Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, Sneha Bhattacharyya, Jayanta Basak

Social Knowledge Management for Rural Empowerment (eBook, ePUB)

Bridging the Knowledge Divide Using Social Technologies

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book develops and examines the concepts and strategies for rural empowerment through the formation of a community-driven social knowledge management (SKM) framework aided by social technology to bridge the rural-urban knowledge divide through tools based on self-sustenance and self-development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000175899
• Artikelnr.: 59903179

Autorenporträt

Somprakash Bandyopadhyay is Professor, Management Information Systems Group, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata, India. With a PhD in Computer Science, he has nearly 40 years of experience in teaching, research and technology development in several organizations of international repute. He was a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany and fellow of the Japan Trust International Foundation. He is the Founder-Director of Social Informatics Research Group at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

Sneha Bhattacharyya is Research Associate, Social Informatics Research Group, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata, India. With an M.Phil. in Social Sciences, her interests are in applying social techniques to optimally disseminate internet-enabled technology for upliftment of marginalized communities.

Jayanta Basak is Senior Research Associate, Social Informatics Research Group, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata, India. He has an M.Tech in Computer Science and works in the areas of design and development of Social Information Systems for social development. He is also the Co-Founder-Director of NexConnect, a social business venture based in Kolkata for social inclusion through digital inclusion.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction PART I. Rural Empowerment: Bridging Rural-Urban Knowledge
and Information Divide 2. Knowledge, Knowledge Divide and Knowledge
Capability: A Conceptual Framework 3. Rural Empowerment: A
Knowledge-Theoretic Approach 4. Contemporary Initiatives Undertaken for
Rural Empowerment 5. Information Asymmetry and Rural Producers 6.
Knowledge Asymmetry and its Mitigation through Enhancement of Knowledge
Capability PART II. Social Knowledge Management and Social Technologies:
Conceptual Foundations 7. Knowledge Management and its Evolution in
Organizational Context 8. Social Technology and Knowledge Management
Practices 9. Efforts Undertaken to Manage Social Knowledge and Information
for Social Benefit 10. Social Knowledge Management: A Social
Technology-enabled Framework to Bridge Knowledge Asymmetry of Rural
Producers through Virtual Community Formation PART III. Social Knowledge
Management in Action: Some Empirical Studies in Rural India 11.
Cultivating Online Communities of Practice to Facilitate Practice-Oriented
Rural-Urban Knowledge Exchange through Collaborative Learning Spaces 12.
Cultivating Communities of Purpose to Enhance Market Opportunities of Rural
Producers through Collaborative Knowledge Transaction 13. Cultivating
Communities of Circumstance to Enhance Community Resilience through
Knowledge Sharing using Collaboration and Connections Part IV. What
Tomorrow May Bring 14. Summery and Discussions 15. Building a Developmental
Ecosystem for Rural Empowerment