Dear ***

I am in the process to prepare an update a letter from the BANK's (in 1984) Senior Advisor John O'Connor's summary: "What is going on in Information Processing"

extracted from his letter to a "number of people", where he refers to the inauguration of the Center for Information Transfer (CIT), CIESIN and UNDP's Sustainable Development Network (SDN) , To Canada's IDRC and the proposal for a World Press Centre (WPC).

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"The International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) is engaged in numerous acticivities that should be relevant"... "I presume you are already in touch with the Committe on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA), Panel on World Data Centers, etc. An example of what is going on is the enclosed article by Heiner Benking of Germany's Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing (FAW). His "Rubik's Cube" of information seems much like the WPC's although each is still so embryonic that I may be wrong...."

I am aware of other initiatives that are more country of topic specific ....

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Pls. see also the summary of FID's "Knowledge for the 21st Century" and the preparations for the WORLD SCIENCE Meeting (ICSU-UNESCO) I was involved with at that time. Pls. request details!

More specific to repositories and terminologies and how to "order" them see the recent: KNOW MAP magazine with a special focus on spacial cognition and new forms of ordering and switching between order schemas and maintaing content in various sign systems and langauges.

PS:

I am just checking some old E-mail contacts, but maybe you find it already at this stage of some interest and have some links or contact persons to add or additional "designs" to be reviewed in the announced 2001/2001 study.

MANY THANKS for your attention

Heiner Benking
Associate
Millennium Project
Berlin Node

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update 2006:

we are palnning for October 2006 an update of 10 years: "Knowledge for the 21st Century"
and will call it "Knowledge for the 22nd Century"

http://benking.de/FID-1996.html