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Social Knowledge Management for Rural Empowerment - Bridging the Knowledge Divide Using Social Technologies (Paperback)
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Social Knowledge Management for Rural Empowerment - Bridging the Knowledge Divide Using Social Technologies (Paperback)
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This book develops and examines the concepts and strategies for
rural empowerment through the formation of a community-driven
social knowledge management (SKM) framework aided by social
technology. The framework is aimed at mobilizing knowledge
resources to bridge the rural-urban knowledge divide while securing
rural empowerment using digital connections and social
collaborations built on strategies of self-sustenance and
self-development. With key empirical findings supplemented by
relevant theoretical structures, case studies, illustrative figures
and a lucid style, the book combines social technologies and social
development to derive a social knowledge management platform. It
shows how the proposed SKM framework can enhance knowledge
capabilities of rural actors by facilitating connection among
rural-urban entities through formation of purposive virtual
communities, which allow social agents to create, modify and share
content collaboratively. The volume brings forward diverse issues
such as conceptual foundations; bridging the rural-urban knowledge
and information divide; issues of information and knowledge
asymmetry; a knowledge-theoretic perspective of rural empowerment;
knowledge capability, freedom of choice and wellbeing, to provide a
comprehensive outlook on building a knowledge society through
digital empowerment. This book will be useful to scholars and
researchers of development studies, rural sociology, management
studies, IT/IS, knowledge management and ICT for development,
public policy, sociology, political economy and development
economics. It will benefit professionals and policymakers,
government and nongovernment bodies and international agencies
involved with policy decisions related to application of
technologies for rural development, social workers and those in the
development sector.
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