| http://www.uia.org/data.htm
is the Belgian-based Union of International Associations, which
has amazing databases of World Problems, Strategies, Human Values
and Human Potential, which draws linkages between problems and strategies
where possible, in a very interesting way. They also maintain information
on all major international associations, but you must pay for extensive
access to this section.
http://www.cs.uh.edu/~clifton/micro.a.html
is a free micro-encyclopaedia which has no text, only links to
other sites.
http://www.nupedia.com/-
"we are building the world's largest international, peer-reviewed
encyclopedia. It is free." … "and it will be constructed
by qualified members of the international public" They appear
to be very committed to their free open-source philosophy, well
funded, and there is no apparent reference to EVER needing to
get funds, make money or sell products, adverts or membership.
It is a subsidiary of Bomis Inc at http://www.bomis.com/-
, which also produces an impressive free open directory to the
internet http://dmoz.org/about.html
. Bomis carry advertising on their pages.
Tony Judge, the Director of UIA, has written some fascinating
papers :
http://www.uia.org/uiadocs/music.htm
is "Knowledge Gardening through Music" eliciting patterns
of coherence for African management as an alternative to Project
Logic READ THIS ONE FIRST !!!!
http://www.uia.org/uiadocs/entrap.htm
is "Metaphoric Entrapment in Time" - try it, it's interesting
http://www.uia.org/musings/question.htm
is the link for Tony Judge's "Questions requiring Answers"
project
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