Media, information and the promise of new
technologies in Knowledge Transfer (KT) practices



MAURICIO DELFIN
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
Trauma and Global Health (TGH) Program
Douglas Mental Health University Institute - McGill University
http://www.mcgill.ca/trauma-globalhealth
•  KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS

•  KTE SPACES/STRATEGIES

•  KEY MESSAGES

•  FORMATS
•  KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS

•  KTE SPACES/STRATEGIES

•  KEY MESSAGES

•  FORMATS
•  KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS (KS)
  Knowledge Management | Information Systems Research | Innovation


  –  Community of Interest/Practice as KS
      •  Knowledge Base, “Body of Knowledge”

  –  “Academia” as KS
  –  “Mass Media” as KS
  –  The Internet as KS

  –  Knowledge Systems can act as “silos”
Grain silos in Ralls, Texas
Silos in Port Giles, Australia
Silos vs. Networks
Unconnected vs. Connected
Closed vs. Open
But first: A look at the press!


         (August, 2011)
http://elcomercio.pe/lima/1319056/noticia-miedo-gana-batalla-84-peruanos-siente-temor-calles
http://elcomercio.pe/lima/1319056/noticia-miedo-gana-batalla-84-peruanos-siente-temor-calles
http://elcomercio.pe/lima/1319056/noticia-miedo-gana-batalla-84-peruanos-siente-temor-calles
http://elcomercio.pe/lima/1319056/noticia-miedo-gana-batalla-84-peruanos-siente-temor-calles
http://elcomercio.pe/lima/1319056/noticia-miedo-gana-batalla-84-peruanos-siente-temor-calles
http://elcomercio.pe/lima/1319056/noticia-miedo-gana-batalla-84-peruanos-siente-temor-calles
http://elcomercio.pe/lima/1319056/noticia-miedo-gana-batalla-84-peruanos-siente-temor-calles
http://elcomercio.pe/lima/1319056/noticia-miedo-gana-batalla-84-peruanos-siente-temor-calles
http://elcomercio.pe/lima/1319056/noticia-miedo-gana-batalla-84-peruanos-siente-temor-calles
http://elcomercio.pe/lima/1319056/noticia-miedo-gana-batalla-84-peruanos-siente-temor-calles
Peru21.pe | 22 de Octubre, 2011
Peru21.pe | 14 de Agosto, 2011
Competition?
Mediation
Intersection!
Research Community
Research Community
Public Sphere
“Networked” Public Sphere
“Networked” Public Sphere
Research Community   “Networked” Public Sphere
Research Community   “Networked” Public Sphere
Research Community   “Networked” Public Sphere
•  KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS

•  KTE SPACES/STRATEGIES

•  KEY MESSAGES

•  FORMATS
•  KTE STRATEGY/SPACES
  –  Workshops, Conferences, Meetings
  –  Reports, Publications, Multimedia
  –  Internet
  –  Social Media (Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
  –  Digital Repositories (not silos)
  –  Social Media Strategy + Digital Repositories
  –  “Cycle-sensitive” processes
R EPOSITORIES
Repository: commonly refers to a location for storage, often for safety or preservation.
PROTOCOL
Protocol: agreement, etiquette, procedural method….
/kte/
Protocols for Repository practices: methods for storage.
www.mcgill.ca/trauma-globalhealth/kte/
www.mcgill.ca/trauma-globalhealth/kte/
kte.mcgill.ca/trauma-globalhealth
http://data.worldbank.org/
•  KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS

•  KTE SPACES/STRATEGIES

•  KEY MESSAGES

•  FORMATS/REGIMES
•  KEY MESSAGES
  –  Synthetic
  –  Actionable
  –  Packaged
  –  Spreadable
  –  “Memetic” potential
Case Study:
http://girleffect.org
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e8xgF0JtVg
•  KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS

•  KTE SPACES/STRATEGIES

•  KEY MESSAGES

•  FORMATS/REGIMES
•  FORMATS/REGIMES
 –  “Informational” Format (materiality)
 –  Social life of Data/Information/Knowledge
 –  Culture/Regimes of Licensing
 –  Culture of sharing (sharing economy)
 –  Data and the Networked Society
 –  Open Data
 –  Open Access
FORMATS
Open Data
Open Data
     Open data is the idea that certain data should be freely
     available to everyone to use and republish as they wish,
     without restrictions from copyright, patents or other
     mechanisms of control.

     The goals of the open data movement are similar to those of
     other "Open" movements such as open source, open content,
     and open access.

