Geneva, 18 November 2005 — The second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society closed today after almost a week of intense negotiations, eight plenary sessions, 308 parallel events organized by 264 organizations and 33 press conferences attracting around 19’000 participants worldwide.
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Habitat JAM, an unprecedented global event where tens of thousands of world citizens unite online to debate urban sustainability issues, will be held for 72 hours from 1-3 December, 2005.
The BusinessWeek magazine has published a cover story called “the Web Smart 50” that looks at how innovative companies, schools, and non profits are using the Web to improve sales, management, customers service, and marketing.
In the 21st century, knowledge has become the most essential resource for urban competitiveness. City-Regions as Intelligent Territories is an international research project funded by the EU R&D Framework Programme. The project contributes in the understanding of territorial learning processes, knowledge dissemination and transfer, and social networks in a number of different urban environments.
American business executives are enthusiastic about innovation prospects globally, according to the 2005 Innovation Survey released by the Council on Competitiveness and New Economy Strategies. This finding is consistent with the growing evidence of significant investments abroad in science and technology.