The report depicts an increasingly competitive environment, one in which the flow of information, knowledge, personnel and investment has become a two-way traffic.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

Knowledge itself is not the one-dimensional commodity that much excitable writing in the past decade has suggested.

ECONOMIST: Predictions about technology

One judge will be in charge, in the hope that he or she will acquire in-depth knowledge of the local community and the people in it.

ECONOMIST: Dispensing justice

Those volunteers will be able to bask in the knowledge that they are helping to create a cheaper and longer-lasting way of dealing with one of the world's biggest killers.

ECONOMIST: Linking up computers to defeat malaria