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Founder & Professor of Information Ecology, Information Habitat: Where Information Lives - an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council - and Chair of the Information and Communications Sub-Committee of the NGO Committee on Education of CONGO - the Conference Of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations.

I stumbled on TiddlyWiki in October 2006 and have adopted it as my principal platform for website development, and am building/growing a network of websites based on TiddlyWiki. My current focus is on cultivating a Garden Summer School at Perla Garden in which cultivation of a TiddlyWiki-based "digital garden" will be a key component.

I have also been actively involved in preparations for the upcoming 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - see http://www.ngo-framework.net/ - and for the 61st Annual DPI/NGO Conference, to be held in Paris from September 3-5, 2008, with a focus on the 60th Anniversary, and had serving as Co-Chair of the Research, Communications and Website Sub-Committee for the Conference Planning Committee.

One of the many features I love about TiddlyWiki is the ability to generate tiddlers from DataPerfect - the brilliant MS-DOS relational database companion of the legendary WordPerfect that I have been using since its release more than 20 years ago - copy them into an empty TiddlyWiki page, and import them, often wit te tiddlers using iframes to include web pages from the extensive collection of hyperlinked UN documents that I have generated from my main DataPerfect database.

I had been enthralled with WikiPedia when I stumbled into it just before the Spring Equinox in 2004, and was very active there for a while until some of my "out of the box" ways led to my continually being called on to defend my contributions in response to RfDs.

From there, on the suggestion of one of the few monitors whyo was sympathetic to my efforts, I moved onto WikiBooks, and had a free space there for a while, eventually the monitors caught up with me, and I stepped away, rather than continuing to defend my work, which continued to remain out of the proverbial nine dots.

I did however find a receptive MediaWiki space at Yochai Benkler's site for his highly-acclaimed book, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom http://www.benkler.org/wealth_of_networks/ and was very active there under my nom de famille - Grandpa Ruh.

And then, a little later, after having spent some fruitful months exploring and developing a Moodle site, I wanted to explore Moodle's wiki component, which at that time was primitive, and then read about TiddlyWiki and enthusiastically entered into the wonderful world of TiddlyWiki - soon accompanied by an emerging vision of TiddlyWikiPerfect - see http://www.tiddlywikiperfect.net for some incomplete and occasionally unedited early descriptions of an integration of the genius and versatility of TiddlyWiki and DataPerfect.