According to the Asian Development Bank the fall in the value of financial assets may have reached $50,000bn, with estimated losses in Asia (excluding Japan), of at $9,625bn. Two things are also equally certain: the export-based models of Asia will catch a serious flu, and the necessary restructuring to more internal market dynamics will take a lot of time in a under-capitalized environment. In the post-schumpeterian The following is a draft editorial I would like to see published in the mainstream press. In the meantime, here’s an overview of how a social innovation policy

Erik Caldwell Johnson wrote a Capacity Development Brief on the Community Empowerment Network, a community of practice for local capacity in Central Asia. The World Bank and Europe and Central Asia Region (ECA) launched this network in 2002 as four national networks linked through regional activities that would build the capacity of communities and development partners to implement community-driven development (CDD) projects. And CDD describes projects that encourage local communities to control the direction of their own development from project conception through implementation and evaluation.

Till date, TechXav’s community consists on five teenagers, including me who constantly write and share our knowledge with other bloggers and tech users. Technorati Tags: asia , blogging , Online Communities , Singapore , techxav , teenagers ...Tags: Tags: Australia Online Communities Singapore asia blogs social media social networks blogging techxav teenager I found this online community of bloggers today. Kinda cool:

That’s what knowledge workers want to do; they don’t want to adopt a new set of social tools that replace everything they have been doing; they eventually want to keep improving their own productivity on what they are already doing in their day to day work flow. What they are asking for is a set of social tools that help them become more social with the already existing processes they have been involved with; they want to humanise the enterprise once again with that nurturing of personal business relationships, but without having to start from scratch with a new set of unrelated

The video is in two parts of roughly 20 minutes each: the first part builds a case for expertise management in the context of knowledge continuity, to support the three core cognitive functions of an organisation: coordination, memory and learning (thanks to Matt for the Finian photo and the baby idea as a framing metaphor). This survey is still live , and we need more responses from Asia, and from more private sector companies, big and small. Here’s the video capture of my presentation at KM World last week – thanks to Maish and a new Flip Video camera for getting it done (though I had a habit of hiding from the camera!).

The list is longer than I thought: Community of ICT4D trainers ILO/CIARIS experiences in lusophone Africa Communities of practice in India CoP in Ghana Tech forum in Kumasi, Ghana The community empowerment network in Central Asia Ayuda Urbana, a cop on urban development in Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean Communities of practice at CARE International E-collaboration amongst Dutch development organisations Thailand Community of practice on e-government UNDP's experiences in India UNDP's knowledge networks 5 examples from Latin America Obstacles to knowledge

After trying to solve that conflict with the agenda, the next session I will be attending will be the one on Twitter-like Tools for the Enterprise #e2conf20 with Gil Yehuda as the moderator and David Schwartz , Mark Dowds , Ross Mayfield , Tim Young and Yoshi Maisami as the main speakers which I am sure would be a rather fascinating panel on the role of microsharing / microblogging tools on the Enterprise and their role in changing the way we communicate, collaborate and share knowledge. Conference , Boston , Agenda , Conference Events , Events , Conferences , Reality

come and meet other locals from all knowledge-intensive industries to discuss the goals, issues and opportunities facing knowledge management professionals. rdquo; - Geraldine McBride , CEO SAP Asia The Business Times Wed, Jan 07, 2009 Knowledge Workers have to be able to demonstrate how their knowledge and other intangibles drive business performance and create value. Value Flourishing Meetup for Business Strategy and Networking Martin Cleaver and others have formed a flourishing Meetup for Business Strategy and Networking in Toronto .

Restricting knowledge is not part of our culture. There is an overall culture of sharing knowledge here, even if this isn’t called ‘Creative Commons’. Generally speaking, copyright in any form, including CC, doesn’t fit in too well with Asian ideas of knowledge, since it enables those controlling knowledge and information over the rest, and we find it impossible to emerge winners in this game. Marco Fioretti has written an excellent overview of all the issues raised by the success of the Creative Commons license, and it has an especially interesting section of the possibly perverse effect it may have in an Asian context.

Samuel is located in the Netherlands and his responsibilities include both the information architecture for structured data in applications such as PLMS and SAP and the unstructured content in places such as email and knowledge management programs. Usually knowledge management and IT data management are siloed, limiting the effectiveness of both. A few weeks ago I spoke with Samuel Driessen, Information Architect at Océ , about their enterprise micro-messaging experiences. Océ is a leading international provider of digital document management technology and services.