most U.S. based NGOs that were accredited to UNCED. EIN maintained contact information, committee affiliation and areas of interest for members and participants in the Citizens Network. In this capacity, EIN enabled frequently updated generation and distribution of directories of Network participants, including a directory of participants in the founding meeting of the U.S. Citizens Network on UNCED. EIN also served as a database for the Information and Communications Committee of the NGO Strategy Group for UNCED.

1989.02

    • LICENCES - Licences for Software and Hardware
      Record of software and hardware purchases, vendor and manufacturer name and information, date of purchase, phone numbers, licence numbers, web location for support information, etc.

1990.01

    • CFC - Caring For Creation
      Participants, with registration information, at the Caring for Creation interfaith conference on religion and responsibility for caring for the earth and all creation. It was here that the name "Information Habitat: Where Information Lives" was conceived, and was given expression in a booth exhibit by that name at the conference.

1990.04

    • WHOISWHO - Who Is Who: People, Projects and Organizations in Service to the Earth
      Database designed and developed to enable the publication of Who Is Who: People, Projects and Organizations in Service to the Earth. WHOISWHO enabled the compilation, classification and organization of the people and projects, abd the directory - the core of the book - was directly created though WordPerfect 5.0 from a file generated from WHOISWHO.

1990.06

    • SCHOOLS - Report Card on Baltimore City Elementary Schools
      Data compiled on measures of academic achievement and student behavior, in response to an initiative of the Education Committee of the Citizens Planning and Housing Association in Baltimore. The data were made available by the Baltimore City Public Schools Department and were used to generate a Report Card on Elementary Schools with clearly presented table format. The Report Card focused attention on schools with records of poor performance and behavior.

1990.09

    • DATES - Day of the week
      Gives the day of the week for any date between March 1900 and 2078, and displays the date in expanded Digital Date Forma: yyyy.mm.dd - Day, Date, Month, Year.

1991.04

    • PARIS - Participants in Roots of the Future, International NGO Conference, Paris
      Organizational affiliation, addresses, etc. of participants in the International NGO Conference in Paris in December 1991. Source of directory of conference participants.

1991.09

    • DAZIBAO - First Draft of Da Zi Bao Database Design
      First draft of the database for participant interactive message system

1991.11

    • DZB-1 - Da Zi Bao - Roots of the Future
      The database for a "participant interactive message system" that was based on a compilation of concise (50 words or less) messages from the participants of the Roots of the Future International NGO Conference in Paris. The issues of Da Zi Bao were generated from WP5.1 secondary merge files generated from the database and the use of WP5.1 macros and styles. A total of nine issues were published during the four days of the conference, and a compilation of all the messages, organized by key word, was generated from DZB-1.

1991.12

    • DZB-GH - Da Zi Bao - Global Heart Convocation
      Four single page issues of Da Zi Bao were published in a small-scale, informal implementation of the Da Zi Bao process at the gathering of people on the basis of a Heart-centered concern for the issues of the upcoming Earth Summit.

1992.02

    • DZB-GS - Da Zi Bao - Second Global Structures Convocation
      Seven one-sided issues, one hundred and three messages - in six different colours - of Da Zi Bao at a major conference to explores the need for new global structures in the context of preparatio. ns for the Earth Summit. The issues were sold for 25 cents apiece, and revenue from sales more than covered the immediate material costs of the issues.

1992.02

    • DZB-PC4 - Da Zi Bao - UNCED PrepCom 4
      Full-text database of all the Da Zi Bao issues during the final Preparatory Committee for UNCED (the Earth Summit). 17 issues, 175 messages published.

1992.03

    • SYNERGY - International Synergy Institute
      Primary database for the International Synergy Institute, successor to EIN, and served as a database of NGOs participating in the final stages of preparation for the Earth Summit and the followup to the Summit, and participation in subsequent UN Conferences, especially for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in Copenhagen in 1995.

1992.03

    • VOL-DZB - Volunteers and team members for Da Zi Bao at Rio
      Volunteers, including active team members for Da Zi Bao at Rio

1992.04

    • DZB-IS - Da Zi Bao - Inter-Sectoral Dialogue Meeting, '92 Global Forum

1992.06

    • DZB-RIO - Da Zi Bao - '92 Global Forum
      Full text database containing the fifty-eight issues of the Da Zi Bao interactive bulletin that were published during the '92 Global Forum in Rio; 21 issues were in English, 25 in Portuguese, 8 in Spanish and 4 in French. More than 2,200 separate messages in all were published - more than 2,800 records were gathered. An additional 10 issues of Da Zi Bao were published in conjunction with the Inter-Sectoral Dialogue meetings at the Global Forum.

1992.06

    • IPC-PR - International Press Centre Press Releases, from Rio
      Full text searchable database of the press releases from the International Press Centre at the Global Forum in Rio de Janeiro

1992.06

    • NGOUNCED - NGOs Accredited to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
      Documentation of information pertaining to Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) accredited to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) Conference - and made available by the NGIO Liaison Office of the UNCED Secretariat. NGOUNCED incorporated information on NGO representatives, relevance, sectors, key words, accreditation dates and record of the official Conference document approving the accreditation.

1992.08

    • ANPED - Alliance of Northern People for Environment & Development
      Members of the Alliance of Northern People for Environment & Development (ANPED) and participants at its November 1992 Annual meeting - in Budapest, Hungary - to discuss plans, visions and strategy for European NGO follow-up to the Earth Summit and the Global Forum.

