Knowledge and freedom are strictly connected. Human beings learn, teach and make use of their knowledge only and if they are free to do it. But, in the last years, while the emerging networked and digitized society is providing new possibilities for the growing of human knowledge, artificial boundaries are tightening the possibility to enjoy this potential (i.e.: copyright and patent law in the way they are shaped nowadays). As a consequence of that, "free knowledge" is increasingly being used as a flag by those who fight (like hipatia - http://www.hipatia.info) for the right of human beings to freely access, use and spread knowledge, according to human nature. Knowledge is the awareness and understanding of facts, truths or information gained in the form of experience or learning (a posteriori), or through introspection (a priori). ...
The term "knowledge management" has also served as an umbrella term by practitioners advocating a variety of organizational processes and practices for identifying and capturing knowledge, know-how, expertise and other intellectual capital, and for making such knowledge assets available for transfer and reuse across the organization.
Knowledge management programs are typically claimed to be tied to specific organizational objectives and are intended to lead to the achievement of specific targeted results such as improved performance, competitive advantage, or higher levels of innovation.
One alternative strategy to encoding knowledge into and retrieving knowledge from a knowledge repository such as a database is for individuals to instead access expert individuals on an ad hoc basis, as needed, with their knowledge requests.
Knowledge includes, but is not limited to, those descriptions, hypotheses, concepts, theories, principles and procedures which to a reasonable degree of certainty are either true or useful.
Knowledge may also be based upon the pronouncements of secular or religious authority such as the state or the church.
Knowledge may also be derived by reason from either traditional, authoritative, or scientific sources or a combination of them and may or may not be verified by resort to observation and testing.
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