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International Conferences: Transformative Conferencing
| The UIA provides
a clearing house for information on over 20,000 future international conferences
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| The UIA has been maintaining
databases on international conferences since its creation in 1910. These
databases cover the period from the earliest international meetings centuries
ago forward to scheduled meetings decades in the future. |
| Studies and commentary about international
conferences, and their challenges, are produced in various UIA publications
and documents. |
Statistics are published
annually on the meetings initiated or sponsored by:
- Intergovernmental organizations
- International NGOs
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| The publications (and CD-Roms)
produced by the UIA that list international conferences are:
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In the past the UIA has had several
major projects gathering bibliographical information on the proceedings
of international meetings, and the methods for organizaing them:
- International conference proceedings
- Bibliographical current list of papers, reports and proceedings
of international meetings (1961-1968)
- Bibliography of Proceedings of International Meetings (1957,
1958, 1959)
- Yearbook of International Congress Proceedings (1960-67, 1962-69)
- See publications in: Yearbook
of International Organizations
- See publications in: Yearbook
Plus (CD-Rom)
- International conference organization
- Bibliography on Congress Theory and Practice
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Studies of conference organization
and transformative conferencing have been produced in several series:
- Conference organization
- Transformative conferencing
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| The mutliplicity of
conferences on every conceivable topic call for radical new approaches
to information about them, and about how they relate to the problems that
many address, and the strategies on which consensus is sought at such
events. Of special interest is the organization of insight across conferences
and processes to give coherence to insight emerging during the conference
process. A number of initiatives have been taken by the UIA to facilitate
insight processing in larger events, especially in the light of new computer
technology. |
| Experiments in the use of multi-media
to explore complex networks of conferences in relation to networks of
organizations and problems are envisaged. |
| The information on international conferences
can usefully be seen in relation to other kinds of information from which
it may be cross-referenced. |
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