For over a decade now, universities have been aware of the pressures to expand access to higher education.1 The knowledge society needs more graduates, and those graduates will keep returning to study as lifelong learning takes its place in both work and leisure time. These are the positive pressures for expansion. But the knowledge society, fueled by the expanding higher education sector, is i...

Much has been made of the shifting relationships of power caused by the forces of globalization. Through the intensification of social interconnections, we now can apprehend the world as a single place, aware of our own place and its relative location within the range of world experience. The media of communication are key players in this process, both as causes and outcomes. Like with other ar...

Terminology development in education, science and technology is a key to formulating a knowledge society. The authors are developing a multilingual engineering terminology dictionary consisting of more than ten thousand engineering terms each for ten Asian languages and English. The dictionary is primarily designed to support foreign students who are studying engineering subjects at Japanese hi...

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Starting from the belief that e-inclusion should be the strategic choice, and full engagement of every citizen is the key to the success and healthy development of e-society, this paper puts forward that “Information Commons” model can be applied to a larger target group: the disadvantaged citizens for their information rights and e-literacy education. Three IC applications: residents’ communit...