The Way Towards a Knowledge Society — Some Barriers Not Only for Countries in Transition

2000 ◽  
pp. 53-59
Author(s):  
Lech W. Zacher
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Countries In Transition ◽  
The Way

scholarly journals Culture as an attribute of digital transformation

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-11
Author(s):  
S. V. Firsova ◽  
O. M. Danilina ◽  
A. A. Dashkov ◽  
V. Yu. Pokazanyev
Keyword(s):  
Employee Engagement ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Cultural Models ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Way

The article comprehends the concept of digital culture that appeared with the beginning of the information/digital era at the end of the last century. The paper considers digital culture from the point of view of the general resource of the knowledge society and as a new social ecology that determines the experience and capabilities of people at the present time, when the digital network environment has brought new practices, opportunities and threats. Speaking about culture in the context of information and communication technologies, the authors emphasize that its influence is even more significant, since the way it is used can affect the change in the essence of our communication and cultural models and become a support for the digital transformation of organizations. Digital culture is understood as the way that society uses to receive and process information. It is required to comprehend and create a new digital culture as a guarantor of the implementation and adoption of changes in the context of widespread digitalization and rethinking of business processes, distribution channels and relations with consumers, leading, in turn, to a change in the value proposition and the consumer segments themselves. Based on the analysis, the authors formulate and substantiate five main reasons why building a digital culture should become a key problem for the successful development of any organization: 1) digital transformation will not be complete without the development of a thriving digital culture; 2) insufficient organizational culture is detrimental to success in the digital age; 3) a strong digital culture is a competitive advantage for an organization; 4) a strong digital culture is the key to business longevity; 5) using a digital culture can increase employee engagement in the work process.

scholarly journals The Applicability of the Socrates Method of Education in Education Today

Pannoniana ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 115-145
Author(s):  
Ivica Kelam ◽  
Jasmina Sagadin Vučić
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Bologna Declaration ◽  
Education Today ◽  
The One ◽  
Global World ◽  
The Way

Abstract In the global world, changes that strike our educational system occur daily. In that matter, most of the traditional guidelines have been thrown away in order to strive towards new goals and methods, the external ones, which satisfy the continually changing labor market. The purpose of an individual in that kind of a system is to adapt in order to satisfy its needs while Socrates searches for happiness inside a man itself - a man possesses knowledge and wisdom for himself and his freedom, not others. With his method of dialectic speech, he seeks his truth and that of others and offers lots to think about. His teaching, which emphasizes love and desire for learning and real knowledge that leads to becoming an independent man, has been inspiring people for over twenty-five centuries, and it should be taken into consideration when thinking about youth, younger generations, and their future. In this paper, we are comparing and showing the differences in education today and the one in Socrates’ time. This paper highlights changes brought by the Bologna Declaration, but also the directionality in the labor market today, which makes the universities entrepreneurial centers. What does that mean for the knowledge economy we are striving for? Can we even state that we really are a knowledge society if we only aspire to knowledge that is dictated by the constantly changing labour market? We compare the knowledge to which we aspire with the knowledge which Socrates searches for and show the disadvantages of today’s educational system along the way. Here we offer Socrates’ ideas and opinions, which lead to possible progress towards genuine wisdom.

Semantic Web Fundamentals

2005 ◽  
pp. 2464-2468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grigoris Antoniou ◽  
Vassilis Christophides ◽  
Dimitris Plexousakis ◽  
Martin Doerr
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
The World ◽  
Developed World ◽  
The Way

The World Wide Web (Berners-Lee, Cailliau, & Groff, 1992; Berners-Lee, 1999) has changed the way people communicate with each other and the way business is conducted. It lies at the heart of a revolution that is currently transforming the developed world toward a knowledge economy (Neef, 1997), and more broadly speaking, to a knowledge society.

scholarly journals http://iafh.net/index.php/IJRES/article/view/335

2022 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-62
Author(s):  
Mehany Mohamed Ibrahim Ghanaiem ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Research ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Educational Innovation ◽  
Digital Society ◽  
Educational Issues ◽  
Educational Field ◽  
Industrial Revolutions ◽  
The Way

