This is the first assignment for the Downer Grove Summit, and I thought I would just add my 2 cents worth.
Information is the content that is around me. It’s numbers, words, video, sounds, pictures — it’s all around me. That that information becomes something that helps me to answer a question, solve a problem, or accomplish a goal, then it becomes knowledge.
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The really important challenge is to put the technology on the back burner for a while! Focus on the difference between an “information worker” and a “knowledge worker” for a moment. Both have a role to play but it is the knowledge that becomes the important creator and sustainer of innovation and development.
The application of technology helps to reduce the information overload but how many times is your name entered into yet another database system?
We all have to think SMART and make sure that the aplication of knowledge drives the information flow and the integration of new technologies – in whatever digitized form you choose.
Next question?
As David has been saying, information is often Overwhelming. Information becomes knowledge when something acts upon it in such as way as to bring organization and clarity to the roaring torrent of information. Or as I like to go on about, information becomes knowledge when an Infomancer (human or digital) provides facilitated access.
Sounds like a great start to an interesting couple of days!
Information can be collected from various sources viz. Books, Websites Directories on onformation or sometimes mistakenly called knowledge etc Information Officers or PRO’s etc. and has to be memorized or retained on files PC or notesetc.
Knowledge is the application which can be utilsed by making use of the information thus accumulated or memorized by a process of thinking, this is the big difference between the human brain and a Computer, because the Computer cannot think unless Programmed or the information is fed in in the form of data.
In Geometry for example we have a number of theorems (i.e. Information) but using these Theorems to solve Geometrical Problems (Riders) is application of the Information.
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The really important challenge is to put the technology on the back burner for a while! Focus on the difference between an “information worker†and a “knowledge worker†for a moment. Both have a role to play but it is the knowledge that becomes the important creator and sustainer of innovation and development.
The application of technology helps to reduce the information overload but how many times is your name entered into yet another database system?
We all have to think SMART and make sure that the aplication of knowledge drives the information flow and the integration of new technologies – in whatever digitized form you choose.
Next question?
I submitted my comment, typed the 5 characters correctly, and clicked submit, and it deleted everything I’d typed and said “no valid entry”. Buggered if I’m going to type it again.
I’ll summarize it though. Data is an organized collection of symbols, information is abstract data, belief is rational information, and knowledge is true belief.
The symbols come from some alphabet, bits in the simplest case (preferred by some theoreticians).
The organization can be as simple as a string or more complex as with markup languages.
Data can be concrete or abstract, i.e. actually written down or merely potentially writable. Abstract data is what information theorists work with.
Information becomes rational when it has meaning, significance, or consequences, or is amenable to manipulation by laws of logic or reasoning. A meaningless string of bits constitutes information but not a belief. Beliefs are usually expected to be consistent at least to the extent that they are not self-contradictory in the sense of entailing their own denial.
Truth is tricky to pin down, so technically “knowledge worker” would be more accurately phrased as “belief worker”. Yet we tend to believe most of our beliefs to be true, fooling us into believing that “knowledge worker” is a meaningful concept. This illusion is sufficiently convincing that the profession of knowledge worker is not at risk of any collapse of confidence in the truth of our beliefs. But just to be on the safe side I’ve suggested an operational definition of truth at the top of http://boole.stanford.edu/dotsigs.html . Now ain’t that the truth.
Quintin Gomes Said
…”Information can be collected from various sources viz. Books…”
From the belief that the author of the book had to be a knowledge worker and collected information from some other source.
Then Knowledge of one Knowledge Worker becomes “Information” for another Knowledge worker