A platform of for knowledge and services sharing

A platform of for knowledge and services sharing

Fernando Ferri

IRPPS-CNR

Are companies aware of all available financial supports (at local, national and international)?

Can companies easily find and choose better partners for their business?

Can companies easily know if a research institution can provide the scientific support they need?

Can companies be easily reached without fill several forms?

Are local governments and regions aware of policies and financial instruments proposed by other local governments and regions?

Why the Knowing Resource Centre

Are local governments and regions aware of best practices and success case proposed by other local governments and regions?

Can companies, institutions and other organizations know how efficacy is the communication of their websites?

Can actors of the innovation join the scientific debate concerning hot topic of innovation?

And many more ……

Why the Knowing Resource Centre

The Knowing Resource Centre has the objective to enhance the cooperation of key institutional and economic actors and to exchange information on policies, tools and strategies for attracting and creating “innovation".

The resource centre has been ideated aiming to be the tool for building and managing a wide community of communities sharing information, services, exchanging ideas, supporting knowledge economy, creativity and innovation.

Resource Centre Objective

The Knowing Resource Centre can be understood as a shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals that continually learns from feedback to produce just-in-time knowledge for better decisions

The Resource Centre: a tool of collective intelligence

The four principles:

- Openness: Collaboration predominate over the competition- Peering: Horizontal organization of people self-organized- Sharing: Sharing resources and intellectual property- Acting Globally: no geographical boundaries

The Resource Centre: a tool of collective intelligence

The Resource Centre allows:

-the creation of a transnational multilevel community;-the modelling of a permanent, sustainable online Resource Centre for constant interaction between stakeholders;-the development of supporting tools to provide information, knowledge and services for innovative and knowledge-based companies;

- to access and analyze activities on internet social networks (for example Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter and so on) - to create and manage repositories of documents

Knowing Resource Centre

The The functionalitiesfunctionalities

Knowledge acquisition functionalities:

browsing on-line information and services by using a tool that is based on the most popular search engine (Google,..)

browsing shared information and services stored in the platform and organized according to an ontology of concepts

browsing activities and information in the online communities (facebook, twitter and LinkedIn)


Knowledge creation functionalities:

enabling people to profile themselves, on the base of pre-defined profiles

defining a new profile providing its features

providing the profile information


Knowledge storage functionalities:

enabling people to organizing the retrieved on-line knowledge classifying it in: databases, directories, funding tools, services, social networks

enabling people to organize the retrieved on-line information and services in personal databases

allowing users to have a unique e-mail service that allows to manage all the personal accounts in a unified tool, accessing also information and services of interest contained in the e-mail

definition of databases with set of data about projects and web links on innovation, creativity, research and technology development

definition of personal databases with on-line information and services


Knowledge refinement functionalities:

selecting and filtering information and services stored in the platform using the profile information


Knowledge sharing functionalities: enabling people to share with the

community all or part of information, services and tools contained in the personal databases

enabling people to share knowledge according to different topics, available on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn


Knowledge utilization functionalities:

combining the results of searching resources stored in the platform or available online to find and elaborate new ideas

re-using the profile information to reduce the search space


Networking functionalities:

creating a community of interest joining individuals as well as pre-existing networks on the base of features of human behaviours, interests and user profiles


Building artifact functionalities:

building of personalized structured knowledge bases selecting data and information from available resources, categorizing them and integrating in new knowledge

building a structured knowledge bases by adding URL and supply attribute-value pairs into the KRC

The Resource Centre is available to the following address:-http://www.knowing-network.cnr.it:8084/Knowing

Knowing Resource Centre

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A platform of for knowledge and services sharing