Asia-Pacific Information Superhighway: new opportunities for development of science and business partnership

Infrastructural Investment Opportunities for the Development of Agricultural Businesses Based on Public- Private Partnership Approach

     Agricultural infrastructured included the entire body of basic services needed for the growth of an economy and for the improvement of the efficiency of the markets related to food and dietary fiber. Investment in agricultural infrastructure calls for a wide- spread collaboration among the various organization involved in the sector. The main purpose of the present research was to identify...

Strategic Development of Information Superhighway in Koera

A Comparative Appraisal of Roadway Accident for Asia-Pacific Countries

This paper describes an attempt to shed some light on road safety in Asia Pacific region by characterizing and assessing its road accidents. The relevant national road accident data were extracted from centralized data sources of international agencies. Due to data incompleteness and missing values, 21 Asia Pacific countries, presenting more than half of the world’s population, were selected fo...

Eight scenarios of national information superhighway development

At the 1995 G7 Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Brussels, the G7 nations agreed a statement of eight ‘core principles’, backed up with a series of pilot projects, to promote a global information infrastructure to far surpass the Internet and its likes (Marshall, 1995): promote dynamic competition, encourage private investment, deŽ ne an adaptable regulatory framework, ensure...

Incorporation of Medical Research and Education in Asia Pacific Region

The goal of medicine is to prevent harm as Hippocrates pointed out; “primum non nocere; first do no harm”. Has this fact been taken into account in developing Medical Education curricula in Asia? Frequency of diseases in Asia is different from high income countries (1, 2) and funds for research are lacking.  It is therefore important to allocate available funds to the most applicable issues to...