Knowledge for Development: Innovation and Communication Challenges for the Asia Pacific - Responding to Major Changes in the Global Development Environment
They see a window of opportunity to remake the DirAP mission of state-of-ICT policy and practice mapping into a critical analysis and think-tank mission, on how the new digital media and communication strategies can support multi-disciplinary knowledge-driven solutions to stimulate society and more particularly, communities, towards innovation and transformation so that innovation is not exclusive, but broad-based. They feel that aiming at innovation by all and for all, is more likely to increase the pool of innovative approaches to development. The project stakeholders wish to begin to identify and brainstorm with outside domain partners on the critical developmental problems in the region to ask the questions: what are the high potential areas for innovation? what creative solutions are possible? how can policy support these solutions? What ICT-enabled interventions might lead to improved research capacity; innovative products and services and effective regional policies? |