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Ecological Design
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DataPerfect Digital Engines - an Open Source Curriculum
The development of a open source curriculum on DataPerfect Digital Engines, based on the MS-DOS classic, DataPerfect 2.6F - a companion program to the word processing class, WordPerfect 5.1+ - and the application of information ecology principles and protocols. The DataPerfect Digital Engine is being designed as a prototype digital engine designed to make available the wealth - to the extent that information can be wealth - that the zero-based properties of information - zero mass, zero physical size and virtually zero travel-time - offer since digital information is free from the historical constraints on wealth imposed by the laws of conservation of mass and energy.
information-habitat.net/projects/dde-osc.htm
access to information,
conference documents,
conference registration,
database-generated web sites,
dataperfect digital engines,
digital bridges,
ecological design,
education,
electronic publishing,
information architecture,
information ecology,
light and colour,
ngo networks, committees & caucuses,
peace cubes,
peaceful properties of the internet,
sustainable economics,
virtual light & colour cubes
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New York, NY
2004.02-
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Digital Bridges in Peace
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.
information-habitat.net/projects/dbp.htm
art,
culture,
dataperfect digital engines,
digital bridges,
ecological design,
economics,
information ecology,
mathematics,
ngo networks, committees & caucuses,
nonviolence,
peace,
september 11, 2001
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New York, NY
2003.06-
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Information Habitat: Taking IT Global
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 initiatives on Taking IT Global.
information-habitat.net/projects/ih-tig.htm
art,
children,
community-based organizations,
culture,
dataperfect digital engines,
digital bridges,
digital economics,
ecological design,
freshwater,
information architecture,
information ecology,
knowledge-based economics,
law and the courts,
light and colour,
mathematics,
nonviolence,
one light in all,
open source,
peace,
public participation,
reconciliation,
sustainable economics,
values
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New York, NY
2003.06-
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Project Information Habitat
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.
information-habitat.net/projects/pih.htm
access to information,
database-generated web sites,
dataperfect digital engines,
ecological design,
economics,
education,
electronic publishing,
information ecology,
information economics,
mathematics
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New York, NY
2002.12-
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Digital Engines
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.
information-habitat.net/projects/de.htm
children,
database,
ecological design,
education,
information ecology,
interactive processes,
mathematics,
public participation
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New York, NY
2002.09-
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Digital Tree of Life
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.
information-habitat.net/projects/dtl.htm
children,
ecological design,
education,
information ecology,
interactive processes,
mathematics,
sustainable development
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New York, NY
2002.08-
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NGO Forum '96 Preparations
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.
information-habitat.net/projects/forum96p.htm
access to information,
conference documents,
conference registration,
conferences,
database,
dataperfect digital engines,
dissemination of information,
ecological design,
electronic publishing,
habitat & human settlements,
information ecology,
ngo networks, committees & caucuses,
public participation,
publishing,
training,
united nations
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Istanbul, Turkey
1995.10-1996.06
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Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
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.
information-habitat.net/projects/ihwil.htm
conferences,
database,
ecological design,
economics,
electronic publishing,
information ecology,
interfaith dialogue,
mathematics,
one light in all,
peace,
public participation,
publishing,
sustainable development,
united nations
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Baltimore, MD
1990.06-
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801 Homestead Street
Undertook major renovation of a dilapidated 1877 frame house and established an organic garden on the 1/3 acre estate that had been created by purchasing two adjacent lots. Removed plaster and lathe interior walls; weather-proofed house with storm windows, insulation and caulking; re-painted interior of the house; installed new wiring, etc.
Removed large quantities of trash and debris from the garden - much of which was buried in the garden - and set about restoring the garden, adding compost heaps and collecting many, many bags of leaves each fall to create a large collection of leaf mold to enhance the condition of the garden.
information-habitat.net/projects/801-home.htm
biological diversity,
diet,
ecological design,
energy,
habitat & human settlements,
home ownership,
recycling,
sustainable agriculture,
sustainable home economics,
urban agriculture,
urban gardening
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Baltimore, MD
1984.12-1995.06
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Digital Engine