1992.11

    • RIO-92 - Who is Who in Rio
      Edited and partially corrected data from the "Who is Who in Rio" - a directory of the more than 22,000 participants - governmental, intergovernmental, non-governmental and press - who were registered participants in Rio de Janeiro at the Earth Summit.

1993.01

    • TREATIES - Rio Agreements: Agenda 21, Biodiversity & Climate Conventions, etc.
      Full text searchable database of all the Rio Agreements: Agenda 21, Rio Declaration, Biodiversity & Climate Conventions, Forest Principles, Alternative Treates and Women's Action Agenda 21. TREATIES was used to generate the first version of Agenda 21 to be published in HTML format on the World Wide Web, in June 1995.

      Based on recent revisions, TREATIES is able to generate an interlinked set of web pages with the identification of all the occurrences in Agenda 21 and the Rio Declaration of selected words and phrases - presently for up to three words or phrases.


1993.01

    • ASSEMBLY - Assembly of Religious and Spiritual Leaders at the Parliament of World Religions
      Database that was used - in conjunction with WordPerfect 5.1 styles and macros - to classify, organize and format the report of the facilitating group based on facilitator's observations and notes on the proceedings of the Assembly.

1993.08

    • CAMDUN-S - Survey of 1993 CAMDUN participants
      Contact information and survey responses for participants in the 1993 Conference for A More Democratic United Nations (CAMDUN), held in New York City, in September 1993.

1993.09

    • ACCENT - Accent variations
      A database of alternative character sets and their correspondences, ACCENT allows easy lookup of alternative represntation of non-ASCII characters used under different protocols - e.g. ASCII, ANSI/Windows, HTML-N, HTML-A, IBASCII, etc. ACCENT can generate conversion files to be used in conjunction with CNV-41, a simple DOS-based program - made available on line and by e-mail request - that can convert between any two sets of character representations.

1994.01

    • HBP-PUBS - Hazel Barbara Pollard Publications
      Database of writings - with some brief excerpts - of Hazel Barbara Pollard - the mother of Information Habitat's Founder - including a remarkable set of diaries she wrote as a brilliant young writer and artist who had been accepted to University College, London - in Bloomsbury - to study English Literature - at the time when the Bloomsbury Group - Virginia Wolf, et al - was a creative center of arts, literature and progressive ideas.

      Although Hazel was not able to realize that dream - following her father's office indiscretions, her mother insisted that Hazel was the only person who could be trusted to be his secretary - she never expressed disappointment or anger, and continued to follow the lives of the Bloomsbury Group, and by the time of her death, had accumulated a wonderful small library of and about Bloomsbury Group participants.


1994.12

    • INFOHAB - Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
      The initial database for Information Habitat: Where Information Lives; succeeded by the NGOS@UN database. During the active life of INFOHAB, it was the locus of major growth in its structure and contents, and was used to manage, inter alia, databases for key NGO Committees - on Human Settlements, Social Development, Sustainable Development, the NGO Steering Committee to the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development, and the preliminry database for participants in preparations for the Millennium Forum.

1995.05

    • DATABASE - Database of databases
      Database on the structure, contents and organization of Dataperfect databases developed by Robert Pollard, under the auspices of Information Habitat and a number of earlier organizations. Contains data on file names, descriptions, sizes, data links, reports, et cetera. Generates listings and reports of database characteristics and descriptions, including the report you are reading.

1995.06

    • HAB2-NGO - NGOs Accredited to Habitat II
      Accreditation and participation relational database for NGOs oarticipating in the Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and in the meetings of the Preparatory Committees for the conference.

1995.09

    • FORUM96 - NGO Forum '96
      Database created in very short order to manage schedules for the NGO Forum, input and organize details of events and event organizers and presenters, resolve time and/or room conflicts. FORUM96 was used to generate - on-demand - interim schedules for planning purposes, and to generate up-to-date daily printed schedules and event that were posted throught the NGO Forum site.

1996.05

    • NGOS@UN - ngos@un - Non-Governmental Organizations at the United Nations
      NGOS@UN was designed as a catalyst for a cooperative information ecology framework to work with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in response to a request from the Economic and Social Council to make every effort to enhance and streamline, as appropriate, practical arrangements to facilitate the participation of non-governmental organizations in the work of the United Nations - and specifically to make effective use of database technology.

      NGOS@UN grew out of the INFOHAB database, and integrated extensive information - from disparate sources - of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) accredited to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and to the Global Conferences of the 1990s. As it developed, NGOS@UN grew significantly in size and structure incorporating major new sections, including record of NGOs in the process of seeking accreditation with ECOSOC, historical data on NGO accreditation, and information on official United Nations documents pertaining to NGO Accreditation and the work of the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations.


1999.02

    • INTERNET - Networked knowledge and information
      The Internet database is the successor to the NGOS@UN database, incorporating a significant number of new data files - now totalling 99, including the water-body oriented geographic data structure that were developed in preparation for Y2K contingency planning, and a set of data files for Internet domain names, the registration of which was a major focus of activity in the year 2000, and that are central components in the design of Gaia University and in an evolving proof of the Gaia Mind hypothesis.

2000.06

    • COLOURS - Light & Colour Cube Engine
      Database engine of light and colour for the Virtual Light and Colour Cubes, and of more than a thousand images based on the Cubes. COLOURS was used to generate the set of images of the faces of the Light and Colour Cubes, as well as to generate many sets of web pages with images based on the cubes.

