WSKS 2008


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DBLP

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Dr. AMBJORN NAEVE, KMR GROUP

KTH, Sweden

Title: Collaborative Survival Through Open Research And Asynchronous Public Service - Improving The Organizational Performance of Humanity Inc..

Abstract: Today we live in a globalized economy that presents both increasing possibilities and increasing threats. We know that we need a strategic shift in the way we manage our planetary resources in order to achieve the sustainable development that is necessary for the survival of civilization as we know it. The overall challenge of the knowledge society is to build a knowledge economy that can deliver and sustain such a shift. The main message of my talk is that this can be done by what I call "the Big Switch" – away from today's globalized production supported by localized information and IPR-based, closed research, towards more localized production processes supported by globalized information and web-based, open research. I will demonstrate how knowledge management ideas and Semantic Web technology can contribute to the Big Switch by capturing essential knowledge, refining it through open dialog, and making it accessible within a global, asynchronous public service system (a "knowledge manifold") in the form of a web-based and globally accessible knowledge and learning management environment.