Knowledge Society
Society For Diffusion Useful Knowledge
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Characteristics Knowledge societies have the characteristic that knowledge forms major component of any human activity. Economic, social, cultural, and all other human activities become dependent on a huge volume of knowledge and information. A knowledge society is one in which knowledge becomes major creative force.
Knowledge societies are not a new occurrence. For example, fishermen have long shared the knowledge of predicting the weather to their community and this knowledge gets added to the social capital of the community.
What is new is that
- With current technologies, knowledge societies need not be constrained by geographic proximity
- Current technology offers much more possibilities for sharing, archiving and retrieving knowledge
- Knowledge has become the most important capital in the present age, and hence the success of any society lies in harnessing it.
Increasing relevance Knowledge and information are vital components of the formation of any society because every society is formed around some shared concepts. One of the contributions of Globalisation and new Information and Communications Technology is the creation of a global society with a shared knowledge of issues and possibilities.
'Material resources and their processing' - henceforth E - have been the basis of economic growth. Music, art, path-breaking thought streams, mixing of cultural attributes of different societies bringing in new cultural attributes, etc. - henceforth C - result in cultural development and act as a catalyst in entire social development. Now that the many societies have so matured that almost all the activities involved in E and C rely on existing knowledge base very much. This knowledge is available in written documents, written laws, unwritten laws, people's convictions, people's words in different languages etc. In the same way as the unequal distribution of materials (wealth in generalized term) caused unbalanced and inappropriate development of society to date, imbalances in the knowledge distribution, knowledge availability, knowledge sharing, etc. hinder the economic/cultural/social development of human societies. The knowledge societies first realize the importance of knowledge and also the importance of proper knowledge distribution, sharing and building for social development.
Freedom
Examples of societies that can blossom to knowledge societies People from the same field
- Teachers teaching the same subject.
- Fans of the same musical group
- Artists with similar interests
People from different fields
- Engineers talking to scientists about a scientific issue related to their engineering project
- Researchers of different fields discussing a common research problem
- Artists interested in fractals getting in touch with programmers
- Mystics talking to scientists
Infrastructure A knowledge society needs infrastructure like
The Free software movement is a success story of knowledge society
The term is frequently used by politicians, policy-makers, journalists and by scientists in the Foresight social studies.
See also
- information society
- knowledge economy
- intellectual capital
- Knowledge building
- knowledge divide
- DEMOLOGOS
- meta-knowledge
- Libre Knowledge
External links
- UNESCO World Report: Towards knowledge societies (2005)
- Knowledge Society - European Commission Homepage
- EU CORDIS page
- Economic Fundamentals of the Knowledge Society- Stanford Univ. Economics faculty.
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