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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. They use 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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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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