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Education
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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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2004 Gandhi-King Season - Compassionate Action for Global Healing
Development of a reorganized web site for the Gandhi-King Season, with the goal of compiling an open source curriculum in compassionate activism for global healing, and of inviting participants in a People's Agenda for Economic Justice to observe the Season - which runs from Friday, January 30 to Sunday, April 4 and honours the anniversaries of the deaths of Mohandas K. "Mahatma" Gandhi and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - as a time to engage in interactive dialogue on, and development of, a People's Agenda. Management of a set of electronic mailing lists relating to the Gandhi-King Season.
information-habitat.net/projects/gks-2004.htm
children,
culture,
dataperfect digital engines,
education,
healing,
information ecology,
interfaith dialogue,
nonviolence,
peace,
peace cubes,
values
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New York, NY
2003.11-
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Pumped Up for Peace
A project for young people to raise funds and awareness for freshwater-related projects in indigenous low-income communities developing countries. The project with a focus on support for low-cost, low-maintenance water pumps and water filtration systems for use in rural and agMicultural communities and for education in sustainability and peace. The project was initiated in the NGO Committee on Education, and has been adopted by the United Nations CyberSchoolBus project.
information-habitat.net/projects/pufp.htm
children,
education,
peace,
sustainable agriculture,
sustainable development,
united nations,
water,
youth
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New York, NY
2003.05-
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Elements of Information Ecology - An Open Source Curriculum
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 a participatory open source platform. The projects is one of a set of projects being developed on the platform of TakingITGlobal, with the goal of strengthening the global reach of the projects and of increasing the participation of young people.
information-habitat.net/projects/eie.htm
database,
dataperfect digital engines,
digital bridges,
education,
information ecology
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New York, NY
2003.03-
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Open Source Curriculum in DataPerfect and Firestorm
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. The project was the precursor of DataPerfect Digital Engines - An Open Source Curriculum
information-habitat.net/projects/osc-dpfs.htm
database,
dataperfect digital engines,
digital bridges,
education
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New York, NY
2003.01-
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Elements of Light and Colour - An Open Source Curriculum
Design, development and implementation of an open source curriculum in the elements of light and colour, based on the properties of the Peace Cubes / 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.
information-habitat.net/projects/elc.htm
art,
children,
database,
dataperfect digital engines,
education,
information ecology,
light and colour,
one light in all,
open source,
peace cubes,
reconciliation
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New York, NY
2003.01-
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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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Gaia University
Design and development of knowledge-based curriculum, structure, information 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.
information-habitat.net/projects/gaia-u.htm
access to information,
community development,
economics,
education,
freshwater,
information ecology,
interfaith dialogue,
knowledge-based economics,
mathematics,
one light in all,
peace cubes,
social development
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New York, NY
2000.04-
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Information Ecology Curriculum
Development of framework and outline for an open source curriculum in the elements of information ecology, with the goal of cultivating awareness of the nature and dynamics of information ecosystems and of the evolving information age based on an appreciation of the fundamental properties of information, information systems and networks and an appreciation of the one light in all of creation.
information-habitat.net/projects/ie-curr.htm
access to information,
database,
dataperfect digital engines,
economics,
education,
electronic publishing,
habitat & human settlements,
information ecology,
information economics,
light and colour,
mathematics,
peaceful properties of the internet,
public participation,
social development,
sustainable development
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New York, NY
1998.02-
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Development Planning Unit, University College London
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.
information-habitat.net/projects/dpu-pip.htm
access to information,
economics,
education,
habitat & human settlements,
habitat ii,
information ecology,
local governance,
public participation,
social development
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London, United Kingdom
1998.02-
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Earth Society Foundation
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.
information-habitat.net/projects/esf.htm
education,
electronic publishing,
environment,
peace,
peace cubes,
united nations,
web sites
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New York, NY
1996.03-1998.03
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Baltimore City Public Schools
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.
