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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Mind Tools 

Mind Tools - Management Training, Career Training and Leadership Training - Right Here, Right Now.

includes creativity tools, innovation tools, project management, stakeholder analysis, scenarios etc etc.

Saturday, July 05, 2008

adverts for the future 

Low Carbon Living 2022 | Forum For The Future

Friday, July 04, 2008

University Futures 

University Futures - Analytical Methods

website closing soon - includes futures toolkit!

regional Integration 

UNU-CRIS Working Papers
Online papers in PDF thouugh I have had trouble downloading!

Working Papers Series on Comparative Regional Integration Studies includes...
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Cultural Diversity and Regional Trade Agreements: The Case of Audiovisual Services
The difficult relationship between the two global public goods of cultural plurality andinternational economic integration is often analysed at world level, stressing thejurisdictional overlap between the WTO system and other...
By: Silvia Formentini and Lelio Iapadre [more]

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A Political Early Warning - Response System to Address Global and Regional Threats
In this essay I discuss how the international community could conceptualise, understand andreact to global and regional threats. The recent United Nations’ (UN) High-level Panel onThreats, Challenges and Change, and other world...
By: Tapio Kanninen [more]

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Economic Partnership Agreements between the EU and Groups of ACP Countries: Will They Promote Development?
In this paper we explore the nature and effects of the Economic Partnership Agreements(EPAs) between the EU and groups of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.We argue that the direct economic effects from reciprocal...
By: Karel Van Hoestenberghe and Hein Roelfsema [more]

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Order in World Politics - An Inquiry into the Concept, Change and the EU's Contribution
This paper examines how the EU as an international actor contributed to the creation andsustenance of order in world politics since the end of the Cold War. To this end, it advancesan operationalization of order that takes the...
By: Erwin van Veen [more]

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Globalisation and the Knowledge-Based Society; Where does Europe Stand in Comparison to Other Regional Areas?
Economically, the last fifty years, the world has witnessed an unparalleled growth andtransformation. Economic development has been spurred by the opening up and ensuingexpansion of world trade and the dramatic reduction in...
By: Luc Soete [more]

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Globalism, Regionalism and Social Policy: Framing the Debate
First let us define social policy. Social policy may be defined in a number ofways that complement each other. Broadly speaking, it refers to “collectiveinterventions directly affecting transformation in social welfare,...
By: Nicola Yeates and Bob Deacon [more]


Thursday, July 03, 2008

Latin American work on Information Society 

Destacados Osilac

ECLA/CEPAL has a great deal of documentation on its ELAC Information Society programme, and OSILAC framework for measuring and monitoring ICT development - English language versions are generally available (click a language choice at the top irght of the frame)

on this page are, for instance:



Compendium of Practices on the implementation of ICT questions in household and business surveys in Latin America and the Caribbean:

Compendium
of Practices on the implementation of ICT questions in household and
business surveys in Latin America and the Caribbean

... More info









Characteristics of households with ICTs in Latin America and the Caribbean:

Characteristics of households with ICTs in Latin America and the Caribbean

... More info











Core ICT indicators:November 2005

Core ICT indicators

November 2005

... More info








Measuring ICT: the Global Status of ICT Indicators:July 2005

Measuring ICT: the Global Status of ICT Indicators

July 2005

... More info






Towards an Information Society measurement instrument for Latin America and the Caribbean: getting started with census, household and business surveys:March 2005

Towards
an Information Society measurement instrument for Latin America and the
Caribbean: getting started with census, household and business surveys

March 2005

... More info



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