The notion of the knowledge society is hardly new, nor is its meaning wholly clear.
First, the evolution from an agricultural society to a knowledge society brings out a grim tendency to judge young people harshly.
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Media and information literacy (MIL) empowers citizens with skills to become the centre of the knowledge society and the democratic, development and good governance processes.
Through dialogue, compromise and cooperation, the conference can help lead us towards a knowledge society in which people everywhere, whatever their circumstances, can access, use, share and create data in an affordable and secure manner.
Protection Patents are temporary monopolies, designed to reward the inventor for contributing to the collective knowledge of society.
The prize rewards up to three candidates that have made an outstanding contribution to the development of knowledge and society through art, teaching and research in the social sciences and humanities.
In part, this is because regardless how smart politicians and bureaucrats might be, they have only a miniscule fraction of the total knowledge in a society.
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Under capitalism power flows to precisely the people who are willing to stake their money not on gambles or sure things but on testable hypotheses, thus generating knowledge and wealth for society.
The aim is to establish a platform for scientists and information technology experts and improve cooperation between researchers, governments, policy-makers and civil society to produce the knowledge and technology needed to build sustainable, green societies.
The Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development provided a platform to strengthen dialogue between researchers, governments, policy-makers and civil society to produce the knowledge and technology needed to build sustainable, green societies.
Science needs to renew its contract with society, enhancing collaboration between scientists, governments, policy-makers and civil society to produce the knowledge, solutions and technologies that are needed to build the future green societies in a time of rapid environmental and social change.
The car is a status symbol in a society where success depends on knowledge, and the ad panders to the presumption that its viewers will have the knowledge to understand it.
On 3 December, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, UNESCO is organizing an event to present its actions in ensuring access to quality education, information and knowledge as well as showing how civil society can advance the rights of people with disabilities.
In 1660, the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge was founded by Royal Charter of King Charles the Second.
Citizenship provides young people with the skills, knowledge and understanding to actively participate in our society at local, national and international levels.
World Information Society Day, celebrated on 17 May, reaffirms the strong commitment made at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) to build inclusive knowledge societies.
The ANII is an important partner in scientific and technological cooperation for sustainable human development in Uruguay, focused on moving towards a learning society and to an economy based on knowledge and motorized by innovation.
They also aim at building up a critical mass of experience and knowledge, both in government institutions and in civil society, so that the beneficiary countries will be equipped with an appropriate sustainable framework for safeguarding intangible heritage and implementing the Convention on a long term basis.
Although nutritionists are often a little sniffy about dietary supplements, pointing out instead how important it is to eat the right food in the first place, there are corners of society in which people lack either the knowledge or the means to do so, or simply choose to eat poorly.
Hard to see how that form of knowledge would equip anyone for life in a modern technological society.
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"I wanted to give back to give to the society I came from some fruit of the knowledge I learned in the U.S., " says the 52-year-old inventor.
To my knowledge neither the government, the lending industry nor we as a society have done anything that promises to prevent this.
It is a real question whether it benefits or harms society for a commercial entity to control access to basic knowledge and potentially limit its redistribution.
The philosophy behind it is called anthroposophy, "a source of spiritual knowledge and a practice of inner development, " according to The Anthroposophical Society in America.
Without the skills to participate in a literate, technological world and the knowledge to transform their environment, people will remain on the margins of society, and society itself will lose their potential contributions.
The UK Royal Society's journal Philosophical Transactions A outlines the current state of knowledge of the puzzling phenomenon.
The MPs, who received administration and funding support from the Alzheimer's Society during the inquiry, said the social care workforce had a limited knowledge of the condition.
Civil society and governments are coming together as never before to promote liberty, share knowledge, and protect human dignity.
The debate was sponsored by the American Society of International Lawyers and the United Nations Association and represented, to my knowledge, the first time the proposition had been squarely joined in a public setting .
This research must integrate across existing research programmes and disciplines, across all domains of research, across the North and South, include local knowledge systems, and be co-designed and implemented with input from governments, civil society, research funders and the private sector.
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