Institutional knowledge and information ecology in a Free Software ecosystem: The early days of KIM was presented at the International conference on knowledge economy 2009. It documents some of the things we are thinking and doing at Wits only 9 months into the establishment of the Knowledge and Information Management Portfolio. The two map slides are from http://www.worldmapper.org/ I believe used under fair use, but will gladly remove them if this is not the case.

1. Institutional knowledge and information ecology in a Free Software ecosystem The early days of KIM Prof Derek W. Keats Deputy Vice Chancellor (Knowledge & Information Management) The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg http://kim.wits.ac.za [email_address]

2. Institutional knowledge and information ecology in a Free Software ecosystem The early days of KIM Prof Derek W. Keats Deputy Vice Chancellor (Knowledge & Information Management) The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg http://kim.wits.ac.za [email_address]

5. Institutional knowledge and information ecology in a Free Software ecosystem The early days of KIM Prof Derek W. Keats Deputy Vice Chancellor (Knowledge & Information Management) The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg http://kim.wits.ac.za [email_address]

6. The four freedoms of Free Software This requires the source code

8. Innovation

9. Institutional knowledge and information ecology in a Free Software ecosystem The early days of KIM Prof Derek W. Keats Deputy Vice Chancellor (Knowledge & Information Management) The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg http://kim.wits.ac.za [email_address] K nowledge & I nformation M anagement

10. 2008 Vice Chancellor Strategic planning Management information Human resources Centre for Learning & Teaching Dev eLearning Libraries Computer & networking srvs DVC: Academic DVC: Finance & Ops DVC: Research DVC: Advan- cement Registrar

11. 2009 Vice Chancellor Management information eLearning Libraries Computer & networking srvs DVC: Academic DVC: Finance & Ops DVC: Research DVC: Advan- cement Registrar DVC: KIM

12. Creating the ecosystem

13. Modified after the work of Georges Por Value Value

14. Modified after the work of Georges Por Value Value Technology People Process

15. Modified after the work of Georges Por Value Value Technology People Information Knowledge Process Wisdom

16. Modified after the work of Georges Por Value Value People Information Knowledge Wisdom Skills Compe- tencies Myths Attitude

17. Modified after the work of Georges Por Value Value People Information Knowledge Wisdom Skills Compe- tencies Myths Attitude Innovation

22. Producers

23. Consumers

26. Producers

30. Producers

31. Consumers

34. Producers

35. Consumers The Enterprise Enterprise 2.0 The semantic enterprise

36. In ancient times people used computers to browse the web in browsers that only opened HTML 'websites'

37. people people people container content connection flow connection flow connection flow The read-only web

38. people people people container content connection flow connection flow connection flow The read-only web

39. Feb 1998 ... 'WEBSITE' – think about it!

40. That's so 20 th Century

41. people container content connection flow The read-write web

42. people container content connection flow The read-write web

43. I'm reading Garfield's blog about social mouse catching methods .

44. Ruff McRuff, podcasting from Jozi.

45. Social networks

51. A plethora of possibilities

52. Connectedness

54. The semantic web

55. The semantic web

56. Connectedness Synergy Collaboration

57. Synergy Collaboration Value Value

58. Risk without ecosystem Safe, proven, mature old technologies Mature but relatively new technologies We help to lead technology trends We create and use new technologies before anyone else Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 Option 4 Option 5 The cutting edge

59. Risk with ecosystem Safe, proven, mature old technologies Mature but relatively new technologies We help to lead technology trends We create and use new technologies before anyone else Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 Option 4 Option 5 The cutting edge

60. Innovation Innovation Innovation driven Where are there opportunities to create synergy, leading to innovation? Process Technology Support (people)

61. Innovation Innovation Key responsibilities Researcher Researcher Software developer Materials developer Instructional designer Systems admin Instructional designer Lecturer Application support Pedagogy (Process) Technology Support (people)

62. software engineering software engineering software engineering software engineering

65. The stack Cross platform RESTful API Ajax Mashable XMPP Mobile phone Online package management Version 4 will be fully distributed gstreamer GNU/Linux PHP MySQL PEAR Open Office SWF tools CURL Chisimba FFmpeg Java Python Flash Open fire RED5 Javascript jQuery extJS Jabber prototype

71. Mobile technologies

72. Capable of virtualization to run multiple systems and take advantage of better use of CPU cycles and storage Massive clusters of low cost commodity computers - Compute cloud (e.g. Amazon Elastic Cloud) - Data cloud (e.g. Amazon S3) - Public cloud - Private cloud

73. Private cloud infrastructure Simplified view Compute cloud Cloud storage Robotic tape library Hosted services Wits portals eLearning Digital archive email Hierarchical storage

74. Private cloud infrastructure Hardware layer Robotic tape library Spinning disks Flash memory Compute cloud Hosted services Digital archive Virtualization Application Object store Data grid Application Application Wits portals eLearning Operating System Hierarchical storage Middleware email Application

75. Private cloud infrastructure Hardware layer Robotic tape library Spinning disks Flash memory Compute cloud Hosted services Digital archive Virtualization Application Object store Data grid Application Application Wits portals eLearning Operating System Hierarchical storage Middleware email Application Free and Open Source Software

76. Private cloud infrastructure Hardware layer Robotic tape library Spinning disks Flash memory Hosted services Digital archive Virtualization Chisimba Fedora iRODS Chisimba DSPACE Wits portals eLearning OS: Open Solaris Glassfish email Zimbra Compute cloud Hierarchical storage

77. Enterprise document management An approach using private cloud Workflow managed by iRods layer Site Ingest Born digital iFolder client Network iFolder server iRods Chisimba Network Site Site Site iFolder client WWW Private cloud infrastructure iRods iRods

78. Telephony

79. Connectedness Synergy Collaboration

80. Attribution file: http://www.dkeats.com/usrfiles/users/ 1563080430/attribution/attrib.txt