Joël Van Hoolandt — Fractional CTO | Magma Consulting

Have a look at the video that some librarians made some days ago. It highlights the social dimension, the service minded approach of this profession and all the kind of information you can get in a library (and not on Google ebook or on Amazon). As they believe, I thought that knowledge sharing was not on the Internet only, but also on the coffee machine or in a reading room....?? So, maybe yes, they're right...libraries will survive !!

KPMG International has released an interesting paper on Web 2.0 technologies within the public sector...you can find the document on several KPMG web sites, like on the Belgian site (the official title is 'Dynamic technologies for smarter government' and is available in PDF format).

Did you know that you can access thousands of social science research papers and articles online? See the last stats we had from the SSRN eLibrary : Papers & Authors: Abstracts: 289,990 Full Text Papers: 240,676 Authors: 138,281 Papers Received in Last 6 months:27,36

As I already quoted on LinkedIn, I'm a surprised by the lack of public european initiative on cloud computing and secured cloud architecture within the european region. I'm really convinced that cloud architecture could boost the european ICT adoption (with offering cheap and secure data storage for european citizens) and make it cheaper for the weakest european countries. If you're not convinced that Europe is waiting too long to adopt any plan, check what happened last month in Washington on the Knowledge Management level....

I'm very pleased to see that the editor World Scientific Publishing Company announces a book about KM and communication for September 2010. Most of the time, we find a lot of books on ontologies, document management, KM strategies with IT connections, but I believe that the academic community does not emphasize enough the communication skills we need to practice KM every day. The complete title of the book will be 'Communication and knowledge transfer: theories and cases in Journalism, Public relations and advertising (series on innovation and knowledge management) and it's written by Seow Ting Lee and I-huei Cheng.

Une information, aussi importante soit-elle, sert peu si elle n’est pas mise à jour, communiquée et exploitée adéquatement par la bonne ressource au moment opportun. Mais encore faut-il qu’elle soit disponible et repérable. À la fin de 1999, pour palier au départ à la retraite de nombre d’experts en agriculture, de leurs connaissances et de leur expertise, le ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation (MAPAQ), de concert avec le Centre de référence en agriculture et agroalimentaire du Québec (CRAAQ), annonçait la mise en ligne d’Agri-Réseau. Dix ans plus tard, Agri-Réseau constitue LA référence sur le Web dans toute la francophonie en matière d’information technique et scientifique dans le domaine. Plus d'information sur l'expérience d'Agri-Réseau

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