Do I know where I am going and why?
Connecting Social Knowledge for Governance and Urban Action
Susu Nousala, Amir Morris, William Hall, Roger Hadgraft
This paper seeks to expand our focus to
understand how communities can assemble
and manage knowledge to support more
rational decisions regarding government
services and actions in the community
environment. We focus on the knowledge
transfer interface between communities and
urban councils, with a view to extending
theoretical understanding of such transfers,
and the socio-technical knowledge support
systems interfacing between action groups
and councils.
Utilizing theory from several previous
domains we discuss how science does not
exist in a vacuum. It is surrounded by
philosophy, theology (although not always
popular to recognise today) and art as a
beginning. These diverse areas have
undergone parallel developments and as
they do so the tools and techniques to
investigate and explore these areas have
also progressed in parallel. Following the
movement of the modern western world this
paper utilizes a broad comparison using
science, branches of mathematics,
philosophy and art, with additional
comparisons with theology.
Knowledge management - an often abused
expression - is more than just data
collection, in- formation presentation, or
simple pathways beyond this. Rather it
involves the efficient juxtaposition of
background information and the value
adding of presentation to enhance explicit
understanding in a dynamic manner.
This paper goes one step further than
normally considered, by investigating
approaches to cognition in the data
management areas and human cognition
requirements and advantages. As society
evolves, the requirements for successful
presentation of data evolve, and yet the raw
data amounts can also be effectively
presented in new and more compressed
manners. So the total information presented
can actually increase exponentially and may
become easier to understand.
Finally explicit modern examples are
utilised to demonstrate the effect of the
altered approaches through the distinct time
periods and a simple juxtaposition of the
technological tools available in each period
are utilised to enhance the data
presentations. The end results are
considered and the effect that the technology
may have made to the recording and use of
the data and it Full Text
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