Knowledge federation
Knowledge federation
Knowledge federation is a road sign, a rule of thumb, an axiom or a principle, pointing to a way in which knowledge needs to evolve. The principle is so obvious that its very obviousness confounds the mind: Knowledge must be federated.
Ideas must be federated to become knowledge. You may have an idea in mind, but can you really say you know it, before you've checked whether it's compatible with other relevant knowledge? And even then, can you really say that your idea is known, before it's been integrated in what other people think and do. So knowledge federation would hardly deserve to be mentioned – if not for the fact that in some periods of history the human society has demonstrated the tendency to lose this most precious capability, and fall into stagnation.
When capitalized, Knowledge Federation is an international community of practice, which has taken up the task of developing and streamlining knowledge federation as an academic field and a real-life praxis. Over the years, Knowledge Federation has developed a complete prototype of knowledge federation, which includes everything from epistemology and methods on the one side, and technology and institutional structures on the other.
Knowledge federation would hardly deserve to be mentioned, if not for the fact that in certain periods in history – and notably in our present time – our civilization has shown the tendency to lose that capacity, and to fall into stagnation. Part of Knowledge Federation's work has been to show that, once that capability has been regained, the likely result is a profound and sweeping change of the way in which knowledge in our society is handled. And that this change naturally leads to an Enlightenment-like change in our understanding and handling of all life's and society's basic themes.