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Knowledge mobilisation in communities through socio-technical system

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posted on 2024-11-14, 12:57 authored by Helen HasanHelen Hasan, Kathryn Crawford
Enterprises in both the public and private sector undertake knowledge management (KM) initiatives through which they hope to engender a new, more adaptive and flexible culture of learning and innovation in their organisations. Creative activities involving social learning and innovation are, however, more common in less formal entities such as communities of practice at work and community service organisations in civil society. This paper presents the results and implications of collaborative research into the understanding, development and evaluation of socio-technical systems (STS) designed to mobilise collective knowledge in diverse community settings. The research concerns information and communications (ICT)-mediated activities of communities in the broader civil society and also those in formal organisations. The paper describes and critically evaluates a set of three STS that have the potential to support the collective knowledge of innovative groups, teams and networks, which can all be considered forms of community. The findings could be of strategic value to business, government and community service organisations initiating KM programs aimed at using collective learning to support innovation.

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This article was originally published as Hasan, H and Crawford, K, Knowledge mobilisation in communities through socio-technical system, Knowledge Management Research and Practice, 5/4, 2007, 237-248. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Knowledge Management Research and Practice.

Journal title

Knowledge Management Research and Practice

Volume

5

Issue

4

Pagination

237-247

Language

English

RIS ID

22152

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