In celebration of Open Access Day, Yale's Information Society Project and Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School in Brazil have published a book,
Access to Knowledge in Brazil: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development [PDF], and made it available free.
We invite submissions dealing with social justice in
access to knowledge in the broadest sense.
Lately, he has been creating installations of altered books, questioning
the access to knowledge in countries where the lower income population doesn't gain access to education.
As many have observed, with
the access to knowledge in many fields no longer a scarce commodity, research and teaching are no longer interdependent activities.
Not exact matches
The vision, says Fielding, is
to take all of a company's
knowledge, digital and otherwise, and put it all
in one easy -
to -
access place.
Telesales departments
in particular are regularly outsourced and providing partners have sufficient
knowledge of your business and you get
access to people with the correct skills, outsourcing
in this area can be a valuable investment.
After providing tech consulting
to big corporations
in her previous career, West believes smaller businesses should have equal
access to knowledge.
Whereas successful companies have «experience navigating the lending landscape, more available credit and frequently monitor their business cash flow,» according
to the report, underperformers suffer from «less
knowledge about financing products, lower personal credit scores, less
access to financing and fewer formal financial management practices
in place.»
GetAbstract is a leading online media company, with a mission
to find, expertly compress and provide universal
access to critical business
knowledge,
in a format that can be quickly and easily absorbed, allowing subscribers
to stay current, competitive and
to become leaders who can make better decisions.
An intranet solution is valuable
in the sense that it gives everyone
in the organization
access to a centralized
knowledge base.
And then, simply because he was a very senior guy
in age and experience, he was able
to provide me
access to business
knowledge and experience: You know what happens when the bank turns down your first loan application?
As well as money
to get your company off the ground, they will provide you with
access to qualified business mentors with a high level of
knowledge in their industries.
Because of its ongoing supervisory relationships with the banks that provided settlement services
to Drexel's subsidiaries and its
knowledge of the payment and settlement system's infrastructure, the Federal Reserve had the
access, contacts, and
in - depth
knowledge that enabled it
to obtain the information it needed
to evaluate this complex problem and formulate a plan
to address it.»
Most recently,
in October, it surfaced that Uber had special permissions
in its iPhone app that allowed it
to access users» personal information, giving them the ability
to potentially record a person's iPhone screen without their
knowledge.
Meta — which,
in the words of cofounder Sam Molyneux, uses «artificial intelligence
to analyze new scientific
knowledge as it's published» — partners with academic journals
to access many thousands of scientific papers and draw insight from them (beyond the keywords, that is) with the help of a machine learning tool developed by SRI International, which created Apple's spectral personal assistant, Siri.
You can help others
in a variety of ways, from e-mailing a relevant article
to putting them
in touch with someone who has the
knowledge or
access to assist them with a specific challenge.
Deep Root emphasized
in its statement that the data that was
accessed «was,
to the best of our
knowledge, proprietary information as well as voter data that is publicly available and readily provided by state government offices.»
With a wider breadth of talent
in the workforce than ever, companies have
access to an incredible array of skills and
knowledge, which is great news.
Parviz wants the world
to see Glass
in the context of Google X: It's aimed at making
access to knowledge so fast and seamless that it «fundamentally changes the meaning of knowing things.»
Most importantly, provide company management with ready
access to professionals and partners with deep, demonstrated
knowledge and experience
in dealing with virtually every imaginable business challenge encountered when growing
in the energy services industry
«RBC is the bank of choice for correspondent banks with offices
in Canada as a result of our ability
to offer clients
access to RBC's solid infrastructure and branch network as well as the
knowledge and understanding of foreign markets, technical expertise and strong client focus provided by our Banks, Brokers and Exchanges team.
The EU has invested five million euros
to set up a centre that provides
knowledge (
in - depth sector market reports, guidelines, and case studies); tailored export advice extending
to legal and regulatory requirements; rules on market
access and competitor and market analysis; assistance with due diligence; training programs adapted for the needs of individual companies; and hot - desks and work spaces
in China.
This, combined with our
access to world - class engineering and business talent across our operational centres, our deeplocal
knowledge and relationships
in the markets we operate
in, and our mobile - first approach, gives us a strong competitive advantage as we continue
to build out our global platform.»
«Events like this will provide SMEs
in the life sciences industry with
access to the best
knowledge for economic development all
in one place.»
With a unique blend of people
in 5 offices, local
knowledge and heritage operating
in the Asia Pacific, we are able
to offer
access to an extensive network of partners as well as past and present entrepreneurs
to accelerate your expansion across Asian markets and internationally.
In - depth
knowledge, experience and support through direct, multi-channel
access to risk consultants, tools, and resources for Bond policyholders.
They may not have easy
access to the Chinese market today, but they have a lot of technology advantages and institutional
knowledge that could make them formidable
in any market given the right circumstances.
Portfolio companies also benefit from on - demand
access to over 500 hand - picked experts who have deep
knowledge in virtually every nook and cranny of healthcare.
