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Helsinki, Finland; 2004-10-11 to 2004-10-12 "Limits to Ignorance: The Challenge of Informed Humanity" "2004 Annual Conference" The wealth, volume of information produced has grown enormously in the past few decades. Formerly isolated information today is ever more connected. This globally networked information is ever more easy accessible to a growing number of people world-wide. standard of education, mobility and cosmopolitanism of the middle class in industrial societies, as well as emerging developing countries, have grown enormously in the past few decades. The volume of information and the range of media have also increased considerably, making information readily accessible to an increasing number of people. Yet in Yet and in spite of higher standards of education and almost unlimited access to information, the world is still beset by the well known challenges, such as grave environmental risks, a growing gap between the rich and poor, and conflicts between different cultures. The course of humanity has not changed, even though an increasing number of people have all the informational resources needed for responding to the situation. The crucial question for the future of humanity is whether we learn to understand the challenge of sustainable development implicit in this issue in time. What are the thingsis needed for changing ignorance and the lack of vision into global responsibility and awareness? How can we motivate the middle-classes and other responsible actors to make the commitment to achieve global change? So, in summarising, what we want bring up into public discussion isThe Annual Conference of The Club of Rome will focus on this the contradictory development: On the one hand we recognise an increasing flow of information that may potentially provide us with more knowledge about the world around us. On the other hand we also identify a growing information overload causing confusion and disorientation and an increasing tendency on misuse of information and information channels, obscuring the premises of the public and private decision-making and increasing to public ignorance. Papers delivered to the conference: [Download: Right click and "save link/target as..."]   "Limits to Ignorance: The Challenge of Informed Humanity" [English] Programme by The Club of Rome [Type: pdf document, 52 KB]   Towards a New Balance of Informed Global Politics [English] by President Martti Ahtisaari [Type: pdf document, 59 KB]   The Challenge of Knowledge Management in Global Perspective [English] by Seda Babür [Type: MS-Word document, 60 KB]   Internet and the Non-Democratic State [English] The Case of China by Ambassador Benjamin Bassin [Type: pdf document, 166 KB]   Mexico in the Limits of Ignorance [English] Report by the Mexican Chapter of The Club of Rome by Susana Chacon [Type: pdf document, 200 KB]   Global Security, Demographic Transition, and Knowledge-Based Society [English] A Proposal to The Club of Rome by Ivo Slaus, Robert Blinc, Aleksander Zidansek [Type: pdf document, 113 KB]   Beyond Ignorance: The Challenge of Informed Humanity [English] by Ricardo Diez-Hochleitner [Type: pdf document, 56 KB]   Overcoming Ignorance [English] NGOs and Civic Engagement by Wouter van Dieren [Type: pdf document, 129 KB]   Learning for the Future [English] by Ricardo Diez-Hochleitner [Type: pdf document, 581 KB]   Knowledge Management, Education and Entrepreneurship [English] Fresh Challenges for Generating an Entreperneurial Culture - The Brazilian Case by Paulo Alcantara Gomez [Type: pdf document, 285 KB]   Ignorance as Limit to Development [English] Developing Counrties' Key Challenges: Education and Science and Technology by Heitor Gurgulino de Souza [Type: pdf document, 30 KB]   The Challenge of Informed Humanity [English] by Tuula Haatainen [Type: pdf document, 35 KB]   The Age of Ignorance [English] Science, Education and Information in a Changing World by Sergey P. Kapitza [Type: pdf document, 249 KB]   Being Responsible for our Future [English] Report of the Hungarian Association of the Club of Rome by Laszlo Kapolyi et al. [Type: pdf document, 30 KB]   Knowledge - A Tool of Development for the South [English] by Jakaya M. Kikwete [Type: pdf document, 35 KB]   Achievements and Plans of the Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Cooperation ‘TREC’ [English] by Malek Kabariti [Type: pdf document, 45 KB]   Global Development in Secular Perspective [English] The Experiences and Prospects of the Years 1950 - 2050 by Antoni Kuklinski [Type: pdf document, 313 KB]   Ignorance as Limit to Development Interventions [English] by Pentti Malaska [Type: pdf document, 14 KB]   30-Year Update of Limits to Growth [English] Abstract by Dennis Meadows [Type: pdf document, 29 KB]   Science and Technology in the context of North and South relations [English] by Kikujiro Namba [Type: pdf document, 35 KB]   Aurelio Peccei and The Club of Rome [English] What an inspiration for a young man by Gunter Pauli [Type: pdf document, 23 KB]   Health Education Program using Information Technology throughout an Individualized Approach. [English] Abstract by Jose Aristodemo Pinotti [Type: pdf document, 25 KB]   Health Education Program using Information Technology throughout an Individualized Approach [English] Results of 13,112 women evaluated by Jose Aristodemo Pinotti [Type: pdf document, 280 KB]   Do we all fit in? [English] The challenges of inclusion by Maria Ramirez Ribes [Type: pdf document, 37 KB]   Overcomimg Technological Divides [English] A project of tt30 - the young think tank of The Club of Rome [Type: pdf document, 127 KB]   Rethinking Civilisation [English] by Majid Tehranian [Type: pdf document, 250 KB]   The CACOR Global Modeling Project [English] by Robert Hoffman [Type: pdf document, 264 KB]   From Rome to Amman [English] by tt30 - Jörg Geier [Type: pdf document, 275 KB]   tt30 - the young think tank of the Club of Rome [English] 4th progress report by Tobias Lengsfeld, Ildiko Tulbure, Jörg Geier, Baker Al-Hiyari [Type: pdf document, 95 KB]   Overcoming Ignorance [English] NGOs and Civic Engagement by Raoul Weiler [Type: pdf document, 214 KB]   Harnessing the Potential of ICTs including Satellites to Build Inclusive Knowledge Societies [English] Towards the 2nd Phase of WSIS in Tunis, 2005 by Raoul Weiler [Type: pdf document, 136 KB]   Information Overload, Infotainment and Responsible Citizenship [English] Challenges for Democracy by Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker [Type: pdf document, 18 KB]   Limits to Privatization [English] PowerPoint presentation by Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker [Type: pdf document, 660 KB]   Opening Speech [English] by Markku Wilenius [Type: pdf document, 140 KB]   Limits to Ignorance: The Challenge of Informed Humanity [English] A personal view by Keith Suter [Type: pdf document, 14 KB]   Ignorance in the Information Age - A Deterrent to Human Development [English] Press Release [Type: pdf document, 19 KB]   Only a global ethics can turn information into wisdom [English] Press Release [Type: pdf document, 16 KB]   Short introductions of speakers, interventionists and chairs [English] [Type: pdf document, 88 KB]   Amman, Jordan; 2003-10-07 to 2003-10-10 In Search of a Common Ground for Peace and Development "2003 Annual Conference" Le Meridien Hotel Looking at our conflict-ridden world, we all are aware of the urgent need to search for a common ground for peace and development. This especially applies to the region in which the 2003 Annual Conference of The Club of Rome will take place. Together with our members, representatives of the Arab Thought Forum