DEVELOPING KNOWLEDGE INDUSTRIES HUB IN KERALA

 Academic or Scientific Research and Publishing and Higher and
Professional Education have traditionally been considered as Knowledge
Industries. Software Development and IT Enabled Industries are also put
under Knowledge Industries, for the absence of sound scientific theories
and tools to distinguish between Knowledge and Information or Data,
including their structure, presentation, communication and building
blocs. Even in the higher levels of academic or scientific discussions,
Information is considered as Knowledge and IT an integral part of
Knowledge Industries, though, IT is concerned with Processing and
Manipulation of Data and Information. Traditionally Knowledge is treated
as a stock by the philosophers and librarians and knowledge is embedded
in print or digital form that can be converted into Information.

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 Treating Knowledge as a flow is the basis of the new approach,
giving emphasis to the Dynamic nature of Knowledge. The
building blocs of Dynamic Knowledge are concepts and knowledge
become a flow when it is communicated in diverse forms from the
Domain Knowledge Experts to the end users. The intermediaries
are the new professionals of Knowledge Engineers, Knowledge
Managers and Knowledge Workers or Technicians. Bringing out
value added knowledge packages, services or solutions or even
products as a business activity constitute Knowledge Industries
that can augment the consumption and production of knowledge
into several folds globally. Kerala offers wonderful opportunities
for the development of Knowledge Industries and it can become a
hub of knowledge industries globally.
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 Kerala, the Sothern State of India, is covered with green fields and
mountains and pure water lakes for its prolonged rainy seasons. Thanks to
the high density of population and environmental awareness of its
people, Kerala is reluctant to go for pollution-making industrialization
and intensive farm development.
 Kerala spends more money for education and health care than anything
else for the sharp brain power, unending thirst for new skills, expertise
and knowledge and health consciousness of its younger generation who
prefer the service sector to agriculture or industrial sectors. Almost all
households in Kerala can digitally be interconnected thanks to its
extensive high speed fiber optic networks.
 The real wealth of Kerala is the Brain Power, Knowledge, Skills and
Expertise of its people, including those who settled in other countries that
have not yet been exploited so far. Kerala needs a New Development
Model based on the Brain Power ,Skill, Knowledge and Expertise of its
people rather than agriculture or industry.


 The conventional development model is
based on industrialization and intensive
farming with limited role for the service
sector. For the high density of population,
anti-pollution drives of the people and the
lack of sufficient land to spare for industries,
agriculture or even infrastructure
development, this development model is
unsustainable for Kerala.

HUMAN RESOURCE-BASED
DEVELOPMENT MODEL

 By realizing the limitation of industrialization
and farm development, Kerala has formulated a
development model based on Education,
Migration of Labor, Urbanization, Tourism and
Software Export.
 For the tough competition in the global market,
Kerala cannot relay too much on Labor
Migration, Tourism and IT based Industries,
especially Software Export, including
Outsourcing.

 The great promises made by Information Technology in 1990s have not
yet been materialized other than flooding the world with too much
scattered and fragmented data and information. Everybody is over-
loaded with fragmented and confusing data or information that have
adversely affected the quality of Education, especially of Universities and
Scientific Research, besides, National Economic Policies and Planning,
Business Forecasting, Corporate Planning and Management .
 The present global economic crisis is an offspring of the wrong
projections and miscalculations consequent on the too much reliance
upon half-backed and confused Data or Information in stead of Wisdom
and knowledge. The Global Economy is heading towards a stagnation
with regard to Information Technology that will affect the employment
opportunities, especially in Software Export and Outsourcing that are
becoming highly competitive.


 Computer and Information Technology have been designed for processing
and handling linear and static Data or Information due to the fact that the
very basis of IT is Algorithms built upon the Data Structure which is Linear
and Static and the building blocs of Data are bits.
 On the other hand, the structure of Knowledge is Non-Linear and
Dynamic and the building blocs of Knowledge are Concepts. That is the
reason why; IT is not compatible for Processing and Handling Knowledge.
Without using and generating strategic Knowledge, the Humanity is at
great risk.
 It is time for the Humanity to devise a New Science or Technology to
process and handle Knowledge that are scattered and unmanageable and
to augment the Consumption and Production of Knowledge, the very
basis of the survival and advancements of the Humanity.
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 A Stage has reached in which Kerala can no longer depend on
the existing development model and it has to formulate a
different model based on Knowledge and Brain Power.
 It demands of Making Kerala, A Global Learning, Knowledge
Generating and Knowledge Processing and Repackaging
Centre that necessitates the emergence of a Clean, Smart
and Learning Friendly Kerala and thereby a Knowledge
Insensitive Society.
 Knowmatics, a science and technology of knowledge
processing originated in Kerala, offers wonderful
opportunities for Kerala in these regards.


