Maintaining futures library

Synonyms:

Developing information centre for future-oriented studies
Providing a clearinghouse on information on the future

Implementation:

UNESCO is gradually establishing an information centre for future-oriented studies through the collection, analysis, selection and repackaging of future-oriented studies deriving from an international network of institutions and specialists.

Claim:

The effectiveness of organization action is dependent, among other things, on its capacity to adapt its activities to a rapidly changing world. It must therefore adopt a future-oriented approach aimed at highlighting world-wide as well regionally, sub-regionally and nationally, the emerging trends and changes that might occur in its field of competence.

Broader:

Researching futures
Maintaining library
Serving as information clearinghouse

Facilitates:

Articulating future vision

Values:

Information
Deformation
Disinformation
Misinformation

Organizations:

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
United Nations Institute for Training and Research
World Future Society
United Nations University
International Futures Library, Salzburg - Robert-Jungk Foundation

References:

Mayne, Alan J: Resources for the Future: an international annotated bibliography for the 21st century

Subjects:

Information → Information
Information → Reference
Information → Libraries
Amenities → Maintenance
Research, Standards → Study
Development → Development
Policy-making → Future

Type Classification:

D: Detailed strategies

Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:

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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