The World Knowledge Dialogue at a glance

The World Knowledge Dialogue Symposium 2008 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.

The World Knowledge Dialogue Webcast

The World Knowledge Dialogue Symposium was streamed live from Crans Montana, Switzerland from 10 to 13 September 2008. All plenaries, roundtables and talks have been archived and may be watched anytime here.

Science Session 3 w/ Pierre Lévy (12/09)

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Pierre Lévy

Canada Research Chair in Collective Intelligence, University of Ottawa, Canada
Pierre Lévy is a philosopher who has devoted his professional life to the understanding of the cultural and cognitive impacts of digital technologies and to the promotion of their best social uses. He is a world-leading thinker on "cyberculture". His work has been focused around the concept of collective intelligence and knowledge-based societies, and more recently, on the development of an Information Economy Meta Language (IEML) based on semiotic concepts. Pierre Lévy has published several books among them Qu'est-ce que le virtuel ? (Becoming Virtual) or Cyberculture.

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Dialogue between the sciences

I COLLABORATIVE BEHAVIOUR, ALTRUISM AND CONFLICT: from animal behaviour to economics and prevention of violence

II COLLECTIVE NETWORK KNOWLEDGE AND HUMAN INDIVIDUAL INTELLIGENCE: convergences and divergences

Special Focus

Focus on Young Scientists

"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."

-- Arthur C. Clarke's First Law

Many Young Scientists have been selected from around the world to actively participate in The World Knowledge Dialogue.

The World Knowledge Dialogue Webcast

Science Session 3 w/ Pierre Lévy (12/09)

Pierre Lévy

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