The above video discusses the fact Europe is suffering from a skills shortage, made even worse by the economic crisis. Over the past decade, many business leaders have stressed that Europe is simply not producing, attracting, or retaining sufficient numbers of scientists, engineers and IT specialists to meet the requirements of its industries, and [...]
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| The Berlin Forum is the ninth in this series of flagship events that the World Bank is organizing in partnership with the Fraunhofer Center for Central and Eastern Europe to support ECA countries in their transition to becoming increasingly knowledge-based economies. More Details >> [...] The Palmetto Open Source Software Conference or POSSCON starts today and runs through Saturday. Take a look at the website and the schedule of presentations each day. Bill Mahoney, President of SCRA, on the importance of the Lab21 announcement to the development of the knowledge economy in South Carolina Building on over seven years of successful collaboration with the MENA region on Knowledge Economy issues, the World Bank Institute’s Growth and Crisis Practice, together with the Tunisian government and the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) hosted a high-level conference in Tunis, under the auspices of and opened by Tunisian President, Zine Elabidine [...] It has been said that economics is the “dismal science” but this may not always be true. Dr. Bruce Yandle, Dean Emeritus of Clemson’s College of Business and Behavior Science, has a somewhat “bumpy” outlook on the coming year, but when he says that he expects “2010 to be a year without fear,” that is certainly an improvement on 2009. You can read a short [...] President Obama kicked off the “Educate to Innovate” initiative a couple of days ago. This campaign is designed to get students excited about pursuing STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) careers. If you have not seen this announcement, you need to! Everyone should heed the message and realize that learning is a life-long process and that failure [...] “Each high school graduate contributes an estimated $290,000 to the economy over his or her work life. Each college graduate contributes an estimated $790,000. A high school dropout costs the economy an estimated $150,000 over his or her work life (for a total of $2.25 billion across the state over that period).” Think about these numbers and [...] MAKE, an e-zine for hobbyists and hackers found at www.MAKEzine.com, has published a series of short videos by scientists, mathematicians, and engineers on why they love their work (ElementsofHumanity.com). Since we as a people need to focus more and more on education, I hope you look at some or all of these videos. The one by Dr. [...]
Not related to the above video, but if you have not looked at TEDMED.com you should. [...] | ||||||
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