If you haven't found it, the report is available at
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001418/141843e.pdf
At 09:06 AM 11/4/2005, you wrote:
From the United Nations... I haven't found the
actual report yet, though. The link in the
press release leads to another press release,
and the link to the report there appears to be dead. -ac
'Knowledge divide' must be narrowed through education UNESCO
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=16455&Cr=information&Cr1=summit
3 November 2005 With 90 per cent of all
Internet users living in developed countries,
governments must narrow the gap between North
and South by expanding quality education for
all, increasing community access to information
and communication technology, and sharing
scientific knowledge across borders, a United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO) report released today says.
The report, "Towards Knowledge Societies,"
launched today on the eve of the World Summit
on the Information Society (WSIS), analyses the
increasingly important role played by knowledge
in economic growth and advances that it can
serve as a new springboard for development in the countries of the South.
"Those countries and communities that don't
recognize this huge reliance on knowledge as a
driving force will be left behind," Elizabeth
Longworth, Director of UNESCO's Information
Society Division, told a press conference at UN Headquarters in New York.
She added that those countries and communities
that recognize the importance of cognitive
skills and make the resulting investment in
education, lifelong learning and cultural
facilities and in their research and innovation systems will prosper.
Knowledge societies contribute to the
well-being of individuals and communities, and
encompass social, ethical and political
dimensions while information societies are
based on technological breakthroughs that risk
providing little more than "a mass of
indistinct data" for those who don't have the
skills to benefit from it, according to the report.
An example of a successful "knowledge society"
is Singapore, which started out as a developing
country of shantytowns at independence and
achieved economic growth rates that surpass
those of most industrialized nations in just
four decades by promoting education and creativity.
The work is the first in a new series of
UNESCO reports, to be published every two
years, focusing on subjects at the heart of the
Organization's mission such as cultural diversity and sustainable development.
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