and other guests we want to discuss how we can emphasise the centrality of individual human security, which is not less important than political or economic security. Unless we take action to provide people with the will and the means to build stable, diverse societies, future change will lead to unstable and unpredictable consequences largely determined by force and often by violence. Therefore the questions of how to fight poverty, how to build citizenship, how to develop markets, intra-regional and in Terra Media-co-operation with Europe are the topics on which this conference will focus. A frank and fruitful dialogue will give us the inspiration which will help us in our various responsibilities to contribute to peace and development in Terra Media. Papers delivered to the conference: [Download: Right click and "save link/target as..."]   In Search of a Common Ground for Peace and Development [English] Programme by The Club of Rome [Type: pdf document, 60 KB]   Eradicating Poverty [English] by Ashok Khosla [Type: pdf document, 8 MB]   In Search of a Common Ground for Peace and Development [English] Final Statement by The Club of Rome [Type: pdf document, 12 KB]   Overcoming Barriers to Trade and Investment in the Middle East and North Africa [English] Paper presented to the 2003 Annual Conference of the Club of Rome by Eberhard von Koerber [Type: pdf document, 37 KB]   Limits to Privatisation [English] How to Avoid Too Much of a Good Thing by Ernst Ulrich von Weizsaecker [Type: pdf document, 898 KB]   Breaking Through The Powerty Trap [English] by Tasneem Siddiqui [Type: pdf document, 61 KB]   Education in the Information Age [English] by Raoul Weiler [Type: pdf document, 200 KB]   Sharing the Global Commons [English] Speech by Former President F W de Klerk at the Opening of the Club of Rome Meeting in Amman - 8 October 2003 by FW de Klerk [Type: pdf document, 80 KB]   Sustainable Near East and Middle East Initiative - SNEMEI - [English] Proposal for the Club of Rome Conference in Amman, 7 -10 October 2003 by Klaus Steilmann [Type: pdf document, 24 KB]   Unleashing the Forces of Markets and Competition in the Region [English] by Henry T. Azzam [Type: pdf document, 96 KB]   Energy: Shared Future Between Europe & The Middle East [English] by Walid Khadduri [Type: pdf document, 109 KB]   Water - A Regional Community [English] by Munther J. Haddadin [Type: pdf document, 221 KB]   Hamburg, Germany; 2003-06-13 to 2003-06-14 Elbeflut 2003 - Ein Menetekel ?! "Ist Klimaschutz durch weltweite Mobilisierung erneuerbarer Energien machbar?" HAUS RISSEN, Rissener Landstr. 193, 22995 Hamburg Die Elbeflut 2002 hat schlagartig deutlich gemacht: der Klimawandel ist keine Spekulation von Wichtigtuern, sondern bittere Realität. Er trifft nicht nur ferne Länder, sondern geht auch bei uns „ans Eingemachte“. Hauptverursacher sind die Industrieländer mit ihren hohen CO2 Emissionen. Die auf den Klimakonferenzen ausgehandelten Reduktionen stoppen den Klimawandel nicht. Das macht auch das gerade erschienene Gutachten „Energiewende zur Nachhaltigkeit“ des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen (WBGU) eindringlich deutlich, es zeigt aber auch gleichzeitig Wege auf, die durch den Einsatz erneuerbarer Energien eine globale Energiewende ermöglichen. Ergeben sich nun aus diesen Erkenntnissen sowie aus der Elbeflut Anstöße für die notwendigen, einschneidenden Veränderungen in der Energiepolitik, oder gehen wir nach kurzer Aufgeregtheit wieder zum „Alltagsgeschäft“ über? Papers delivered to the conference: [Download: Right click and "save link/target as..."]   