Dr. Karan Singh, Indian MP, Address to Salwan Media's One Globe Conference 2013

Dr. Karan Singh, India’s Member of Parliament Rajya Sabha; President of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), and India’s Ambassador to UNESCO; 9 February, 2013: Address to Salwan Media’s One Globe 2013: Uniting Knowledge Communities conference (OG’13). Dr. Singh discusses the Four Pillars of Learning: Learning to Know; Learning to Do; Learning to Live Together; Learning to Be.

Learning a New Language - The Creativity and Necessity

“To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture. . .” wrote Frantz Fanon, the great intellectual. And he was right. As the world is shrinking, our identities are multiplying – we are multinational in our upbringing, education and influences. Language is a prominent condition of this socio – cultural evolution. So what does it mean to be multi-lingual and how can we acquire new languages, new worlds, new cultures? An introduction.

Three Boxes the Smart City Ticks – Jerry MacArthur Hultin

Jerry Hultin, Chairman of Smart City Expo World Congress and Senior Presidential Fellow of New York University, spoke of three key features of smart cities – learning, governmental use of cloud data, and highly efficient public services. He also appreciated the Indian government’s efforts, in terms of learning from the best global practices as well as its ambitious plans for a hundred smart cities and the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor.