She has made closing the Middle East's "knowledge divide" -- the gap in knowledge that has grown as a result of people in richer countries having more access to computers, the Internet and education than those in poorer countries -- a top priority over the next few years in the hope that it will unlock the economic potential of the region's population.
In the same way, for the same reasons, the Internet will lead the way in education.
Chinese universities are, however, establishing partnerships with leading U.S. and European universities and will increasingly use the Internet to achieve parity in education worldwide.
And while the U.S. received high honors in some areas--first, for instance, in research collaboration between businesses and universities and third in number of patents per capita--it ranked 48th in science and math education, 53rd in the burden of government regulation and 23rd in Internet bandwidth.
The Internet dug its roots in the fertile soil of higher education, and as it grew, it changed college life forever.
Alex Tabarrok points out that this fills in the last gap in the new business model needed for the internet to revolutionise education.
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In fact, his articles have become a sort of faculty-ownership manifesto -- distributed widely over the Internet and cited in coverage from the Atlantic Monthly to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
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For the first time at UNESCO, the meeting will bring together more than fifty international experts working in such areas as linguistics, anthropology, education, media and Internet.
Undeterred, social entrepreneurs will drive access to clean water, education, electricity and the internet for tens of millions of people living in poverty in 2013, continuing a process of both lifting people out of poverty and creating new customers for an infinite number of consumer goods.
Here the fault is the education, not the internet, which needs to be given a much bigger role in classrooms (real and virtual).
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We have sophisticated services and knowledge-based businesses that can be delivered remotely over the Internet to meet needs all over the world, especially in health, engineering, management consulting and education.
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Governments should also encourage investment in knowledge-supporting infrastructure, which ranges from smart electricity grids and broadband internet networks to basic research and university education.
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