Social Knowledge Management for Rural Empowerment: Bridging the Knowledge Divide Using Social Technologies

ISBN-13: 9780367334949 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 324 str.

Somprakash Bandyopadhyay; Sneha Bhattacharyya; Jayanta Basak

Opis

This book develops and examines the concepts and strategies for rural empowerment through the formation of a community-driven social knowledge management (SKM) framework aided by social technology to bridge the rural–urban knowledge divide through tools based on self-sustenance and self-development. 

Spis treści

1. Introduction PART I. Rural Empowerment: Bridging Rural–Urban Knowledge and Information Divide 2. Knowledge, Knowledge Divide and Knowledge Capability: A Conceptual Framework 3. Rural Empowerment: A Knowledge-Theoretic Approach 4. Contemporary Initiatives Undertaken for Rural Empowerment 5. Information Asymmetry and Rural Producers 6. Knowledge Asymmetry and its Mitigation through Enhancement of Knowledge Capability PART II. Social Knowledge Management and Social Technologies: Conceptual Foundations 7. Knowledge Management and its Evolution in Organizational Context 8. Social Technology and Knowledge Management Practices 9. Efforts Undertaken to Manage Social Knowledge and Information for Social Benefit 10. Social Knowledge Management: A Social Technology-enabled Framework to Bridge Knowledge Asymmetry of Rural Producers through Virtual Community Formation PART III. Social Knowledge Management in Action: Some Empirical Studies in Rural India 11. Cultivating Online Communities of Practice to Facilitate Practice-Oriented Rural-Urban Knowledge Exchange through Collaborative Learning Spaces 12. Cultivating Communities of Purpose to Enhance Market Opportunities of Rural Producers through Collaborative Knowledge Transaction 13. Cultivating Communities of Circumstance to Enhance Community Resilience through Knowledge Sharing using Collaboration and Connections Part IV. What Tomorrow May Bring 14. Summery and Discussions 15. Building a Developmental Ecosystem for Rural Empowerment