There are serious limits to our knowledge and to our capacity to utilize that knowledge in productive ways.
In addition to financial resources, extractive companies could provide knowledge and technical capacity while at the same time gaining insight into new and potentially profitable feedstocks.
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The documents recognize the importance of the role libraries play in building appropriate information infrastructure, in ensuring access to information and knowledge, in capacity building and in preserving cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content.
Conducted over several months, including all relevant sectors and accompanied by a number of open forums focused on FOI, the research process will result in a publication contributing to advocacy, knowledge sharing and capacity building on freedom of information.
The STAR programme is therefore designed to provide virtual and face-to-face training services and technical assistance to Adult Basic Education (ABE) instructors or teachers in order to enhance their knowledge about and capacity to effectively use evidence-based reading instruction strategies or practices to teach and assist adult learners to improve their reading skills.
The report emphasises the huge disparities in research capacities across countries and the fragmentation of knowledge that hamper the capacity of the social sciences to respond to the challenges of today and tomorrow.
Pilar Alvarez-Laso, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences, stressed in her opening words that the idea of sustainable development depends on the availability of a knowledge base and the capacity to make use of it.
This will require improvements in the capacity, knowledge, communication and networking available to enhance the flow and quality of information available for informed decision-making on the status of coastal resources, and their effective management in light of climate change impacts.
Those scientists honored to join the Qanats Club will be given a certificate and formally become members of the Club through certificates endorsed by UNESCO and ICQHS. The members of the club will be long-term partners of ICQHS to further pursue its mandate in advancing the knowledge of Qanats and capacity-building for the Qanats know-how.
Business participation is critical, because companies bring innovative capacity and intimate knowledge of the industry.
The human mind is more expandable than an attic, but there is this finite capacity for working knowledge.
The Chair, to be held by Professor Veerabhadran Ramanathan, will build capacity and share knowledge to develop solutions for climate mitigation and adaptation.
During the High-Level Forum, she participated in sessions on education, capacity development and knowledge sharing, and the impact of internationally agreed norms, goals and standards on aid effectiveness.
Their collective knowledge of the skill level and capacity of each NFL player could put many NFL Directors of Pro Personnel to shame.
OERs provide member states with a strong opportunity to increase the quality and access to education and facilitates knowledge sharing, dialogue, and capacity building.
"Although the FBI is legally forbidden from monitoring the communications of citizens who are not targets under Carnivore, the mere knowledge that government agents have the technical capacity to read e-mail messages will greatly increase the uncertainty of innocent citizens, " argued Dr. Jeffrey Rosen, a law professor at Georgetown University.
Discussions focused on successful capacity-building efforts and on strengthening knowledge exchange and good practices, as well as increased transnational efforts for the safeguarding of shared heritage amongst the participating countries.
The UK National Commission for UNESCO (UKNC) draws on this knowledge to promote environmental science, help build scientific capacity in developing countries, improve access to scientific information globally and encourage gender equity in science.
An integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for symbolic thought and social learning.
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They can afford to equip their tinkerers and visionaries with the most advanced materials, instruments, and knowledge, and the result has often been a superior capacity for innovation.
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And we've agreed on the goal, and that is that Iran should not have a nuclear weapon, the capacity to make a nuclear weapon, or the knowledge as to how to make a nuclear weapon.
If your universities, if your system of higher education migrates toward applied knowledge, away from the production of basic knowledge, it may therefore hurt your overall economy in terms of its capacity to generate the people and the talent you need for broad based problem solving and innovation regardless of its specific applications.
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These programmes are directed towards the acquisition of knowledge that will lead to quality of life improvements and the development of vocational capacity.
Reading made possible the intimate knowledge of the Bible thought necessary to salvation, which every Christian had both the capacity and the obligation to seek.
As digital media has become the main means of recording and transmitting knowledge today, The Memory of the World Programme is committed to raising awareness and building capacity to address issues affecting digitization and digital continuity while developing digital preservation strategies that are sustainable and globally applicable.
"Endowed with significant creative capacity and a large consumer base, India and China are rapidly reshaping the global knowledge economy of tomorrow, " Jaideep Prabhu, Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise at the school, said in a statement announcing the event.
Starting in early 2013, the four-year initiative will focus on enhancing teacher education systems in eight countries so as to train an adequate number of qualified teachers to achieve EFA. Project activities will boost national capacity in ministries and key teacher training institutions, staff skills and competencies and supporting resources such as a knowledge base, with ICT as a major component.
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