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Author:   Somprakash Bandyopadhyay (Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata, India) ,  Sneha Bhattacharyya (Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata, India) ,  Jayanta Basak (Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata, India)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge India
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367334949

ISBN 10:   0367334941
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   01 September 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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1. Introduction PART I. Rural Empowerment: Bridging Rural–Urban Knowledge and Information Divide 2. Knowledge, Knowledge Divide and Knowledge Capability: A Conceptual Framework 3. Rural Empowerment: A Knowledge-Theoretic Approach 4. Contemporary Initiatives Undertaken for Rural Empowerment 5. Information Asymmetry and Rural Producers 6. Knowledge Asymmetry and its Mitigation through Enhancement of Knowledge Capability PART II. Social Knowledge Management and Social Technologies: Conceptual Foundations 7. Knowledge Management and its Evolution in Organizational Context 8. Social Technology and Knowledge Management Practices 9. Efforts Undertaken to Manage Social Knowledge and Information for Social Benefit 10. Social Knowledge Management: A Social Technology-enabled Framework to Bridge Knowledge Asymmetry of Rural Producers through Virtual Community Formation PART III. Social Knowledge Management in Action: Some Empirical Studies in Rural India 11. Cultivating Online Communities of Practice to Facilitate Practice-Oriented Rural-Urban Knowledge Exchange through Collaborative Learning Spaces 12. Cultivating Communities of Purpose to Enhance Market Opportunities of Rural Producers through Collaborative Knowledge Transaction 13. Cultivating Communities of Circumstance to Enhance Community Resilience through Knowledge Sharing using Collaboration and Connections Part IV. What Tomorrow May Bring 14. Summery and Discussions 15. Building a Developmental Ecosystem for Rural Empowerment

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Somprakash Bandyopadhyay is Professor, Management Information Systems Group, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata, India. With a PhD in Computer Science, he has nearly 40 years of experience in teaching, research and technology development in several organizations of international repute. He was a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany and fellow of the Japan Trust International Foundation. He is the Founder-Director of Social Informatics Research Group at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. Sneha Bhattacharyya is Research Associate, Social Informatics Research Group, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata, India. With an M.Phil. in Social Sciences, her interests are in applying social techniques to optimally disseminate internet-enabled technology for upliftment of marginalized communities. Jayanta Basak is Senior Research Associate, Social Informatics Research Group, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata, India. He has an M.Tech in Computer Science and works in the areas of design and development of Social Information Systems for social development. He is also the Co-Founder-Director of NexConnect, a social business venture based in Kolkata for social inclusion through digital inclusion.

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