The Encyclopedia
of World Problems
& Human Potential

Irrelevant institutions

Visualization of narrower problems

Name(s):

Irrelevant forms of governance

Irrelevant policy-making initiatives

Outdated organizations

Irrelevant organizations

Incidence

In 1997 in Germany, the President acknowledged an incapacity to act on the recognition of the urgent need to modernize the economy and society. The postwar monuments of stability and consensus were demonstrably inadequate to the challenge. Traditionally reliable unions, banks, currency, consensus-capitalism and government itself, all appeared seriously diminished in their capacity to regulate society, to sustain widespread prosperity, or to surivive intact the changes imposed by worldwide competition.

Broader

Inadequate government

Loss of capacity with age

Restrictive social practices

Narrower

Obsolete industries

Insolvent institutions

Outdated regulations

Outdated religious forms

Outmoded education system

Inadequate primary health care

Persistence of outmoded concepts

Outdated labour negotiation procedures

Inappropriate local administrative organization

Stagnated development of agricultural production

Failure of the zoo as an educational institution

Institutional preoccupation with obsolete problems

Aggravates

Discouragement

Obsolete methods ^{[in 5 loops]}

Outdated research ^{[in 10 loops]}

Outdated databases

Inappropriate policies ^{[in 20 loops]}

Inappropriate assumptions ^{[in 25 loops]}

Outdated judicial precedent

Outdated property assessments

Tokenistic meeting resolutions ^{[in 2 loops]}

Irrelevant scientific activity ^{[in 11 loops]}

Lag in policy conceptualization ^{[in 12 loops]}

Irrelevant available information ^{[in 8 loops]}

Reduced access to institutional resources

Aggravated by

Government resistance to institutional change

Policy vacuum

Outdated paradigms

Obsolete vocational skills

Loss of institutional credibility

Institutional incapacity

Lack of political will

Strategy(ies)

Updating organizations

Creating institutions

Exposing irrelevant institutions

Value(s)

Incapability

Irrelevance

Outdated

Type

(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems

About the Encyclopedia

The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a unique, experimental research work of the Union of International Associations. It is currently published as a searchable online platform with profiles of world problems, action strategies, and human values that are interlinked in novel and innovative ways. These connections are based on a range of relationships such as broader and narrower scope, aggravation, relatedness and more. By concentrating on these links and relationships, the Encyclopedia is uniquely positioned to bring focus to the complex and expansive sphere of global issues and their interconnected nature.

The initial content for the Encyclopedia was seeded from UIA’s Yearbook of International Organizations. UIA’s decades of collected data on the enormous variety of association life provided a broad initial perspective on the myriad problems of humanity. Recognizing that international associations are generally confronting world problems and developing action strategies based on particular values, the initial content was based on the descriptions, aims, titles and profiles of international associations.

About UIA

The Union of International Associations (UIA) is a research institute and documentation centre, based in Brussels. It was established in 1907, by Henri la Fontaine (Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1913), and Paul Otlet, a founding father of what is now called information science.

Non-profit, apolitical, independent, and non-governmental in nature, the UIA has been a pioneer in the research, monitoring and provision of information on international organizations, international associations and their global challenges since 1907.

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