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Miércoles, 19 de Noviembre de 2008  
 
   Society of Knowledge



The Northern Committee Portal defines as Society of Knowledge those systems that integrate some of the following characteristics:

a) A community whose social dynamics is mediated by the creation and divulgement of knowledge. The phrase itself, “Society of Knowledge”, remits to ideality or images of the future. Thus, this characteristic has a prospective and Utopian component.

b) The divulgence of advances in culture, science, education and communication whose purpose is the free dispersal of knowledge for the use of social communities.

c) The divulgence of advances in culture, science, education and communication whose purpose is the free availability of knowledge for the use of social communities.

d) The application of knowledge to the improvement of quality of life in social communities. Concurrently, quality of life is understood as those social, biological, affective and material features considered as factors for the wellbeing of communities and individuals.

e) The intents of search for autonomy of social communities in the expression of their own culture and in the search for sense or meaning for scientific knowledge.

f) The creation and divulgement of knowledge under the tenets of peace, equality, respect for human rights and sustainable growth.

 
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