Society and heritage: public policies

EU Public Policies and the Participation of Organized Civil Society

[Epidemiology and public policies].

The present essay deals with the relation between epidemiology and public policies, highlighting the epidemiology position in the public health field, analyzing the impact of public policies over epidemiological profile and contributions from epidemiology to the lay down, implementation and evaluation of public health policies. In the first title, the essay debates the links between the epidemi...

Private ownership of public heritage

In 2003, the world celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the elucidation of the structure of DNA and, thus, the birth of molecular biology. As this period is now a part of human history, original documents from the founders of molecular biology are becoming increasingly important to scholars, and are being harshly fought over by public libraries and private collectors. Private correspondence, ...

State, Economy, Society and Recent Information Society Policies in Greece

Building on recent literature on national cases of information society (IS) and the knowledge-based economy, the paper examines the evolving processes and shapes of the Greek IS, by looking into recent policies promoted by the Greek state. In doing so, it deploys a state/society conceptual approach, which highlights the ways in which European IS policy and its national interpretations are artic...

Communicating Information Society Related RTD and Deployment Results in Support of EU Public Policies

The aim of this paper is to discuss issues related to communication and exploitation of Information Society related project results emanating from RTD and deployment projects funded by EU programmes such as IST programme, eTen, eContent and eContent plus etc. In particular it will examine how these results may impact other major EU policies e.g. public health, environment, education etc. First,...