31 Mar 2007

KM in Australia

The Australian Standard (AS 5037—2005) defines knowledge management as follows:

"A trans-disciplinary approach to improving organisational outcomes and learning, through maximising the use of knowledge. It involves the design, implementation and review of social and technological activities and processes to improve the creating, sharing, and applying or using of knowledge. Knowledge management is concerned with innovation and sharing behaviours, managing complexity and ambiguity through knowledge networks and connections, exploring smart processes, and deploying people-centric technologies."

Source:
Helen Hasan
Charmaine C Pfaff
The Wiki: a tool to support the activities of the knowledge worker

go to (pdf)

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Knowledge Management and the National Training Framework
go to (pdf)

KM reference sites, Open Directory project

Open Directory Project

1423 Knowledge Management Reference sites
go to

28 Feb 2007

SCAR foresight research

FFRAF report:
foresighting food, rural and agri-futures link pdf

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Foresight Expert Group

An expert group has been appointed to synthesise the existing analytical and foresight material in relation eight “major driving forces” for agriculture in Europe and has issued a foresight paper on each area:

* Climate change
* Environment
* Economy and trade
* Energy
* Societal changes
* Health
* Rural economy
* Science and Technology

From: EC Research, Agriculture, SCAR, Initiatives: foresight

29 Dec 2006

Sustainable Innovation

This book presents empirical research and cases to develop a theory of sustainable innovation LINK
The Organisational, Human and Knowledge Dimension
Contributing Editor: René Jorna

Research on Science Policy in European countries

"Managing with Uncertainty in Science Policy"
Financed within the Improving Human Potential Programme, STRATA activity under the European 5th Framework Programme
http://www.afsk.au.dk/Muscipoli.htm
Introduction

30 Nov 2006

Knowledge Management - Australia

SPOTLIGHT ON AUSTRALIAN KM STANDARD
by Kim Sbarcea link pdf

ThinkingShift.com
"aim is to offer new ways of thinking on topics as varied as knowledge management; social networks; chaos and complexity theory; cyberspace. "
Kim Sbarcea and ThinkingShift.com - personal website
http://www.thinkingshift.com/index.php

EFMN - mapping foresight initiatives across the world

Guidance Notes for EFMN Mapping link (pdf)

Country Foresight Statistics:
EFMN briefs
Foresight initiatives
Other documents

EFMN home

Anyone wishing to contribute to this work as a correspondent should send an email to butter@stb.tno.nl

10 Oct 2006

Learning THINKING SKILLS

Rupert Wegerif, School of Education, Open University

Literature Review in Thinking Skills, Technology and Learning
REPORT 2
a link (pdf)

FUTURELAB
Innovation in Education

10 Sept 2006

Social Knowledge Management

Meric S. Gertler and David A. Wolfe Local Social Knowledge Management: Community Actors, Institutions and Multilevel Governance in Regional Foresight Exercises," Futures, (36)
2004, 45-65.

At:
Recent publications.
Program on Globalization and Regional Innovation Systems,
Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto

http://www.utoronto.ca/progris/web_files/recentpub.htm

16 Aug 2006

Pragmatics

Dealing with Language Challenge

Pragmatics LINGUISTICS the study of how particular words in a language are chosen and used

(Macmillan English Dictionary Online)




Tarja Nikula
Research Fellow of the Academy of Finland

Roles, Functions and Uses of English in EFL and Content-based Classrooms
a link
In recent years, perspectives on language learning have been changing as researchers have started to place more emphasis on socio-cultural and constructivist aspects of language learning and language use (e.g. Ochs 1993, Donato & McCormick 1994, Wells 1999, Lantolf 2000, Zuengler et al. 2001).

Proponents of this more social view, in the words of Zuengler et al. (2001:1) "have conceived of language as a dynamic and socially grounded practice" rather than as an autonomous system that is made up of abstract representations at the levels of phonology, morphology, syntax and lexis.

The focus has thus shifted from individual learners and what they need to do and know to communicate to a more social view of communication as a joint process. As Young (2001:3) puts it, "current research has advanced the position that abilities, actions, and activities do not belong to the individual but are jointly constructed by all participants".

English voices in Finnish society: The use of English in media, education and professional settings
Project
Department of Languages, University of Jyväskylä

7 Aug 2006

foresight, FP7

Frictions and Lubricants in Shaping Ways to European Future - Foresight as a Permanent Policy Tool
Werner Wobbe, European Commission, DG Research - Directorate K, Unit "Science and Technology Foresight"; links with the IPTS
presentation

at

"The Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic in cooperation with Technology Centre AS CR organized a conference "Ways to European Future - A Dialogue between Policy Makers and Foresight Practitioners" on 11-12 May 2006 in Prague, Czech Republic. The conference was organized within the ForSociety ERA-NET which is focused on coordinating national foresight exercises. The project website: http://www.eranet-forsociety.net/.

Presentations presented at the conference are now available to download."
a link

KM, learning and research in Latvia

Dace Apshvalka

The Riga Technical university, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Institute of Applied Computer Systems, Department of System Theory and Design

List of publications - 2003-2005

28 Jul 2006

SCAR foresight activities

European Commission > Research > Agriculture > SCAR > SCAR mandate
Foresight activities

Following the second plenary meeting, the SCAR decided to launch a long-term foresight process aimed at assessing the outlook of European agriculture by 2015-2020.

The SCAR-WG is currently preparing the ground for a research agenda on foresight initiatives undertaken by SCAR, based on existing foresight studies/activities and possible mapping/networking of foresight activities at national, EU and international level.

An important step towards this objective might be a foresight conference on the future of European agriculture to be held in the first half of 2007 during the German presidency.

Source: Standing Committee on Agricultural Research mandate
The scope and role of the ‘new SCAR’
SCAR net

30 Jun 2006

Published on KnowledgeBoard

Technologies for Personal and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Knowledge Management

Eric Tsui
Financial Services, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), North Sydney, Australia and School of Business Information Technology, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

a link
"There has been numerous articles published on the role of IT and KM systems in organisations but there is a lack of research into KM tools for individuals and server-less KM tools/systems. By adopting a bottom-up approach, this research focusses on tools that assist the Individual Knowledge Worker (IKW) who, in today’s competitive knowledge-based society, has a constant need to capture, categorise and locate/distribute knowledge on multiple devices and with multiple parties."


Peter Bond (Learning Futures Ltd)
The Reconciliation of Knowledge and Technology Management

a link to the article

discussion on KnowledgeBoard, 2005-

Peter Bond, Understanding Technology as Knowledge and Culture (2006)
a link