But there's been a surprising twist in the life of the classic book: "A Pattern Language" is becoming a dot-com, one that may serve as a launchpad to build the kind of global constituency Mr. Alexander has always hoped for.
Last year the company launched 10 global constituency groups focused on increasing diversity at Merck.
Falun Gong founder Li Hongzhi has lived in the United States since 1996, and Falun Gong has a sizable global constituency.
This international networking will definitely help build a global constituency which supports sustainability, violence prevention, and empowerment of disadvantaged people by lobbying efforts, initiating educational and media projects.
In that context, the U.N. conferences in Lima and Paris over the next year are best viewed as venues to promote strategies such as Cap & Share and to build a global constituency for a Global Climate Trust.
World Ocean Observatory provides links and proactive services to aquariums, science centers, educational institutions, governmental and non-governmental organizations, and individuals to build public awareness and a global constituency for the ocean.
In all, the children represented 154 countries, forming a truly global constituency.
Contrasting the views of industry are the recommendations of another global constituency with vested interests in the GFATM's design – namely, the health NGO sector.
And it is for that reason, in our 57th year, that UNICEF staff are on the front lines of the battle for child rights, working to build a global constituency dedicated to the proposition that that the well-being of the world's children is everybody's business, from the family and the grassroots to the highest levels of government.
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