C. Capacity development and knowledge building

Platform three fostering the sharing of Southern development knowledge and solutions

(2004), Issues Note on ICT as an Enabler for Growth, Development and Competitiveness (UNCTAD XI), Partnership for Development Information and Knowledge for Development, TD 394.

The pivotal role of scientific knowledge and technology for economic development cannot be overstated.

It identifies policy recommendations essential for leapfrogging development stages and for evolving knowledge societies.

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.

(d) Enhanced awareness, knowledge and understanding of all human rights, including the right to development

(c) Enhanced awareness, knowledge and understanding of all human rights, including the right to development.

(d) Enhanced awareness, knowledge and understanding of all human rights, including the right to development

(c) Enhanced awareness, knowledge and understanding of all human rights, including the right to development.

Increased knowledge of age specific milestones allows parents and others to keep track of appropriate development.

With national focal points in 14 countries, the Network facilitates knowledge sharing, technology development and technology transfer, and promotes the development of biotechnology industries.

The strategy of ECA emphasizes its role as a hub of knowledge and excellence for Africa's development.

Research and development, the development of knowledge based sectors around commonly agreed objectives and continual attention to capacity building and education were vital in that regard.

The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network is a powerful effort to mobilize global knowledge to save the planet.

United Nations agencies and intergovernmental organizations should provide further support for incorporation of indigenous traditional knowledge into curriculum development.

The work is heavily dependent on intertwining the knowledge bases of the security, conflict prevention, development and anthropological disciplines.

They utilize their expertise and knowledge to promote education in sustainable development, raise awareness of social, economic and environmental issues and monitor progress towards the implementation of sustainable development.

No other institution can fulfill the Bank s formidable potential as a center of knowledge and a coordinator of development policies.

Knowledge on how to achieve the Millennium Development Goals exists, but it is often fragmented and spread among several countries.

The project focuses mainly on water but it also deals with poverty eradication and the development of a knowledge society.

Underscoring the role that traditional knowledge can play in technological development, and in the sustainable management and use of natural resources,

Underscoring the role that traditional knowledge can play in technological development and in the sustainable management and use of natural resources,

Recent research at Harvard University s Center for International Development (CID) suggests that tacit knowledge flows through amazingly slow and narrow channels.

Today industrialization is not driven by resource endowments alone, but by technology, knowledge, skills, information, innovation, research and development, and networking.

The development of such technology should take account of the need to guarantee people more democratic access to knowledge and information.

The programme will operate through advocacy, tools development and knowledge management, as well as direct capacity building at the local level.

The UNMISET military component continued to assist the development of the Timorese defence force through its skills and knowledge transfer programme.

Accordingly the global demand for nuclear knowledge and materials, including the programs for development of fuel cycle facilities are growing rapidly.

ICT co operation and capacity building Non destructive facilities Innovation hubs Knowledge sharing and research programmes Scientific Co operation between Universities and research institutions Exchange knowledge on Geological mapping standards Indigenous knowledge systems Funding of research and development institutions Commercialisation of research results and management of research institutions

The global programme is managed by the Bureau for Development Policy (BDP) of UNDP, which contributes to the UNDP goal of becoming a globally networked, knowledge based organization, connecting countries to knowledge, experience, technology and resources.

The Access to Knowledge (A2K) movement is a loose collection of civil society groups, governments, and individuals converging on the idea that access to knowledge should be linked to fundamental principles of justice, freedom, and economic development.

Recognizing that respect for indigenous knowledge, cultures and traditional practices contributes to sustainable and equitable development and proper management of the environment,

The food imports to Cuba are important but so is importation of tools to Cuba for the development of a knowledge economy.

These benefits include increased international competitiveness and foreign direct investment, human resource development, knowledge transfer, GATT compliance and improved government revenue collection.

They are also planning to undertake a joint interregional Development Account project on knowledge networks for disadvantaged communities through ICT access points.

Reference was also made to the development of a model law on traditional ecological knowledge and biological resources for Pacific island countries.

Specifically, there is a need to underscore the role of public administration in development, to strengthen public administration knowledge sharing networks and to invest in institutional capacity building and human resource development.

Special theme Millennium Development Goals and indigenous peoples Goal 2 of the Millennium Development Goals Achieve universal primary education , to be addressed under the thematic approaches of language, cultural perspectives and traditional knowledge

2. Welcomes the recommendations regarding the establishment of a knowledge and technology for development network contained in the report of the Secretary General

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

Policies which improve the knowledge and technical skills of administrators and legislators responsible for sustainable urban development have been cited as being critical.

After the development of hospital clinical training the basic source of knowledge in medicine was experimental medicine in the hospital and laboratory, and these factors together meant that over time mostly doctors abandoned ethnography as a tool of knowledge.

1. Encourages Parties to develop means for exchange of information develop inventories and to cooperate in the development of a network of national experts on traditional knowledge with the objective of safeguarding the traditional knowledge heritage and communities' property rights

The services, knowledge and information provided by this Programme will also support the implementation and development of the UNIDO major programmes and special initiatives.