Wednesday, October 14, 2009

THREE DEFINITIONS OF KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY

The concept of ‘knowledge societies’ includes a dimension of social, cultural, economical, political and institutional transformation, and a more pluralistic and developmental perspective.
http://vecam.org/article517.html

Manuel Castells- Knowledge society has to do with a society in which the conditions for generating knowledge and processing information have been substantially changed by a technological revolution focused on information processing, knowledge generation, and information technologies.”
http://vecam.org/article517.html

Knowledge Society refers to any society where knowledge is the primary production resource instead of capital and labour. It may also refer to the use a certain society gives to information. A Knowledge society "creates, shares and uses knowledge for the prosperity and well-being of its people".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_society

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