Knowledge and Information 30564, 30570 LO30594

From: 展va Rant (ziva.rant@PERFTECH.SI)
Date: 09/18/03


Dear Mark!

I've read this Public Dialog on Learning Organizations regularly when I
was written my final work on masters study on the Faculty for
organizational sciences in Kranj, Slovenia.

  <http://www.fov.uni-mb.si/>

And I've got a lot ideas and links. Nowadays I read it (too) rarely. So I
am really glad to "catch" your thoughts.

I would like to add that I have troubles to express in English.

I do not agree with you that knowledge is information. It is more than
information, more complex.

You wrote:...
>But knowledge is always information (which can include
>data) that we regard as true. So knowledge is a type of information, and
>is not separate and distinct from it. Knowledge is true information...

I often tell this example to tell the distinction between the data and
information:
The weather report is: It will be sunny. OK - it is the data.

Because the weather report is: It will be sunny, I will go hiking.
This is information. I've got the data about the sunny weather and I decide
to go hiking.

Where is there knowledge? I haven't seen it.
I would like to upgrade this example with knowledge. Could you, please, help
me?

Dear India

As I mentioned before, I was bounded by organizattional system in my answer.
Thank you to you answer. I've yust found how much I have to learn!
I also agree with you that it is important that knowledge moves. Have you
heard about the knowledge spiral by Nonaka and Takeuchi?

>Therefore, instead of focusing too much on how knowledge arises, perhaps
>we should be looking at how knowledge moves -- between users, exchange
>participants, communities, or systems.

Regards,
展va

mag. 展va Rant
e-mail: ziva.rant@ps5.net

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