The growing importance of Lifelong Learning must be seen against the background of profound changes, reflected in all aspects of our living environment. These changes concern the global environment, but also our personal, economic, social, cultural and political environments. Lifelong Learning is a ‘must’ in the real-life context of the Knowledge Society and covers “all purposeful learning from...

The last two decades were characterized by a huge development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) particularly web technologies. This fact caused the most accelerated and comprehensive social and economic revolution ever seen: people and companies began to access web services and contents to improve knowledge and to establish interaction among each other. This new paradigm has ...

My first duty and pleasure in taking this chair is to express my thanks to you, the members of the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society, for the kind honour you have paid me in selecting me as your President. Our Society, under its present constitution, was founded on February 24th, 1874, by forty-four members of the medical profession in Bristol and Clifton, " for the cultivation of medicine and...

Knowledge Propagation is the challenge. Better society requires best knowledge management practices and use of latest tools and technologies. KM is dealing with the problem of different languages in big countries. Also Knowledge is present in different forms. It may be knowledge encoded in laws, decrees, standards, policies, rules, regulations and orders. All these forms of knowledge must be co...

In the knowledge society, the enterprise increasingly develops its activities in a planetary space. The actors are confronted with new situations that increase their initiatives and responsibilities, whatever their roles and their hierarchical positions are. For their missions, through the enterprise’s information and knowledge system, beyond relevant information, they must have access to knowl...