     (open data, open standards, and open source)


Source: Wikipedia.org
Open Data
•  “We-Government” (seems oriented towards
   “gadgetization”)
•  “App” fever (which requires a particular
   economy)

And/or:
•  Vigilancia Ciudadana (Citizens monitoring)
•  Denuncia (Denunciation)
•  Knowledge interaction
Extensible	
  Markup	
  Language	
  (XML)	
                    The	
  comma-­‐separated	
  values	
  (CSV)	
  	
  
        “set	
  of	
  rules	
  for	
  encoding	
  documents	
  	
     “pseudo-­‐file	
  format;	
  a	
  set	
  of	
  file	
  formats	
  	
  
                 in	
  machine-­‐readable	
  form.	
  	
                 used	
  to	
  store	
  tabular	
  data	
  in	
  which	
  	
  
                                        	
                                 numbers	
  and	
  text	
  are	
  stored	
  in	
  	
  
         The	
  design	
  goals	
  of	
  XML	
  emphasize	
  	
                  plain-­‐text	
  form	
  that	
  can	
  be	
  	
  
          simplicity,	
  generality,	
  and	
  usability	
  	
         easily	
  wriEen	
  and	
  read	
  in	
  a	
  text	
  editor”	
  
                        over	
  the	
  Internet.”	
  



Source:	
  Wikipedia.org	
  
Linked Data
The	
  Linking	
  Open	
  Data	
  cloud	
  diagram | http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/
The	
  Linking	
  Open	
  Data	
  cloud	
  diagram | http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/
The	
  Linking	
  Open	
  Data	
  cloud	
  diagram | http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/
The	
  Linking	
  Open	
  Data	
  cloud	
  diagram | http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/
The	
  Linking	
  Open	
  Data	
  cloud	
  diagram | http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/
REGIMES
Regimes: A system or planned way of doing things, esp. one imposed from above.
Copyright
Open Access (Licencing)
Lawrence Lessig
“The Creative Commons copyright licenses and tools forge a
balance inside the traditional “all rights reserved” setting that
copyright law creates. Our tools give everyone from individual
creators to large companies and institutions a simple,
standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their
creative work. The combination of our tools and our users is a
vast and growing digital commons, a pool of content that can
be copied, distributed, edited, remixed, and built upon, all
within the boundaries of copyright law.”



http://creativecommons.org
“MacArthur has a long history of
            strengthening institutions – from Human
            Rights Watch, now the largest U.S.-based
            human rights organization, to the World
            Resources Institute, the environmental
            think tank, to Creative Commons, which
            has changed the way we use and think
            about copyrights”.




http://www.macfound.org
http://creativecommons.org/science
“Ultimately, I believe the academic publishing
             world will, and should, slowly shift toward open
             access, but the transition will be ugly. 
             
             The issue boils down to a classic problem in
             economics: the tragedy of the commons. While
             the publishing industry and researchers
             continue to act in their own short-term self-
             interest by continuing the status quo, we are
             slowly heading toward an untenable situation
             where the people producing research papers will
             not be able to afford to access them. ”


The	
  economic	
  case	
  for	
  open	
  access	
  in	
  academic	
  publishing	
  (A.	
  Stevenson)
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/11/the-economic-case-for-open-access-in-academic-publishing.ars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DKm96Ftfko
•  KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS
/DYNAMIC/OPEN/PERMEABLE

•  KTE SPACES/STRATEGIES
/EXPLICIT/INTER-ACTIVE/HYBRID
/CYCLE-SENSITIVE/NETWORKED
* New roles: Research Communicator & Community Manager


•  KEY MESSAGES
/EXPLICIT/CLEAR/SPREADABLE/PACKAGED/VISUAL

•  FORMATS
/OPEN/SHAREABLE/ACCESIBLE
New culture: New spaces
Global ó Local
Roundup	
  of	
  Global	
  Internet	
  AcMvism	
  Course	
  Trebor	
  Scholz,	
  New	
  School	
  University	
  (2009)	
  
Roundup	
  of	
  Global	
  Internet	
  AcMvism	
  Course	
  Trebor	
  Scholz,	
  New	
  School	
  University	
  (2009)	
  
#ACAMPADA	
  (Spain)	
  	
  
Networked Public Sphere



Yochai	
  Benkler's	
  book,	
  The	
  Wealth	
  of	
  Networks:	
  How	
  Social	
  ProducBon	
  Transforms	
  Markets	
  and	
  
Freedom,	
  available	
  under	
  a	
  CreaMve	
  Commons	
  AEribuMon	
  Noncommercial	
  Sharealike	
  license.	
  	
  
Thank you
Or do I still have time?
     (3 minutes?)
An analogy: A simple exercise
ANNEX VII:
TGH PUBLICATIONS: PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS,
    BOOKS & BOOK CHAPTERS 2007-2011
Wordle.net
Tagxedo.com
A case: Presidential speeches
Obama
Bush
Clinton
Reagan
Lincoln (2nd)
Thank you.
Media, information and the promise of new
technologies in Knowledge Transfer (KT) practices



MAURICIO DELFIN
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
Trauma and Global Health (TGH) Program
Douglas Mental Health University Institute - McGill University
http://www.mcgill.ca/trauma-globalhealth
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Media, information and the promise of new technologies in Knowledge Transfer (KT) practices