Knowledge
There are many definitions of knowledge, dependent on the perspective taken in defining it.
Information Studies, it is customary to define a continuous progressively complex, composed of data, information, knowledge and wisdom.
Thus, knowledge is defined as a body of data and information for solving a problem. (Wikipedia).
Today, we live a global scale hatch about the technological, around information. With the progressive integration of ICT can carry information or messages to any point on the earth in a short time, making people and institutions are increasingly "community.
In industrialized countries, for Japan, companies have a compulsive lifestyle, at 18 a young Japanese should know how to manage and build artifacts, design, calculate, and so on.
In the case of anthropology, has been an emphasis on technological processes and cultural processes, the social uses of technology, language technology and the social construction of technology (images, representations, beliefs about the processes and technological devices, etc.).
In short, what the World Wide Web can bring to knowledge is a new space, a new distribution platform and access.
is, according to Manuel Castells, the ability to create new sources of wealth, productivity, based on technological development, can affect the economy in transforming business models and products. Internet, from this point of view, presents itself as a technology platform open to exploration and constant change.
Innovation also requires new management methods to successfully face both productivity and competitiveness. Some items that affect today's business world are in the following lines: total quality control of products in the production process, the participation of workers in the production process with criteria of teamwork, initiative decentralized decision-making autonomy, rewards for team accomplishments and flexible administrative hierarchy.
Evolution-gestures-memory tools
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The evolution of man, his legacy, is entered in the Phones that have given rise to language, the spoken word, written word, typing, today, the word digital. However, painting, photography, are other languages \u200b\u200bthat help to understand the man, from its artistic, its aesthetic worldview of the world. Thus, pigments, in the case of painting, and camera, in the case of photography, illustrative tools represent true of man's historical tours. Such tools have not disappeared but have evolved to digital (digital images).
The intelligence teconologia
intelligence technologies and new technologies of information and communication technologies (ICT) are those that contribute to the fact that the "industrial society" progress towards what some call the "information society" (or "post-industrial"), in which information plays a prevailing economic. It is in this perspective that the databases are true sources of knowledge and the Internet opens up new avenues for communication, trade and labor.
Knowledge Society in Colombia: a possibility
The issue of information society as one of the issues of building a new society raises questions that must be analyzed in depth. The information age is crossed by the incorporation and implementation new technologies, which our country does, we live in a technological backwardness compared to industrialized countries. On the other hand, a national society of knowledge is a territorial architecture align networks where national civil societies, which leads to countless excluded Colombian populations mired in poverty and have no access even to television.
Another point to consider is the country's multicultural status. Colombia is inhabited by different ethnic and racial groups, which have a distinct historical and cultural tradition to which it has thrived in the cities. So, to build a knowledge society, is crucial to study these groups and their possible connection with this project.
In short, it requires an early introduction of new technologies of information and communication with defined objectives designed to meet the global requirements in terms of economy, society, culture and education. Unquestionably we must seize the new technology, but with an alternative look at the information society than the market.