According to international and national indicators in Mexico are more than four million of people who cannot read and write. Moreover, reports of Standouts, such as United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and World Economic Forum (WEF) make suggestions to improve use levels of Information and communications technology (ICT) in order to collaborate to solve thes...

The existence of a critical mass of talented scientists in the fields of Biophysics and Neurobiology in Latin America gave impetus to efforts to foster cooperation at the regional level. Following on from ameeting of scientists from five South American countries in Caracas in 1989, a survey was carried out to determine which laboratories in the region were conducting leading-edge research in th...

Momentan etablieren sich auf vielen WWW-Sites elektronische Kommunikationsforen die zwar nicht die klassischen Formen der Kommunikation ersetzen, sie aber in einigen Punkten ergänzen. Bei der Informationswissenschaft wurden in den letzten Jahren einige Diskussionsforen entwickelt und eingesetzt. Beispielhaft wird das System ComFor vorgestellt, mit dem das Forum VF-INFOethics betrieben wurde. Wi...

Nanoparticles have multifaceted advantages in drug administration as vaccine delivery and hence hold promises for improving protection of farmed fish against diseases caused by pathogens. However, there are concerns that the benefits associated with distribution of nanoparticles may also be accompanied with risks to the environment and health. The complexity of the natural and social systems in...

A UNESCO project, Support for the Preparation for the World Heritage Serial Nomination of the Silk Roads in South Asia, afforded the opportunity to research evidence for Silk Roads exchange in South Asia. The first part of the paper explores the challenges of archaeology in the Kingdom of Bhutan, located on the southern slopes of the eastern Himalayas. GIS-based approaches to model earlier sett...

Digital libraries are large, organized, focused collections of information. The Greenstone software is intended to help people design and build such collections quickly and easily. Collections may be large—some comprise Gbytes of text; others include many millions of short documents. Additionally, far larger volumes of information may be associated with a collection—typically audio, image, and ...

Docteur es lettres Professor of social and cultural anthopology 1988 This paper was prepared by Mr Dominique Desjeux at the request of Unesco. The author is responsible for the opinions expressed therein, which are not necessarily those of the Organization.