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Authors
Simon Buckingham Shum, 1 Dino Karabeg,2 Roy Lachica,3 Bernd Markscheffel,4 Jack Park,5 Alexander Sigel,6 Yuzuru Tanaka 7 and Hendrik Thomas8
Abstract
While technology now allow us to depart from the patterns of knowledge creation and sharing that have been developed based on speech and text as media, the global conditions invite such departure. Knowledge federation may be understood as a specific way of doing that. Knowledge federation is also a collection of values and principles, a growing compendium of techniques and technical tools, and a simple general idea that unites them all. Finally, knowledge federation is the name of a project whose objective is facilitate the evolution of corresponding systemic solutions. The causes served by knowledge federation include knowledge organization (reducing the cognitive overload and making knowledge more accessible), collective intelligence (improving our collective ability to understand and respond to contingencies), efficiency and effectiveness of knowledge work (augmenting everyone’s ability to contribute knowledge and benefit from it) and cultural evolution (bringing heterogeneous ideas or memes together so that new ones can be created). The purpose of this article is to profile knowledge federation i.e. explain how it differs from other approaches to the issues just named.
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