Knowledge Commoning: Scaffolding and Technoficing to Overcome Challenges of Knowledge Curation

IF 5.7 2区 管理学 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE Information and Organization Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI:10.1016/j.infoandorg.2022.100410
Israr Qureshi , Babita Bhatt , Rishikesan Parthiban , Ruonan Sun , Dhirendra Mani Shukla , Pradeep Kumar Hota , Zhejing Xu
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Extant approaches to information provisioning to farmers to improve agricultural productivity, and thereby alleviate poverty have relied on top-down external expert-driven knowledge. Such external knowledge involves decontextualised content and the use of technical language, and is resource-intensive. An alternative view emphasises the need to explore indigenous knowledge exists in rural communities, which, in contrast, requires the use of local resources, is easily understandable, and has greater potential for adoption. This paper explores how information and communication technologies, specifically videos, can be leveraged to curate such indigenous knowledge and convert it to knowledge commons. Adopting a case study approach that involved multiple sources of data collection over a nine-year period, we unearthed a dynamic process model that we labelled as knowledge commoning. It is a process through which latent-action-oriented knowledge from high-yield farmers embedded within its social context is made available as commons. The creation of knowledge commons is an iterative process between knowledge curation and knowledge dissemination, and is guided by the demand and uptake potential within local farming communities. Further, we describe how socio-cultural barriers in knowledge commoning can be overcome through scaffolding, involving the concealment of social transformation objectives within another goal desired by the community. Technological challenges can be overcome through the process of technoficing, which encompasses pursuing social objectives using technology that is appropriate for the purpose. Building on our process model, we offer contributions to theory, practice, and policy.

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知识共享:克服知识管理挑战的框架和技术
向农民提供信息以提高农业生产力从而减轻贫困的现有方法依赖于自上而下的外部专家驱动的知识。这种外部知识涉及非语境化的内容和技术语言的使用,并且是资源密集型的。另一种观点强调需要探索存在于农村社区的土著知识,相比之下,这需要利用当地资源,容易理解,并且具有更大的采用潜力。本文探讨了如何利用信息和通信技术,特别是视频,来管理这些本土知识,并将其转化为知识公地。我们采用案例研究方法,在9年的时间里收集了多个数据来源,发现了一个动态过程模型,我们将其标记为知识共有。这是一个过程,通过这个过程,来自高产农民的潜在的面向行动的知识嵌入到其社会背景中,作为公共资源提供。知识共享的创建是知识管理和知识传播之间的一个迭代过程,并以当地农业社区的需求和吸收潜力为指导。此外,我们描述了如何通过脚手架来克服知识共享中的社会文化障碍,包括在社区期望的另一个目标中隐藏社会转型目标。技术挑战可以通过技术化的过程来克服,这包括使用适合于目的的技术来追求社会目标。基于我们的过程模型,我们对理论、实践和政策做出了贡献。
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期刊介绍: Advances in information and communication technologies are associated with a wide and increasing range of social consequences, which are experienced by individuals, work groups, organizations, interorganizational networks, and societies at large. Information technologies are implicated in all industries and in public as well as private enterprises. Understanding the relationships between information technologies and social organization is an increasingly important and urgent social and scholarly concern in many disciplinary fields.Information and Organization seeks to publish original scholarly articles on the relationships between information technologies and social organization. It seeks a scholarly understanding that is based on empirical research and relevant theory.
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