Conrad taylor sent this to the kidmm list
it is produced by the bellanet people, who we have known of for a long time
incidently I am back from andalucia with some tales of international development and information systems which I will pull together
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From: BCS Knowledge, Information and Metadata Management on behalf of Conrad Taylor
Sent: Sun 06/01/2008 10:08
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Subject: [KIDMM] Knowledge Management odd bits
Sabine recently raised the topic of networking to advance
social entrepreneurship, if that's the right term. Recently
I discovered a community of practitioners in international
development who are interested in knowledge management, and
in approaches to and issues in knowledge-sharing.
The group is called "Knowledge Management for Development"
(KM4Dev) and the Web site is here:
http://www.km4dev.org/
I joined their email discussion list about a week ago and I am
currently lurking, er, monitoring the discussions. The current
discussion is about some analytics work that shows that people
and organisations which aren't very good at KM think they have
it sussed, while those who have made some efforts towards KM
believe they have a long way to go in achieving it...
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There may be a case for switching to Quechua for KM discussions.
I discovered today that in this ancient American language, which
was the language of the Inca Empire and is a recognised official
language in Peru and Bolivia today, almost every sentence includes
an "evidential suffix" to the verb that indicates how the speaker
assesses the evidence-base for the truth of the proposition:
# -mi indicates personal knowledge
# -si indicates that the speaker has hearsay knowlege
of the assertion
# -chá indicates that the statement is probably true.
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A YouTube posting of an interview with Prof Germaine of the
University of Munsterburger, explaining the relationship between
data, information and knowledge, and the practical superiority of
a process/ biological view of epistemology against one based on
logical positivism... ;-)
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz0KXaflY2w>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz0KXaflY2w
Enjoy --
Conrad
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