Irina Bokova

Irina Bokova

Irina Bokova Director-General, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Knowledge is a catalyst for development. This stands at the heart of the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – it is a core driver of all UNESCO’s work to...
Ron McCallum

Ron McCallum

Ron McCallum Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney, Australia Access to knowledge is important for everybody, and for persons with disabilities as we are excluded. Without my supporters and accessible technology. I could never have become the first totally blind...
Ewen Le Borgne

Ewen Le Borgne

Ewen Le Borgne Process Change, The Netherlands Knowledge for Development is a tautology. Knowledge is for development. Knowledge is development. Personal, communitarian and societal development. Contrary to money and influence (coming through our personal networks),...
Günter Koch

Günter Koch

Günter Koch Member of KM-A, co-founder of the New Club of Paris and former CEO of the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) In my ‘former life’ as a computer scientist and software engineering manager, I was constantly confronted with the question of how intellectual...
Suzanne Kiwanuka

Suzanne Kiwanuka

Suzanne Kiwanuka Senior Lecturer in Health Policy, Planning and Management at Makerere University, Uganda According to Hyrum W. Smith, wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied. In order to promote knowledge uptake in a rapidly changing world, the coming decade should be...