It’s astonishing. Years ago a paradigm-shift in Austrian politics happened. The far-right became part of the Austrian government in 1999. This shift was accompanied by a sanctions imposed on austria thru the member-states of the European Union. And now the far-right is going to split a second time. It seems as if there is a hidden agenda at work - early elections.

Well it’s a platform that supports knowledge-sharing processes. The project will be submitted to the EU and is led by the U of Utrecht (they did already one sucessfully). Lots of common understanding. My part will be structuring and organizing the processes that are involved on the platform and to take care of the information architecture that is supposed to support group work and knowledge-sharing in a many2many-environment.

Kilo will introduce methodology to identify and structure informal learning processes as part of collaborative workflow, identifying strategies for evaluation and assessment in both educational and industrial contexts and supply technology to capture and distribute knowledge created as outcomes of informal learning processes to promote the learning ability of organisations and the creation of social networks of expertise. KILO aims to fill the gaps left by the current generation of e-distribution platforms, by deploying methodology and technology which will support knowledge creation processes, thereby recognizing employees, researchers and students as key drivers of organizational progress and innovation.

I was once asked why the blogosphere is a succesful sphere. Sucessful in terms of knowledge transfer. Now I think the power of weak ties is at work. There is nothing to loose but everything to win. Trust is the only way that make that net work.
Caveat: there might be no existentials at stake.
Almost everything is different when it comes to professional, educational communities.

Very interesting!

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