Information technologies (ITs) and supply chain management (SCM) are increasingly considered as indispensable tools of competitiveness especially for companies facing excessive global competition, although these companies have not necessarily succeeded in taking full advantage of such cutting-edge technologies and management systems. Their use, especially of international SCMs, is limited to a small number of purchaser-suppliers groups that are formed primarily by transnational corporations (TNCs). The factors impeding a proliferation of SCMs at a global scale include the difficulties that com…
Introduction
Most nations have one or more governmental or non-profit agencies charged with collecting and analyzing science and technology data. These are sometimes referred to as science and technology observatories. Herman Jaramillo, in writing about science and technology observatories, has noted that an observatory, as an agency for collecting and processing indicators helps society to understand science and technology development and the integration of science and technology variables with other measures of economic and social development. The resulting information becomes a public…
Preface
The concept of an information society refers to a paradigm which is profoundly changing the world in which we live at the beginning of this new millennium. This transformation is being driven primarily by new ways of creating and disseminating information using digital technologies. Information flows, communications and coordination mechanisms are being digitized in many different sectors of society, and this process is gradually giving rise to new ways of organizing society and production. While this form of digital conduct is becoming an increasingly global ph…
Prefacio
El concepto de sociedad de la información hace referencia a un paradigma que está produciendo profundos cambios en nuestro mundo al comienzo de este nuevo milenio. Esta transformación está impulsada principalmente por los nuevos medios disponibles para crear y divulgar información mediante tecnologías digitales. Los flujos de información, las comunicaciones y los mecanismos de coordinación se están digitalizando en muchos sectores de la sociedad, proceso que se traduce en la aparición progresiva de nuevas formas de organización social y productiva. Esta actividad dig…
This publication, compiled by Gilberto C. Gallopín, Regional Adviser in Environmental Policy for Latin America and the Caribbean, contains the results of the deliberations of the Latin American and Caribbean Regional Workshop on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development. The purpose of the Workshop was to discuss the practical, theoretical and organizational challenges that the quest for sustainable development poses to science and technology (S&T). The increase in complexity and connectivity characteristic of our times results in that the components of the problems are now much …
Este documento, compilado por Gilberto C. Gallopín, Asesor Regional en Política Ambiental para América Latina y el Caribe, contiene los resultados de las reflexiones del Taller Regional Latinoamericano y Caribeño sobre Ciencia y Tecnología para el Desarrollo Sostenible. Su objetivo fue discutir los desafíos prácticos, teóricos y organizativos que la búsqueda del desarrollo sostenible plantea a la Ciencia y la Tecnología. El aumento de la complejidad y conectividad característico de nuestra era hace que los componentes de los problemas sean mucho menos separables que antes y fuerza la necesidad…
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