http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/ 25109/11860402019Kronberg_Declaration.pdf/Kronberg%2BDeclaration.pdf We, the members of a group of experts who met on 22 and 23 June 2007 in Kronberg, Germany, at the invitation of UNESCO and the German Commission for UNESCO, with the generous sponsorship of BASF, discussed the future of Knowledge Acquisition and Sharing over the next twenty-five years: Recognizing that: • Knowledge is the key to social and economic development; • Creation, acquisition and sharing of knowledge have been going through dramatic changes because of rapidly emerging new information and communication technologies (ICT) and the societal transformations that they generate; • New approaches are needed to bridge international knowledge gaps while ensuring cultural and linguistic diversity; • The Internet and new education technologies provide manifold opportunities for all; • There is a need to continuously harness new technologies and processes to develop knowledge societies that are people-centered, inclusive and development oriented; --snip--- Stress the need to: a) Develop long-term strategies to efficiently harness the enormous potential of new communication and information processes and technologies for developing new approaches to knowledge acquisition and sharing; --snip-- f) Provide opportunities for all to participate in networked social learning, which is locally and globally relevant, which values tacit knowledge and enhances informal learning; g) Promote user-friendly ICT applications to make knowledge acquisition and sharing available to everybody anywhere and anytime; h) Support open access to and free flow of content through the development of open standards, open data structures, and standardized info-structures, as well as other elements of cyber-infrastructure necessary to support individual learners around the globe; i) Enable the creation of open content by practitioners in the developing world, and generally ensure the development of culturally sensitive content; etc. --end-- to me this seems a wise move, though I'd support a stronger set of recommendations. jeremy hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu) wiki.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ Learning Inquiry-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series