2000.09

    • ECOLOGY - Gaia University network of knowledge, information ecology database
      ECOLOGY is the successor to the INTERNET database, renamed to focus attention on its ecological properties, and incorporating minor revisions and updates to its structure, in addition to the conceptual shift associated with the change of name.

2000.11

    • HABITAT3 - Habitat Three
      An evolution from the ECOLOGY database, Habitat Three is conceived of both as a preliminary organizing database for an anticipated Habitat III Conference to be held in 2016, and as a prototype digital habitat for the Third Millennium. The HABITAT3 database serves as the primary database of Information Habitat and as the engine that generates the pages for Project Information Habitat.

2001.03

    • MEMORIAL - Memorial Database Rebuilding at World Trade Center
      The MEMORIAL database incorporates a database of public comments at Listening to the City on the original designs for the World Trade Center site. The database incorporates a coding system incorporating a database of key elements of the site, within an overall structured conceptual framework, and linked to appropriate views from the original designs.

2002.08

    • DIGITAL - Digital Engine
      The Digital Engine is a prototype for an open source digital engine based on information ecology design principles. The digital engine incorporates a set of related databases designed to enable the establishment and maintenance of interactive public fora, and incorporates an evolving set of protocols for the structure, field formats of data files, and a rule-based framework for relationships between data files.

      DIGITAL is being created using DataPerfect 2.6F - a remarkably powerful, versatile, robust and elegant remarkable DOS-based relational database that was released in 1985 as a key element of the WordPerfect Library - a library that included WordPerfect 3.0, and a powerful menu driven Shell program that allows rapid switching and data exchange between Shell-compatible programs.

      The use of WordPerfect Shell 4.0 - the latest version - is integral to the design and development of the DIGITAL database, for example through the use of Shell macros that can, for example, automatically generate a set of data fields and set up formulas that define the field values; through the screen capture feature that is invaluable in documentation of the database; and enable full integration with WordPerfect 5.1+ - the still unrivalled classic of word-processing software.


2002.08

    • LIGHT - Let there be Light
      The success to the COLOURS database, LIGHT is evolving as an engine to generate light - through the generation of sets of web pages - for images based on the Light and Colour Cubes, and for sets of digital or digitized photos - and the integration of the images with text, documents, web sites, and relevant links.

2003.01

  • Journey of Light, Reconciliation and Peace

    Guide
      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.
      habitat.igc.org/reconcile

2002.12-
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

2001.11

2001.11

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Twin Beacons of Light and Colour
      A cycle of eight images of the skyline of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center - illuminated by the arrival and receding of the Light and Colour Cubes in an endless cycle. Clicking on the image enables more information, and access to prior and next steps in A Journey of Light, Reconciliation and Peace.
      habitat.igc.org/twin-beacons

2001.12

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Twin Cubes of Light and Colour
      A set of twelve cycling page with images of mirrored twin pairs of Light and Colour Cubes, showing all possible regular presentations from the white and black apexes of the cubes. The images are clickable, providing access to more information and to other phases of the Journey of Light, Reconciliation and Peace.
      habitat.igc.org/twin-cubes

2001.12

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Twisted Pairs of Light and Colour Cubes
      A cycling series of twenty-four pages with images of "Twisted Pairs of Light and Colour Cubes" - pairs of cubes in which the one is the unseen side of the other.
      habitat.igc.org/twisted-pairs

2001.12

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Oh Say Can You See By the One Light in All
      The fifth verse of "Oh Say Can You See By the One Light in All!" - dedicated as the Fifth Verse of the US National Anthem at an Interfaith Sunrise service at Fort McHenry, home of the Star-Spangled Banner and a brief description of how the Star Spangled Banner became adopted - through a grassroots process - as the U.S. National Anthem.
      habitat.igc.org/reconcile/oh-say.htm

2001.12

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Reconciliation in Primary Colours
      A set of eight cycling images with the principal protagonists in a War of - President George W. Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney, and Secretary of State Colin Powell and Osama bin Laden - against backgrounds of the Light and Colour Cubes and of the six non-zero primary colours.
      habitat.igc.org/reconcile/primary.htm

2001.12

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Reconciliation in 16 Colour Palettes
      A set of seventy-two images with the primary representatives of the September 11 protagonists - President George W. Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney, and Secretary of State Colin Powell and Osama bin Laden against backgrounds of the Light and Colour Cubes transposed into sixteen colour images, and serving as visual metaphors for ways that our perception of our enemies can be distorted when we see them from a limited palette, and one in which our enemies' colours are only partially represented.
      habitat.igc.org/reconcile/16colour.htm

2001.12

    • The Great Invocation in the Cubic Colour Wheel
      A cycling series with the text of the Great Invocation against the background of a rotating "Cubic Colour Wheel" - a "true" colour wheel that was generated by mapping the Light and Colour Cubes into a circle.
      habitat.igc.org/reconcile/invocation.htm

2001.12

    Databases

    • LIGHT - Let there be Light
      The success to the COLOURS database, LIGHT is evolving as an engine to generate light - through the generation of sets of web pages - for images based on the Light and Colour Cubes, and for sets of digital or digitized photos - and the integration of the images with text, documents, web sites, and relevant links.

2003.01

  • Peaceful Properties of the Internet

      Peaceful Properties of the Internet is being established as a project to identify, examine and cultivate the intrinsic peaceful properties of the Internet, and to facilitate and promote appreciative dialogue of these properties.
      projects.takingitglobal.org/ppi

2003.01-
New York, U.S.A.

