But do widely accepted labels like Information Age and knowledge based society adequately describe the global movement that is underway?

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

How will it be a knowledge society?

And India wants to be a knowledge society.

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.

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We should be marching towards a global society.

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

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

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The throwaway society cannot be contained it has gone global.

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The role of civil society, especially of communities with local knowledge, is crucial.

In today's global society, business interests increasingly overlap with development objectives.

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

The institutions of this global society can be created by our endeavors.

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.

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.

We have the means by which we could create a truly global society.

Our 1998 appeal for the convening of the World Summit on the Information Society reflected our resolve to establish a global knowledge society offering everyone equal opportunities for access to the benefits of scientific and technological progress, which would help to narrow the digital and developmental divide between developed and developing countries.

Persons belonging to minorities should have adequate opportunities to gain knowledge of the society as a whole

So the great project of our generation, it seems to me, is to build for the first time, out of a global ethic and our global ability to communicate and organize together, a truly global society, built on that ethic but with institutions that can serve that global society and make for a different future.

Slavery, illegal in every country has been pushed to the edges of our global society.

My Government strongly supports the role of local and global civil society in emergency relief.

Another hope is found in the common global appreciation of the sources of knowledge.

The idea is to use global networks of knowledge and action to identify and demonstrate new, cutting edge approaches to sustainable development around the world. The network will work alongside and support governments, UN agencies, civil society organizations, and the private sector.

He said that there was a greater challenge ahead, the challenge of poverty, of climate change global challenges that needed global solutions and needed the creation of a truly global society.

The global study included a global environmental data and information systems knowledge base, global lessons learned for the design of environmental information systems and a conceptual design document for AGEDI.

In some countries, government and civil society have better knowledge on gender issues and are more proactive than UNDP.

I welcome this milestone in the involvement of civil society in the global governance of development issues.

Tag it. Attribute it. Metadata. Get the community to add local depth, global perspective, local knowledge.

The project focuses mainly on water but it also deals with poverty eradication and the development of a knowledge society.

Similarly, we believe that the state of the global society requires us to look to new means by which global economic and social progress can be attained.

Compulsory student participation would not only improve Wikipedia s already impressive collective knowledge base, but also might help curb the elitist pretensions of researchers in the global knowledge system.

And so we have started a global penguin society to try to focus on the real plight of penguins.

The key factors in this disadvantaged position are an insufficient knowledge of the Dutch language and Dutch society, poor education, and unemployment.

(f) Approach to a global view on telemedicine and e health , by the observer for the International Society for Telemedicine.

The Campaign will now be led by a civil society global steering group, with UNAIDS as a non voting member.

Peace advocates, feminists, and global civil society are voicing this reality more vigorously in the wake of the disastrous tsunamis.

That is the assessment of civil society organizations five years after the Goals' adoption by the global community of nations.

It will take into account emerging knowledge and the voices of civil society to meet the needs of women for today and tomorrow.

We do not have the basis of a proper partnership for the future, and yet, out of people s desire for a global ethic and a global society that can be done.