Today, however, applied science is also useful knowledge for the modern world.

Microsoft will no longer dominate control over the diffusion of knowledge in the world.

Together, we can all help transform the way the world develops, disseminates, and uses knowledge.

This was particularly important as the world moved into what we call the knowledge economy.

United Nations libraries will continue to serve as rich sources of knowledge for the world.

Those children had candidly expressed their thoughts, feelings, experiences, and knowledge of the world they lived in.

The Research and Analysis Section is responsible for expanding knowledge on drugs and crime in the world.

Indigenous organizations emphasized the sacred nature of traditional knowledge and its important contribution to the knowledge of humankind, especially in certain areas of the world, where parts of the population depended on traditional knowledge for medical needs and food supply.

We should, in fact, because without having this possibility of conscious minds, we would have no knowledge whatsoever about our humanity we would have no knowledge whatsoever about the world.

To enhance dialogue with holders of traditional knowledge, scientists are asked to acknowledge that all knowledge systems have historical and cultural foundations and that scientists possess their own specific world views.

Storytelling plays an important role in cultures around the world, helping to pass knowledge from generation to generation.

New information about the world was discovered via empirical observation, versus the historic use of reason and innate knowledge.

Many New World monkeys are small and almost all are arboreal, so knowledge of them is less comprehensive than that of the more easily observed Old World monkeys.

For the first time in history, we have the knowledge, the technology, and the wealth to design a different world.

Does he have any knowledge of the world beyond the ken of sense perception , and therefore , clearly sees ( the Truth ) ?

Does he have any knowledge of the world beyond the ken of sense perception , and therefore , clearly sees ( the Truth ) ?

So an entire philosophy, a body of knowledge about the natural world that had been empirically gleaned over centuries, goes away.

Yet, in America and most of the world, drug prices are still exorbitant and the spread of knowledge is tightly limited.

At least? America has had a knowledge based economy and one of the highest living standards in the world for decades.

Such an ethic is abhorrent in today s world, where knowledge is parceled out to academic disciplines like bits of real estate.

The World Intellectual Property Organization has an ongoing programme addressing traditional knowledge and genetic resources. The programme includes a focus on the knowledge and intellectual property of indigenous women, many of whom live in rural communities.

Americans knowledge of what happens abroad is limited, and often reduced to a cartoon strip view of the rest of the world.

Indeed, according to King, Young economists arrive in the financial world with little or no knowledge of how the financial system operates.

The organization HODS (Halachic Organ Donor Society) is working to increase knowledge and participation in organ donation among Jews throughout the world.

Several speakers noted the valuable contribution made by UNODC to enhancing knowledge of the world situation with regard to illicit drug production.

There is an enormous amount of road safety activity around the world and a great deal of accumulated knowledge to draw upon.

Several speakers noted the valuable contribution made by UNODC to enhancing knowledge of the world situation with regard to illicit drug production.

Recently, some developing country firms have also initiated research and development (R D) activities abroad, notably to tap knowledge centres around the world.

Challenges in Knowledge Sharing Knowledge sharing can sometimes constitute a major challenge in the field of knowledge management.

Seven thousand languages are spoken all over the world, and taken together, they comprise the largest collection of human knowledge that has ever existed.

Bernanke s deep knowledge of the Great Depression and of financial crises is exactly what America and the world needs in a Fed chair now.

Member of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST), since 2002.

For Pascal, scientific knowledge paled beside the knowledge of God.

The idea is to use global networks of knowledge and action to identify and demonstrate new, cutting edge approaches to sustainable development around the world.

To acquire an insight into how people from other cultures perceive the world, what is required is knowledge of how they live and experience life.

The IPCC has managed the remarkable feat of creating one of the most comprehensive reserves of scientific knowledge on any aspect of the physical world.

The term was also used to describe the health practices of aborigines in different parts of the world, with particular emphasis on their ethnobotanical knowledge.

Increased scientific research and the use of traditional forest related knowledge of medicinal plants could greatly improve human health in many parts of the world.

As well as enriching fundamental knowledge of the universe, space science and technology could also guide humanity towards a deeper understanding of its own world.

New knowledge

Traditional knowledge

The Role of IT Systems in Knowledge Sharing IT systems are common tools that help facilitate knowledge sharing and knowledge management.

It needs to be used, needs to be applied, needs to be shown to the world outside that these knowledge and skills are relevant even today.

Our knowledge and understanding of the rest of the world continues to deteriorate on many counts, we lack any system of foreign policy planning and forecasting.

An estimated 220 million women in the developing world say that they want to prevent pregnancy, but lack either knowledge of, or access to, effective contraception.