The current study attempts to clarify the educational stock of educational concepts, terms and issues that have been obliterated (either intentionally or unintentionally or perhaps out of ignorance) in order to enlighten the way to researchers in the educational field and push them to search and explore what the Arab educational heritage abounds in from many issues in all fields of education And education, which the innovators (educational renewal) were able to derive from our educational heritage and then return it to us a second time as being from their actions and the offspring of their ideas. In the knowledge society, the knowledge economy, the digital society, and the repercussions of two industrial revolutions (the Fourth and the Fifth) and many others that have been proposed and repeated recently in the field of educational research, the importance of such a study, which sheds light on the concept of both educational heritage and educational renewal, appears Explaining the justifications for research and exploration in the educational heritage, and raising educational issues that have been studied from the inspiration of the educational heritage, and then the approach between educational heritage and educational innovation, and finally proposing the study of educational issues inspired by the Arab Islamic educational heritage.

scholarly journals Inovação tecnológica no Brasil: há uma pedra no meio do caminho │ Technological innovation in Brazil: it has a stone on the way

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcos Cavalcanti ◽  
André Pereira Neto
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Alternative Explanation ◽  
Innovation Management ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Technological Production ◽  
Management Knowledge ◽  
The Way

RESUMO Este artigo analisa algumas razões comumente apresentadas para justificar a estagnação que o Brasil se encontra entre as nações que usam tecnologia a serviço do crescimento e desenvolvimento. Ele apresenta uma explicação alternativa associada às conseqüências da atual política de avaliação da produção científica e tecnológica que valoriza exclusivamente a produção bibliográfica e não reconhece o pedido e a concessão de uma patente ou qualquer outro tipo de produção ou atividade. A constatação da existência de uma pedra no meio do caminho pode representar um primeiro passo para superação desta situação.Palavras-chave: Inovação; Inovação tecnológica; Gestão da Inovação; Sociedade do Conhecimento.ABSTRACT This paper examines some reasons commonly put forward to justify the stagnation that Brazil is among the nations that use the technology for growth and development. It presents an alternative explanation of the consequences associated with the current policy of assessing scientific and technological production that emphasizes only the bibliographic production and does not recognize the request and the granting of a patent or any other type of output or activity. The acceptance of a stone along the way may represent a first step towards overcoming this situation.Keywords: Innovation; Innovation management; Knowledge Society.

scholarly journals Social Circumstances of Deviant People, Case Study in Gjakova Region

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Bekim Avdiaj
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Countries In Transition ◽  
Terrorist Acts ◽  
The Way

One of the factors influencing groups to hold together as one united ‘body’ for a social stability, is also the level of appearance of criminality within the region. Alongside evolution of the society, crime has also evolved and refined. Therefore, in the modern world of technology and science, criminality emerges in most diverse and most advanced forms. Based on that, criminality is encountered in every pore of society, irrespective of development, tradition, culture and nationality, and that from the local level, regional, state and all the way to international dimensions. This is furthermore sustained particularly by social evolutions experienced by the countries in transition, which were subject of a ‘reformation’ in all social spheres thus without sparing the human values. These trends of global development have, through some deviant cases, resulted with situations where all the existing social norms are being relinquished. Regardless of where you may happen to be, whatever newspaper you read, whatever news edition you watch on TV, one cannot but note that various criminal offences are being discussed or reported about, starting from the most common ones all the way to the terrorist acts. Based on the number and type of criminality, and based on the number of deviant persons, from 1999 onwards Gjakova region results with entirely new ‘behaviour’ in this direction. Therefore, current studying and analysing of social circumstances related deviant persons of this region consists of an immense and specific importance. Social circumstances and other factors of such persons shall be reflected through this study and that from the analysis generated from 95 of them which, in relation to the number of criminal offences reported with the law enforcement authorities from 2001 until 2012, appears to be 0. 41%. The sample included convicted deviant persons coming from the population of Gjakova region.

