Social Knowledge Management for Rural Empowerment: Bridging the Knowledge Divide Using Social Technologies

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Synopsis
This book develops and examines the concepts and strategies for rural empowerment through the formation of a community-driven social knowledge management (SKM) framework aided by social technology. The framework is aimed at mobilizing knowledge resources to bridge the rural–urban knowledge divide while securing rural empowerment using digital connections and social collaborations built on strategies of self-sustenance and self-development. With key empirical findings supplemented by relevant theoretical structures, case studies, illustrative figures and a lucid style, the book combines social technologies and social development to derive a social knowledge management platform. It shows how the proposed SKM framework can enhance knowledge capabilities of rural actors　by facilitating　connection among rural–urban entities　through formation of purposive virtual communities, which allow social agents to create, modify and share content collaboratively. The volume brings forward diverse issues such as conceptual foundations; bridging the rural–urban knowledge and information divide; issues of information and knowledge asymmetry; a knowledge-theoretic perspective of rural empowerment; knowledge capability, freedom of choice and wellbeing, to provide a comprehensive outlook on building a knowledge society through digital empowerment. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of development studies, rural sociology, management studies, IT/IS, knowledge management and ICT for development, public policy, sociology, political economy and development economics. It will benefit professionals and policymakers, government and nongovernment bodies and international agencies involved with policy decisions related to application of technologies for rural development, social workers and those in the development sector.
Copyright:
2021

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
324 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781000175899
Related ISBNs:
9780367334949, 9780429320170, 9780367334932
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, Sneha Bhattacharyya and Jayanta Basak
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Social Studies, Sociology
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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