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Knowledge Building in an Information Society

[The content of this section to follow. In the meantime if you are curious you are invited to nose around here to see some of the signs of what we intend by this "Knowledge Building" phrase. Here are a couple of way-stations already in place which may begin to make our vision of this a bit clearer.]

The Future: Year 2000 Consulting Perspectives.
Over in our public interest site, The Commons, you may want to check out the ideas and materials that are being gathered under the Rethinking Work: New Ways to Work in an information Society program, and the 1994 book by the same name, demonstrate much of this more aggressive, forward thinking.
Within the @ccess site under The Commons, the little sections on @ccess Research and Idea Builders, Checkers, & Sources
The e-Tool kit will also give a flavor for our thinking, at least as far as some practical uses of the Web as an information resource are concerned.
The Bilbao2001 ITS Convergence and TransBilbao.net project sites may interest you as an example of how we created two "trigger projects" in collaborative work with a group of partners and clients in order to use technology and a new cooperative environment to bring information, expertise, and resources to bear on a specific high priority regional problem (restructuring of the regional transportation system so as to take full advantage of new technology). The

There are other examples of past and on-going work that demonstrate elements of this approach, however most of what we might have to say or propose usefully to you in this respect, however, does not really lend itself to a canned presentation such as this. So, if you wish to take these ideas further, the best thing to do is simply to pick up the phone or, better yet, get on the other end of your videoconferencing rig, call our system at +331-4441-6340, and we can then see if there is any reason to begin to deepen and develop these ideas.

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