scholarly journals Information and Communication Technology in Higher Education of Uganda and Education Implications: A Case of Kyambogo University

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Grace Lubaale
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The Way

The emergence of knowledge society globally today has created new challenges for Higher Education (HE) particularly with the development of Information Communication Technology (ICT) at a speed that has no match in history yet HE in Uganda is still lagging behind. The paper aims at unraveling the role and challenges of using ICT in HE of Uganda and education implications in order to provide the way forward with Kyambogo University as a case. This study used a mixed methods approach that combined desk review and interviews. The paper reveals the role of ICT in HE as central in the teaching-learning process, on the learner and learning and on the academic staff and teaching while the challenges as; learners, economy, equipment and academic staff which poses as a drawback in the teaching –learning process. The paper concludes that ICT is central in the teaching-learning process as well as in the management of HE institutions. The way forward rests majorly in the newly created ICT Ministry with effective implementation of ICT Policy 2014 to improve the livelihoods of Ugandans by ensuring the availability of accessible, efficient, reliable and affordable ICT services in which HE will benefit automatically hence its effective application and use in the teaching-learning process.

scholarly journals VARIOUS TYPES OF ESTONIAN TOP‐MANAGERS

2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Külliki Tafel ◽  
Ruth Alas
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Top Managers ◽  
Team Player ◽  
Countries In Transition ◽  
Substantial Change ◽  
The Way ◽  
Self Organizing

Although there is no substantial change on this side, that leaders achieve results through the others work, there are still differences in the way, how leader achieves this. Based on empirical data from Cross Cultural CEO project this paper aims to classify leaders of Estonian organizations. The empirical study involved interviews with CEOs of 63 companies and questionnaires completed by the CEOs and their subordinates. Two types of top managers were received: directive type and team player. Self‐organizing theory has been applied for interpreting results. Implications are developed for leadership development in countries in transition.

scholarly journals University as a platform: an evolutionary process towards an open educational ecosystem in Europe

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gonzalo León ◽  
Alberto Tejero ◽  
Natalia Dévora ◽  
Iván Pau
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Education Value ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Universities are very stable institutions where their basic role in society is still alive after centuries; nevertheless, the way to provide it has deeply changed due to the generation of knowledge, evolution of technology, and evolution in internal and external governance and funding schemes. Even if those changes were successfully surfed and universities are still recognised in society as key actors for education and knowledge generation, new challenges are on the way and the smooth adaptation approach used in the past could be not valid anymore in front of disruptive societal changes. In fact, traditional higher-education value-chain is being challenged with the introduction of new actors in the higher education process and the emergence of IT-based disruptive learning models, which impact on university performance and governance. The main goal of this paper is to analyse how public universities’ structures should efficiently evolve in that context while preserving their role in society. We are aware that many of the findings could be also applied to private universities although regulatory contexts are different.The article offers a global view on public university governance challenges motivated by the digitisation of society and how Western universities should address them in order to keep a prominent role in the future knowledge society, where more complex educational ecosystems will be in place. The objective is to analyse the relative importance and interaction of a set of drivers for transforming universities’ structures in the context of a digital economy and how the (fragmented) answers provided today by universities over the world should evolve in the future towards a consistent policy and organisational mix by using concepts borrowed from digital platforms and collaborative economy. The article is mainly focused on the situation in the European Union (EU) linked to policy actions launched by the European Commission and EU Member States, although some action lines could be shared in broader geographical contexts.The analysis presented in the paper is focused on the applicability of the concept of (digital) higher educational platforms and how they can modify the provision of higher education services within an open education ecosystem in close cooperation with other actors. The impact in the higher-education value chain implies that several public and private actors will occupy positions formerly exclusively linked to universities; this evolution and their consequence are presented in the article through a number of potential trajectories. Finally, the article discusses a much more disruptive perspective by considering the future role of universities as “specialised learning platforms” for providing higher educational services over the world with weaker links to territory, and its derived consequences for new or pre-existent universities.

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