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Social Knowledge Management for Rural Empowerment: Bridging the Knowledge Divide Using Social Techno

Preamble Organization of the book I: Rural empowerment: Bridging rural–urban knowledge and information divide Knowledge, knowledge divide and knowledge capability: A conceptual framework Introduction Defining knowledge Knowledge: A social product Knowledge divide Knowledge capability The importance of knowledge in capability theory Dimensions of knowledge capability Managing knowledge resource to enhance knowledge capability Rural empowerment: A knowledge–theoretic approach Introduction Empowerment and its manifestation in rural context Agency, opportunity structure and social capital: Facilitating empowerment Empowerment and agency Empowerment and opportunity structure Empowerment and social capital Empowerment as a knowledge–theoretic concept Conceptualizing rural empowerment through management of knowledge Facilitating rural empowerment through management of knowledge Conclusion Contemporary initiatives undertaken for rural empowerment Introduction 'Rurbanization': Promise and practice United Nations' initiatives towards rural empowerment Rural empowerment: Some measures taken in developing nations Indonesia Iran India Pakistan Limitations of current institution-based rural empowerment paradigms Conclusion Information asymmetry and rural producers Introduction The need for information and the effect of information asymmetry Information asymmetry of rural producers in developing nations Information asymmetry between producers themselves Information asymmetry between producers and their prospective buyers The information asymmetry between rural producers and middlemen The information asymmetry between rural producers and government agencies Impact of information asymmetry on market efficiency: An Indian case study Methodology Observation The impact of information asymmetry on Indian rural producers: Findings Contemporary measures undertaken to reduce information asymmetry Conclusion Knowledge asymmetry and its mitigation through enhancement of knowledge capability Introduction From information asymmetry to knowledge asymmetry Information and knowledge: A comparative analysis From information asymmetry to knowledge asymmetry Knowledge capability: From knowledge possession to knowledge operation Knowledge capability of rural members in mitigating knowledge asymmetry The capability approach: Building capability set of target group A knowledge-centric capability approach for mitigating knowledge asymmetry Conclusion II: Social knowledge management and social technologies: Conceptual foundations Knowledge management and its evolution in organizational context Introduction How society used to manage knowledge: A historical perspective Information systems and globalization: Impetus to knowledge management Knowledge management: Definitions Knowledge management: Processes and strategies Processes of knowledge management Strategies of knowledge management in organizational context Three generations of knowledge management in organizational context First-generation knowledge management Second-generation knowledge management Third-generation knowledge management Conclusion Social technology and knowledge management practices Introduction Social technology: A conceptual perspective Defining social technology Components of social technologies Social technology and knowledge management Networking and collaboration The social technology and SECI model-based knowledge processes Social media analytics and customer knowledge management Management of crowd knowledge for organizational benefits Enterprise social software: Social tools for knowledge management Conclusion Efforts undertaken to manage social knowledge and information for social benefit Introduction Managing social knowledge: A historical perspective The first generation: Facilitating information dissemination through community information systems The second generation: Facilitating bi-directional information sharing The third generation: Facilitating multi-directional knowledge collaboration Conclusion Social knowledge management: A social technology-enabled framework to bridge knowledge asymmetry of rural producers through virtual community formation Introduction Social knowledge vs. organizational knowledge Organizational knowledge management vs. managing social knowledge Social knowledge management: A functional perspective A social knowledge management framework to mitigate rural–urban knowledge asymmetry The conceptual framework The model of intervention Conclusion III: Social knowledge management in action: Some empirical studies in rural India Cultivating online communities of practice to facilitate practice-oriented rural–urban knowledge exchange through collaborative learning spaces Introduction Conceptualizing community of practice Factors leading to the cultivation of community of practice Components of community of practice Structure of community of practice Factors determining sustainability of community of practice Collaborative learning spaces of early society Community of practice in action Building community of practice in organizational context Cultivating online communities of practice in rural context Examples from some field studies with self-help group women in rural India A field study with rural youth in India Cultivating online communities of practice using a social knowledge management platform Conclusion Cultivating communities of purpose to enhance market opportunities of rural producers through collaborative knowled Introduction Community of purpose: A conceptual framework The role of communities of purpose in bridging market separation of rural producers A digital framework towards building online community of purpose for rural producers Conceptual foundations Operationalizing the framework: Mobilizing rural–urban community towards purposive collaboration Architecting a