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

How will it be a knowledge society?

And India wants to be a knowledge society.

The Alaska Native Knowledge Network is developing a school curriculum based on aboriginal knowledge.

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.

(e) Development of a database on e business indicators in developing countries, to be made available, together with other relevant information, on an Internet based knowledge management platform on information society statistics.

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

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

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.

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

But it doesn't have to be formal learning it's not knowledge based.

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

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.

They include Governments, community based organizations, civil society organizations, children's groups and international organizations.

In a knowledge based society where tourism information can be easily shared among all stakeholders, the increasing population of Internet users represents a major incentive for developing countries to organize and develop their tourism offer and its promotion over the Internet.

Agencies, especially UNESCO and UNICEF, and Governments should cooperate to promote the intergenerational transmission of indigenous traditional knowledge and traditional knowledge based education.

UNU has also organized a training workshop on local knowledge based rehabilitation of ecosystems.

In addition, cross cutting strategies of results based management, knowledge management and evaluation address management roles and results based targets for these functions.

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

The LINKS project also reinforces the intergenerational transmission of indigenous traditional knowledge, including through the development of pedagogical materials and methods based on traditional knowledge.

It must also be based upon dialogue and understanding at all levels of society and among nations.

But much of this discussion is merely a form of political correctness. It is more reassuring and feels better to tell Europeans that growth is sluggish because society is not sufficiently knowledge based, rather than pointing to the trade off between vacations and growth.

It is particularly important to address gender based discrimination and inequalities that undermine women's access to opportunities in the emerging knowledge and information society, and that diminish the potential of ICT and the media to be an effective tool for the promotion of gender equality.

The Victorian values that Thatcher sought to foster fell afoul of the unrestrained celebration of material wealth that her rule brought about. The moral society, based on decent self interest, that Thatcher hoped to establish became the greedy society, based on coarse self regard.

And I think these words really nail it It means a society based upon the opinion of civilians.

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

(b) Adequate attention will be given to interventions which are based on the refinement of traditional knowledge.

(v) Providing or improving the legal and administrative framework for non governmental, community based and other civil society organizations

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

Capacity building support capacity building on gender mainstreaming based on lessons learned from applied research and knowledge management.

Session I indigenous perspectives on traditional knowledge based on local and community based experiences, as well as perspectives on policies, planning, processes and programmes at local, national and international levels.

(i) A summary of the status of knowledge of the continental margin, preferably based on a previous desktop study

Cooperation should be strengthened, especially with local authorities, parliamentarians, women, youth, the academic community, civil society organizations and community based organizations.

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

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

Paradoxically, the most successful open society in the world, the US, does not properly understand the first principles of an open society indeed, its current leadership actively disavows them. The concept of open society is based on the recognition that nobody possesses the ultimate truth.

Kazakhstan's goal was a modern, competitive economy in an open, democratic and prosperous society based on the rule of law, wherein the components and traditions of a multinational, multidenominational society could coexist in harmony.

More educational and training opportunities were being provided to enable women to meet the demands of the knowledge based economy.

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.

The BDP practice areas have generated gender mainstreaming documents and toolkits there is an Internet information resource and discussion forum (GenderNet) and a new country based system of knowledge management networks, which will draw on government, civil society and academic expertise, as well as the United Nations system and donors.

All public and private sector efforts in that regard were based on the values of Kuwaiti society and the teachings of Islam.

The Civil Code, particularly the Family Law that safeguards the ideal of a society based on patrilineal family unity, regulates the marriage.

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

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.

It is imperative to raise awareness of the need to move towards a knowledge based economy, as well as of the importance of regional collaboration and partnership in building the information society, building institutional capacity in information and communication technology, enhancing digital Arabic content and developing the information and communication technology sector.