STRATEGIES AND INSTITUTIONAL MECHANISMS FOR DISSEMINATION AND
UTILISATION OF KNOWLEDGE
Abstract
Discovery of the
means of knowledge dissemination is one of the greatest achievements of the
present century. All institutions
store, access, disseminate and utilize knowledge in some form or another.
Almost every institution will have some process of capturing knowledge, sharing
knowledge and disseminating this knowledge from knowledge stores to end-users. This
paper explores mechanisms for disseminating knowledge. It does this by first
defining what knowledge is. This is followed by a discussion on different media
through which knowledge may be disseminated.
Knowledge transfer has always existed in various forms like on-the-job
peer discussions, formal apprenticeship, corporate libraries, professional
training and mentoring programs. With
today’s widespread use of ICT and Internet, knowledge is just not present just
in books but is available at the click of a button from any geographical
location. With computers becoming more widespread,
specific adaptations of technology such as knowledge bases, expert systems, and
knowledge repositories have been introduced to further simplify the process. Hence this paper elaborately explores the concept of knowledge and the strategies
and mechanisms used to
disseminate and utilize knowledge.
Keywords: Knowledge, knowledge management, tacit
knowledge, explicit knowledge,
                knowledge
transfer and knowledge workers.
