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Further details, including the GHS framework document in six languages, at The Urban Gateway Paradigm shift of the Global Housing Strategy framework document endorsed during the UN-Habitat Governing Council (April 26, 2013).

Read the article by Thomas Lumpkin at the CIMMYT blog: http://blog.cimmyt.org/?p=10018 (February 13, 2013).

Check this pinboard: http://pinterest.com/clerkbase/technology-for-municipal-professionals/

The website of the International Treaty provides detailed information on the Benefit-sharing Fund.

There is also a report on the First Round of the Project Cycle of the Benefit-Sharing Fund (Rome, 2013).

Here the article by Andrew Pollack.

An op-ed by Richard R. John in the New York Times: How the Post Office Made America (February 8, 2013).

The relevant economic activity is: ISIC 5310 - Postal Activities.

Here is the list of these pages: http://undg.org/?fuseaction=Social%20Media

This is a brief article by Vishnu Prasad of the IFMR Finance Foundation looking into the outcomes of conditional and unconditional cash transfer schemes from around the world. Unconditional Cash Transfers – What does research say? (IFMR Trust Blog, December 26, 2013).

For insights on what keeps farmers from switching crops, see this guest post by Dr. Richa Govil in the IFMR Trust Blog: Why don’t Indian farmers grow more fruits and vegetables? (IFMR Trust, January 30, 2013).

Read the debate: Do We Still Need Libraries? (ROOM for DEBATE, The New York Times, Dec. 27, 2012)

Beyond Access is a coalition advocating for public libraries as agents for development. New technologies in public libraries will be game-changers in developing countries, and we can already see new models supported by forward thinking governments in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

How this initiative fits in the broader issue of access to information being central to the debate on poverty is addressed in comments to an article in The Guardian's Global Development Professionals Network (Judith Randel, February 18, 2013), explaining: ''Post-MDGs agenda must focus on empowering people through information about their rights to hold governments to account.''

The head of one of the world's biggest publishers tells Justin Rowlatt how she is balancing the books. We've got Britain's biggest bookseller on how he's going to keep bookshops open and one self-publishing author tells us how he is printing his own books - and keeping all the profits.

Here the mp3 (audio only).

(Also posted at: ISIC 5811 - Book publishing)

The head of one of the world's biggest publishers tells Justin Rowlatt how she is balancing the books. We've got Britain's biggest bookseller on how he's going to keep bookshops open and one self-publishing author tells us how he is printing his own books - and keeping all the profits.

Here the mp3 (audio only).

Also posted at: ISIC 9000 - Creative, arts and entertainment.

These recent articles describe current assessments of the situation and options to deal with it in the future:

• At last – how America can solve the ‘too big to fail’ problem by William Isaac and Cornelius Hurley, Financial Times of January 17, 2013.
• Have we solved ‘too big to fail’? in VoxEU.Org, by Andrew G Haldane, January 17, 2013.
• Ending 'Too Big to Fail': A Proposal for Reform Before It's Too Late (With Reference to Patrick Henry, Complexity and Reality), Speech by Richard W. Fisher, Remarks before the Committee for the Republic, Washington, D.C. - January 16, 2013)

Both articles are also referenced in an Actor Atlas blog article on Content Curating.

The question.

The founder's answer:
Regulatory Breakdown - The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation, edited by Cary Coglianese, gives a profound analysis of the problems in the current regulatory system, its coverage in the media, and the impact of all this for a nation (risks, persistent partisan division on issues, …).
In Law 2.0, one would expect that these problems are solved.
In a comment on The Rule of More (The Economists, February 20, 2012) I refer to some techniques to contain the cost of regulatory change. One would expect such techniques to be applied as well. This could be done in a methodological approach which I call the Collective Regulative Bundle. This approach introduces in the social and law domain the notion of diagnostics-therapeutics chain, a notion which is common in the health profession.

Further reading:

• More on the book: Regulatory Breakdown
• Link to my comment: The rule of more
• More on the Collective Regulative Bundle: Collective Regulative Bunble - wikiworx.info

This comment is also relevant to ISIC 6910 - Legal activities.

Read also Remembering Aaron Swartz (by John Schwartz and Robert Mackey, January 12, 2013).

The Guardian, PovertyMatters blog of Saturday, January 5, 2013: Marine agriculture offers a new solution to the problem of water scarcity (by Mark Tran)

See the article Legal Pluralism, Sharia Courts and Constitutional Issues in Ethiopia, by M. Abdo in Mizan Law Review Vol 5. No 1 (2011), pp 72-104.

This article is a resource for the Function of Government COFOG 03.3.0 - Law courts (CS) and the economic activity ISIC 6910 - Legal activities.

Here the article by Fiona Harvey, Dec. 20, 2012, The Guardian.

There is a link to this page at a comment to http://www.worldwewant2015.org/node/296253 :

Ten years ago we edited a book Knowledge and skill chains in engineering and manufacturing. It highlights challenges and opportunities.
The keynote paper by Prof. Fumihiko Kimura is of particular interest: the continual investment in vocational skills training and human capital will be supported by a growing (engineering) knowledge base (Figure 3).

Currently we do not handle well the critical issues for knowledge management Prof. Kimura lists (page 15):
- early and lossless capturing of knowledge,
- flexible knowledge sharing,
- transparency for knowledge evolution,
- re-usability of knowledge

For what concerns the infrastructural and systematized layers of knowledge, the envisioned trend from product possession to function usage (Figure 1) could be supported by an engineering (& learning) infrastructure, which is:
- globally provided & structured alongside the ISIC classes (as stable & recurrent areas of economic activity, listed here) (ref. depicted for health care on page 13 of Global Health Enterprise Architecture and the Pathway to Health Outcomes from Science Data,
- locally delivered (ref. health care, as on page 12 of the same presentation).