Posted by Mezei on June 03, 1999 at 10:44:48:

In Reply to: What is the difference between information and explicit knowledge? posted by Kees de Vos on June 02, 1999 at 17:36:29:

There is a slight difference between explicit knowledge and information. It has to do with how we view knowledge vs info vs data. The moment we make distinctions by creating these catagories, then the question becomes, what forms the basis of these distinctions? I've held to the concept that the difference between knowledge and information has to do with the mediums of exchange, ie the human and technological mediums, through which our ideas flow. In short, explicit knowledge becomes information when we introduce some form of technological medium through which it is exchanged, which could be anything outside of speech itself. Which also introduces the idea of explicit vs tacit information. Does explicit knowledge first become tacit information? I believe it does. It has to if we are to develop any formal methodology which explains the science of knowledge and KM.

Don

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• Re: What is the difference between information and explicit knowledge? Kees de Vos 18:33:27 6/03/99 (9)
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