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Projects
UIA's projects represent endeavours undertaken to create a specific product or service. Sometimes they are run soley by the UIA, but often we collaborate with one or more partners with specific expertise in the field of civil society and international organizations. Below are the titles and descriptions of some of our main projects, both past and present. All of our projects are undertaken in accordance with our mission values, outlined in our aims and objectives. For a more detailed explanation of the themes that inspire our work, see our research areas.
Ongoing and current projects
| 2009-ongoing | UNESCO customized Database of Non-Governmental Organizations. [Read more] |
Completed projects
| 2008-2009 | UIA/Finergie project on Corporate Social Responsibility |
| 2001-2002 |
UIA/Verisign Diversitas bid for management of the .org registry The UIA proposed to host the .org registry, to establish it as an internet registry specifically for civil society. This differentiated TLD would have services specifically tailored for the global civil society community, which would enhance their access. [Read more] |
| 1999-2003 |
UIA Thesis Prize The UIA set aside 6,000 EUR for a Doctoral Thesis prepared on a subject concerning the life, operations or work of international non-governmental organisations seen as components of the international civil society. [Read more] |
| 1999-2001 |
UIA/University of Paris study on NGO Security This project comprises a survey to organisations into security problems faced by NGOs. The results of the questionnaire are accompanied by a set of external links and resources on the subject of NGO security. [Read more] |
| 1997-2000 |
UIA/European Commission Ecolynx biodiversity project An INFO2000 Project of the European Commission, this project was a major extension of existing UIA work on mapping links between global problems and strategies. The objective was to link data on threatened species and habitats with information about responses by society to threats to biodiversity. [Read more] |
| IHEAL is an international information network to support public access to health and the environment information. The UIA has contributed to IHEAL via its work on the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential. [Read more] |
Unfunded projects
| 2004 | Global Knowledge Grid: A New Infrastructure for Understanding Globalization. Project proposal to the US National Science Foundation (refused September 2004) |
| 2004 | CiviLynx: Gateway to Civil Society Organization Information (Proposal to DG Information Society for a Demonstration Project in the framework of the eContent programme, Action Line 1: Improving access to and use of public sector information Subline 1.1: Cross-border information services based on public sector information) |
| 2003 | Local Action Dynamics: Knowledge patterns for local, participatory implementation of the Lisbon Strategy LADY. (The integrated project (IP) is EU Framework Programme 6's instrument for objective-driven research. The IP LADY addresses the subject of collective knowledge for organisational transition.) |
| 2000 | Cultivating Knowledge Ecosystems: Adapting visual arts and music to sustain new patterns of knowledge work in community (Gardening Knowledge): Submitted to Information Society Technologies program of the European Commission13 September 1999; refused 19 April 2000) |
| 1999 | Interactive Conceptual Environmental Planning Tool for Developing Countries (INTERCEPT): Approved for funding through the World Bank's InfoDev program (submitted 25 March 1998; approved 2 June 1999; removed from proposal pool March 2000). See also: Responses to Reviewers Comments |
| 1999 | Coherent Policy-making Beyond the Information Barrier: Circumventing dependence on access, classification, penetration, dissemination, property, surveillance, interpretation, disinformation, and credibility (Originally submitted in response to a call for proposals by the World Bank's InfoDev program in September 1999) |
| 1999 | Facilitating inter-project coordination through templates of thematic relationships (1999) |
| 1999 | Aesthetics and Informatics: the art of information for policy-making and community-building (Proposal for an Exploratory International Conference on Arranging a Marriage between Beauty and the Beast) |
| 1999 | INTELLI-WORK: Procedural Framework for the Interoperability of Decentralized Knowledge Management Processes Based on a Diversity of Partners, Commitments and Competences. (Prepared for submission in August 1999 within the Fifth Framework of the European Commission.) See a graphic representation of UIA strategic match with IST Fifth Framework Programme. |
| 1998 | Developing an internet framework for creative dialogue on irreconcilable policy differences: experimenting with new approaches to democratic governance (Proposal to the Forward Studies Unit of the European Commission, 1998) |
| 1998 | Proposal for a Learning Exchange between the Swadhyaya community (Western India) and the Pitjantjatjara community (Central Australia) (December 1998) |
| 1998 | Humour and International Challenges: Augmenting problem and strategy comprehension through psycho-cultural catalysts |
| 1996 | Facilitating Community through Information: A suite of software-enabled participation tools (Proposal submitted in 1996 in response to Intelligent - Information - Interfaces to European Commission DG XII) |
| 1996 | Coherent Organization of a Navigable Problem-Solution-Learning Space (Preliminary draft proposal for Intelligent - Information - Interfaces submitted in 1996 to European Commission DG XII) |
| 1992 | Catalyzation of new patterns of collaboration: using a PC-based structural outliner as an imaging scaffold 1992 (42k) |
| 1988 | Encyclopedia of Conceptual Insights from the World's Cultures (Proposal in 1988 to UNESCO in relation to the Decade on Cultural Development) |
