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International Organization Information / Research: 1978 (Part #7)

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Networks: The nature of organization, problem and concept networks continues to be explored. Studies have been produced. The UIA associated itself with a meeting in Montreal in November 1976 on networks for which background documents were supplied. This material was also used in Paris in March 1977 at a symposium of the International Foundation for Social Innovation on "complexity".

Work has also been done on this topic for the Global Processes and Indicators Project of the UN University, which held its most recent meeting in January 1978 .

Efforts are being continued to obtain external support for computer programmes to generate maps of networks of different kinds from UIA Data .

Computer conferencing: As a result of a visit to various institutions in the USA a special issue of Transnational Associations (October 1977) has been produced on this topic.

Three separate but complementary studies of the use of this technique (at large conferences, for a transnational university, and to exchange meeting-related data) have been produced. The above documents will appear as a special volume in the Congress Science series after they have been printed in Transnational Associations .

Contacts are being maintained with a number of institutes with regard to the future use of this technique. It could well be considered for the UIA World Forum of Transnational Association in 1980.