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A gathering that will move the world- May 9, 2004 to Sep 26, 2004. Meet the forum, come and Participate. A gathering that will move the world. The Forum will be inaugurated on May 9, 2004 (Europe Day) and will run through to September 26, 2004 (the last day of the Festival of La Mercé, Barcelona's patron saint). The inventions that will change the world Inventions 2004 is looking for inventions that will make the world a better place to live in. Indigenous Knowledge Program (The World Bank)The Indigenous Knowledge (IK) Program's website opens a gateway to different sources on IK. It aims to facilitate a multilateral dialogue between local communities, NGOs, governments, donors, civil society and the private sector. The ultimate objective of the website is to help mainstream indigenous knowledge into activities of development partners and to optimize the benefits of development assistance, especially to the poor. From the Rural Village to the Global Village (International Development Research Center)One of the projects under the Acacia Initiative in Senegal, the Village Land Management and Rehabilitation Project seems best to merit the label 'revolutionary'. This is not so much because of the technical resources employed, but because of its target community — rural people — and the effort to bring information and communication technologies within reach of people generally left out by traditional modernization policies. Best Practices on Indigenous Knowledge (Database of Best Practices on Indigenous Knowledge)This database is part of the MOST database of Best Practices, which concentrates on poverty alleviation, but as yet has not touched upon indigenous knowledge. It contains examples of successful projects illustrating the use of this type of knowledge in the development of cost-effective and sustainable survival strategies, covering Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. It also includes a geographical and thematic index and an index of institutions. African Indigenous Science and Knowledge Systems Indigenous Knowledge Pages Best practices in the field of Indigenous Knowledge, illustrations of the use of indigenous knowledge in cost-effective and sustainable survival strategies. Innovation and Technology (World Business Council for Sustainable Development) Information and Communications Technologies for Development(INFO21) The Center for Innovations in Food, Agriculture and Rural Risk Management ELDIS- Institute of Development Studies, Sussex (United Kingdom) Creativity at Work : Dr. Yoshiro Nakamatsu INCUBATORS Lessons from Rural IncubatorsBuilding Rural Communities Through Business Incubators and Partnerships Business Incubator and Business Assistance Bibliography Business Incubator Development Program Development & innovation in Brazil Intellectual Property Rights Future Issues on IPRs in the WTO Related Publications/Papers The Rural Challenge Changing Requirements and Policy Options (Heather E. Hudson, Ph.D., J.D., McLaren School of Business, University of SanFransisco) The Diffusion of
Innovations Model and Outreach from the National Network of Libraries of
Medicine to Native American Communities (Everett M.
Rogers and Karyn L. Scott, Department of Communication and Journalism,
University of New Mexico Rural Development through Entrepreneurship (Keynote paper presented at the Seventh FAO/REU International Rural Development Summer School, Herrsching, Germany, 8-14 September 1994 by T. Petrin, FAO, Regional Office for Europe) |