Programm "Elbeflut 2002 - Ein Menetekel?!" [German] Ist Klimaschutz durch weltweite Mobilisierung erneuerbarer Energien machbar? [Type: pdf document, 65 KB]   Vienna, Austria; 2003-03-06 to 2003-03-07 Work Beyond 60 "Preparing for the Demographic Shock" Festsaal of Bank Austria, Vienna A joint conference of: The Geneva Association - Four pillars Research Programme; The Club of Rome - European Support Centre; The Risk Institute - Double Helix Research Programme Papers delivered to the conference: [Download: Right click and "save link/target as..."]   Programme - Work Beyond 60: Preparing for the Demographic Shock [English] [Type: pdf document, 37 KB]   Work Beyond 60: Preparing for the Demographic Shock [English] Final Statement by Patrick M. Liedtke [Type: pdf document, 11 KB]   Ankara, Turkey; 2002-10-27 to 2002-10-28 The Club of Rome 2002 Annual Conference Bilkent University Papers delivered to the conference: [Download: Right click and "save link/target as..."]   The Club of Rome 2002 Annual Conference [English] Invitation & Programme [Type: pdf document, 20 KB]   The Club of Rome 2002 Annual Conference [English] Press Release [Type: pdf document, 6 KB]   The Club of Rome 2002 Annual Conference [English] Final Statement by Keith Suter [Type: pdf document, 14 KB]   Opening Statement [English] by Ihsan Dogramaci [Type: pdf document, 7 KB]   Opening Statement [English] by Fikret Nesip Üccan [Type: pdf document, 10 KB]   Efforts undertaken to enhance Secutity and Stability [English] by Chingiz Kaskeyev [Type: pdf document, 11 KB]   Entrepreneurship within a Global Economy [English] A Trilateral Training Project: Germany, Russia and Turkey by Klaus Steilmann [Type: pdf document, 24 KB]   The Black Sea Region and Caspian Sea Basin - The European Rim of Asia [English] Regional and Global Challenges by Sodyq S. Safaev [Type: pdf document, 31 KB]   The Future of the Disabled People in the World [English] Human Development and Disability by Rafael de Lorenzo Garcia [Type: pdf document, 38 KB]   The European Rim of Asia [English] Perspectives of Development and Cooperation by Oktay Yenal [Type: pdf document, 31 KB]   Johannesburg; 2002-08-26 to 2002-09-04 The World Summit on Sustainable Development "No Limits to Knowledge, but Limits to Poverty: Towards a Sustainable Knowledge Society" The Club of Rome Statement to the World Summit on Sustainable Development Papers delivered to the conference: [Download: Right click and "save link/target as..."]   Statement of the Club of Rome to the World Summit on Sustainable Development [Type: pdf document, 1 MB]   Ningún límite al conocimiento, sino a la pobreza: Hacia una sociedad del conocimiento sostenible [Spanish] [Type: pdf document, 43 KB]   Geen grenzen aan de kennis, maar grenzen aan de armoede: Naar een duurzame kennismaatschappij [Dutch] [Type: pdf document, 44 KB]   Geen Perke aan Kennis, maar Perke aan Armoede: Op Weg na'n Volhoubare Kennisgemeenskap [Afrikaans] [Type: pdf document, 46 KB]   Keine Grenzen des Wissens, aber Grenzen der Armut: Auf dem Wege zu einer nachhaltigen Wissensgesellschaft [German] [Type: pdf document, 48 KB]   Sem Limites ao Conhecimento, mas com Limites à Pobreza: Rumo a uma Sociedade do Conhecimento Sustentável [Portuguese] [Type: pdf document, 51 KB]   ПОЗНАНИЕТО НЯМА ГРАНИЦИ, НО БЕДНОСТТА ИМА [Bulgarian] Към устойчиво общество на познанието [Type: pdf document, 230 KB]   Valdivia, Chile; 2001-11-12 to 2001-11-14 2001 ANNUAL CONFERENCE "Poverty, Solidarity and Sustainable Development" Campus of the Universidad Austral de Chile Papers delivered to the conference: [Download: Right click and "save link/target as..."]   2001 Annual Conference "Poverty, Solidarity & Sustainable Development" [English] Conference Programme [Type: pdf document, 21 KB]   Message to the Conference [English] by HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal [Type: pdf document, 28 KB]   Terrorism and Poverty [English] by Uwe Möller [Type: pdf document, 40 KB]   Globalized Markets, Poverty and Sustainability [English] by David C. Korten [Type: pdf document, 77 KB]   Poverty, Solidarity