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Conference services in the field of "improving local and international knowledge base on issues of global concerns by building new kinds of knowledge communities that cut horizontally across legacy knowledge structures characterized by vertical separations-of discipline, professional association, institution and country, innovative in their messages and their media" namely, arranging and conducting of international conferences on selected topics involving a wide range of local and international educational institutions (academics) and community leaders, organizing topics, speakers and presentations on selected topics; services in relation to conference management systems, namely, receiving and handling proposals, registrations and programs-and also for publishing conference presentation content; organizing ways for talking and discussion of conference topics, namely, plenary session presentations by some of the world's leading thinkers followed by 'garden conversation' sessions, thirty-minute paper sessions which provide participants the opportunity to make a formal fifteen-minute presentation on their intellectual work, be that research, theory, practice or aesthetic work, followed by fifteen minutes of audience interaction, sixty-minute workshop sessions which involve extensive interaction between a presenter and participants around an idea or hands-on experience of a practice, and ninety-minute colloquium sessions which consist of five or more short presentations with audience interaction; services in relation to arranging virtual participation of conferences so that conferences do not exclude people who cannot afford to travel or who are unable to travel at the time of the conference; providing formal knowledge-making processes, namely, formalizing a journal process taking into account of presentation proposal to presentation and audience feedback to submission and peer refereeing; services in relation to academic knowledge creation and scholarly publication, namely, arranging peer review performed on a merit-based 'double-blind' peer review process, editing, developing a low-cost commercial approach to academic publishing; on-line publication of journals and books, every article having its own page and every author has their own self-maintainable website, which includes any articles and books, a blog, and places to paste their bionote, photo and CV; services in relation to publishing workflow engine, namely, providing proprietary publishing workflow engine which allows publishers to design and manage publishing processes, including peer review; services in relation to developing, comparing and publishing formal knowledge systems as Semantic Web ontologies, and software integration; services in relation to providing online authoring and word processing tools focusing on key functions of knowledge research and academic publishing, namely, citation management and type setting, peer-to-peer collaboration and variable outputs for web, print and word processing environments; online production and distribution of knowledge, namely, so that academic publishing gains the immediacy, speed and accessibility of the web while maintaining the intellectual standards of legacy peer refereed journals; services in relation to development of agenda, creating cutting edge 'social web' technologies and exploring new relationships of knowledge validation