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We stand at the dawn of the new millennium. The new millennium brings with it a world of shrinking time, disappearing geographical boundaries, intertwined economies and globalized impacts. The force which is spearheading this transition is Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

The advances in information and communication technology, are re-structuring the global social economic equation - shifting from income divide to knowledge divide. The info-technological revolution on one hand is spearheading the growth of Knowledge Societies in developed countries and has aroused much interest among the civil society, markets and the agents of change. On the other hand, more than 850 million people in developing countries are excluded from a wide range of information and knowledge. The poor in developing countries remain much isolated - economically, socially and culturally from the burgeoning information and progress in the arts, science and technology.

It needs to be realised that with the inception of ICT in the modern society:

  • Knowledge does not remain confined within a private domain or a geographical boundary- it becomes a freely exchangeable public good.
  • Knowledge gets transmitted almost immediately from the source of its origin to multiple users and it becomes almost impossible to obliterate the knowledge hosted on the internet.

The direct implications of these attributes are that whoever manages the knowledge better and uses it more innovatively will reap the maximum benefits of it. Further, same knowledge would have differentiated values for different users and it is the ability and vision of the end user to recognise and embrace the differentiated values of knowledge and put it to gainful use to realise even more value out of it.

The obvious fact is that Developing Nations and its people are at an unequal platform in comparison to their counterparts in Developed Nations to harness the true potential of Knowledge because of the various barriers to their transformation to Knowledge Societies.

Something certainly needs to be done about it and . . .

 . . . . hence the evolution of  KnowNet Initiative.

Vikas Nath, Innovator, KnowNet Initiative

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