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Mainstreaming Gender Participation as an Essential Component of a Knowledge Management System in the Integrated Water Resources Management in the 21st Century
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Thein, Khin Ni Ni |
| Copyright Year | 2001 |
| Abstract | Although it is generally accepted that the s upply of drinking water of an a cceptable standard is essential to public health, the means for ensuring this are still disputed. The disputes often have their origins in their various costs that this supply of water entails and the way in which these costs are distributed within societies and between societies. Very commonly, those who have the most urgent need for improved drinking water are those who, it appears, can least afford the investments that are required. Correspondingly, the greatest effort has been put into providing investments directed to improving drinking water supplies. This effort Corresponds to a transfer of financial resources from one part of a society to another part or from one society to another society. The crux of the argument that will be presented here is that this transfer of financial resources must be accompanied by a transfer of knowledge resources if such intra-society and inter society transfers are to be effective at all. Moreover, the transfer of knowledge resources necessitates the introduction of quite other kinds of technology than those normally associated with the transfer of financial resources; associated in turn with quite other kinds of social, including institutional, arrangements. The approach that is proposed here is thus of an essentially socio-technical nature: its technical innovations will be useless unless adequate social, including institutional, arrangements accompanying them, while the social transformation that is being sought here will not be realizable without the new technical means. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://iacconference.org/documents/10th_iacc_workshop_Mainstreaming_Gender_Participation_as_an_Essential_Component_of_a_Knowledge.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
