Future trends and e-Infrastructures application: towards sustainable development

       The event is supported by the GLOBAL project

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e-Infrastructures are always about development of new knowledge, but the impact of this to the development of economies and societies in emerging economies is potentially a much steeper growth curve.
Education or health applications may need to be more targeted towards ensuring primary care or education in rural areas for example, rather than collaborating with developed world researchers in pioneering new drugs, or analysing patient data. In a sense, the benefits of adopting e-Infrastructures are whatever we want them to be. Each region will have a different strategic priority for e-Infrastructures applications, but the result will always be - if the planning and implementation is effective – societal and economic development.

For the aforementioned reasons the 4th BELIEF International symposium focused on "e-Infrastructures and Sustainability Development".
The event was supported by the GLOBAL consortium. It was opened by representatives from the Government of São Paulo and from the EC Delegation to Brazil. It engaged experts from the areas of eHealth, eEducation, and eScience in order to discuss and understand in deeper detail what has already been done in terms of sustainable development by adopting e-Infrastructures and the necessary future steps to be addressed and taken into account by policy makers and decisions makers.

The major outcome of the event will be reported in a Position Statement which will be available on this portal.

To download the presentations please click on Programme and or browse the BELIEF Digital Library!

The downloadable video of the full event is available at http://isabel.dit.upm.es/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,158/Itemid,74/
A streamed version of the event can be followed at: mms://STREAM1/BELIEF-BRAZIL-2009