But do widely accepted labels like Information Age and knowledge based society adequately describe the global movement that is underway?

Today's debates about growth in Europe are full of buzz words like knowledge based society, technological progress, and investment in education.

The Alaska Native Knowledge Network is developing a school curriculum based on aboriginal knowledge.

The moral society, based on decent self interest, that Thatcher hoped to establish became the greedy society, based on coarse self regard.

The knowledge society to highlight the opportunities that a knowledge society creates for diversity, for strengthening women's position in society and for more equal social relations through initiatives undertaken by the Government itself in these areas.

The digital Society, the Knowledge Economy, and the transition to it

Trust was based on local knowledge fortified by continuous contact.

It is more reassuring and feels better to tell Europeans that growth is sluggish because society is not sufficiently knowledge based, rather than pointing to the trade off between vacations and growth.

(e) Development of a database on e business indicators in developing countries, to be made available, together with other relevant information, on an Internet based knowledge management platform on information society statistics.

1660 Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.

Building a knowledge based economy using oil wealth is clearly possible.

The role of civil society, especially of communities with local knowledge, is crucial.

The Russian Geographical Society (Russian Ру сское географи ческое о бщество РГО ) (RGO) is a learned society based in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

It became clear that politicians often make decisions based on limited knowledge.

The country is well on its way to a knowledge based economy.

The system provides agricultural knowledge and techniques on its web based platforms.

MUNICH By 2010, Europe was to be the most competitive and dynamic knowledge based society in the world. This was the official proclamation in 2000 of the European Commission in the so called Lisbon Agenda.

(f) Indicators concerning civil society, local community participation and traditional knowledge should be included.

That fact casts doubt on Karl Popper s concept of open society, which is based on the recognition that, while perfect knowledge is unattainable, we can gain a better understanding of reality by engaging in critical thinking.

Instead, innovation is increasingly based on mixing and matching knowledge from different specializations.

Petrodollars are Russia s main resource for the development of an information based society.

Knowledge based When computers with large memories became available around 1970, researchers from all three traditions began to build knowledge into AI applications.

It is important to note that these knowledge types could be indicative of any organization, not just those that are knowledge based heavy.

Agencies, especially UNESCO and UNICEF, and Governments should cooperate to promote the intergenerational transmission of indigenous traditional knowledge and traditional knowledge based education.

Our vision is to turn Namibia into a knowledge based, diversified economy by 2030.

UNU has also organized a training workshop on local knowledge based rehabilitation of ecosystems.

Christakis and Fowler claim that society should use the knowledge about social networks in order to create a better society with a more efficient public policy.

In addition, cross cutting strategies of results based management, knowledge management and evaluation address management roles and results based targets for these functions.

They include Governments, community based organizations, civil society organizations, children's groups and international organizations.

Russia needs a breakthrough toward an up to date, knowledge based, and ecologically sustainable economy.

Farmers, for example, might choose crops and growing patterns based on knowledge from earth observations.

Persons belonging to minorities should have adequate opportunities to gain knowledge of the society as a whole

The LINKS project also reinforces the intergenerational transmission of indigenous traditional knowledge, including through the development of pedagogical materials and methods based on traditional knowledge.

Research comprises creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humans, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications.

After Rowbotham's death, Lady Elizabeth Blount, wife of explorer Sir Walter de Sodington Blount, established a Universal Zetetic Society, whose objective was the propagation of knowledge related to Natural Cosmogony in confirmation of the Holy Scriptures, based on practical scientific investigation .

In a knowledge based society where tourism information can be easily shared among all stakeholders, the increasing population of Internet users represents a major incentive for developing countries to organize and develop their tourism offer and its promotion over the Internet.

It is the best way of organizing a society based on reality and not ideals.

The Indian independence movement was a mass based movement that encompassed various sections of society.

Gender based violence is an indicator of the status of women in any given society.

The concept of open society is based on the recognition that nobody possesses the ultimate truth.

Some authors prefer to convey their ideas through a knowledge based article to facilitating the user needs.

(b) Adequate attention will be given to interventions which are based on the refinement of traditional knowledge.

In some countries, government and civil society have better knowledge on gender issues and are more proactive than UNDP.

The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), based in Plainfield, Indiana, USA, is a Muslim umbrella group.

A television documentary series based on the book was produced by the National Geographic Society in 2005.