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My client is one of many similar United Nations related organizations that share a common purpose. Each organization is managed autonomously. However, there is a need and desire for cross pollination between the bodies for humanitarian purposes.

1. Information pertaining to such organizations should also be publically available with information such as national demographics, departments, relevant contacts and a long, long of other information.

2. Not all information is published as public. Members of such organizations with correct access rights, should however be able to access greater detail on other member organizations.

Can this be done with civiCRM?

Yes. The devil, as they say, is in the details. Lobo's suggestion of using the APIs would solve the problem straight off.

If you want to do it via configuration, you'll want to talk a look at the Access Control system (http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Access+Control).  This allows control at a per contact level... "greater detail" might require control at a per field level depending on your specific requirements.

To get the field level controls, you might look at using the profile/listings functionality to deliver different "views" of contacts to different types of users. (http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Profiles+Admin).