it argues that education systems and learning practices need to adapt education services to fit local needs and conditions the report advocates a shift from viewing knowledge as a standardized commodity to seeing it as a distributed resource that has led to pressures for decentralization of control and decisionmaking local adaptations and increased use of technology to access knowledge the attainment of education whether formal or not is an investment in human capital the outcome of this investment is knowledge production and transfer that ensures the livelihoods and prosperity of arctic communities