The
knowledge you'll gain coupled with the tools and training our program provides, as well as
access to our team of experts, allows advisors
to embrace the complexity of the Social Security retirement system as a key differentiator
in the day
to day battle of client acquisition!
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We have the depth of
knowledge and are also able
to dedicate significant time into screening the manager universe
in these four areas
to ensure
access to «best -
in - class» managers globally.
In the modern West adoptees themselves are often highly critical of current practices that leave many adoptees extremely wounded souls without acknowledgement and permission
to show their grief, and thus without
knowledge and
access to support and healing therapies.
Three children experienced a series of extraordinary visions
in 1917 and were given a message that was both extraordinary and very ordinary: people must pray and do penance (that was the ordinary bit; these things are central
to Catholic life, always have been and always must be) and failure
to do this would ensure that evils would be spread by Russia across the world (an extraordinary statement
to make
to children living
in an obscure corner of Portugal with limited
access to any
knowledge of Russia or indeed
to anywhere else outside their local area).
Creationists KNOW their beliefs can not compete
in a free marketplace of ideas, and therefore attempt
to restrict
access to other areas of
knowledge from their children.
well just thinking about these wars
in the muslim / mid-east world over religious differences (which may reflect mental states
in many ways)
in a world where most realize that living
in the present moment is best way
to happiness and being
in the moment
in non-strife and awareness through the teachings of masters such as found
in the buddhist, taoist, zen, etc., etc., etc. spriritually based practices of religious like thought and teachings, etc. that
to ask these scientifically educated populace whom have
access to vast amounts of
knowledges and understandings on the internet, etc.
to believe
in past beliefs that perhaps gave basis and inspiration
to that which followed — but is not the end all of all times or
knowledges — and is thus — non self - sustaining
in a belief that does not encompass growth of
knowledge and understanding of all truths and being as it is or could be — is
to not respect the intelligence and minds and personage of even themselves — not
to be disrespected nor disrespectful
in any way — only
to point out that perhaps too much is asked
to put others into the cloak of blind faith and adherance
to the past that disregards the realities of the present and the potential of the future... so you try
to live
in the past — and destroy your present and your future — where is the intelligence
in that — and why do people continually fear monger or allow
to be fear — mongered into this destructive vision of the future based upon the past?
One consequence of Lear's conception of irony is that its paradigmatic case is not as a rhetorical device deployed by someone with superior
knowledge in order
to block the
access, or mock the misunderstanding, of someone without it.
In addition
to this right of
access for communities, collective claims also include the right
to development, and the recognition of communal
knowledge resources.
Language, either written or spoken, was very nearly the only form
in which messages could be codified; and, of course, most people did not have
access to the expanding
knowledge being generated
in many fields.
«If our staff can
access information on the fly,» Marcello says, «that empowers them, gives them easy
access to new
knowledge, and makes them so much better
in their interactions with customers... No more running for a manager or someone at the property with more beer, wine, or spirit education, it is now right at their fingertips.
Improved
access to knowledge and innovations
in organic agriculture holds great potential for improving food security and raising the productivity of smallholders» farms
in Africa and India economically, ecologically and socially...
Other forms of scarcity are emerging
in importance such as
access to unusual experiences and
knowledge.
In addition, it provides farmers with up -
to - date
knowledge of technology and empowers them for self - help and business development, facilitating their
access to markets.
The difference from where we were before and where we are today as a result of this relationship between FIAL, ourselves, and CSIRO, is the fact that we did not have
to invest
in scientific capabilities that would take a number of years
to materialise and
to bear fruit, and we had immediate
access to an existing
knowledge base that was at arm's reach for us.
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Between a club manager and a pundit it is the former that has
knowledge and experience about football while the latter is just a man
in the street with
access to media.
Until someone with proper expertise
in myriad areas of sports science, football coaching, business, finance, law, PR, media, marketing, human resources etc etc has unfettered
access to all board meeting minutes, records of all discussions with players, full player medical records, details of all contacts with agents, other clubs, other players, seen copies of player contracts and negotiations, understands the financial imperatives, interprets the business accounting, has reviewed the business plan, has
knowledge of the employer / employee contractual relationship between Wenger and the club, has intimate insight
in to the goals and objectives of the business and the club — then everyone is filling
in the gaps with their own version of events and will necessarily always be a long, long way from anything close
to any «truth».
The API Leader accreditation process is designed
to provide applicants
access to and practice with valuable skills and
knowledge that can be applied
in multiple aspects of API Leadership and life.
Our
access to news around the country (and world) and increased
knowledge events as they're unfolding, has made us hyperaware of the dangers our kids face
in this world.
We believe
in supporting parents and families through providing
access to knowledge, training and expertise
in attachment for professionals.
Healthy Newborn Network (HNN)(HNN) is an online resource center and community dedicated
to addressing critical
knowledge gaps
in newborn health by improving
access to related resources, data and country information.