Linking knowledge domains

I’ve created a new blog on Linking knowledge domains: knowledge integration across boundarieswhich aims to act as an access point for work on cross-domain knowledge integration which I’ve been doing for IKM Emergent over the past few years in collaboration with Josine Stremmelaar of Hivos and Wenny Ho. In particular, it will link to the [...]

Information versus Knowledge

Hi Valerie, welcome to the club! This is what I use to show the distinction between information and knowledge. I hope this helps. I prefer the above operational definitions of “tacit knowledge” and “explicit knowledge” (I shy away from ontological and epistemological definitions because they tend to be too impractical and often deteriorate into useless [...]

5- A Proposed M&E Framework

Much confusion in the field of KM stems from the use of the very common word “knowledge.” Let us discern how KM gurus use this word, starting with the guru of all management gurus, Peter Drucker: “Knowledge is information that changes something or somebody — either by becoming grounds for action, or by making an [...]

Golden week slum tip – Multiple knowledges?

Multiple knowledges, what does it mean to us? The IKM emergent programme is concerned with a number of issues but one of its central premises, and perhaps where it’s biggest added value resides, is the concept of multiple knowledges, and how to take them into account when developing IKM interventions. On the first day of [...]