information-habitat.net/projects/schools.htm
access to information,
baltimore,
children,
database,
education,
government,
information ecology,
public participation,
publishing
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Baltimore, MD
1990.02-1990.04
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Citizens Planning & Housing Association - Education Committee
Developed Report Card on Elementary Schools for CPHA's Education Committee in conjunction with the Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPS) using a complex DataPerfect 2.3 relational database to integrate elemedantary school data from multiple sources within BCPS and generating export files to merge in WordPerfect 5.0 using styles and tables. Database design, desk top publishing; word processing training.
information-habitat.net/projects/cpha.htm
access to information,
baltimore,
community-based organizations,
database,
dataperfect digital engines,
education,
information ecology,
public participation
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Baltimore, MD
1990.01-1990.06
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Morgan State University
Desk top publishing of Wellspring: A Journal for the teaching of the Humanities in the High Schools; training in word processing and computer operations.
information-habitat.net/projects/msu.htm
baltimore,
consulting,
education,
training
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Baltimore, MD
1989.01-1990.03
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The Learning Bank
Database design and implementation for registration and performance data in Adult Literacy program; training in data entry and word processing using DataPerfect and WordPerfect.
information-habitat.net/projects/tlbank.htm
baltimore,
community-based organizations,
database,
education,
training
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Baltimore, MD
1988.05-1988.08
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City College of Baltimore
Completed Continuing Education courses in Systems Analysis and Human Anatomy.
information-habitat.net/projects/ccb.htm
baltimore,
education,
information ecology
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Baltimore, MD
1985.06-1986.06
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Greater Waverly Urban Farming Cooperative
Set up neighborhood support network for urban farmers, established community garden on a 1/3 acre inner-city plot that sought to balance a small organic urban farm with an abundance of wildlife and biodiversity. Since 1991, the garden has been used by an alernative High School in the Baltimore City Public Schools.
information-habitat.net/projects/gwufc.htm
baltimore,
community-based organizations,
community development,
diet,
education,
environment,
health,
sustainable agriculture,
sustainable development
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Baltimore, MD
1981.04-1991.06
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Baltimore City Jail Library
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.
information-habitat.net/projects/bcj-libr.htm
access to information,
art,
baltimore,
corrections,
document storage,
education,
information ecology,
law and the courts,
social development,
youth
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Baltimore, MD
1974.02-1981.09
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Baltimore Experimental High School
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.
information-habitat.net/projects/behs.htm
baltimore,
education,
strategy,
youth
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Baltimore, MD
1970.09-1971.12
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The Johns Hopkins University, Social Relations Department
M.A. 1973, completing all Ph.D. requirements except dissertation. 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, communication dynamics, and measurement of interpersonal behaviour and personality.
The Johns Hopkins University was founded by Johns Hopkins, a Baltimore Quaker, yet by 1973, it was by far the largest university as measured by military contracts and research grants. An alternative approach to knowledge
information-habitat.net/projects/jhu.htm
baltimore,
education,
information ecology,
mathematics,
peace cubes,
social development
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Baltimore, MD
1967.09-1972.10
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Institute for Human Sciences, Boston College
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.
information-habitat.net/projects/ihs.htm
database,
education,
information ecology
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Boston, MA
1966.06-1967.08
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Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University
Open Exhibition in Mathematics. B.A. Honours in Mathematics and Economics. Cox of College rowing crew.
information-habitat.net/projects/corpus.htm
economics,
education,
mathematics
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Cambridge, United Kingdom
1963.09-1966.05
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Whitgift School
House Prefect. Advanced Level GCE in Pure Maths, Applied Maths and Physics; Ordinary Level GCE in Mathematics, English, French, Latin, Greek and History.
Whitgift School was founded in 1595 by Archbishop John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge; and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, and served as the principal tutor of Francis Bacon. The root of the name Whitgift is "white gift" - a name that has resonated with the appreciation of the peace cubes as "gifts of light."
information-habitat.net/projects/whitgift.htm
education,
mathematics,
peace cubes
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Croydon, United Kingdom
1956.09-1962.12
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Digital Engine