Personal Knowledge Management for Development (PKM4D) Framework and its Application for People Empowerment

Devising Enabling Spaces and Affordances for Personal Knowledge Management System Design

“…This notion of conviviality has also been an inspiration in developing the PKMS concept and prompted the incorporation of the four criteria for 'Capable and Convivial Design' (Johri & Pal, 2012) into a 12-criteria PKM for Development (PKM4D) Framework to be applied in personal settings (Schmitt, 2014k) as well as development interventions (Schmitt, 2016h) in the interdisciplinary and intercultural context. The twelve criteria are closely aligned to the six ecosystems which are also offering a fitting structure for the affordances prioritizing Communication, Community-building, Collaboration, and Social Knowledge Sharing suggested by Mynatt and Cabitza.…”

“…It ranges from meeting basic necessities (e.g., affording internet access to combat digital divides or access to information and knowledge via effective and affordable artefacts) to supporting individual sovereignty by employing grass-roots, bottom-up, affordable, personal applications (e.g., by affording alternatives to prohibitive approaches and discouraging services of dominant market players) (Schmitt, 2016h). Cabitza et al (2015) stress the point that for today's "most popular technologies supporting a community, their development is left in the hand of few big players while the research community is just observing and reporting on their usage in different contexts" and how this state is "stifling the development of real alternatives and the quest for disruptive innovation".…”

Design Science Research For Personal Knowledge Management System Development - Revisited

“…In parallel to this ongoing software development, further studies of the relevant fields and the publishing of a series of posters, papers, and articles (Schmitt, 2012(Schmitt, -2016 have taken place, adding to the insight that the potential benefits justify a far more holistic approach by also encompassing the educational and developmental needs of the emerging knowledge societies. Since these published resources are accessible by using the cited URL and DOI links, this article shifts from a scenario of how Personal KM devices support individuals' academic and professional growth towards an account of how this novel concept and system has been devised.…”

“…However, as a support tool for life-long learning (Schmitt & Butchart, 2014) and as an "Artefact and Expediter of Interdisciplinary Discourses" (Schmitt, 2015g), the PKM concept and system strive towards multi-and transdisciplinary applicability. To promote this aspiration, the publications (Schmitt, 2012(Schmitt, -2016 Stringently defined -in contrast -are the types of entities and dynamic relationships which govern the structure and operations of the PKMS knowledge base. Able to represent world:2 ideas and world:1 objects and classifications as well as their higher-order combinations (e.g., documents, authorship, ownership, organizational structures), the novel PKMS devices facilitate the features of Bush's 'Memex' envisioned seven decades ago.…”

“…His scenario is based on decentralized autonomous PKM capacities, networked in continuous feedback loops to enable creative user conversations. Hence, PKM Systems (PKMS) are expected to facilitate the emergence of distributed processes of collective intelligence, which in turn feed them.However, only current advances in development, hosting, and database platforms have provided a viable opportunity for further advancing the PKM prototype system and converting it into an application serving a wider audience across technological environments.In parallel to this ongoing software development, further studies of the relevant fields and the publishing of a series of posters, papers, and articles (Schmitt, 2012(Schmitt, -2016 have taken place, adding to the insight that the potential benefits justify a far more holistic approach by also encompassing the educational and developmental needs of the emerging knowledge societies. Since these published resources are accessible by using the cited URL and DOI links, this article shifts from a scenario of how Personal KM devices support individuals' academic and professional growth towards an account of how this novel concept and system has been devised.…”