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Theme 1: Knowledge Economy,
Knowledge Management, and the Information Society |
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(Last updated:
November 28th, 2005) |
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ICTs in the Development
of the Project "Bogota Land of the Knowledge" |
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Jaime Francisco Acosta,
Director |
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Bogota Land of the Knowledge,
Bogota, Colombia |
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This initiative is an applied case of a project
of regional endogenous development, with this
the city of Bogotá is starting a process
as land of knowledge, going through strategies
between private, public players and universities
in order to push development toward a new generation
of issuing enterprises (START–UPS )in intensive
sectors of knowledge, which could generate news
jobs, incomes and richness, adopting an endogenous
development with systemic vision as a model to
follow, it must join the seed-bed of companies,
parent companies, tech-parks, angels, funds of
seed capital, funds for innovation, research
and tech centers. |
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The goal is to advance gradually, implying
a seed-bed of new ideas first plugged with parent
companies, moving with an angels`net, funds of
seed capital, funds of risk capital, funds for
innovation, and a net of university tech centers
of development as public as privates. An instrument
of articulation will be the universities' internet
pages where different players of the innovators
net could be inside the seed-bed companies program
and where the parents of innovative companies
interact, exchange information, monitoring, and
watch the evolution process. |
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In this work, we will show how we got the agreement
between players who had been led by the majority
of Bogotá. Which ICT instruments were used
to make dynamically newborn companies, which instruments
in 2007 are going strong or being newly used, what
other instruments could be used in 2011, and how
ICTs are the key tool for the spread and appropriation
of Bogotá, land of the knowledge in the
social net. |
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Knowledge Management and Development:
Top Down and Bottom Up Approach |
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Anuja Sinha, MBA
Student |
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Bharat Institute of Technology,
Meerut, India |
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With development, efficient channels of
access to the information evolve in a system.
A high economic standard of a population will
lead to higher use of mass media and communication.
There is a certain pattern of development where
people develop from having access to healthy
food, clean water, house, electricity etc and
gradually switch over to using television,
telephone, computers etc. and thus people get
interlinked to the information society. We
call it “Bottom Up” model
of development. |
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An alternative approach of development is to
directly create an interface between the information
society and the underdeveloped economies. This
means introducing T.V., Telephone and computers
to the people who do not have proper housing,
clean water or even good supply of electricity.
This can be called a “Top Down” model
of development. |
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A study of slum dwellers in the metropolises
of India leads us to be convinced that the Top
Down model has some strong relevance to fast
economic development. Many of the slum dwellers
do not have access to clean water, good house
and continuous electricity, still they are interlinked
to the information world in a more effective
manner in comparison to the people living in
remote villages. Their per capital income and
literacy rate is much higher than the national
average and rate of economic development is fast. |
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This leads us to conclude an aggressive approach
towards interfacing the underdeveloped economies
with mass media and information will lead to
radical development in poverty alleviation in
the developing world. |
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Innovation and Competitiveness
in the Information Economy: "Leapfrogging" Strategies
for Developing Countries |
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Mahendhiran Nair and
Mudiarasan Kuppusamy |
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School of Business, Monash
University Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia |
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In this paper, we examined the factors contributing
to the innovative capacity of nations in the
information economy. The linkage between innovation,
competitiveness and standard of living in the
new economy is also discussed in this paper.
A statistical pattern recognition method was
used to benchmark the performance of twenty-five
developed and developing countries on the following
factors of innovation: ICT infrastructure,
intellectual capital, interaction (networking)
and integrity systems. The statistical method
was also used to benchmark the performance
of these countries on the following dimensions:
innovation (quantum and quality of research
and patents), competitiveness (productivity)
and standard of living (wealth generated by
e-commerce and per capita income). The sample
period for the empirical study was from 1995
to 2005. |
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The empirical results showed that countries
that have high investment in ICT infrastructure,
intellectual capital, interaction and integrity
systems are at the top of the value chain in
terms of innovation, competitiveness and standard
of living. The study also identified countries
that have “leapfrogged” in some
of the dimensions mentioned above and the policies & strategies
responsible for facilitating the leapfrogging
process. Results from this study provide useful
directions for developing countries to leapfrog
to higher stages of socioeconomic development. |
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Leading Africa into the
Knowledge Society |
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Reymond
Voutier, Executive
Chairman |
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eNotus International,
Singapore |
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Africa faces many challenges, most flow
from demanding priorities, with possibly the
greatest challenge being where to start. And
the driving question being – will knowledge
management help Africa to be more competitive?
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To answer that question let us start with another
question – why do economies need to be
competitive? |
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Competitive economies are essential in today’s
global markets, as competitiveness is the benchmark
for capital growth, wealth creation and economic
progress. Information, or more precisely knowledge,
is becoming the new determinator for competitiveness. |
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How do economies become, and remain, competitive
in a global market? |
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The key to future competitiveness will be information
and knowledge. A great transition in thought
and action was needed to move a country from
being an agricultural-based economy to a manufacturing
and industrial based economy. An even greater
transition is required to take the next step
to being an information and knowledge based economy.
Management imperatives over the past fifty years
have had to change from dealing with an age of
opportunity to embracing the role of the global
knowledge manager. This change will be even more
critical during the next twenty years. |
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The transition that is underway requires:
new institutions and organizations, new political will, and new policies.
Each of these elements also require knowledge-based leadership and
management. |
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What is needed to support the transformation
to an information and knowledge based economy? |
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The work of Knowledge Management Africa and
projects like Linking Africa are leading the
way to new models that will bring knowledge and
value to economies now locked into the global
competitiveness equation. |
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Linking Africa is a continent-wide knowledge
initiative with its roots in the Asian economic
miracle. Applying approaches and concepts that
were proven as part of the Asian miracle to
Africa have great potential as the continent
embarks on the path of knowledge management.
The Linking Africa project is the culmination of more than 25,000
man-hours of design and development, and draws on extensive experience,
and far-reaching intellectual property. This large investment when
coupled with business and government relationships will help create
a common knowledge framework and business infrastructure for Africa
in the 21st century. Linking Africa will make doing global business
easier and provide the means for business organizations across
Africa to participate in, and benefit from, the global economy.
Such knowledge bases are needed urgently to meet the ever–more-complex
information needs of governments, financiers, and business. The
current interest of the G7 in Africa’s affairs has already
began to focus on trade, not aid. |
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Knowledge Management Africa and projects like
Linking Africa are among the first actions to
meet a growing need for knowledge-based economic
and business intelligence required to underpin
trade and investment.
This is all about competitiveness.
Nations are competitive if, under free, non-protectionist, conditions
they produce goods and services that meet the global marketplace
test, while expanding the real income of their citizens. To be competitive,
nations must export more – be it goods, services or knowledge,
and its people must receive a globally-oriented education. Nations
need to be aware of technological, economic, financial and other
actions and changes around the world as these all impact quickly
on national policies.
How businesses become competitive.
Businesses are competitive when they produce innovative or superior-quality
products or services at globally competitive prices. Businesses are
competitive when they re-invest and seek increased market share rather
than raise prices. Competitiveness is synonymous with long-range
profit based on strategic thinking, a global perspective, and now,
on access to greater knowledge. |
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Newly emerging business and economic systems
present a challenge to, and are driving a fundamental
change in, our approach to goods and services,
technology, smart growth, and wealth itself.
Today, the goods and services economy and the
money, credit and capital economy are moving
in different directions and at different speeds.
We have to forget the myth of secure national
markets. The primary products economy is no longer
connected to the industrial economy, having become
marginal to it; production is no longer linked
to employment. Assets are now more likely to
be in documents than a ship’s hold. |
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For Africa to develop its trade and investment
potential, it will need to create a truly competitive
private sector, knowledge will become essential,
such knowledge will assist and lead Africa into
the knowledge economy and society. |
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