Environment and Development Organization News and Networking, Asia Edition., Describes the KNOWNETInitiative, an effort to promote sharing of local knowledge through the Internet. Information about the Initiative can be found at: http://www.knownet.org
Sustainable Development Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2001-03
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: C21972
Notes:
11 pages., Final communique involving this workshop held February 19-22, 2001, at FAO Headquarters. Describes participants, topics, recommendations, list of presentations, supporting institutions.
Examines issues of connectivity, language and content of the internet. Concludes that "in reality the internet concentrates economic activity and power more narrowly in one group. As a result there is a real risk that we are moving towards a two-tier technology society that perpetuates the old distinctions between North and South."