  • Journal Log Engine

    Design & Development
      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 applicaple 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.


2003.01-
New York, U.S.A.

    Databases

    • HABITAT3 - Habitat Three
      An evolution from the ECOLOGY database, Habitat Three is conceived of both as a preliminary organizing database for an anticipated Habitat III Conference to be held in 2016, and as a prototype digital habitat for the Third Millennium. The HABITAT3 database serves as the primary database of Information Habitat and as the engine that generates the pages for Project Information Habitat.

2001.03

    • LIGHT - Let there be Light
      The success to the COLOURS database, LIGHT is evolving as an engine to generate light - through the generation of sets of web pages - for images based on the Light and Colour Cubes, and for sets of digital or digitized photos - and the integration of the images with text, documents, web sites, and relevant links.

2003.01

  • Photographic Habitat Engine

    Design & Development
      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.

2003.01-
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Swords into Plowshares: Peace Park at the UN
      A slide show of photographs that focus on the Ralph Bunch Peace Park opposite the entrance to the UN Secreariat - beginning with the "Isaiah Wall" with the verse" "They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nations; neither shall they study war any more."
      habitat.igc.org/peace-park

1999.05

    • Huntington Beach: Life, Death, Rebirth, Light and Water
      Photographic slide show - leaves and new growth in a wooded garden and pebbles, shells and more on Huntington Beach.
      habitat.igc.org/huntington

2000.03

    • Spring Waters at Saratoga Springs
      A set of three photographic slide shows, taken in Saratoga Springs, NY - center of perhaps the most important mineral resource waters in the world. The s;ide shows are: Congress Park near the center of town, An unconventional set of images from the Congress Springs, at the edge of the Park; and the Saratoga Surf and Spa Motel - a very reasonably priced motel - outside the racing season - with a mineral water hot tub where one can soak to one's heart's content.
      habitat.igc.org/saratoga

2000.04

    • United Nations Through the Trees
      A set of photographic slide shows taken from outside and inside the United Nations Garden at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The first set is of U.N. buildings seen though trees; and some of the sculptures in the garden.
      habitat.igc.org/un-garden

2000.04

    • The Ark of Hope at the Hudson River Clearwater Revival Festival
      A set of nine slide shows, with photos taken in conjunction with the exhibition of the Ark of Hope, the Earth Charter, Temenos Books and the light and Colour Cubes during the 2002 Great Hudson River Clearwater Festival at Croton Park, in New York, on the banks of the Huson River. series are titled: The Ark of Hope at Clearwater, Light and Colour Cubes, Around and About the Booth, Fair Grounds - Fair People, Green Energy, Water Views, Trees and Skies, Shore Lines and Closing Skies.
      habitat.igc.org/clearwater

2002.06

    • Reflections and Observations at Dogwood Hill
      A set of the photographic slide shows from Dogwood Hill, New Jersey - on and adjacent to an 11 acre natural reserve in the rapidly exurbanizing Chester, New Jersey.

2002.06

    • A Castle Retreat: CCC/UN Communication & Decision-Making Project
      A set of two slide shows: one of the participants in a retreat for the CCC/UN Communication & Decision-Making Project at Beth Lamont's Castle in Ossining, NY; the second slide show offers images from a brief walk aroud the castle, and in the castle grounds.
      habitat.igc.org/cdmp/rp01.htm

2002.07

    • Morningside Heights
      Two slide shows: Starbucks on the Cathedral Steps and A Walk in Morningside Heights - the Cathedral being that of St. John the Divine.

2002.09

    Databases

    • HABITAT3 - Habitat Three
      An evolution from the ECOLOGY database, Habitat Three is conceived of both as a preliminary organizing database for an anticipated Habitat III Conference to be held in 2016, and as a prototype digital habitat for the Third Millennium. The HABITAT3 database serves as the primary database of Information Habitat and as the engine that generates the pages for Project Information Habitat.

2001.03

    • DIGITAL - Digital Engine
      The Digital Engine is a prototype for an open source digital engine based on information ecology design principles. The digital engine incorporates a set of related databases designed to enable the establishment and maintenance of interactive public fora, and incorporates an evolving set of protocols for the structure, field formats of data files, and a rule-based framework for relationships between data files.

      DIGITAL is being created using DataPerfect 2.6F - a remarkably powerful, versatile, robust and elegant remarkable DOS-based relational database that was released in 1985 as a key element of the WordPerfect Library - a library that included WordPerfect 3.0, and a powerful menu driven Shell program that allows rapid switching and data exchange between Shell-compatible programs.

      The use of WordPerfect Shell 4.0 - the latest version - is integral to the design and development of the DIGITAL database, for example through the use of Shell macros that can, for example, automatically generate a set of data fields and set up formulas that define the field values; through the screen capture feature that is invaluable in documentation of the database; and enable full integration with WordPerfect 5.1+ - the still unrivalled classic of word-processing software.


2002.08

    • LIGHT - Let there be Light
      The success to the COLOURS database, LIGHT is evolving as an engine to generate light - through the generation of sets of web pages - for images based on the Light and Colour Cubes, and for sets of digital or digitized photos - and the integration of the images with text, documents, web sites, and relevant links.

