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<div>Greetings: </div>
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<div>The Cambridge University M.Phil Programme in Environmental
Engineering and Sustainable Development is sponsoring the 3rd Annual
Distinguished Lecture Series on Sustainable Development. Under the
auspices of CMI, the lectures are being broadcast simultaneously to
MIT on selected Wednesday afternoons from 1:00 -2:30. The sixth and
final lecture is Wednesday, April 20; the Spring 2005
Lecture Series schedule is at
http://ceemeng.mit.edu/Distinguished%20Lecture%20%20leaflet%202005.pdf<br
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<div>Details include:<br>
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<div>Time: Wednesday, April 20, 1:00-2:30<br>
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<div>Location: MIT Room 9-151<br>
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<div>Refreshments: cookies and juice provided<br>
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<div>Abstract:</div>
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Sustainable Development</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">The convergence of three distinct but
interconnected trends - unrelenting globalization, growing worldwide
electronic connectivity, and increasing knowledge intensity of
economic activity - is transforming traditional knowledge practices,
creating new research models and accelerating 'new knowledge'.
While this convergence is creating powerful new opportunities for
global politics and for transitions toward sustainable development,
serious barriers remain and obstruct knowledge access provision,
application and implementation. These barriers call for new
modes of harnessing the potentials of advances in information
technology in order to help facilitate transitions toward sustainable
development.</font><br>
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<div><font color="#000000">The key questions are: Why focus on
information technology? What is the knowledge-connection? What are key
barriers to e-Knowledge access? What are specific 'solutions'? How
can these be implemented? We address each of these
questions, highlight select features of a
solution-strategy implemented via the Global System for Sustainable
Development - a distributed e-knowledge networking strategy and
operating system devoted to the complex domain of 'sustainable
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<div>E. Eric Adams</div>
<div>MIT Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering</div>
<div>Rm 48-216b</div>
<div>Cambridge, MA 02139</div>
<div>617-253-6595 (t)</div>
<div>617-258-8850 (f)</div>
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