Knowledge Ecology Fair 98 Presentation Abstracts

Knowledge Ecology Fair 98
Presentation Abstracts

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Knowledge Ecology and Communities of Practice:
Emerging Twin Trends of Creating True Wealth,
by George Pór, Founder and Senior Consultant of Community Intelligence Labs, who coined the term "knowledge ecology"

Knowledge ecology (KE) is a growing body of knowledge and practices focused on continuously improving the relationships, tools and methods for creating, integrating, sharing, using, and leveraging knowledge.

It is an interdisciplinary field of management theory and practice, inspired and nourished by the confluence and cross-impact of such powerful memes as:

"information ecology" (Davenport, Prusak)

"community of practice" (Wenger, Seely Brown)

"generative learning communities" (Veltrop)

"business as complex adaptive system" (McMaster, Wheatley)

"bootstrap strategy" (Engelbart)

"organizational learning (Argyris, Senge)

"intellectual capital" (Edvinsson, Stewart)

"hypertext organization" (Nonaka, Takeuchi)

The cross-fertilization of KE's intellectual origins will lead to unprecendented breakthroughs in organizational performance, business and social value.

This keynote address will focus on KE's relationship with one of the most dynamic sources of its origins: "Communities of Practice". It will be followed by an online Q&A and panel with the participation of several of the Fair's presenters.