2003.01

  • Elements of Light and Colour - An Open Source Curriculum

    Coordinator
      Design, development and implementation of an open source curriculum in the elements of light and colour, based on the properties of the 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.
      projects.takingitglobal.org/light-elements

2003.01-
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Queries on Opening to the Light
      An inspiring set of Quaker Queries on Opening to the Light, presented by Barry Morley at Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in 1988.
      habitat.igc.org/queries

1988.08

    • Oh Say Can You See By the One Light in All!
      "Oh Say Can You See By the One Light in All!" was dedicated as the Fifth Verse of the US National Anthem at an Interfaith Sunrise service at Fort McHenry, home of the Star-Spangled Banner and a brief description of how the Star Spangled Banner became adopted - through a grassroots process - as the U.S. National Anthem.
      habitat.igc.org/oh-say-can-you-see

1990.04

    • Virtual Light & Colour Cubes
      The virtual light & color cubes are virtual structures in the form of cubes with dimensions of red, green and blue, within which the colour at any point is equal to the sum of the point's red, green and blue coordinates. The pair of cubes - mirror images and photographic negatives of each other - embody fundamental properties of light and colour, and demonstrate the additive and subtractive primary colours.
      habitat.igc.org/cube

1996.11

    • Dedication of the Peace Cube
      Dedication of the Virtual Light and Colour Cube as a Peace Cube at the Earthday on the Equinox on the Internet ceremony at United Nations Headquarters on 1997.03.20
      habitat.igc.org/one-light/dedicate.htm

1997.03

    • Primary Colours: A Proof
      Introductory presentation on the nature of primary colours based on the existence of - and symmetry and complementarity between - two sets of primary colours - red, green & blue for light; cyan, magenta & yellow for pigment.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/cop-llc-primary.ppt

1998.09

    • Light and Colour Tiles - Cycles
      Templates for domino-format tiles, with pairs of adjacent faces. jpg format available for printing on A3 or 11x17, to copy on card stock. Discover some of the patterns, cycles and symmetry. pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/cop-tiles-c.jpg

1999.01

    • Nine Primary Colours
      A presentation of the primary equations of colour and light, the symmetry of light and pigment, and the nine primary colours. Nine Primary Colors is also a demonstration and appreciation of the power of zero in the three-dimensional mathematics of colour - and in any numeric system.

2000.07

    • Peace Cubes - Gifts of Light
      Home for the Peace Cubes - Virtual Light and Colour Cubes that are at the centre of a three-dimensional mathematics of colour and light and that can transform our understanding of the nature and dimensions of light and colour. The Peace Cubes can also serve as vital elements in a new global curriculum on mathematics, colour and light, as symbols for the One Light in all of Creation, and as teaching tools on the properties of knowledge-based economies, and as an introduction to the properties of zero-based economy. All of the images are computer-generated, the most recent images based on HTML tables generated from a DataPerfect database, as were most of the sets of web pages of images.
      habitat.igc.org/peace-cubes

2000.10

    • Peace Faces - Faces of the Peace Cubes
      A meditation on the forty-eight faces of the light and colour cubes. Each face represents a meeting place of four primary colours and may evoke a unique feeling. Each face is framed below a frieze of the eight rotations and reflections of itself. At the loer right of the face is its photographic negative. A bottom frieze contains small icons of the forty eight faces. Easy - and enjoyable; forget about words; let your eyes and feelings guide you.
      habitat.igc.org/faces

2000.10

    • Birth of the Rainbow Cubic Sine Waves
      An exploration in connections between the Light and Colour Cubes and the colours of the rainbow, Rainbow Cubic Sine Waves represents a mapping of the colurs of the cubes onto a sine wave, in which the cycle of colours seems to evoke the colour sequence of the rainbow. The development of the Rainbow Cubic Sine Wave took place over two days very shortly on the birth of the Cubic Colour Wheel, reflecting an openness to softening the sharp edges of the Cubes, as well as to focus attention on some of the rhythmic and cyclical properties of the cubes.

2001.11

2001.11

2001.11

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Rainbow Cubic Sine Waves
      An endless sequence of cycling "rainbow cubic sine waves" - based on a mapping of the colours of the Light and Colour Cubes onto the shape of a sine wave in a quest to reconcile and connect the cubes and the rainbow, as well as to bridge the gulf between the square and cube and the circle and sphere.
      habitat.igc.org/reconcile/rcsw.htm

2001.12

    • Meditation on One Light in All: Queries on Opening to the Light
      A meditative online presentation of the Queries on Opening to the Light - a presentation that serves as the opening segment of a Journey of Light, Reconcilation and Peace prepared in response to September 11, 2001 and its aftermath.
      habitat.igc.org/queries

2001.12

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Twisted Pairs of Light and Colour Cubes
      A cycling series of twenty-four pages with images of "Twisted Pairs of Light and Colour Cubes" - pairs of cubes in which the one is the unseen side of the other.
      habitat.igc.org/twisted-pairs

2001.12

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Reconciliation in Primary Colours
      A set of eight cycling images with the principal protagonists in a War of - President George W. Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney, and Secretary of State Colin Powell and Osama bin Laden - against backgrounds of the Light and Colour Cubes and of the six non-zero primary colours.
      habitat.igc.org/reconcile/primary.htm

