Abstract
Social knowledge management is a framework that allows its users to create and modify content collaboratively using social media and web 2.0 technologies. Social knowledge management can also be defined as the management of social knowledge where it is aimed towards social development. India today is facing a huge rural-urban divide with regard to poor learning achievement at the elementary level in remote rural areas. Remote rural schools are engulfed with problems such as the unavailability of good quality teachers and a poor learning environment. In this context, the chapter seeks to utilize a robust social knowledge management framework to impart universal education in the form of both formal and informal knowledge to the masses in remote rural areas by mobilising free online knowledge resources and the dormant knowledge capital of educated senior citizens. It further illustrates the design and development of a social media based knowledge management platform named OwlishOracle that addresses issues of exclusion and unequal educational attainment through "connecting generations".
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Harnessing Social Media as a Knowledge Management Tool |
| Publisher | IGI Global |
| Pages | 89-107 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781522504962 |
| ISBN (Print) | 1522504958, 9781522504955 |
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| Publication status | Published - 13 Jul 2016 |
| Externally published | Yes |