Presenter: Johann Kinghorn
Director of the Centre for Knowledge Dynamics and Decision-making at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
The battle cry of KM has reached Africa in the early years of this decade, and by now it has become a continental movement which is driven forward by governments, more so than business. The result: everyone is now supposed to “do” KM. And the enthusiasm, at least at the level of rhetoric is ubiquitous.
The issue of appropriate knowledge in and for Africa is utterly absorbing but hugely complex. It is not possible to talk about knowledge in Africa without engaging with the problem of global power relations. Knowledge is, after all, power.
Johann Kinghorn, Kinghorn, Director of the Centre
by Knowledge Dynamics and Decision-making at
Stellenbosh University, South Africa
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