2001.12

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Reconciliation in 16 Colour Palettes
      A set of seventy-two images with the primary representatives of the September 11 protagonists - President George W. Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney, and Secretary of State Colin Powell and Osama bin Laden against backgrounds of the Light and Colour Cubes transposed into sixteen colour images, and serving as visual metaphors for ways that our perception of our enemies can be distorted when we see them from a limited palette, and one in which our enemies' colours are only partially represented.
      habitat.igc.org/reconcile/16colour.htm

2001.12

2002.02

    • Peace Cubes - Templates for Cubes, Faces and Tiles
      A set of printer-ready templates for assembing 2.5cm / 1" models of the light and colour cubes, and creating sets of the twelve "face cards" of the cubes - the surfaces of colour - and the set of ninety-six light and colour tiles.
      habitat.igc.org/one-light/template.htm

2003.02

    • Elements of Light and Colour - An Open Souce Curriculum
      Design, development and implementation of an open source curriculum in the elements of light and colour, based on the properties of the 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.
      projects.takingitglobal.org/light-elements

2003.10

  • Open Source Curriculum in DataPerfect and Firestorm

    Facilitator
      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.
      projects.takingitglobal.org/perfect-fire

2003.01-
New York, U.S.A.

    Databases

    • HABITAT3 - Habitat Three
      An evolution from the ECOLOGY database, Habitat Three is conceived of both as a preliminary organizing database for an anticipated Habitat III Conference to be held in 2016, and as a prototype digital habitat for the Third Millennium. The HABITAT3 database serves as the primary database of Information Habitat and as the engine that generates the pages for Project Information Habitat.

2001.03

    • DIGITAL - Digital Engine
      The Digital Engine is a prototype for an open source digital engine based on information ecology design principles. The digital engine incorporates a set of related databases designed to enable the establishment and maintenance of interactive public fora, and incorporates an evolving set of protocols for the structure, field formats of data files, and a rule-based framework for relationships between data files.

      DIGITAL is being created using DataPerfect 2.6F - a remarkably powerful, versatile, robust and elegant remarkable DOS-based relational database that was released in 1985 as a key element of the WordPerfect Library - a library that included WordPerfect 3.0, and a powerful menu driven Shell program that allows rapid switching and data exchange between Shell-compatible programs.

      The use of WordPerfect Shell 4.0 - the latest version - is integral to the design and development of the DIGITAL database, for example through the use of Shell macros that can, for example, automatically generate a set of data fields and set up formulas that define the field values; through the screen capture feature that is invaluable in documentation of the database; and enable full integration with WordPerfect 5.1+ - the still unrivalled classic of word-processing software.


2002.08

    • LIGHT - Let there be Light
      The success to the COLOURS database, LIGHT is evolving as an engine to generate light - through the generation of sets of web pages - for images based on the Light and Colour Cubes, and for sets of digital or digitized photos - and the integration of the images with text, documents, web sites, and relevant links.

2003.01

  • Uniting for Peace Coalition

    Member, Steering Committee
      The Uniting for Peace Coalition came into being with the intention of calling on the United Nations General Assembly to invoke the provisions of General Assembly Resolution 377(V), Uniting for Peace, in response
      www.uniting-for-peace.net

2003.02-
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents




    • Resolution 290(IV), Essentials of Peace
      A General Assembly Resolution reaffirming the Charter of the United Nations and its basic principles necessary for an enduring peace, and calling on all nations to refrain from threatening or using force contrary to the Charter.
      habitat.igc.org/ufp/a-r290e.htm

1949.12

    • Resolution 377 (V), Uniting for Peace
      A landmark Resolution of the General Assembly - in response to an abuse of the Security Council veto by the Soviet Union - that gives the General Assembly the right to convene an emergency meeting when the Permanent Members of the Security Council are unable to reach consensus.
      habitat.igc.org/ufp/a-r377e.htm

1950.11

    • Petition for an Emergency UN Resolution on Iraq
      An online petition for the United Nations calling for a peaceful response to the War in Iraq, including specific requests concerning Peacekeeping and humanitarian response; Establishment of a legitimate government; Compliance with international law; Illegality of preventive and preemptive war; Prohibition of advantage and profit from war; and Peace and security in the Middle East.

2003.05

    Electronic mailing lists

    • [unitingforpeace] - Uniting for Peace Coalition

2003.02

    • [ufp-drafting] - Uniting for Peace Coalition - Drafting Group

2003.04

  • Peace & Nonviolence Resource Network

    Co-Facilitator
      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.
      projects.takingitglobal.org/nonviolence.net

2003.03-
New York, U.S.A.

  • Elements of Information Ecology - An Open Source Curriculum

    Facilitator
      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 an open source platform. The projects is one of a set of projects being developed on the platform of TakingITGlobal, with the goal of strengthning the global reach of the projects and of increasing the participation of young people.
      projects.takingitglobal.org/information-eco

2003.03-
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Habitat II Online: An Ecological Design Process
      An overview of ecological design considerations in the development of the Habitat II Online initiative to enable coherent, intelligent response to the agenda of the Habitat II conference incorporating an ecology of information, an ecology of education, and an ecology of participation.
      habitat.igc.org/h2o/design.htm

1996.05

    • Village Meetings on the Internet: Theory and Practice of Information Ecology
      Conference presentation on the use of Internet Relay Chat as a simple, accessible and viable methodology for holding online "village meetings".

