Library of the National Congress of Argentina: How BCN Argentina has responded to the immediate crisis of the pandemic, development of protocols for reopening and the future of libraries

2021 ◽  
pp. 095574902110027
Author(s):  
Alejandro Lorenzo César Santa
Keyword(s):  
Access To Information ◽  
Digital Services ◽  
The Future ◽  
National Congress ◽  
New Challenges

In the framework of the COVID-19 pandemic, BCN Argentina has faced new challenges in order to go on providing access to information and culture to all. At this particular time, we feel compelled to find new ways to achieve our goal of assisting the community and with quality services, through the incorporation of new digital services and the development of protocols for a safe reopening.

Politics and the Future of ECOSOC

1961 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 564-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman J. Padelford
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Bargaining Power ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Social Cooperation ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The United Nations

Economic and social cooperation through the United Nations seems destined to face new challenges and alternatives in the coming years as a result of the changed composition of the United Nations membership, the increased bargaining power of the African, Asian, and other states seeking economic and technical assistance, and the precedent of UN operations in the Congo.

Development of the Supreme Bodies of State Financial Control for the Purpose of Training Auditors of the Future

Auditor ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 48-52
Author(s):  
Oksana Karepina
Keyword(s):  
Control Measures ◽  
Financial Control ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Effi Ciency ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Special Relevance

Th e article discusses new challenges to the system of supreme governmental audit bodies. The transformation of financial control bodies is necessary in modern conditions, as it allows to overcome the diffi culties of implementing control measures in a pandemic and to be able to reorient towards their implementation in the remote work mode, without reducing their effi ciency and quality. Th e article is devoted to the study of the rapidly proceeding processes of digitalization of state fi nancial control, which are acquiring special relevance in modern conditions.

China’s Efforts to Shape and Improve Its International Discursive Power: Diplomatic Practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 334-347
Author(s):  
Jisheng Sun
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Communist Party Of China ◽  
Institutional Power ◽  
Language Style ◽  
The Future ◽  
National Congress ◽  
Strategic Layout ◽  
Discursive Power

Summary Discursive power is the reflection of a country’s national strength and international influence. The increase of economic power does not necessarily mean the increase of discursive power. The improvement of discursive power has to be strategically designed and multidimensionally improved. Due to China’s historical experiences regarding discursive power, China is weak in many fields. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China began to pay more attention to improve its international discursive power such as expanding its discursive presence and strengthening effectiveness of its voice, changing language style, enhancing institutional power and innovating diplomatic practice. In the future, more substantive efforts will be needed such as strengthening the overall strategic layout, enhancing institutional discursive power in various fields, improving the discursive system and promoting integration of China’s major diplomatic ideas and discourse with global ones.

Book Review: The Future of Evaluation: Global Trends, New Challenges, Shared Perspectives

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 453-458
Author(s):  
Charmagne E. Campbell-Patton ◽  
Michael Quinn Patton
Keyword(s):  
Global Trends ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Challenges

The Future of Transparency: Power, Pitfalls and Promises

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 132-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur P. J. Mol
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Effects ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Politics ◽  
Central Object ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Uncertain Outcomes ◽  
New Research ◽  
Governance Transparency ◽  
Timely Topic

The growing attention to transparency is not an accidental and fashionable wave, soon to be replaced by another timely topic in environmental governance. Transparency is here to stay and to further develop in environmental politics, as it piggy-backs on a number of wider social developments. In assessing the achievements of transparency to date, this article concludes that it has on balance been positive for democracy. But this overall positive past assessment does not automatically extend into the future, as new challenges (and thus new research agendas) lie ahead. The growing importance attached to transparency in environmental politics ensures that it becomes a central object of power struggles, with uncertain outcomes in terms of democracy as well as environmental effects. Markets and states seek to capture transparency arrangements for their own goals, which may not necessarily be in line with assumed normative linkages between transparency, democracy and participation.

scholarly journals Access vs. Ownership: Do We Have to Make a Choice?

1997 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Townsend Kane
Keyword(s):  
Traditional View ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Modern View ◽  
The Future ◽  
Library Profession ◽  
Ownership Of Information

The library profession is currently facing a dilemma that could ultimately impact the future of libraries and librarianship. In this rapidly changing age of technology, the traditional view of libraries as “warehouses of information” is being challenged by the more modern view of them as “providers of access to information.” A conflict has emerged between those in the profession who believe ownership of information is most important and those who believe access to information is most important. It would seem that every library must make a choice between the two. However, there is a third option that could possibly satisfy everyone as well as ensure that libraries continue to be viable and important information centers in the future. This is the “access and ownership” view.

scholarly journals Creatividad e innovación: una destreza adquirible

10.14201/3165 ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra María Pérez Alonso-geta
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
New Challenges

