The first World Congress on Communication for Development will focus on demonstrating that communication for development is an essential ingredient for meeting today’s most pressing development challenges and, as such, should be more fully integrated in development policy and practice.

The Benchmarking Forum includes three workshops in which the impact of industry-specific SWOT analyses on economic strategies of regions will be major discussion points: - Regions as Technology and Life Sciences Locations - Metropolitan Regions with Financial Centres - Governance (policies) and...