1997.02

    • Information Ecology and Information Society
      A brief overview of information ecology focussing on the emerging significance of information space, of the need for public information space and the development of such spaces through the use of information and communications technology in the course of the series of global conferences of the 1990, and of the electronic mailing list as the key tool in support of non-governmental participation in the global conferences, with an overview of properties of electronic mailing lists and recommendations. Presented at "The Challenges of Information Technology for the Non-Profit Sector". Powerpoint presentation.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-ie-is.ppt

1998.11

    • Information Ecology: Holistic Framework for Empowerment & Transformation
      A holistic perspective on information flows, recognizing three fundamental dimensions of information space - content / substance, personal / community relationships, and the nature of information technology - and three basic phases of information processing - compilation / organization, communication / dissemination, and reception / utilisation. Powerpoint presentation.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-ie-hf.ppt

1998.12

    • Introduction to Information Ecology
      A preliminary overview of some basics of information ecology and the relationship between information systems and other ecosystems; the nature of key properties of information and information flows and exchanges, including implications of physical properties of information - zero mass and size, light-speed; and overview of the application of information technology in support of the participation of NGOs in the preparation for and follow-up to the agreements of the global conferences of the 1990s. (Draft, in progress)
      habitat.igc.org/ie/ien-iie.ppt

1998.12

    • Full Cost Electronic Market
      Schematic outline of key characteristics and relationships, and elements of the ecological properties relational database - engine of the market, incorporating "double entry bookkeeping for the earth". Outline, generated in Inspiration(r), in pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-fullcost.pdf

1999.10

1999.10

    • Information Ecology of Electronic Mail
      Key material, economic, social and practical factors, in the context of electronic mail as a common and economical medium for communication and information exchange. Outline, generated in Inspiration(r), in pdf format.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-ieem.pdf

1999.10

    • Y2K Countdown Digital Date Clock
      Presentation of the basis for the use of the Digital Date Clock - with yyyy.mm.dd format - as the ideal solution for a universal format for recording dates of transactions. pdf file from an HTML page.
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/y2k-counting.pdf

1999.10

    • Properties and Principles of Information
      Properties of zero mass, zero physical size, speed of light, common access to properties of the whole; principles governing value, flow, management and understanding of information. Outline in pdf format, generated in Inspiration(r).
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/ien-informat.pdf

1999.11

    • Towards a Curriculum in Information Ecology: Partnership, Informatics and Participation
      A compilation of documents and images relating to the development of a curriculum in Information Ecology in cooperation with the Development Planning Unit - Partnership, Informatics and Participation University College, London

2002.03

    • Introduction to Information Ecology: A Journey from Rio to Johannesburg
      Overview of key concepts and issues in information ecology as it evolved in the course of a focus on information and communications technology in the context of NGO participation in UN Conferences and related NGO and intergovernmental proceedings beginning with preparations for the 1992 Earth Summit and leading into the 10 year review of the Earth Summit in Johannesburg. Presented to the Information Technology SIG at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies,
      www.jiscmail.ac.uk.edu/files/dpu-pip/

2002.04

    • Elements of Light and Colour - An Open Souce Curriculum
      Design, development and implementation of an open source curriculum in the elements of light and colour, based on the properties of the 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.
      projects.takingitglobal.org/light-elements

2003.10

  • Nonviolent Communication at the United Nations

    Co-Facilitator

2003.05-
New York, U.S.A.

    Databases

    • HABITAT3 - Habitat Three
      An evolution from the ECOLOGY database, Habitat Three is conceived of both as a preliminary organizing database for an anticipated Habitat III Conference to be held in 2016, and as a prototype digital habitat for the Third Millennium. The HABITAT3 database serves as the primary database of Information Habitat and as the engine that generates the pages for Project Information Habitat.

2001.03

  • Pumped Up for Peace

      A project for young people to raise funds for freshwater and related projects in developing countires, with a focus on support for low-cost, low-maintenance water pumps and water filtration systems for use in rural and agricultural communities and for education in sustainability and peace.
      projects.takingitglobal.org/pumped-up-peace

2003.05-
New York, U.S.A.

  • Digital Bridges in Peace

    Coordinator
      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.
      projects.takingitglobal.org/digital-bridges

2003.06-
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Digital Bridges
      A home for the establishment and maintenance of digital bridges - across the many gulfs - digital and otherwise - that have divided and separated people, communities, organizations and governments. Digital Bridges designs and architecture draw on the fundamental properties of information, information systems and networks, including the fact that information has zero mass, zero physical size and can travel at the speed of light, and that information systems now make possible common access to and observation of properties of the whole. [under construction]

2000.10

    • Meditations on One Light in All: Twisted Pairs of Light and Colour Cubes
      A cycling series of twenty-four pages with images of "Twisted Pairs of Light and Colour Cubes" - pairs of cubes in which the one is the unseen side of the other.
      habitat.igc.org/twisted-pairs

2001.12

    • Digital Bridges Exhibit at Westbeth Gallery
      Web site to enable access to the Digital Bridges Exhibit and to serve as a staging ground for a web site dedicated to Digital Bridges for Peace.

2003.07

    • Digital Bridges in Peace
      Installation in the Digital Bridges @ Westbeth exhibit, with Reconciliation in 16 Colour Palettes as the centrepiece, framed by sets of images based on the Light and Colour Cubes.
      habitat.igc.org/bridges

2003.08

    Databases

    • HABITAT3 - Habitat Three
      An evolution from the ECOLOGY database, Habitat Three is conceived of both as a preliminary organizing database for an anticipated Habitat III Conference to be held in 2016, and as a prototype digital habitat for the Third Millennium. The HABITAT3 database serves as the primary database of Information Habitat and as the engine that generates the pages for Project Information Habitat.

