To access and display a PDF File of the original messages relating to the foundation of the Global Dialog International Association, click on the link below. File size 780KB.

The foundation of the Global Dialog Association signalled the end of the restrictions on international communications which up till then had been imposed in the name of security. By bypassing the bottlenecks and barriers which existed due to the block on the export of (e.g.) dynamic routers for packet-switched networks, the maintenance of electronic isolation was rendered progressively more unrealistic and finally impossible.

Global Dialog installed GeoNet servers in Moscow and Kemerovo (Siberia) with gateways to the various Western networks. In due course the proto-internet which had been growing in the West acquired its title of The Internet and was extended as the Berlin Wall came down. There was not much use for the wall once people could learn from their new electronic contacts how to get round, rather than over it.The Cold War was forced to an end, causing redeployment if not unemployment of all those who had valiantly if misguidedly tried to keep it going past its sell-by date.

Dialog(ue) having become global, the Global Dialog International Association was no longer required, since its membership would have had to include all users of the Internet and the World Wide Web.

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS PDF File of the PROPOSAL and the FINAL PROTOCOL of the GLOBAL DIALOG INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION - YEAR 1989.
(FULL CONSTITUTION AND STATUTES WERE DRAWN UP LATER IN PARIS)

A principal aim of Global Dialog was to discuss such matters as Global Warming and these days we can see how important it was to get the benefit of Russian thinking on this
http://www.inenco.org/index_publication.html
and American
http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/~schlesin/cv.pdf

The Greenhouse Glasnost Teleconference referred to in
http://ecolecon.missouri.edu/globalresearch/chapters/2-10.html

The Global Dialog continues, I am glad to say, in 2011.
“The arms race is a thing of the past,” the chairman of the international affairs committee in the Russian senate, Mikhail Margelov, told Radio Russia on Monday. “The disarmament race is taking its place.”