Information and Knowledge Society: Some Futuristic Perspectives Munshi Usha Mujoo1*, Ermine Jean-Louis2** 1Librarian, Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi, India 2Professor, TEM Research Centre, Telecom Business School, France *email: umunshi@gmail.com
**Corresponding author email: jean-louis.ermine@it-sudparis.eu
Abstract The Information and Knowledge Society theme is emerging from strategic problems occurring in the real world such as, massive intergenerational knowledge transfers, serious risks of knowledge loss with massive retirements, development of competitiveness based on innovation, knowledge based economy, political and social problems due to cognitive divide, massive intrusion in the social community of ICT, and so on. The present paper is based on the deliberations of an international brainstorming seminar on Mobilising the Information and Knowledge Society (IKS), with Indo-French crossed perspectives as the initial funnelling concepts relating to the core issue of IKS. Endeavours have been made in this paper to highlight the critical issues that would eventually form basis for conducting research and addressing some of the challenges rising during the seminar and have been included in this paper. The paper also projects the possible risks associated with the knowledge crash. Finally attempts have also been made to identify the core concepts of IKS along with their characteristics. The understanding of these concepts is essential for initiating key projects around these frameworks. These concepts being the core ones need to be addressed by the KM community involved in the research and creation of tools for managing knowledge both tacit and implicit. We hope these building blocks will give a start to a common language and a shared understanding of what is an Information and Knowledge Society. Thus, would facilitate the research and scholarly community to develop mechanisms and protocols for envisioning a true information and knowledge society that is inclusive, people centric and development oriented. Top Keywords Information Society, Knowledge Society, Futuristic, Perspectives. Top |