2001.03

    • DIGITAL - Digital Engine
      The Digital Engine is a prototype for an open source digital engine based on information ecology design principles. The digital engine incorporates a set of related databases designed to enable the establishment and maintenance of interactive public fora, and incorporates an evolving set of protocols for the structure, field formats of data files, and a rule-based framework for relationships between data files.

      DIGITAL is being created using DataPerfect 2.6F - a remarkably powerful, versatile, robust and elegant remarkable DOS-based relational database that was released in 1985 as a key element of the WordPerfect Library - a library that included WordPerfect 3.0, and a powerful menu driven Shell program that allows rapid switching and data exchange between Shell-compatible programs.

      The use of WordPerfect Shell 4.0 - the latest version - is integral to the design and development of the DIGITAL database, for example through the use of Shell macros that can, for example, automatically generate a set of data fields and set up formulas that define the field values; through the screen capture feature that is invaluable in documentation of the database; and enable full integration with WordPerfect 5.1+ - the still unrivalled classic of word-processing software.


2002.08

    • LIGHT - Let there be Light
      The success to the COLOURS database, LIGHT is evolving as an engine to generate light - through the generation of sets of web pages - for images based on the Light and Colour Cubes, and for sets of digital or digitized photos - and the integration of the images with text, documents, web sites, and relevant links.

2003.01

  • Information Habitat: Taking IT Global

    Facilitator
      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 initatives on Taking IT Global.
      projects.takingitglobal.org/info-habitat

2003.06-
New York, U.S.A.

  • h2o-partners

    Coordinator
      A domain and evolving partnership-based framework within which to float a renewed Habitat II Online - h2o - project, incorporating the Habitat Partners Network, and a focus on Water as a central issue, including a set of web pahes for water bodies, their properties, and relationships with other water bodies, with land bodies, and with countries, provinces, cities, towns, villages and communities - generated from the HABITAT3 digital engine database.

2003.10-
New York, U.S.A.

    Documents

    • Holistic Approaches to Freshwater Vitality: An Information Ecology Approach
      Outline framework for the use of an information ecology approach - focussing on watershed-based interactive public access to freshwater information - developed on the basis of NGO recommendations from the Freshwater Caucus and the Informaton Ecology Cacus of the NGO/CSD Ste fering Committee in response to "Integrated Management of Freshwater Resources" recommendations from a 1998.01 Expert Group meeting in Harare.
      habitat.igc.org/h2o-partners/hafv.pdf

1998.03

    Databases

    • NGOS@UN - ngos@un - Non-Governmental Organizations at the United Nations
      NGOS@UN was designed as a catalyst for a cooperative information ecology framework to work with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in response to a request from the Economic and Social Council to make every effort to enhance and streamline, as appropriate, practical arrangements to facilitate the participation of non-governmental organizations in the work of the United Nations - and specifically to make effective use of database technology.

      NGOS@UN grew out of the INFOHAB database, and integrated extensive information - from disparate sources - of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) accredited to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and to the Global Conferences of the 1990s. As it developed, NGOS@UN grew significantly in size and structure incorporating major new sections, including record of NGOs in the process of seeking accreditation with ECOSOC, historical data on NGO accreditation, and information on official United Nations documents pertaining to NGO Accreditation and the work of the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations.


1999.02

    • INTERNET - Networked knowledge and information
      The Internet database is the successor to the NGOS@UN database, incorporating a significant number of new data files - now totalling 99, including the water-body oriented geographic data structure that were developed in preparation for Y2K contingency planning, and a set of data files for Internet domain names, the registration of which was a major focus of activity in the year 2000, and that are central components in the design of Gaia University and in an evolving proof of the Gaia Mind hypothesis.

2000.06

    • ECOLOGY - Gaia University network of knowledge, information ecology database
      ECOLOGY is the successor to the INTERNET database, renamed to focus attention on its ecological properties, and incorporating minor revisions and updates to its structure, in addition to the conceptual shift associated with the change of name.

2000.11

    • HABITAT3 - Habitat Three
      An evolution from the ECOLOGY database, Habitat Three is conceived of both as a preliminary organizing database for an anticipated Habitat III Conference to be held in 2016, and as a prototype digital habitat for the Third Millennium. The HABITAT3 database serves as the primary database of Information Habitat and as the engine that generates the pages for Project Information Habitat.

2001.03

    • DIGITAL - Digital Engine
      The Digital Engine is a prototype for an open source digital engine based on information ecology design principles. The digital engine incorporates a set of related databases designed to enable the establishment and maintenance of interactive public fora, and incorporates an evolving set of protocols for the structure, field formats of data files, and a rule-based framework for relationships between data files.

      DIGITAL is being created using DataPerfect 2.6F - a remarkably powerful, versatile, robust and elegant remarkable DOS-based relational database that was released in 1985 as a key element of the WordPerfect Library - a library that included WordPerfect 3.0, and a powerful menu driven Shell program that allows rapid switching and data exchange between Shell-compatible programs.

      The use of WordPerfect Shell 4.0 - the latest version - is integral to the design and development of the DIGITAL database, for example through the use of Shell macros that can, for example, automatically generate a set of data fields and set up formulas that define the field values; through the screen capture feature that is invaluable in documentation of the database; and enable full integration with WordPerfect 5.1+ - the still unrivalled classic of word-processing software.


2002.08