Media, information and the promise of new technologies in Knowledge Transfer (KT) practices

Media, information and the promise of new
technologies in Knowledge Transfer (KT) practices

MAURICIO DELFIN
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
Trauma and Global Health (TGH) Program
Douglas Mental Health University Institute - McGill University
http://www.mcgill.ca/trauma-globalhealth

•  KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS

•  KTE SPACES/STRATEGIES

•  KEY MESSAGES

•  FORMATS

•  KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS (KS)
Knowledge Management | Information Systems Research | Innovation

–  Community of Interest/Practice as KS
•  Knowledge Base, “Body of Knowledge”

–  “Academia” as KS
–  “Mass Media” as KS
–  The Internet as KS

–  Knowledge Systems can act as “silos”

Silos in Port Giles, Australia

But first: A look at the press!

(August, 2011)

http://elcomercio.pe/lima/1319056/noticia-miedo-gana-batalla-84-peruanos-siente-temor-calles

Peru21.pe | 22 de Octubre, 2011

Peru21.pe | 14 de Agosto, 2011

Research Community “Networked” Public Sphere

•  KTE STRATEGY/SPACES
–  Workshops, Conferences, Meetings
–  Reports, Publications, Multimedia
–  Internet
–  Social Media (Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
–  Digital Repositories (not silos)
–  Social Media Strategy + Digital Repositories
–  “Cycle-sensitive” processes

R EPOSITORIES
Repository: commonly refers to a location for storage, often for safety or preservation.

PROTOCOL
Protocol: agreement, etiquette, procedural method….

/kte/
Protocols for Repository practices: methods for storage.

www.mcgill.ca/trauma-globalhealth/kte/

kte.mcgill.ca/trauma-globalhealth



•  KEY MESSAGES

•  FORMATS/REGIMES

•  KEY MESSAGES
–  Synthetic
–  Actionable
–  Packaged
–  Spreadable
–  “Memetic” potential

Case Study:
http://girleffect.org

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e8xgF0JtVg

•  FORMATS/REGIMES
–  “Informational” Format (materiality)
–  Social life of Data/Information/Knowledge
–  Culture/Regimes of Licensing
–  Culture of sharing (sharing economy)
–  Data and the Networked Society
–  Open Data
–  Open Access

Open Data
Open data is the idea that certain data should be freely
available to everyone to use and republish as they wish,
without restrictions from copyright, patents or other
mechanisms of control.

The goals of the open data movement are similar to those of
other "Open" movements such as open source, open content,
and open access.

(open data, open standards, and open source)

Source: Wikipedia.org

Open Data
•  “We-Government” (seems oriented towards
“gadgetization”)
•  “App” fever (which requires a particular
economy)

And/or:
•  Vigilancia Ciudadana (Citizens monitoring)
•  Denuncia (Denunciation)
•  Knowledge interaction

Extensible
Markup
Language
(XML)
The
comma-‐separated
values
(CSV)

“set
of
rules
for
encoding
documents

“pseudo-‐ﬁle
format;
a
set
of
ﬁle
formats

in
machine-‐readable
form.

used
to
store
tabular
data
in
which

numbers
and
text
are
stored
in

The
design
goals
of
XML
emphasize

plain-‐text
form
that
can
be

simplicity,
generality,
and
usability

easily
wriEen
and
read
in
a
text
editor”

over
the
Internet.”

Source:
Wikipedia.org

The
Linking
Open
Data
cloud
diagram | http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/

REGIMES
Regimes: A system or planned way of doing things, esp. one imposed from above.

“The Creative Commons copyright licenses and tools forge a
balance inside the traditional “all rights reserved” setting that
copyright law creates. Our tools give everyone from individual
creators to large companies and institutions a simple,
standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their
creative work. The combination of our tools and our users is a
vast and growing digital commons, a pool of content that can
be copied, distributed, edited, remixed, and built upon, all
within the boundaries of copyright law.”

http://creativecommons.org

“MacArthur has a long history of
strengthening institutions – from Human
Rights Watch, now the largest U.S.-based
human rights organization, to the World
Resources Institute, the environmental
think tank, to Creative Commons, which
has changed the way we use and think
about copyrights”.

http://www.macfound.org

http://creativecommons.org/science

“Ultimately, I believe the academic publishing
world will, and should, slowly shift toward open
access, but the transition will be ugly.

The issue boils down to a classic problem in
economics: the tragedy of the commons. While
the publishing industry and researchers
continue to act in their own short-term self-
interest by continuing the status quo, we are
slowly heading toward an untenable situation
where the people producing research papers will
not be able to afford to access them. ”

The
economic
case
for
open
access
in
academic
publishing
(A.
Stevenson)
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/11/the-economic-case-for-open-access-in-academic-publishing.ars

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DKm96Ftfko

/DYNAMIC/OPEN/PERMEABLE

/EXPLICIT/INTER-ACTIVE/HYBRID
/CYCLE-SENSITIVE/NETWORKED
* New roles: Research Communicator & Community Manager

•  KEY MESSAGES
/EXPLICIT/CLEAR/SPREADABLE/PACKAGED/VISUAL

•  FORMATS
/OPEN/SHAREABLE/ACCESIBLE

Roundup
of
Global
Internet
AcMvism
Course
Trebor
Scholz,
New
School
University
(2009)

Networked Public Sphere

Yochai
Benkler's
book,
The
Wealth
of
Networks:
How
Social
ProducBon
Transforms
Markets
and

Freedom,
available
under
a
CreaMve
Commons
AEribuMon
Noncommercial
Sharealike
license.

Or do I still have time?
(3 minutes?)

ANNEX VII:
TGH PUBLICATIONS: PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS,
BOOKS & BOOK CHAPTERS 2007-2011

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