This is one abstracts, relative to a e-book, conmemorative XXIV Anniversary from Cultural Center for Audio Visual Exchange, Network and Foundation, where argues and repositioning emergent roles for education, childhood and youth in empowerment process, for update local contents and heritages, following examples and good practices, in internalizing humanistic, democratic and creative values, coming from previous generation.

The text remarks the role of edutainment, beginners and amateurs, in e more...

'What is Information Science? What are its boundaries, and its basic building blocks?' This website has been developed by Chaim Zins.

This is a facet of the United Nations website. It has sections on environmental management and on science and technology for development (the latter with subsections on Biotechnology, Gender, science and technology, Information and communication technologies, Millennium development goals and Technology transfer.

'Innovation makes a powerful case for development policies to focus on key sources of economic growth, particularly the use of scientific and technological knowledge and related institutional adjustments. It outlines core areas for policy action, including a focus on platform or generic technologies, defining infrastructure services as foundations for technology, placing universities at the centre of local development and improving science education, spurring entrepreneurial activities, improvi more...

The Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) is a joint endeavour between the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT and the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton. The goal of WSRI is to facilitate and produce the fundamental scientific advances necessary to inform the future design and use of the World Wide Web.

The Initiative seeks to bring together academics, scientists, sociologists, entrepreneurs and decision maker more...

This study by Nicola Jones, Harry Jones and Cora Walsh of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) systematically examines the science-policy interface in developing countries and offers practical strategies and recommendations for strengthening the relationship between scientific knowledge and the policy process.It focuses on three broad questions: What is the patterning of relationships between scientific researchers, policy decision-makers and intermediaries in developing country contexts? Wh more...

The International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology makes this webpage available with descriptions and links to a large number of initiatives that make scientific journals available free to researchers in developing nations.

Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE), an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of environmental science research.

Over 1,300 peer reviewed titles owned and published by over 340 prestigious publishing houses and scholarly societies are now available in more than 100 more...

The AGORA program, set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. AGORA provides a collection of 1278 journals to institutions in 107 countries. AGORA is designed to enhance the scholarship of the many thousands of students, faculty and researchers in agriculture and life sc more...

'The differences between the two regions in their openness to trade, investment, and new ideas could not be more striking, nor could the economic consequences be more stark.' Howard Pack, Issues in Science and Technology, Spring 2008.