ens.wiki

Welcome
to a human-readable affordance-centric reference on concepts (What?),
in their context¹ (Where?),
in order for everyone (Who?)²,
to support (learning and transformation) journeys (Why?),
in the era of digital interdependence (When?),
by capturing ideas alongside the content of "reference pdfs" (#pdf2wiki) (How?).

1. Some of the content of this and aligned wikis is also available in affordable e-books via LeanPub
2. The tab sections explain in more detail what this means, and what distinguishes this wiki from others.

Material resources (and biological entities) have life cycles during which they participate in the socio-economic interactions of human society[1]. An entity (ens) has a life cycle, during which it exists at each point in time. This is called the continuant property.

For material ens and money, this means they must be at a unique location. Their consumption is rivalrous. Content on the other hand may exist simultaneously at multiple places. Its consumption is non-rivalrous. There are two remarkable cases here:

• #cpc322 - Books, in print are the product of #isic581 - Publishing of books, periodicals and other publishing activities, and offer rivalrous consumption of a resource that via the internet can also be consumed in a non-rivalrous manner. Considering #sdg12 - Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns and the need for a #digicoop1b - Platform for sharing digital public goods that makes Public sphere content accessible in many more languages, online publishing should be preferred over the production of printed matter.
• Digital currencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum: these offer an innovative way of #isic6419 - Other monetary intermediation in which the transferability of the deposits (#cpc7112 - Deposit services) is ensured via networked computers that on the one hand computationally mine the (content) deposits (#isic0899 - Other mining and quarrying n.e.c. ?), and on the other hand support a computational transfer of the content in a process involving all the computational nodes. The rivalrous consumption is ensured in the computational transfer, that together with the mining consumes a lot of #cpc1710 - Electrical energy which may make the monetary intermediation less sustainable than the more conventional forms.

Emission accounting is a Technotope "Capability" that can be used to compare alternatives of service and goods provisioning, and regulate them (for instance as intended by EU Taxonomy work).

Each material entity has an ontogenic life cycle in which it is produced and consumed as part of pico (of individual persons) and micro (of businesses and agencies) journeys. Its position in the Public sphere is typically determined in #cpc91111 - Executive and legislative services that refer to families of goods and services (phylogenic life cycle).

Entities that are mutually exchangeable or non-distinguishable have a collective typogenic life cycle: for instance all cars of type X produced by manufacturer Y (active in #isic2910 - Manufacture of motor vehicles).

A phylogenic life cycle refers to the collective existence of all entities with comparable functions, for instance all cars (#cpc49113 - Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons (except public-transport type)).

The Central Product Classification v. 2.1 constitutes a complete product classification covering goods and services and is supportive to the scoping of #cpc91111 - Executive and legislative services.

Resource management policies and procedures will involve the ontogeny, typogeny and phylogeny of entities.

The ontological characteristics will influence the options for such policies and procedures, especially for what concerns: (i) the use, depletion and discovery of resources; (ii) the stocks and flows of resources; and (iii) technologies required for handling the resource, recycling and substitution.

Each chapter of the dictionary covers a specific category of ens and entelechy.

• Natural order : the natural environment in which humankind dwells. Notable components such as time, land, climate, biotope and person are addressed as well.
• Material: those material resources that humankind exchanges with the natural environment.
• Social Order: institutional arrangements and socio-cultural actor networks that humankind has evolved to govern relationships and interactions, mutually and with the natural order.
• Produced Assets: non-financial and non-content assets that have come into existence as outputs from production processes. Produced assets consist of fixed assets, inventories and valuables.
• Content: non-tangible resources such as those that could be protected by Intellectual Property Rights, authored works (in the public domain), data, etc
• Techno Order: institutional arrangements and actor networks that are related to constellations and interactions involving complex produced assets, complex content collections, and multiple institutional arrangements.

While the ens (or entities, things) are covered in this dictionary, the entelechy proceeds by interactions in Biotope, Sociotope or Technotope:

• Physical, chemical and bio-physical interactions in the Natural Order. These are studied in dedicated sciences and are not specifically addressed in the wikiworx platform.
• Socio-technical interactions in the Social Order and in the Techno Order. Patterns for these interactions are included in the Interaction Dictionary.

The fundamental properties of entities have implications for how to involve them in planning and change. Below table illustrates some differences that are elaborated in the related chapters.

Social architecture, explaining journeys and their interdependence in a context which is also aware of:

• Sustainable development goals (#SDGs)
• Languages and the countries where they are used
• ISIC, the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Rev.4
• Central Product Classification (CPC) Version 2.1
• Classification of the Functions of Government (COFOG)
• The Declaration of Digital Interdependence - #digicoop
• the European Interoperability Framework and the European Interoperability Reference Architecture (EIRA©)
• Competence goals for basic skills
• European e-Competence Framework 3.0. (CWA 16234), ICT professional profiles (CWA 16458) and typical Deliverables of ICT professional profiles.
• ArchiMate Framework
• EU Taxonomy

• #election_lgu with example US congressional hashtags
• Techno Order and Technotope
• Social architecture
• the chapters listed under tab #pdf2wiki for interdependent journeys?

The wisdom conveyed by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) in The Elephant’s Child³:

I Keep six honest serving-men:
(They taught me all I knew)
Their names are What and Where and When
And How and Why and Who.
I send them over land and sea,
I send them east and west;
But after they have worked for me,
I give them all a rest.
…
But different folk have different views:
I know a person small—
She keeps ten million serving-men,
Who get no rest at all!
She sends 'em abroad on her own affairs,
From the second she opens her eyes—
One million Hows, two million Wheres,
And seven million Whys!

Other chapters: method & reference
Dictionary chapters: natural order material social order produced assets content techno order