Information and Knowledge Society: Some Futuristic Perspectives
Usha Mujoo Munshi, Jean‐Louis Ermine · Journal of Knowledge & Communication Management · 2011
The Information and Knowledge Society theme is emerging from strategic problems occurring in the real world such as, massive intergenerational knowledge transfers, serious risks of knowledge loss with massive retirements, development of competitiveness based on innovation, knowledge based economy, political and social problems due to cognitive divide, massive intrusion in the social community of ICT, and so on. The present paper is based on the deliberations of an international brainstorming seminar on Mobilising the Information and Knowledge Society (IKS), with Indo-French crossed perspectives as the initial funnelling concepts relating to the core issue of IKS. Endeavours have been made in this paper to highlight the critical issues that would eventually form basis for conducting research and addressing some of the challenges rising during the seminar and have been included in this paper. The paper also projects the possible risks associated with the knowledge crash. Finally attempts have also been made to identify the core concepts of IKS along with their characteristics.