Mission
Be a catalyst in the articulation and accumulation of systematized knowledge commons and their provision, via web-based services, to multi-stakeholder development initiatives.
Value Vision: benefits in a vibrant and sustainable society
We can achieve substantial social savings [1] and benefits in the knowledge work and information exchanges of sustainable development initiatives [2].
In the ICT-reliant global society, an actor's thriving potential depends on its enterprise (architecture) maturity [3].
The efficient and effective addressing of change, be it for commercial, non-profit or public-sector actors, must leverage a multi-level perspective [4] in:
- continuous and collaborative planning, monitoring and evaluation;
- cross-actor evidence-driven diagnosis; and
- polycentric, policy-aligned intervention design.
Service Architecture
Here a table with service components. Their construction proceeds as described under call for joint action. Joint action includes, but is not restricted to, commercial engagements.
| Service/component url |
Topic |
Further details (this site) |
| Convention on Knowledge Commons |
Equitable governance of knowledge commons and knowledge claims |
Global Agreement |
| under construction |
Change capability that is enabled by systematized knowledge commons, structured by a multi-level enterprise architecture |
Collective Regulative Bundle |
| under construction |
Dictionaries, each of which provides systematized knowledge commons; and is maintained by the change agents |
Entity Dictionary Interaction Dictionary Actant Dictionary Metrics Dictionary |
Call for Joint Action
The sustainable maintenance of commons is a collective responsibility[5]. In the case of the vast knowledge commons, the lack of systematization feeds poor awareness, slow accumulation, under-harvesting in development initiatives. It also feeds wasteful, opportunistic publishing[6].
The value vision and the initial service architecture are first steps. Both the joint construction of future-proof systematized knowledge commons and their deployment in private spheres must progress alongside performing multi-stakeholder initiatives.
The collective assets are constructed and maintained in four phases: foundations, testing, scaling and operations, as inidicatively planned in the Road Map and illustrated by a number of Application Cases.
Corporate Benefits from Systematized Knowledge Commons
Contact info[at]pragmetaknowledgeclout[dot]be with detailed requests for quotations.
Public Sphere Initiatives and Alliances
Public sector and non-profit actors, volunteers, and "knowledge-economy" philantropists can send requests and plans in using or contributing to systematized knowledge commons by sending email to: info[at]pragmetaknowledgeclout[dot]be
Further Background
- reflect the value and risk drivers of multiple stakeholders in knowledge conversion modes that are instrumental for the typical socio-technical theatres :
- in operational theatres, following Ikujiro Nonaka's SECI model, these are called: Socialization, Externalization, Combination and Internalization);
- in tactical theatres, the knowledge conversion modes target systems improvement and involve monitoring and evaluation, cause-effect analysis, diagnosis, intervention design, and implementation;
- in strategic theatres, the knowledge conversion modes involve stakeholder and value/risk analysis, enterprise architecture capture and design, structural change and even paradigm change.
- ensure a broad-based utility and reusability of the systematized knowledge commons across strategic, tactical and operational theatres;
- ensure the situation-specific translation into actionable knowledge for multiple actors acting in myriad situations;
- overcome the presumptive mindset by an experimentalist approach that is more contingent on constraints in the economic, cultural, social and environmental context, and uses monitoring and evaluation to learn which initiatives work and which fail [7];
- overcome the pipe-stoved mentality and "print-on-paper" knowledge conversion approaches that have invaded our communication and implementation habits and that erode the socio-environmental value of knowledge, information and communication technology;
- engage a growing number of actors in systematizing the knowledge commons, and in improving their utility in the engineering and implementation of sustainable actor networks[8] ;
- ensure the progressive synergetic connectivity between proprietary knowledge assets and the knowledge commons;
- deploy the mobile web as a tool for stakeholder mobilization on the road to sustainable development, consumption and production.
Bibliography
1. Fogel, R. W. "Notes on the Social Saving Controversy," The Journal of Economic History (39:1) 1979, pp. 1-54.
2. Though it is difficult to give and allocate precise figures, the 2004 study by Gallagher, M. P., O'Conner, A. C., Dettbarn, J. L. Jr., Gilding, A., and Gilday, L. T. "Cost Analysis of Inadequate Interoperability in the U.S. Capital Facilities Industry", NIST GCR 04-867 (url:
http://www.bfrl.nist.gov/oae/publications/gcrs/04867.pdf ) illustrates the techniques to be used in allocating and calculating potential benefits, and it gives an indication of the order of magnitudes that is at (collective) stake.
3. For background on enterprise architecture maturity, see
http://www.opengroup.org/architecture/togaf8-doc/arch/chap27.html; savings and benefits from systematized knowledge commons are primarily for IT architecture characteristics: business linkage, senior management involvement, operating unit participation and architecture communication.
4. J. Schot, R. Hoogma, B. Elzen, Strategies for shifting technological systems: the case of the automobile system," Futures 26 (10) (1994) 1060–1076.
7. Rodrik, D., December 2009. Diagnostics before Prescription.
URL
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/drodrik/Research%20papers/Diagnostics%20before%20prescription.pdf
