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International Organizations and NGOs Project
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- Profiles of
international organizations (over 44,000 bodies,
104,000 links) in hardcopy, CD-ROM and online
- Intergovernmental organizations and networks (5,900)
- International associations - NGOs (38,000)
- Universal membership organizations (529)
- Inter-continental organizations (1,050)
- Regional (sub-continental) organizations and networks (4,100)
- Informal, transnational associations and networks
- Transnational religious orders (850)
- International funds, foundations and banks
- Semi-autonomous international bodies (2,700)
- Internationally-oriented national organizations (4,500)
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| The UIA has been collecting,
publishing and disseminating information on international nonprofit organizations
since its creation in 1910, as its central activity. This has been further
developed to cover information on their international meetings, their
problems, and their strategies. |
| Extensive commentary on the scope
of the UIA activities in this area, and the criteria used for identification
of international bodies, is presented in a series of FAQs.
Information by a range of researchers can be found in: Transnational
Associations / Associations Transnationales
(6 a year) |
- By type, By year
- By country of secretariat, By country of membership
- Conferences of international organizations
- Organization strategies and world problems
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| The range of bibliographical initiatives
undertaken covers publications of international bodies, studies about
them, and reports on issues of concern to them. A major past bibliographical
project covered proceedings of their meetings. |
- Selected reports(downloadable
documents)
- Documents for the study of international NGO relations ****
- Research papers
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| The multiplicity of
international organizations concerned with every aspect of the human endeavour
poses special challenges to its categorization, especially when their
interlinkages and interdisciplinary nature preclude effective use of conventional
approaches. A special functional classification system was therefore developed
that has been used to organize that information. This underlies the subject
access to organizations (and other databases) through the on-line interface.
The system is explained elsewhere
in a ommentary on this experimental subject configuration for the exploration
of interdisciplinary relationships between organizations, problems, strategies,
values and human development This refers to a subject
matrix which is continually under review. This is being supplemented
through multi-media experiments using virtual reality and spring mapping. |
| In order to provide new ways to
explore and comprehend complex networks of organizations, a number of
experiments are being conducted to present information from databases
through visual maps as well as using sound.These are accessible over the
web and are explained in detail elsewhere. |
| The UIA welcomes any information on new international bodies, as well as corrections to information that it publishes on existing organizations. The procedures are detailed elsewhere. |
| The information on networks of international organizations can usefully be seen in relation to other kinds of information from which it may be cross-referenced. |
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