 The greatest challenge for formulating a Development Model
based on Knowledge and Brain Power is the absence of any
model of transforming them into globally marketable products
or services on a massive scale.
 The nature of Knowledge and Brain Power are non-linear and
Dynamic, unlike Data and Information, there is a limitation for
Information Technology to process, handle or manage
Knowledge scattered into hundreds of Domains.
 The existing theories of Knowledge, developments in Cognitive
Science and Artificial Intelligence do not have much use in
transforming Knowledge and Brain Power into Tradable
Products for Mass Consumption Globally.


 After developing theoretical and methodological tools
in measuring and categorizing Knowledge as a Product
for Consumption and Production , as early as 1985,
Mathew formulated two theories on Knowledge
Consumption-Production Growth of both Individuals and
the Society as a whole.
 They got published from Moscow by the USSR Academy
of Sciences and later appeared into several languages
and became an area for Doctoral Research. They have
been treated as useful theories in Informatics,
Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Knowledge
Engineering besides augmenting Skill Acquisition and
Scientific Productivity.


 On the basis of a series of prolonged studies on the structure of
diverse Domains of Knowledge and the Theoretical and
Philosophical Foundations of Information Technology, Mathew
propounded Knowmatics in 2005. It is aimed at processing and
handling Knowledge and thereby developing Knowledge
Industries, quite different from Information Technology or ICT
Industries. He found that there exists a common structure for all
Domains of Knowledge and the building blocs of Knowledge are
concepts and that of information are bits. Knowmatics is founded
on Mathew’s Theories of Knowledge Consumption-Production
Growth published in 1985 from Moscow by the USSR Academy of
Sciences.

 With the publication of the paper, Knowmatics- A
New Revolution in Higher Education, in the Journal
of the World Universities Forum 4,1,2011:1-11 by Dr.
Mathew jointly with Ranjit Mathew, the
International community has been made aware of
the untapped potentialities of Knowmatics in
transforming Knowledge and Brain Power into
marketable products for mass consumption.
 The paper was originally presented for the Fourth
World Universities Forum held at Hong Kong, Jan.14-
16, 2011 and its video presentation has been posted
in the YouTube. It has been nominated to the
Finalists for the Intentional Award for Excellence.
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 For the business initiative of a major investment and business group,
Mathew has been developing a Development Model and a Business
Strategy making use of Knowmatics , transforming every household in
Kerala into a Knowledge Processing Unit.
 It aims at commercially exploiting the untapped Knowledge and Brain
Power of Kerala into Value-Added Knowledge Packages, Services and
Solutions for the Global Market in Education, Practicing Professions,
Scientific Research, Decision Making in Government, Private or
Corporate Sectors and even the Common People.
 It offers thousands of income and employment generating
opportunities in terms of several billions. The project involves several
questions related to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) for which initial
steps have already been taken. Its success depends upon the ability of
the rulers and the investors to capture the idea and facilitating its
execution.

 Knowledge is universal and free from language, culture, religion,
ideology or even education and literacy. Knowledge is capable of
empowering the masses.
 The very philosophy behind Knowmatics is making knowledge
accessible and affordable to all, crossing the thick walls built by the
Education Systems and Socio-Political- Cultural Systems ,so as to
augment the knowledge consumption of the Humanity into several
folds and thereby attain a quantum leap in human development.
 Knowmatics is capable of making the masses, even the illiterates,
rich in knowledge and capable of putting knowledge into practice.


 The international community has not yet fully realized the
potentialities of Knowmatics. It is capable of making a
Revolution in Knowledgizing the entire Humanity and
transforming almost all Social Production Processes
Knowledge Intensive besides Education, Scientific Research
and Professional Practices.
 Knowledge, in all forms or types, including the traditional or
indigenous Knowledge, scattered in millions of books and
brains or memories of the living can be brought into a
common digital system. Global Research and Funding are
required to exploit the full potentialities of Knowmatics for
the service of the Humanity. Hub in
Developing Knowledge Industries

 Dr. Raju M. Mathew propounded Knowmatics, the Mathematics,
Economics and Engineering of Knowledge in 2005 , founded upon his
internationally acclaimed Theories of Knowledge Consumption-
Production Growth that got published from Moscow by the USSR
Academy of Sciences in 1985 and became an area for Doctoral Research in
Skill Acquisition and Scientific productivity.
 His latest work, ‘Knowmatics- A New Revolution in Higher Education’
jointly with Ranjit Mathew, published in the Journal of the World
Universities Forum 4,1,2011:1-11, has been nominated as a Finalist for the
International Award of Excellence. He has several works on the Global
Economic Crisis, the Arab Spring, New Development Strategies and etc.
that can be found in the net.
 Dr. Mathew also acknowledges the support that he is getting from Rani
Raju, Global English School, Al Ain, UAE and Ranjit Mathew of the
Random House Group, London for his works in Knowmatics.

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