City of knowledge (Ciudad de Saber)
Photo by Thom
The City of Knowledge is part of the rich tradition that Panama´s society accumulated over the years in an effort to establish education as the instrument to human´s development throughout the Twentieth Century. While during its origins, Panama´s effort was linked to the organization of the educational system, required by the fledgling republic to shape its State and to provide its economy with qualified the century, the country began pondering the need to find the means necessary to associate itself with the new challenges posed by the global economy, in which knowledge has developed into a first rate productive force.