Google’s new “Art Project” employs its Street View technology to provide access to 17 of the world’ s most acclaimed art museums. The visitors can discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail.
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High-speed broadband has become a phenomenon of densely-populated Asian cities, which now account for 74 of the top 100 global cities offering fast connections according to Akamai’s latest State of the Internet report. Once again, Masan, South Korea held the title as the city with the fastest average connection speed.
MIT’s Technology Review magazine announced the 2010 TR50, the first annual list of the 50 most innovative companies in the world. Spanning energy, computing, the Web, biomedicine, and materials, each company on the list has been evaluated based on its business model, strategies for deploying and scaling up its technologies, and the likelihood of success.
The World Bank Institute’ s Knowledge Assessment Methodology has developed the Knowledge Economy Index (KEI) — an aggregate index representing the overall preparedness of a country or region towards the Knowledge Economy. The latest version of the KAM has been released together with the KEI 2007 rankings for 140 countries.
Sharing the idea: the emergence of global innovation networks is an Economist Intelligence Unit report that examines a new approach to managing global research and development programmes.
The Global Digital City Network is an international organisation between ‘knowledge based’ industrial cities. It is designed to promote the competitiveness of member cities, leveraged by synergy effect through the exchange of information and technologies.
The latest revision of the Knowledge Assessment Methodology (KAM) was published by the World Bank on March 2006. The KAM is an interactive benchmarking tool created by the Knowledge for Development Program to help countries identify the challenges and opportunities they face in making the transition to the knowledge-based economy.