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.
She said Sesame was "a modern technology which will help people around the Middle East to develop and improve their knowledge".
But when it comes middle management, disillusioned with theory but still thirsty for knowledge, guidance and the support of a peer network, it could provide the reengagement and revitalisation the corporate world so badly needs.
And to understand how this learning process operates, it is useful to look at the greatest system ever invented for the training of skills and the achievement of tacit knowledge the apprenticeship system of the Middle Ages.
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Is there anything more pitiful than two middle-age people who claw ceaselessly at one another to distract themselves from the terrible knowledge that neither one of them got what they wanted out of life?
Or is it that macroeconomic policy has not allowed the creation of enough jobs for all, especially at the bottom of the ladder, leading to middle class anxiety which, combined with signaling effects, licensing regulation and what might be termed the Knowledge Economy Ideology, has created a credential arms race?
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And I promised President Obama the renewed intention of Italy to provide not only the necessary resources and women and men for these tasks, but also the knowledge and expertise that Italy may have, as regards particularly some countries in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern region, due to geographic and historical links.
The "computational knowledge engine", as the technology is known, will be available to the public from the middle of May this year.
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