Communications of the ACM
Digital Aboriginal: The Direction of Business Now: Instinctive,Nomadic,and Ever-Changing
Digital Aboriginal: The Direction of Business Now: Instinctive,Nomadic,and Ever-Changing
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During the author's PhD studies in the early 90s, an idea originated for a database system (DBS) supporting Personal Knowledge Management (PKM). Since then, a prototype has been continuously expanded to integrate additional uses and functionalities. However, the development platforms available at the time were not conducive to allow for the transformation of the prototype into a marketable application across multiple platforms and environments. With the standards-based rapid database development platforms and the cloud and hosting services available now, this barrier has been removed and Knowcations™ (PKM-DBS) became a viable opportunity for innovation. The term Knowcations™ stands for the places where we store the precious knowledge we acquire over life times of educational, professional, social and private activity and experience. As featured in this paper, the term also serves as an appropriate name for a concept and system-in-work aiming at innovating personal knowledge management processes and capabilities. The paper highlights four major challenges for a resourceful Personal Knowledge Management solution at the preservation, collaborative, capacity development, and conceptual level. It shows how to constructively address them by assimilating recognized models and approaches from other disciplines, e.g. Kerwin's domains of ignorance, Probst's eight building blocks of KM, Gratton's changing pattern of work, Andrew's four components of a strategy, and Dawkins's memes. The web site "www.knowcations.net' provides further figures and links.