People+Projects

Geof: knowledge collaboratory for k sharing in Africa

different infrastructures to bridge silicon valley and africa

Charlotte Lindey - Ames

How does NASA remember? Data archiving diffs...

Steve Cisler (SCU)

Knowledex (?)

How do people share and protect info?

Pedro: SCU Assoc Director

e-learning inerests for SCU (formerly IMS)

Steve Jackson (Michigan)

How to remember how to build dams?

How to build African knowledge infrastructures? (NSF/Lib)

David Riebis (Michigan)

PhD Studied GEON earth sciences ethnography

How does IS get institutionalised and how to organise that work?

Learning envnts basically in the end

Karen Baker (UCSD) - SCRIPS oceaongraphy

How do oceanographers adopt new tech - collab with soc sci. Information Mgmnt perspective

Linda Rogers (Sun)

Global govnt strategy - longer term view on KM IS and economic devpt

Geof approached by Cambridge U about a conf for tailorability of IS for local envnts -- for ID contexts. Already a Yale event

Carl Cargill (Director of Standards, Sun)

Standards are socio-political - see Chinese govnt for current examples. They're about partnerships - key to Sun

Michael Buckland (Berkeley)

Difference between memorising and understanding. Why didn't ref libraries not make it into the DL context?

History of documentation

Emanuel Goldberg and His Knowledge Machine

Leigh Star

Brought together info sci and soc sci of computing

Working on how localisation of function is a political issue

Collaboration without consensus book on boundary objects

Paul Edwards (Michigan)

History of technology, eg air defense system

History of climate modelling.

What is the relation between the raw data and the interpretive models?

Follow-on project to Michigan wkshop

Ted Kahn (Design world for learning and SCU CST affiliate)

Learners as part of the IS: access isn't enough. Collaboratory with Jack. (IRL bg)

Roles?

Consumers

Contributors: whose stuff gets in?

About.com model of a human organising stuff for a group

Evangelists to get others involved

*** Garden metaphor

IRL concept: authorised versus unauthorised knowledge... Web 2.0 etc

Why don't libraries take into account what people already know if they think they're about learning? (5% of the Lib and InfoSci lit recognises this)

World Bank indigenous knowledge project. cf Aboriginal use of fire as a technology.

Geof to run an OPLI workshop for Hewlett (June ish)

Indigenous IT knowledge

Emergent themes?

Rel between an IS and its envnt?

HD tools

African-SValley interop

What are the mechanisms for cooking? The ways that make IS shape, and be shaped by local communities? How they interact to change?

Role of Models

Classific systems

How to change them?

Synthesis?

Force of IS?

Force of IS?

Changing IS

Changing IS

kbaker@ucsd.edu

"We're going back to the moon". Who are WE? Where is the knowledge today?

Originally the work was localised at NASA. Now distributed across industry

True across the board for wider industry

Leigh: definition of infrastructure

No-one's in charge, so no global authority. Must be changed modularly

What is the nature of these modules?

Are there infectious models?

Alessandro Monjiri: STS, Italy

Devpt of rules and presciptions at work

Katy Vann (CTS and Virtual Knowledge Studio Amsterdam)

Water mgnt - soc sci of science

Soc Sci of IT should not be jsut about studying consumption, but about how IS emerges, and how a market is created. Relates to the proximal future issue