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natural science is an academic discipline with the purpose of understanding,
predicting and explaining events in our natural environment. |
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Physics,
Chemistry, Biology, Astronomy are all natural sciences. It uses the Scientific
Method to observe and analyse in order to build up a body of knowledge. |
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| Networking
is making friends and acquaintances outside one's daily circle of routine
contacts. It is one of the sixteen elements of organizational and community
capacity. Not only "what one knows" (know how) but also "who one knows"
(know who) increases capacity (and finds jobs). |
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To
what extent the members of the community, and their leaders, know people
(and their agencies or organizations) that can provide useful resources
to help empower the group or the community? The useful relationships, potential
or existing are a resource that empowers. |
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| Networking
is one of the sixteen elements of strength, power or capacity of a community
or organization. The size of a person's network is the number of contacts,
friends or acquaintances that might be called upon to provide advice, support
or information. What is the extent to which community members, especially
leaders, know persons (and their agencies or organizations) who can provide
useful resources that will strengthen the community as a whole? |
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See:
Elements
of Community Strength. The useful linkages, potential and realized,
that exist within the community and with others outside it. The more effective
the network, the stronger the community or organization. (Isolation produces
weakness). When simulating a community to organize and act, the mobilizer
needs to be aware of the role of altruism in empowering that community
or organization. |
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| Non
Governmental Organization: |
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Strictly
speaking an NGO (Non Governmental Organization) is any organization that
is not part of the governmental structure.
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common usage, however, the term NGO also implies that it is a charitable-type
organization, which is not organized (like a commercial organization) to
make a profit. They may be set up for any number of reasons, as marketing
boards, lawyers' or other professional associations, service clubs, congregations,
or youth groups. It is expected that an NGO, as well as having some paid
staff, is composed of a larger, unpaid, voluntary membership and an elected
unpaid board of directors. "Volag." |
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In
the area of relief and development and international and national assistance,
many "suitcase" NGOs have been set up, mainly to provide work and income
for the organizers. This is not a bad thing in itself, although they should
more rightly be called "consultancies" or "contractors," because they do
not have an unpaid voluntary membership and board. See Acronyms (NGO). |
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(Español:
organización no gubernamental, Français: organisation non gouvernementale)
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| This
is communication between persons that does not involve words. It uses gestures,
space, silence, body position, and facial expressions. It can be conscious
as in the American Sign Language used by deaf mute persons, or baseball
catchers, or it can be unconscious where information is portrayed by a
person through body language, yet that person is unaware of the information
being sent. |
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A
good mobiliser ––
when learning about a community ––
learns how to "read" persons even when they are not talking, and learns
how these non-verbal communications can vary between cultures. |
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