Creating a Global Footprint

Creating a 21st Century Global Health Agenda

On 13 May 2010, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) voted unanimously for UN Resolution 64/265 to hold a High Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases in September 2011. This UNHigh LevelMeeting, to be held in New York, is an unparalleled opportunity to put noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including cancer, diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, stroke, and chronic respiratory...

Creating a Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII)

The current accessibility ecosystem that develops and delivers both assistive technologies and access features in mainstream technologies is not able to keep up, provide the diversity of solutions needed, nor reach more that a small portion of those who need them. To address this a large scale effort was proposed to provide an infrastructure that would allow the ecosystem to evolve into a quite...

Carbon footprint of nations: a global, trade-linked analysis.

Processes causing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions benefit humans by providing consumer goods and services. This benefit, and hence the responsibility for emissions, varies by purpose or consumption category and is unevenly distributed across and within countries. We quantify greenhouse gas emissions associated with the final consumption of goods and services for 73 nations and 14 aggregate world...

Keynotes Creating a global knowledge network

How should our scientific research communications infrastructure be reconfigured to take maximal advantage of newly evolving electronic resources? Rather than "electronic publishing," which connotes a rather straightforward cloning of the paper methodology to the electronic network, many researchers would prefer to see the new technology lead to some form of global "knowledge network," and soon...

Creating a Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure