Posted by Joseph Murphy on January 27, 2003 at 10:05:43:

In Reply to: Re: social embeddedness of knowledge posted by prac on January 25, 2003 at 13:14:00:

Excellent observation, Nizar. I've taken great comfort in this view recently, simply because the people in my sphere of influence have joined IT and KM at the hip, through IM.
To me, IM is a significant subset of KM, but it is, nonetheless, a subset.
The social values attached to KM, as you say, makes good economic sense. SENS recognized that there needed to be more value added to the economic theories because GNP and Per Capita GNP weren't telling us anything new. Thus the development of the Human Development Index - a more relative index with, forgive me, 'more value' attached. It is this very social thinking, my friend, which allows us to make the real connection to KM for firms in the Knowledge-economy! We can no longer value technology without adding some significant human values via Developing Economics. Otherwise, the perception that technology only helps the 'rich' get richer will continue to proliferate.
I applaud your effort to finally attach some social value to this whole topic, because honestly, if we leave it in the hands of the 'programmers', this world will continue to be a sorry place for 3/4 of the population...!
:o)

Joe

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