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 All plenaries, roundtables and talks have been archived and may be watched anytime here.

Keynote III w/ Joël de Rosnay (11/09)

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Joël de Rosnay

President of Biotics International, Paris, France
Joël de Rosnay is the Special Advisor to the Director General of the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie at La Villette of which he was Director of Forecasting and Assessment until June 2002. From 1975 to 1985 he was Director of Research Applications at l'Institut Pasteur (the Pasteur Institute in Paris). He is particularly interested in advanced technologies and the applications of system theory and he is the author of several scientific books aimed at a large public, among them "L'Homme Symbiotique, regards sur le 3eme millénaire" (Symbiotic Man, a look into the third millennium), "La plus belle histoire du monde", (The most beautiful history of the World) with Yves Coppens, Hubert Reeves and Dominique Simonnet. In 1990 he was winner of the Academy of Sciences Award for scientific communication.

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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

Keynote III w/ Joël de Rosnay (11/09)

Joël de Rosnay

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