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Access to the Actor Atlas and development dashboards will remain free. Donations to support their further development are accepted and will be acknowledged at the pages requested by the donors.

Country-specific development dashboards will provide a localized and actionable view on the wealth of information systematized in the Actor Atlas.

Soon first-mover on-line training courses will be offered for a reasonable fee. As the course content will be published as a wiki and the delivery will be supported via a private Google+ community, you could already put a first step:

• Create a Google+ account,
• In Google+, put these pages in one of your circles: Actor Atlas and the pages of the development dashboards that interest you: Belgium development dashboard, Maroc - développement, , Nepal development dashboard, Philippines development dashboard, Tanzania development dashboard
• Join the public Google+ communities: Wikiworx User Group and/or Smart Content

and a second step:

• Create a free Wikidot account via Wikidot's Create a new account screen, and activate it from the confirmation email. Remember your name (or alias) as you must provide it when applying for membership of any of the wikis owned by Wikinetix.
• In Wikidot.com apply for membership to the development dashboard of the country that interests you.

The knowledge that development blends and yields is plentiful, dynamic and ordered.

Each Actor Atlas and development dashboard page (content chunk) is composed, linked and placed in a smart manner that is language-independent and ubiquitously applicable.

Consider a printed dictionary and the facility the alphabetic order offers to quickly find and uniquely place any word in it. Now apply this technique in a wiki, for content chunks instantiating values along multiple ordering dimensions.

When navigating the Actor Atlas you will discover that its content can grow and be adapted without adding complexity and hurdles. While the content curating effort is ongoing, you can indicate priorities and ensure that your interests are covered early.

The Actor Atlas content curators are leading a new curating movement. Your subscription fees are used to accelerate the curating activity, especially for the benefit of developing countries.

These are some of the dimensions of variation addressed in the Actor Atlas:

• The sectors of industry, as codified by the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Rev.4 (ISIC), and represented by sector maps from A - Agriculture, forestry and fishing, over C - Manufacturing, to U - Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies.
• The functions of government, as codified by the Classification of the Functions of Government (COFOG), and represented by government function maps from 01-General Public Services to 10-Social Protection.
• Treaties, regulations, and their coherence and scope (ref. COFOG) as represented in Country Statute Books or a treaty overview.
• International or national development initiatives grouped by COFOG Division in Country Initiative Books, International Initiatives or UN Initiatives.
• Country, international or sectoral actors (parties, stakeholders), grouped by COFOG Division in Country Actor Maps, United Nations or Global Actors.

Read more on the utility of these dimensions in the Actor Atlas blog.

Learning & Innovation supported by the Actor Atlas and the development dashboards becomes inclusive as:

• all content (except the training materials) is open access;
• the included structures and information can be navigated in multiple languages;
• training materials are structured in accordance with the level of civic participation skills;
• for basic participation skill levels, and as local partners manage the translation, training materials will be offered also in the local languages;
• once learned for one area of learning, the information structuring patterns can be reused in all other areas of learning, in the same way as the alphabet is used for ordering the words irrespective of the disciplines or locations in which these words are used;
• the Actor Atlas provides authentic and coherent facts on actors, their claims — including initiatives —, and resources — including standards and statutes —, in sectors and countries;
• the coverage of the global to local socio-technical fabric, with controlled nesting and variation to offer a single place (content chunk) for any piece of information, and avoid any unwanted duplication; and
• the avoidance, via a smart use of Google+ communities, circles and pages, of unwanted notifications (often sent by email) alongside the possibility to subscribe to changes at each page that interest you.