Vital Links for a Knowledge Culture

Vital Links for a Knowledge Culture
Author: Liss Jeffrey
Publisher: Council of Europe
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789287146212

Citizenship and cultural participation in the 21st century will increasingly require access to new information technologies, and those lacking access will risk social exclusion. This book considers the issues involved in developing a policy framework to close the access gap, in order to maximise the potential for human and cultural development. It contains a number of essays that adopt historical, statistical, theoretical, and descriptive methods to investigate the value of the internet for societies, citizens and communities. It considers how government policy makers and their partners in the corporate and civil society sectors can help foster full participation in the development of a knowledge society.

Managing the Knowledge Culture

Managing the Knowledge Culture
Author: Philip Robert Harris
Publisher: Human Resource Development
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780874258592

Managing the Knowledge Culture expertly explores how to overcome one of the biggest challenges 21st century leaders and their followers face functioning effectively in a knowledge culture. The thoroughly up-to-date book will deepen your understanding of the knowledge culture and its management and clearly detail the changing roles. For human resource professionals or managers who wants to be on the leading-edge of knowledge management, this realistic resource is a must.

eCulture

eCulture
Author: Alfredo M. Ronchi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2009-03-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3540752765

Do virtual museums really provide added value to end-users, or do they just contribute to the abundance of images? Does the World Wide Web save endangered cultural heritage, or does it foster a society with less variety? These and other related questions are raised and answered in this book, the result of a long path across the digital heritage landscape. It provides a comprehensive view on issues and achievements in digital collections and cultural content.

Highway to Democr@cy

Highway to Democr@cy
Author: Kate Oakley
Publisher: Council of Europe
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9287151377

The developments in information and communications technologies (ICT) have had significant effects on many aspects of modern society. This publication adopts a holistic approach to discuss diverse and opposing current opinions on the role of ICT in the fields of employment, economic growth, the media, education, science and technology, law and culture, as well as in new areas such as e-voting and e-governance.

Communication Technology

Communication Technology
Author: Darin Barney
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0774840773

When the Internet began to emerge as a popular new mode of communication, many political scientists and social commentators believed that it would revolutionize our democratic institutions. Today, voter turnout is at an historic low and Internet usage is at an all-time high. Can we still make the claim that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) enhance democratic life in Canada? What effect does the technological mediation of political communication have on the practice of Canadian politics? How have such technologies affected the distribution of power in society?

Wealth Creation and Poverty Reduction: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice

Wealth Creation and Poverty Reduction: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice
Author: Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 991
Release: 2019-12-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1799812081

One of the major tools of attaining proper development all around the world is creating wealth and economic inclusion, such that all classes of people can secure their lifestyles through access to financial services from formal sectors. Expanding access to resources and increasing self-employment opportunities help reduce poverty and improve social development. Wealth Creation and Poverty Reduction: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice examines trends, challenges, issues, and strategies related to the creation of livelihood options through the redistribution of resources, foreign aid, private sector activities, and other methods. Highlighting a range of topics such as microfinance, poverty alleviation, and socio-economic development, this publication is an ideal reference source for government officials, policymakers, executives, economists, analysts, researchers, academicians, professionals, and students interested in wealth creation in areas of extreme poverty.

Media Divides

Media Divides
Author: Marc Raboy
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2010-04-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 077485930X

Media Divides offers a comprehensive democratic audit of communications law and policy. Using the concept of communications rights as a framework for analysis in five key domains – media, access, the Internet, privacy, and copyright – leading analysts reveal that Canada’s failure to respond adequately to a host of pressures and developments has left its citizens with unequal access to the nation’s communications system and the freedom of expression it promises. Media Divides not only offers the first up-to-date account of the democratic deficits in Canada’s communications policy, it formulates recommendations – including the establishment of a Canadian right to communicate – for the future.

Building Knowledge Cultures

Building Knowledge Cultures
Author: Michael A. Peters
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780742517912

The book discusses the notion of knowledge cultures in relation to claims for the new economy and the 'communicative turn', as well as cultural economy and the politics of postmodernity. It focuses on national policy constructions of the knowledge economy, 'fast knowledge' and the role of the so-called 'new pedagogy' and social learning under these conditions to argue for knowledge networks as development possibilities in educational policy futures.

Women's Food Matters

Women's Food Matters
Author: Vicki A. Swinbank
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2021-04-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030703967

Women have always been inextricably linked to food, especially in its production and preparation. This link, which applies cross-culturally, has seldom been fully acknowledged or celebrated. The role of women in this is usually taken for granted and therefore often rendered unimportant or invisible. This book presents a wide-ranging, interdiscplinary and comprehensive feminist analysis of women’s central role in many aspects of the world’s food systems and cultures. This central role is examined through a range of lenses, namely cross-cultural, intergenerational, and socially diverse.