I hosted a session called "Future Collaboration of the KBD Community" as part of the open space event entitled "Designing the Global KBD Agenda" at the the Global Knowledge Based Development Week. We discussed how collaboration of the KBD Community in the physical space could be supported in the virtual space. We came up with three action items:

1. We set up the KBD Mailing List on google groups that is open to everyone interested in KBD. You can join the mailing list by sending an email to "kbd-community-subscribe(at)googlegroups.com" (note: replace "(at)" by "@" when sending the email). Please do that until 2007/11/02 (november 2nd). After joining please send a short email to the mailing list ("kbd(at)googlegroups.com") explaining what your background and your interests in KBD are. 
2. We will set up a KBD Wiki and send an invitation to the mailing list at 2007/11/02.
   

Today was the sixth day of the Global Knowledge Based Development Week in Monterrey/Mexico. In the morning there was a open space event entitled "Designing the Global KBD Agenda" where we tried to figure out what the most important questions in KBD would be in the next five years (2008-2013).

Knowledge Based Development (KBD) - Global KBD Future Research Agenda

• How to bring love to organizations and cities because without love people do not share knowledge. (this issue that Edna Pasher pointed out was the most important for me, if we can do that, all problems will disappear)
• Intellectual Capital as an invonveniently complex issue.
• Where is the knowledge?
• Collective wisdom and collective intelligence.
• Future teams to look into the future.
• The brain - the last unexplored continent.
• Intelligent regions: intelligent life in a creative way, connecting bridge between local society and global opportunities.
• Places for social interaction.
• Hi-Story.
• Knowledge mapping.
• Renewal and Innovation.
• Health and Joy. 

Personally I wondered if the most important issues in Knowledge Based Development (KBD) and Knowledge Management (KM) at the moment are more about research or more about implementation?

Today was the fourth day of the Global Knowledge Based Development Week in Monterrey/Mexico. Here are some of my notes of the sessions I attended:

Javier Carrillo: Refounding cities on the grounds of knowledge societies

• Title: Redesigning urban experience.
• "I'm convinced, we as humans haven't get quite into the point of how to live together".
• "Humans were used to live in coexisting with nature, moving to cities (urbanization) changes that".
• "Knowledge society is not about technology or innovation but about moving to a different level of human experience".
• "In the history we were looking for exceptional individuals, now we are looking for exceptional societies".

Lynne Schneider: Refounding cities on the grounds of knowledge societies

• Title: Rebuilding from the Heart - Baghdad Revitalization.
• Compassion, respect for local capabilities and providing hope is very important.

Raphaële Bidault-Waddington: Knowledge Cities

• Title: The Case of Christiania
• Christiania was a military area in Copenhagen, it became an artist place, a "city inside a city", a "private city", a "social experiment".
• In the 1990s-2000 it became a very attractive touris place (2nd most visited place).
  

Today was the third day of the Global Knowledge Based Development Week in Monterrey/Mexico. Here are some of my notes of the sessions I attended:

Rosa María Sanchez: Creative Urban Environments

• Title: Unleashing Women's Entrepreneurial Creativity
• Rosa Mariá is a artist and musician.
• EXATEC Business and Executive Women's Association's Mission Statement: to promote and facilitate the whole development of a group of women, so that, due to the firmness of character they develop, the clarity of purpose they reach, and the efficacy to the technologies they practice, they successfully accomplish the projects they undertake, whether personal, family, labor, communitary or cultural, and become example and guidance to other women who are also seeking for such whole development.
• Organizational structure: Steering team (president, vice-president, treasury, secretary) and Personal development project committee (operations coordinator, "spirit of the association" coordinator, technology coordinator, research and methodology coordinator).
• Remark: this is very close to the UN Millenium Development Goal 3.

Tan Yigitcalar: Creative Urban Environments

• Form of production is moving to a more abstract form of production performed by creative knowledge workers.

Raphaële Bidault-Waddington: Creative Urban Environments

• Raphaële is an artist with a background in economy.

Today was the second day of the Global Knowledge Based Development Week in Monterrey/Mexico. Here are some of my notes of the sessions I attended:

Today was the first day of the Global Knowledge Based Development Week in Monterrey/Mexico. Here are some of my notes of the sessions I attended:

Alex Bennet: Introduction to Knowledge Management

• Alex introduced herself by singing a song from an opera.
• She was CKO of the US Navy and runs now the Mountain Quest Institute together with her husband David.
• "Knowledge = human capacity to take effective action."
• "Knowledge = context-sensitive and situation dependend."
• "With knowledge comes responsibility."
• "Brain = associative processor."
• Some of the methods used at the US Navy are: Communities of Practice, Knowledge Portal, Knowledge fair, Scenario planning, Videos, Community dialog.

Karl Wiig: People-focussed Knowledge Management

• Karl (Knowledge Research Institute) has a background in self-learning systems, scientific computing, artificial intelligence, economic modelling and modelling of social systems.
• The presentation People-focussed KM: Effective Decision-Making Leads to Enterprise Success contains some of the most important slides he used here.
• Emerging focus in KM: knowledge-orientation, competent people are key to success.
• All work is partly knowledge-intensive.
• People Actions Lead to Performance: from nano actions (individual level) to micro actions (team level) to consolidated enterprise behaviour.
• Mental Reference Models are important (Routine, Operational Models, Scripts, Schemate).
• Knowledge: procedural knowledge (know-how), declarative knowledge (know-what).
• Story vs.
  

Nächste Woche findet in Monterrey/Mexiko die Global Knowledge Based Development Week und darin eingebettet der erste Knowledge Cities Summit statt. Die KBD Week ist eingerahmt vom UNESCO Forum der Kulturen, was die gesamte Veranstaltung sicherlich sehr bereichern wird.

Wenn es der Internetzugang zulässt, werde ich hier im Lauf der Woche über die Veranstaltung bloggen. An diesen Weblog ist die Auswahl der Veranstaltungen angehängt, die ich gerne besuchen möchte, Ich bin schon sehr gespannt.