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 ofthe new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – it is a coredriver of all UNESCO’s work to...
Inam Ahmed

Inam Ahmed

Inam Ahmed Editor, The Business Standard Since SDG is a global collective commitment to make life betterfree of poverty, hunger, and to establish equality, access toresources and a better environment. The effort to achieve this is quite a lofty task, especially in the...
John Lewis

John Lewis

John Lewis Explanation Age LLC, USA I was just 6 years old when I attended the 1964 New York World’s Fair, but I remember seeing the fair’s theme which was prominently displayed: “Peace Through Understanding.” The memory that stands out for me was not the amusement...
Kim Martins

Kim Martins

Kim Martins Co-Director, Mind Vision We live in a post-truth world in which ‘fake news’ can disrupt development work and devalue knowledge. Social media platforms, such as Facebook, are driven by algorithms that push ‘alternative facts’ and questionable information in...
Angelika Mittelmann

Angelika Mittelmann

Angelika Mittelmann Knowledge Manager at Voestalpine, Winner of the KM Award 2015 It is not the knowledge as such but the attitude towards learning that makes the difference. Knowledge and learning are two sides of the same coin. The good news is that learning is a...