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Raymond Saner & Lichia Yiu, CSEND, Geneva The role of governance and innovation policy can help cities and countries achieve the goal of creating smart cities and sustainable human development. In view of challenges that countries and citizens face when attempting to create sustainable smart cities, it is of paramount importance to take into consideration […]

CSEND statement by R. Saner, L. Yiu and A. Ajith on the importance of measuring sustainability of cities. In view of challenges that countries and citizens face when attempting to create sustainable smart cities, it is of paramount importance to take into consideration how the 2030 agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals can help support […]

The international agreement on the Sustainable Development Goals signed in 2015 specify that the SDGs will be implemented by national governments and that countries should also embark on SDG implementation at subnational level such as municipalities or provinces. This paper focuses on SDG implementation at local authority level of large cities and explores the needed […]

Chapter 91 Article Making E-Training Cost Effective through Quality Assurance (pages 623-631) Lichia Yiu, Raymond Saner Chapter 119 Article Standards for Skill Training and Development (pages 810-816) Lichia Yiu, Raymond Saner

This note is structured into five parts. Part I presents a theoretic review of relevant literature related to the topic of the workshop. Part II describes some case examples from field then followed with action based practices in various cultural contexts (Part III). Part IV summarises the lessons learnt. Article Workshop (2012)

The purpose of this article was to identify the new key geopolitical and economic power factors related to “data control” and governments’ capacity to move from personal data control to event forecasting capability. Abstract Full Report

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The Doha Development Agenda (DDA) launched in 2001 was supposed to achieve further trade liberalisation while at the same time taking into a ccount the needs of developing countries. Ten years have passed since its inception and no end of the Round is in sight. In this context, plurilateralagreements might constitute a solution to the […]

Raymond Saner and Lichia Yiu, 2014, The Graduate Institute, Geneva, 2014, Articles and Debates 5.3 Low levels of human capital stock limit growth opportunities for companies and correspondingly can slow down economic development thereby endangering a country’s competitiveness. Perceived underinvestment in human capital by its firms can be corrected by a country by making investment […]

Raymond Saner, 5th July 2013 Radical new approaches are urgently needed to reverse climate warming and to prevent the world from committing “ecocide” through environmental destruction. The radical new solutions proposed in this policy study go beyond the incremental change of current policy practice and instead suggest the need for a discontinuous change as the […]