User:Information Ecologist
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[edit] Information ecologistI have defined my profession as an information ecologist since 1996, in response to a conception of information ecology as an embryonic holistic life science and operating system for sustainability and peace that emerged during the final stages of preparation for the 1996 Habitat II Conference in Istanbul. The seeds of information ecology had been planted with the June 1990 recognition of the transformed nature of information habitats in an era of microcomputers and information and commuications technology. My life's work up to that time had prepared me for the profession of information ecologist. I had been headed for a promising academic career as a mathematical sociologist with degrees in mathematics and economics at Cambridge and social science research & methodology - at Johns Hopkins. However I withdrew from academia in 1972 in the context of participation in the Vietnam Peace movement and concern as to the dominance of academia by a military-industrial complex. I learned much about information ecology in more than thirteen years at the Baltimore City Jail - as librarian for eight and a half years, and the remaining five years an an administrative analyst and in the course of thirty years of experience with advocacy & activist organizations that focused on peace, health, community development. The ecological dimensions of my training have grown out of a love for the natural environment and as an organic gardener - with a passion for composting that I had learned as a child, combined with an appreciation of holistic processes. Since May, 1989, my attention had been focused on the preparations for the 1992 Earth Summit / UNCED, and on the vital role that information technology could play in support of broad-based participation of NGOs in the conference, and I had developed an outline proposal for an information, public participation and communications system [1] that had led to the 1990 Earth Day launch of a "Global Environmental Network" by the UNCED Secretariat. My current focus is on facilitating a Free Summer School [2] as part of a preparatory process in the development of a network of open source, participatpry domains to host an open source curriculum for the NGO Committee on Education of CONGO - the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations - that will focus on the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development and related Decades. [edit] Other wiki profiles[edit] Other profiles[edit] Other web sites |