and Sustainable Development [English] Perceptions and Challenges by Tasneem A. Siddiqui [Type: pdf document, 30 KB]   From Social Entropy to New Values [English] by Maria Ramirez Ribes [Type: pdf document, 29 KB]   State of the Future [English] Futures Research and International Affairs Program Support by José Codeiro [Type: pdf document, 351 KB]   Press Release Valdivia Conference [English] by The Club of Rome [Type: pdf document, 22 KB]   Eqidad y Solidaridad: Objectivos Esquivos del Desarrollo Latinamericano [Spanish] Palabras del Secretario Ejecutivo de la CEPAL, Dr. José Antonio Ocampo, en la reunión del Clu de Roma by José Antonio Ocampo [Type: pdf document, 143 KB]   Moscow; 2000-05-29 to 2000-05-30 A Sustainable Future for Russia?! Papers delivered to the conference: [Download: Right click and "save link/target as..."]   Message TO THE CLUB OF ROME MOSCOW CONFERENCE by Ricardo Díez Hochleitner, President of The Club of Rome [Type: MS-Word document, 42 KB]   Address at the Moscow Conference by His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan [Type: MS-Word document, 35 KB]   A Sustainable Economic Transformation for Russia by Eberhard von Koerber [Type: MS-Word document, 117 KB]   Economic Transformation. Experiences and Prospects in Poland 1990 - 2010. A tentative outline of a discussion paper presented at the Club of Rome Conference. by Antoni Kuklinski [Type: MS-Word document, 289 KB]   Sustainability, a new way to look at the world by Mircea Malitza [Type: MS-Word document, 29 KB]   Federalism in Germany Challenges from European Integration and Globalisation by Uwe Möller, Secretary General, Club Of Rome [Type: MS-Word document, 135 KB]   Preparing for the 21st Century through Transinnovation Speech for the opening of the Moscow Conference of the Club of Rome by Klaus Steilmann [Type: MS-Word document, 34 KB]   Sustainable Russia Speech for the Club of Rome - conference by Wouter van Dieren, President, IMSA Amsterdam [Type: MS-Word document, 24 KB]   The Role and the Place of small Countries in the European Union by Raoul Weiler [Type: MS-Word document, 35 KB]   The Role and the Place of small Countries in the European Union by Raoul Weiler [Type: Powerpoint document, 56 KB]   A Sustainable Future For Russia ?! by Uwe Möller, Secretary General, Club Of Rome [Type: MS-Word document, 370 KB]   VIENNA; 1999-11-25 to 1999-11-27 Annual Conference "Globalisation - Governance - Sustainable Development" Papers delivered to the conference: [Download: Right click and "save link/target as..."]   OPENING STATEMENT [German] by Dr. Ricardo Díez Hochleitner, Präsident des Club of Rome [Type: MS-Word document, 49 KB]   Governance in an era of Globalization Paper for the Club of Rome Annual Meeting 1999 by R.F.M. Lubbers/J.G. Koorevaar [Type: MS-Word document, 168 KB]   Paper prepared for the 1999 CoR Annual Conference [Mihajlo Mesarovic] [Type: MS-Word document, 52 KB]   Is There Hope For Stability In Africa? by Prof. Samuel C. NANA-SINKAM, Member of the Executive Committee of the CLUB OF ROME [Type: MS-Word document, 152 KB]   Cybernetic System Management As A Guarantor Of Sustainable Development by Frederic Vester [Type: MS-Word document, 30 KB]   Globalization, Governance And Sustainable Development by Rafael de Lorenzo [Type: MS-Word document, 111 KB]   Globalisation - Governance - Sustainable Development Final Report by Keith Suter, General Rapporteur of the Conference [Type: MS-Word document, 45 KB]   BUCHAREST; 1999-01-01 The Club Of Rome Symposium "How to Ride the Global Wave: Avoiding Crises and Wars, Building Common Projects" Papers delivered to the conference: [Download: Right click and "save link/target as..."]   Riding the Global Wave A CLUB OF ROME SYMPOSIUM, Bucharest, 1999 by Keith Suter [Type: MS-Word document, 51 KB]

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