Call for Papers
(A Selection of Submitted Paper)
The Knowledge Powerhouse for the Future
The knowledge economy and the knowledge society have lately become key buzzwords as governments try and bootstrap agricultural and industrial economies into the modern global age, where knowledge has become the key to competitive advantage and even more critically, national survival. KM research has mostly focused on knowledge and knowledge management within organizational boundaries, particularly in businesses and more recently the public sector. Meanwhile, there have been attempts, usually by the likes of the World Bank, to define and rank knowledge economies and societies usually by looking at the parts of a society, such as ICT infrastructure, educational output, number of patents awarded, etc. To date, very little investigation has been done into the "whole" of the knowledge society, and probably for good reason as it is enormously challenging to fit all the pieces of society together into a coherent picture.
This conference calls for papers that offer provocative, insightful, and novel ways of investigating and understanding the linkages that connect government, business, academia and the community. Papers should be particularly focused on the boundaries between these sectors as they engage in cooperative knowledge creation and exchange. Papers that take an organizational or managerial perspective on the participation in collaborative knowledge creation and/or exchange are welcomed. Papers on process, protocols and projects will all be welcome, as will papers looking at linking technology. Topic areas include, but not limited to:
- Robust knowledge management processes and strategy
- Moderating factors for knowledge management success
- Organizational learning and transformation
- Contextual dependencies for knowledge management applications
- Technological support and design for knowledge management systems
- Knowledge storage dynamics
- Socio-cognitive approaches to knowledge management
- Applications of sense making, narratives and complexity
- Privacy, security and ethical issues
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