The digital teaching legacy of the International Polar Year (IPY): Details of a present to the global village for achieving sustainability

Author

Huettmann, Falk

Author_Institution

Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks

fYear

2007

fDate

3-7 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

673

Lastpage

678

Abstract

IPY helps to overcome national and other borders and constraints towards better information access and management of precious natural resources worldwide. It carries promises of a sustainable global village. Beyond the polar regions, IPY will leave a global legacy, most of it is digital and can be expressed as new data and synthesized information. IPY will affect how we do and fund science, how we administer the globe, how we teach and evaluate, and eventually, how society lives and carries out business and democracy. IPY offers solutions in times of massive global resource pressures, and deserves our full support. However, it needs to be assured that IPY remains balanced in its economic, social and ecological concepts. Teaching is the key to its success.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; information resources; International Polar Year; digital teaching legacy; ecological balance; economic balance; information access; information management; massive global resource pressures; polar regions; social balance; sustainable global village; worldwide natural resources worldwide; Antarctica; Arctic; Databases; Education; Expert systems; Information management; Internet; Systems biology; Wildlife; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2007. DEXA '07. 18th International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Regensburg

ISSN

1529-4188

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-2932-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DEXA.2007.31

Filename

4312979