social knowledge management platform to cultivate online communities of purpose for rural producers NCoRe: System design Validation of the NCoRe system Discussion Some field observations on cultivating communities of purpose Objective of the study Background of the study Insights from field work Findings from field work Discussions Conclusion Cultivating communities of circumstance to enhance community resilience through knowledge sharing using collaboration and connections Introduction Understanding community resilience Components of community resilience A framework towards building online communities of circumstance: Mobilizing community towards resilience Communities of circumstance An operational framework for cultivating online communities of circumstance Developing resilient community through collaborative knowledge transaction: Some examples from disaster management The role of knowledge management in disaster situations: An introduction Use of social media to engage community members during disaster for situational information and knowledge transaction Interactive community-sourcing: A participatory knowledge management practice during disaster Cultivating online communities of circumstance using a collaborative knowledge management platform: Towards a disaster-resilient community Conclusion IV: What tomorrow may bring Summary and discussions Introduction Summary of work Hindrances faced during the research journey and prospective solutions Ethical concerns addressed in the research Conclusion Building a developmental ecosystem for rural empowerment Developmental ecosystem: Theory and practice The need for a developmental ecosystem for holistic rural empowerment Building a developmental ecosystem for rural empowerment

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Rural empowerment: Bridging rural–urban knowledge and information divide
Knowledge, knowledge divide and knowledge capability: A conceptual framework Introduction There have been multiple strands within academia that treat knowledge and define the resource in terms of respective disciplinarian ideologies. The quest for knowledge and to understand the same started...
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Conceptualizing rural empowerment through management of knowledge
Knowledge, defined as theoretical and practical understanding of a subject, is considered the most crucial competitive asset in contemporary connected society (Gao et al., 2018). Knowledge is a concept, skill, experience and vision providing a framework for creating, evaluating and using information...
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Facilitating rural empowerment through management of knowledge
Having discussed what we mean by managing knowledge in the context of social development, this section will primarily talk about how such a strategy facilitates empowerment by enhancing agency, social capital and opportunity structure of rural marginalized community. 4.2.1 Management of knowledge...
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Rural empowerment: A knowledge–theoretic approach
A knowledge-theoretic approach Introduction The rural area or countryside is a territorial space located outside towns and cities. The rural sector owes its potential partly to its immense capacity in employment creation, and partly because production of indigenous items falls under its purview,...
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Social knowledge management and social technologies: Conceptual foundations
Knowledge management and its evolution in organizational context Introduction The preceding chapters have differentiated knowledge from information, highlighted the value of knowledge as resource and discussed the extant knowledge divide which cripples society. Subsequently, we have proposed...
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Social technology and knowledge management practices
Introduction The preceding chapter highlighted how knowledge management as a practice evolved in a business context in tandem with technological development. This chapter takes a reverse strand and attempts to show how contemporary technology, apart from being a potential knowledge-exchange medium,...
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Social technology and knowledge management
Networking and collaboration Organizational knowledge management is currently undergoing a positive transformation due to the proliferation of social technology usage, both at personal and organizational level. This trend is changing the traditional knowledge management implementations (monolithic,...
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Natural resource management and rural development
Rural regions have a strong advantage in the production of natural resources and in their first-stage processing. While this function is the main contribution of rural regions to national growth in the early stage of development, as the national economy evolves, natural resources play a smaller role....
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Entrepreneurship, associativity and social technologies in rural communities: A reading from the Papal Encyclical Laudato Si in Colombia
Introduction One of the greatest challenges facing the Colombian economy is to provide its citizens with conditions for their mobilization as actors in the social, economic, environmental, political and cultural development of their territories. The above in a context where rural territories have...
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Contemporary initiatives undertaken for rural empowerment
Introduction Conventional rural developmental paradigms have primarily targeted the issue of rural empowerment through defined institutional structures and agencies created with such a “welfarist” mindset. However, though the rigor adopted to address the issue at stake deserves appreciation,...
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