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Global KBD community developments: the MAKCi experience

Blanca C. Garcia (World Capital Institute, Centre for Knowledge Systems, ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico)

Journal of Knowledge Management

ISSN: 1367-3270

Article publication date: 12 September 2008

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Abstract

Purpose

Inscribed in third generation KM schemes, this paper aims to collect the resulting experience of facilitating an international consultation process on knowledge‐city topics, called the Most Admired Knowledge City (MAKCi) Awards.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper draws together the experiences gained through facilitating an international consultation process.

Findings

The paper reports on observations of the MAKCi point of convergence within the knowledge‐based development (KBD) community. It recounts the experience of a group of KBD experts who have undertaken a learning journey into knowledge‐generative collaborative research. Linked to a globally based community of practice, the MAKCi exercise clearly fosters a research and learning space through a network of practice (NoP) within the greater global KBD community that is worth exploring from multiple standpoints.

Originality/value

The paper discovers how knowledge‐intensive research work could depend on community links and networks to gain the necessary perspectives and paths to learn and make sense of the changing world. The MAKCi exercise appears a challenging case of networked knowledge‐sharing experience through a connected expertise that brings a group of individuals together to create integrated knowledge, regardless of geographical or time constraints. The second part of the paper concentrates on bringing further understanding as to how learning and knowledge creation is possible through networks, by conveying higher levels of knowledge co‐creation at a global scale, so relevant in knowledge‐based development contexts. The paper advances some applications on how emerging models of knowledge‐intensive networks such as NoPs foster tacit knowledge conversion into explicit scholarly knowledge.

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Citation

Garcia, B.C. (2008), "Global KBD community developments: the MAKCi experience", Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 12 No. 5, pp. 91-106. https://doi.org/10.1108/13673270810902966

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2008, Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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