It identifies policy recommendations essential for leapfrogging development stages and for evolving knowledge societies.

UNDP seeks to expand its knowledge networks and communities in order to strengthen the knowledge management dimension of the United Nations by developing and implementing an inter agency model for knowledge sharing.

The digital Society, the Knowledge Economy, and the transition to it

The learning society suggests the need for learning companies in which workers use ICTs to access knowledge and information to update their skills.

The publication was timely in terms not only of the advent of a global knowledge society, but also of the Millennium Declaration.

And India wants to be a knowledge society.

Recognizing the important role that open source software could play in the development of ICT, knowledge sharing, bridging the digital divide and the development of a knowledge based society, the Subcommittee requested the secretariat to organize forums or training workshops to create awareness, build technical capacity and share knowledge and experience in open source software.

It will be recalled that in 1998 the Commission published the Knowledge Societies Information Technology for Sustainable Development, which proved to have contributed immensely towards raising awareness of the importance of ICTs in an increasingly global society.

In a knowledge society, that number is now 427 to 1.

How will it be a knowledge society?

Balancing private and social benefits of IPRs

The knowledge society to highlight the opportunities that a knowledge society creates for diversity, for strengthening women's position in society and for more equal social relations through initiatives undertaken by the Government itself in these areas.

It was also noted that the markets for knowledge workers and technology are becoming increasingly international as well.

Knowledge Societies Information Technology for Sustainable Development, edited by Robin Mansell and Uta When for the Commission on Science and Technology for Development, published for and on behalf of the United Nations, Oxford University Press, 1998.

The model will considerably enhance the international community's knowledge of the geological and biological environment of that area.

National capabilities need to be strengthened, and scientific and technical knowledge is playing an important role in ensuring that developing countries and countries in transition are able to benefit socially and economically from ICT innovations.

The expected outcome of the Forum is a Vision Statement on the role of science, technology and innovation in the knowledge society, to be disseminated worldwide and presented at the forthcoming World Summit on the Information Society.

to gain knowledge of the society as a whole

It is fairly safe to predict that learning in a knowledge intensive society will continue at a heightened pace, both at the workplace and outside of it. It will be facilitated through Web based social software, through wikis, blogs, and similar developments as much as through new, open source business models.

(f) Indicators concerning civil society, local community participation and traditional knowledge should be included.

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The shift from material to knowledge based resources opened up vast opportunities for the developing countries to accelerate the pace of development.

And actually, we can use these insights to improve society and improve human well being.

Transcending locality, such communities are defined by common intellectual, social, economic and psychological interests.

There should be a systematic approach to knowledge management on gender mainstreaming.

Creating a Learning Society

This body of knowledge helps pupils become personally and socially self sufficient

Models eventually fade into the background.

For example, the Commission's 1998 publication on Knowledge Societies, which culminated its ground breaking work on ICTs from 1995, was submitted to the UN ICT Task.

The high social costs of transition are felt throughout society.

54. The administering Power stated further that health information was disseminated through social education in the schools.

The Dutch expertise centre for gender and ethnicity at the e quality knowledge centre supported gender mainstreaming with expertise, theme studies, instruments and the distribution of good practices.

The sequel, entitled Evolving Knowledge Societies A Practical Source Book for ICT Development Policies, has been prepared in collaboration with the UN ICT Task Force.

The competency assessments of Resident Representatives and Resident Coordinators should include knowledge of gender.

I think we have an obligation as parents and a society to start teaching our kids to fish instead of giving them the fish the old parable If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day.

Political, economic, psychological and social sciences have given us a broad range of knowledge over the ages.

The programme includes a focus on the knowledge and intellectual property of indigenous women, many of whom live in rural communities.

WIPO pointed out that whether or not to document and or disclose its knowledge was a decision only the community could and should make.

80 indigenous men sharing their expertise, skills and knowledge, and forming networks to enhance their community work

Teach and transmit traditional community values and associated local and indigenous knowledge in basic education.

It implies transferring ideas, as well as know how, skills and lessons learned in the implementation process of an innovation.

The social world differs from the physical world because it is man made and hence almost infinitely malleable. So, unlike the natural sciences, economics advances scientifically not by replacing old models with better ones, but by expanding its library of models, with each shedding light on a different social contingency.

DESIPA frequently draws on UNCTAD s expertise in the areas of trade and investment.

We are talking about an accountable society, a society that is fair and just, and we don't even do justice in the knowledge market.

UNIDO must have the fullest possible capacity to act as a knowledge based organization.