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Fourth International Workshop
GSSD Strategic Partnerships
on Sustainability
Knowledge Networking & Technology
Collaboration
MIT, The Tang Center, January 18-19, 2000
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Knowledge for Sustainability
If Knowledge is Power
Then we Must Use the Power of Knowledge
Toward Sustainability
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Converging Trends
GLOBALIZATION
WORLD-WIDE CONNECTIVITY
KNOWLEDGE-NETWORKING
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Global Internet Traffic : mid-1997
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COMPLEXITY of SUSTAINABILITY
EXPLOSION of INFORMATION
ENGLISH ON INTERNET
LIMITED LOCAL CONTENT
INFRASTRUCTURE CONSTRAINTS
BARRIERS to KNOWLEDGE
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Problems
1. Complexity of Sustainability &
Knowledge Explosion
2. Diversity of Users with Multiple
Needs & Dispersed Capacities
3. Barriers to Internet access in Non-English
World & Limited Infrastructure
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Solutions
1. Conceptual Framework &
Distributed Knowledge Management
2. Knowledge Networking &
Strategic Partnering
3. Mirror Sites & Multi-lingual Functionality
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WHAT is GSSD?
Global knowledge meta-networking
Structured knowledge on sustainability
System for using “state-of-the-art”
knowledge management
Decision support collaborative platform
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GSSD
Knowledge Base & “CyberLibrary”
• Evolving Internet Resources of
roughly 250 Institutions
• Covering Multi-disciplinary & Diverse Views
• Contents of nearly 3000 sites reviewed,
abstracted indexed & cross-referenced
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Conceptual Framework - Slices
MobilityAgriculture
Land Use
Water
GovernanceConflicts
Urbanization
Consumption
Unmet Needs
Population
Migration
Energy
Trade
Industry
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Conceptual Framework - Rings
Activities
Problems
Technical Solutions
Social Solutions
International Responses
Social Solutions
Technical Solutions
Problems
Activities
International Responses
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Knowledge Network
Organized system of discrete actors
with knowledge producing capacity
Combined through common organizing
principles
Actors retain individual autonomy
Network enhances value of knowledge
to actors & further expands knowledge
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Strategic Partnerships
Global complexities & geographic
dispersion require partnering
Distributed network allows work to be
done where capacities exist
Localization enhances diversity of users,
interests & priorities
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Modes of Partnership
Collaborative Research
Content Provision
Translation Centers
Mirror Siting
Targeted Initiative
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Some Strategic Partners
Academe AUB, Ecole des Mines
IGO GEF, UNEP
NGO IISD, MISTRA, IUCN
Government China ACCA21
Corporate Lotus, Xerox, AT&T
Sony (Env. Center)
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Multilingual e-Functionality
•Improved access to knowledge
•Strategic uses of search options
•Provision of local knowledge base
•Reduction of knowledge gaps
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Mirror Sites
Gains of Multilingual Functionality Plus
• Administrative Autonomy
• Reliable International Interactions
• Expanded Capacity
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Multilingual Banner
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Mirror Site Locations
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Current Initiative
• Reduce Barriers to Technology Access
• Facilitate Uses of Sustainable Products & Processes
• Improve Supply-Demand Connections
• Reduce Persistent Technology Gaps
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Conclusion
Managing Complexity
Cyberspace Strategy as Policy Domain
Voicing of Actors & New Leverages
Leveling the Playing Field
Accelerating Time & Reducing Space
Enabling Globalization & Localization