Actor Atlas

Access to the Actor Atlas will remain free.
Yet, donations to support its further development are accepted.

Country-specific development dashboards will provide a localized view on the wealth of information systematized in the Actor Atlas.
The price of access to a development dashboard will depend on the country it covers.

Follow below procedure to secure your first-mover access to all development dashboards that will be launched by Wikinetix. Currently those of Belgium, Maroc (en français), Nepal, Philippines and Tanzania are being launched.
After completion of all steps, you need to be logged in with Wikidot to access the development dashboards.

• First create a free Wikidot account via Wikidot's Create a new account screen, and activate it from the confirmation email. Remember your name (or alias) as you must provide it with your payment.

• After your payment. In the inbox of your Wikidot account you will receive the invitation to use the development dashboards. You must accept this invitation before accessing those dashboards. It may take up to 24 hours before you will be invited.

• Welcome
• Guidance

• Sector Maps (ISIC Sections)

• Government Function Maps (COFOG divisions and classes)

• Statute books (Treaties and Laws)

• Role Lists

• Actor Maps

• Initiative Books

• Resource Books

Mind that a substantial part of the proceeds of the Actor Atlas are dedicated to the stimulation of Actor Atlas country chapters in developing countries.

These are the languages in which the Actor Atlas can be navigated (by using Google Translate): Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Filipino, French, Finnish,German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.

Priority countries for content curation and translation:

• Least Developed Countries (per capita GNI < $935 in 2007): Afghanistan Angola Bangladesh Benin Bhutan Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo, Dem. Rep. Djibouti Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gambia, the Guinea Guinea-Bissau Haiti Kiribati Lao PDR Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Maldives Mali Mauritania Mozambique Myanmar Nepal Niger Rwanda Samoa Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Sierra Leone Solomon Islands Somalia South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Timor-Leste Togo Tuvalu Uganda Vanuatu Yemen, Rep. Zambia

• Other Low Income Countries (per capita GNI < $935 in 2007): Cote d'Ivoire Ghana Kenya Korea, North Kyrgyz Republic Nigeria Pakistan Papua New Guinea Tajikistan Uzbekistan Vietnam Zimbabwe

• Lower Middle Income Countries (per capita GNI $936— $3705 in 2007): Albania Algeria Armenia Azerbaijan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Cameroon Cape Verde China Colombia Congo, Rep. Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt, Arab. Rep. El Salvador Georgia Guatemala Guyana Honduras India Indonesia Iran, Islamic Rep. Iraq Jordan Macedonia, FYR Marshall Islands Micronesia, Fed. Sts. Moldova Mongolia Morocco Namibia Nicaragua Niue Paraguay Peru Philippines Sri Lanka Swaziland Syrian Arab Republic Thailand Tonga Tunisia Turkmenistan Ukraine West Bank and Gaza

• Upper Middle Income Countries (per capita GNI $3706— $11455 in 2007): Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Barbados Belarus Belize Botswana Brazil Chile Cook Islands Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Dominica Fiji Gabon Grenada Jamaica Kazakhstan Lebanon Libya Malaysia Mauritius Mexico Montenegro Nauru Palau Panama Serbia Seychelles South Africa St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Turkey Uruguay Venezuela, R.B.

The global to local utility and growth of the Actor Atlas and the linked development dashboards are explained in the Actor Atlas blog.
Consult and follow it. It's free!

Gradually the Actor Atlas and Development Dashboards will become your next reference source, one that leverages the social media, public sector information and advances in information structuring. It will become a companion to your dictionaries and favourite (online) encyclopedia.

Both calmly offer ''curated'' global & local content that matters to your socio-economic reality.

Once adopted, both will complement the email, news coverage and other information elements that overload you, compete for your attention, yet neglect the need driving your attention.

Each Actor Atlas page (content chunk) is composed, linked and placed in a smart manner that is language-independent and ubiquitously applicable.

Consider a printed dictionary and the facility the alphabetic order offers to quickly find and uniquely place any word in it. Now apply this technique in a wiki, for content chunks instantiating values along multiple ordering dimensions.

When navigating the Actor Atlas you will discover that its content can grow and be adapted without adding complexity and hurdles. While the content curating effort is ongoing, you can indicate priorities and ensure that your interests are covered early.

The Actor Atlas content curators are leading a new curating movement. Your subscription fees are used to accelerate the curating activity, especially for the benefit of developing countries.

These are some of the dimensions of variation used in the Actor Atlas to index content:

• The sectors of industry, as codified by the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Rev.4 (ISIC), and represented by sector maps from A - Agriculture, forestry and fishing, over C - Manufacturing, to U - Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies.
• The functions of government, as codified by the Classification of the Functions of Government (COFOG), and represented by government function maps from 01-General Public Services to 10-Social Protection.
• Treaties, regulations, and their coherence and scope (ref. COFOG) as represented in Country Statute Books or a treaty overview.
• International or national development initiatives grouped by COFOG Division in Country Initiative Books, International Initiatives or UN Initiatives.
• Country, international or sectoral actors (parties, stakeholders), grouped by COFOG Division in Country Actor Maps, United Nations or Global Actors.

The knowledge that development blends and yields is plentiful, dynamic and ordered.

Life-Long Learning supported by the Actor Atlas becomes lean as:

• once learned for one area of learning, the information structuring patterns can be reused in all other areas of learning, in the same way as the alphabet is used for ordering the words irrespective of the disciplines or locations in which these words are used;
• the included structures and information can be navigated in multiple languages;
• the Actor Atlas provides authentic and coherent facts on actors, their claims — including initiatives —, and resources — including standards and statutes —, in sectors and countries;
• the coverage of the global to local socio-technical fabric, with controlled nesting and variation to offer a single place (content chunk) for any piece of information, and avoid any unwanted duplication; and
• the avoidance of unwanted notifications (often sent by email) alongside the possibility to subscribe to changes at each page that interest you.