About this News Service

This site is a purpose-designed news site built for The World Knowledge Dialogue. Many organizations have been involved in the organization of The World Knowledge Dialogue. This page details only those involved with the news service.

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The News Team

Concept

The Online News for The World Knowledge Dialogue is based on Conference Reports, a cross-sector partnership between MCART and ICVolunteers started in 1998 that directly involves volunteers in carrying results around the world.

For more information how this service works, please visit www.conference-reports.org.

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Randy Schmieder, MCART

Site & News System

Provided by MCART

Randy Schmieder, Director, MCART

Special thanks to the CERN Multimedia team for the webcast:

Silvano de Gennaro - producer
Ronaldus Suykerbuyk - video director
Josiane Uwantege - camera
Laurent Tarrano - camera
Cesare D'Ettorre - broadcast manager
Thomas Baron - webcast streaming

Reviews and Approvals

World Knowledge Dialogue thanks the following professionals for their time and commitment to reviewing articles:

Jérome Billotte (WKD)
Moira Cockell (WKD)

Reporting & Editing

Provided by ICVolunteers

Viola Krebs, Secretary General, ICVolunteers

Reporters Team Coordination:

Viola Krebs (ICVolunteers)
Steve Pollard (ICVolunteers)

Report Writing:

Thirteen volunteer reporters and staff contributed to the articles appearing on this site. Click here to see articles by name.

Raad Abdulaziz (ICVolunteers)
Erkan Alpman (ICVolunteers)
Kate Howell (ICVolunteers)
Viola Krebs (ICVolunteers)
Patrizia Kuriger (Young Scientist)
Gavin McClure (ICVolunteers)
Karen McCusker (ICVolunteers)
Beatrice Nordin (ICVolunteers)
Steve Pollard (ICVolunteers)
Suraj Ravindran (ICVolunteers)
Jim Rudolf (ICVolunteers)
Randy Schmieder (MCART)
Tatjana Schwabe (ICVolunteers)

Report Editing:

Viola Krebs (ICVolunteers)
Steve Pollard (ICVolunteers)
Randy Schmieder (MCART)
Sarah Webborn (ICVolunteers)

The World Knowledge Dialogue Volunteer Program

Provided by ICVolunteers

Sara Wyke, Team Coordinator
Pat Delmenico, Welcome Team Coordinator

Quick Jump to

Dialogue between the sciences

I New Discoveries defining Complexity

II Origin and Migrations of Modern Humans

Special Focus

The World Knowledge Dialogue at a glance

The World Knowledge Dialogue Symposium 2006 is an institutional initiative to bridge the gap between the natural and the human/social sciences starting from new, revolutionary discoveries with potential impact at the scale of paradigmatic changes.Click for more information and summaries of sessions.

Focus on Young Scientists

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
-- Albert Einstein

Thirty-eight Young Scientists were selected from around the world to actively participate in The World Knowledge Dialogue.