RESUMEN: ntendemos la creatividad como destreza adquirible, como un rasgo del que participan todos los seres humanos, aunque precise ser cultivada. La capacidad de ser creativo es una mezcla de conocimientos, actitudes y habilidades que se pueden conseguir mediante la práctica. Se trata de hacerse con nuevas ideas, saliendo de las rutas trazadas, por la experiencia para conseguir nuevos productos. Desde la escuela es necesario estimular la creatividad para poder afrontar los retos que hoy se plantean, en los distintos ámbitos de la realidad, dando solución a los nuevos problemas. Eeducar para la creatividad es una estrategia de futuro. Palabras clave: creatividad, innovación, educación, creencias, actitudes.ABSTRACT: This paper conceives creativity as an acquirable skill, as a trait shared by every human being. Hhowever, creativity must be developed: the ability of being creative is a blend of knowledge, attitude and skills that can only be learnt through practice. It is about having new ideas and departing from habitual pathways traced by everyday experience in order to obtain new outputs. It is essential to stimulate creativity in school in order to be able to handle efficiently today’s new challenges, which present themselves in different areas of our lives. Teaching creativity is therefore a strategy for the future. Key words: creativity, innovation, education, knowledge, attitude.SOMMAIRE: Nous définissons la créativité comme une habilité que l’on peut atteindre, comme un attribut auquel tous les êtres humains participent, même si elle a besoin d’être cultivée. La capacité d’être créatif est un mélange de connaissances, d’attitudes et d’habilités que l’on peut atteindre moyennant la pratique. Il s’agît de trouver des nouvelles idées, en sortant des chemins existants, à travers l’expérience afin d’obtenir de nouveaux produits. Dès l’école il est nécessaire de stimuler la créativité pour pouvoir affronter les défis actuels, dans les différents domaines de la réalité en apportant des solutions aux nouveaux problèmes. Eenseigner la créativité, c’est une stratégie pour l’avenir.

scholarly journals Smart cities and robotic technologies for a model of integrated growth

2021 ◽  
pp. 237-252
Author(s):  
Elena Laudante
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Human Scale ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The City

The paper focuses on the importance of robotics and artificial intelligence inside of the new urban contexts in which it is possible to consider and enhance the different dimensions of quality of life such as safety and health, environmental quality, social connection and civic participation. Smart technologies help cities to meet the new challenges of society, thus making them more livable, attractive and responsive in order to plan and to improve the city of the future. In accordance with the Agenda 2030 Program for sustainable development that intends the inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable city, the direction of growth and prosperity of urban environments is pursued by optimizing the use of resources and respecting the environment. In the current society, robotic technology is proposed as a tool for innovation and evolution in urban as well as industrial and domestic contexts. On the one hand the users-citizens who participate dynamically in the activities and on the other the new technological systems integrated in the urban fabric. Existing urban systems that are “amplified” of artificial and digital intelligence and give life to smart cities, physical places that allow new forms of coexistence between humans and robots in order to implement the level of quality of life and define “human centered” innovative solutions and services thus responding to the particular needs of people in an effective and dynamic way. The current city goes beyond the definition of smart city. In fact, as said by Carlo Ratti, it becomes a "senseable city", a city capable of feeling but also sensitive and capable of responding to citizens who define the overall performance of the city. The multidisciplinary approach through the dialogue between designers, architects, engineers and urban planners will allow to face the new challenges through the dynamics of robot integration in the urban landscape. The cities of the future, in fact, will be pervaded by autonomous driving vehicles, robotized delivery systems and light transport solutions, in response to the new concept of smart mobility, on a human scale, shared and connected mobility in order to improve management and control of the digitized and smart city. Automation at constant rates as the keystone for urban futures and new models of innovative society. Through the identification of representative case studies in the field of innovative systems it will be possible to highlight the connections between design, smart city and "urban" robotics that will synergically highlight the main "desirable" qualities of life in the city as a place of experimentation and radical transformations. In particular, parallel to the new robotic solutions and human-robot interactions, the design discipline will be responsible for designing the total experience of the user who lives in synergy with the robots, thus changing the socio-economic dynamics of the city.

scholarly journals The COVID-19 Vaccine and the Future of International Laws in Business, Travel, and Trade

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-198
Author(s):  
Melanie Lane
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Business Travel ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
International Laws ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Current Systems

Since COVID-19, the world has been constantly evolving to adapt. Finding a cure quickly became the focus worldwide which altered set approaches to intellectual property rights. Additionally, creating a controversial vaccine has led to several more questions for the future. With varying vaccines and standards throughout the world, travel, business, and trade may face new challenges which change the current systems.

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