Halcyon Identifies

 

The Encyclopedia of Life, a global partnership between scientists and the public, aims to make freely available to anyone knowledge about all the world’s organisms.

Historians, economists, psychologists and computer scientists are to jointly examine the nature of wisdom, to see whether it can be understood and measured.

Responses - 28/08/07

• Health - a new World Health Organisation report stresses the need for international collaboration, with open sharing of knowledge and technology, to guarantee global public-health security in the future.

Problems - 15/08/07

• Knowledge - organisations tend to know intuitively that knowledge sharing is important, but still fail to really do it.