UNIDIR (United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research) has produced a superb checklist approach to the mission of reducing the proliferation of small arms, which kill and maim and orphan tens of millions at a time. The Director of UNIDIR at the time, Dr. Patricia Lewis, was the first UN official in modern times to contemplate the need for a UN-sponosred World Brain. 2003 Lewis (UNIDIR) Creating the Global Brain: The United Nations.
UNIDIR would be well-suited as a model for a United Nations Open Source Decision-Support Information Network (UNODIN); on of the first tasks should be to institutionalize a Strategic Analytic Model and establish the World Brain Institute, and then inventory obstacles, resources, processes, and pathways relevant to orchestrating (harmonizing) global effort to eradicate the ten high-level threats to humanity (one checklist for each, an integrated Global to Local Range of Needs Table for each that leverages the Eight Tribes using only voluntarily shared information.
