high-tech, transparency,
secrecy
Information
systems: A prime concern has been the creation and development of information
systems ( 1966
*;
Need for a World Management Information System to Assist Initiation and
Coordination of Global Development Programmes
, 1969;
1970
;
1971
). These have been
seen as fundamental to global strategies, to sustain networks of international organizations (
Possible Use of Computers and Data Processing Equipment by International Non-
governmental Organizations
, 1968;
Description of a Proposed Information System to
Facilitate Contact between Organizations
, 1969;
1969
;
1969
;
1969
*;
Reflections on
Associative Constraints and Possibilities in an Information society
, 1987) , schools of
thought (
1971
;
1973
), or to the development of the databases managed by the Union of
International Associations (
1971
;
1981
*) . The possibility of designing information systems to
bypass characteristic inter-organizational, inter-sectoral and inter- disciplinary territoriality has
also been a concern (
Computer Conferencing as a Means of Enhancing Communication at
a Large Conference / Festival
, 1977;
Computer-enhanced Communication Environment for
an International Conference Centre
, 1979) -- especially as a basis for knowledge management
(
Knowledge-Representation in a Computer-Supported Environment
, 1977;
Specification
for Structural Outliner Computer Programme
, 1992;
Insight Storage and Retrieval in a
Computer-supported Environment
, 1993;
Strategic Correspondences: computer-aided
insight scaffolding
, 1995;
Coherent Policy-making Beyond the Information Barrier
, 1999).
The future role of global information systems has also been considered (
Songlines of the
Noosphere: global configuration of hypertext pathways
, 1996;
Musings on Information of
Higher Quality
, 1996;
Simulating a Global Brain: using networks of international
organizations, world problems, strategies, and values
, 2001), notably with respect to
governance (
Computer-assisted generation of strategies
, 1995)
dialogue, low tech,
subtlety, tacit, unsaid
Communication:
In contrast with the information focus (whether or not facilitated by
information systems), there has been a long-term concern with the effectiveness and quality of
exchange ( International Cooperation, Communication and Sources of Information
, 1965;
Improvement of Communication within the World System
, 1969;
Sustainable Dialogue as a
Necessary Template for Sustainable Global Community
, 1995), in international meetings (
Computer Conferencing as a Means of Enhancing Communication at a Large Conference /
Festival
, 1977;
Computer-enhanced Communication Environment for an International
Conference Centre
, 1979;
1991
*) and notably through dialogue (
Towards Transformative
Conferencing and Dialogue
, 1991), including computer-assisted (
Towards a web framework
for synthesis in dialogue: insight capture from the flow of conference interventions
, 1996;
Sustaining the Coherence of Dialogue through Apartness: configuration of entities
through hypertext
, 1997;
1998
;
2001
). Of continuing concern has been alternative
understandings of meaningful exchange (
Varieties of Dialogue Arenas and Styles
, 1992,
1997
,
1998
;
Inter-Sectoral Dialogue and Sustainable Development
, 1992;
Learnings for the
Future of Inter-Faith Dialogue
, 1993), notably in non- western cultures. A particular interest
has been the communication of complex patterns of insight (
Representation, Comprehension
and Communication of Sets: the Role of Number
, 1978;
1979
;
Needs Communication:
viable need patterns and their identification
, 1980;
Patterns of N-foldness: Comparison of
integrated multi-set concept schemes as forms of presentation
, 1980;
Representation of
issue arenas on icosidodecahedral net
, 1994;
Transdisciplinarity through Structured
Dialogue
, 1994;
Evaluating Synthesis Initiatives and their Sustaining Dialogues
, 2000),
notably through symbol (
1994
), metaphor (
1993
), mytho-poetic speculation (
2002
), and more
generally in terms of appropriate forms of presentation (
Representation of Concepts and
Augmentation of Intellect
, 1973;
Knowledge- Representation in a Computer-Supported
Environment
, 1977;
Forms of Presentation and the Future of Comprehension
, 1984;
Review
of Frameworks for the Representation of alternative Conceptual Orderings as Determined
by Linguistic and Cultural Contexts
, 1986;
1995
). Use of low-tech approaches has also been
explored (
Participant Interaction Messaging: improving the conference process
, 1980;
1991
;
Time-sharing System in Meetings: Centralized planning vs Free-market economy ?
,
1994;
Designing Cultural Rosaries and Meaning Malas to Sustain Associations within the
Pattern that Connects
, 2000). Some of the challenges for dialogue were highlighted with
respect to the possibility of communication with aliens (
Communicating with Aliens: the
Psychological Dimension of Dialogue
, 2000). Implicit in many of these concerns is the
communication of subtler and emergent forms of order (
Presentation and Representatives:
Presenting the Future,
2001) and the challenge of the unsaid (
Varieties of the Unsaid in
sustaining psycho- social community
, 2003).
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1. Metaphor
