All over the world, professors are supposed to be the shock troops of the global knowledge economy.
"This technology has also contributed to price stabilisation," says Sara Farley, chief operating officer and co-founder of the Global Knowledge Initiative (GKI), which researches post-harvest opportunities.
Governments will need to rehabilitate university infrastructure, especially their communications and information facilities, to become part of the global knowledge community.
"They are a class apart, like Oxford and Cambridge," says P.V. Indiresan, an expert on universities.These elite institutions help to keep India plugged into the global knowledge economy.
With nearly one fifth of the world's population unable to read and write, it is clear that the spread of digital technology alone will not be enough to bridge the global knowledge divide.
"With nearly 20% of the world's population unable to read and write, the spread of digital technologies alone is unlikely to spell the end of the global knowledge divide".
Now the government should take on the interests of big business to support the next generation of innovations needed for the UK to secure its position in the global knowledge economy.
He maintains that "connecting the world" has always been Facebook's mission statement, and that there will be direct economic benefit to the countries through their involvement in "the global knowledge economy".
Developing countries, for their part, realise that they will not be able to plug into the global knowledge economy unless they give their people the freedom to move around.
Tata Group, working with Water Footprint Network and International Finance Corporation, recently published a report detailing the results of a joint project to develop its corporate water sustainability framework, promote sustainable water use at the company's 12 plants across India, and contribute to the global knowledge pool about corporate water stewardship.
Over the past five years, reckons Vincent Romani in a paper for the Crown Centre for Middle East Studies at America's Brandeis University, the GCC countries have spent at least $50 billion on higher education in an effort to buy these traditional societies a place in the global knowledge economy.
