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It is essential for local development to increase both technological and human capacities. From the introduction of technologies, it is essential to diagnose and define the baseline of human resources in the community under study to support the implementation of the knowledge management strategy. In this article, aspects related to human resources and their interdependence with knowledge management were addressed, using multi-criteria models that support decision making in the selection of the most appropriate energy technologies to raise the standard of living. The systems for decision support in rural energization projects and the procedure for the contribution to the improvement of quality from rural energization are program packages built on the basis of technical and non-technical aspects for the energy development of rural areas with less favored populations. In this case, the above tools allowed the development of simulations and the calculation of the disparities that may arise between the existing human resource in the community and its potential after the specific energy solutions have been installed and to measure the potential impact on this resource. This paper reported the results of the application of the referred models, related to the impact on the human resource of the community, the human dimension of sustainable development and knowledge management in the case study of the rural community “El Socucho”, located in Las Tunas province, Cuba. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an analysis of the concepts of knowledge management and intellectual capital, as well as the assessment of 12 models for measuring intellectual capital, which could be used, totally or partially, in Cuban hotel companies, due to their characteristics and application concepts. Some inadequacies in the above mentioned models are identified, which do not limit the use of their indicators in measuring intellectual capital in hotel companies. As a result, the decision is to use the indicators of the Skandia model, concentrated into 4 groups: client, human resources, renovation and development, and processes. Out of the 85 indicators of this model, experts consider that 23 can be applied in Cuban hotel companies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The process of universalizatión of the Cuban Superior Education has an important consequence that is the involution of the territorial development from the creation of Sedes Universitarias Municipales (SUM). From the sprouting of the SUM in Yaguajay, this was pronounced like one of the main actors of the projects of socioeconomic development, assuming a function of pick up and distribution of knowledge that are expressed, in addition to the massive formation of human resources, in the attention differentiated to the qualification of the direction pictures, in the participation of the professors of the SUM in the debates and analysis on the socioeconomic development of the municipality and on the projects of development of the companies and in the direction directed of the plan of postgraduate courses and the investigations of professors and students towards the problems of the production and the services. With the present work we set out to reflect the experience of the SUM in the insertion within the economic, political and social life of the territory to contribute to the local development and to demonstrate that the SUM can become a revitalizing institution of the management of the knowledge, the innovation, the development and the investigations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]