Distributed knowledge

Crowd-sourcingItalic text is the process of getting work or funding, usually online, from a crowd of people. The word Crowd-sourcing is a combination of Crowd & Outsourcing It is powered by new technologies and social media. Crowd-sourcing can take place on many different levels and across various industries. Crowd-sourcing can provide organizations with access to new ideas and solutions, optimization of tasks, and reduced costs. Millions of people, connected by the Internet, are contributing ideas and information to projects big and small. Crowd-sourcing, is helping to solve tricky problems and providing localized information with the right knowledge, contributing to the crowd.

There are many types of crowd-sourcing and we will be discussing distributed knowledge in detail.

Distributed knowledgeItalic text - The development of knowledge assets or information resources from a distributed pool of contributors. In the age of globalization and internet, gathering and distributing content such as "common knowledge"or "collective knowledge" is very important. In simple words it means knowledge that flows from one user for the other users. It is also referred to as "aggregate knowledge of the community" or "wisdom of the crowd". This basically means that "no one of us is smarter than all of us combined". An example of distributed knowledge - You don't always learn things by taking a class, you generally learn things by picking up stuff from the internet or watching others, this means you may learn things from many sources instead of just one source at a time.

Companies that use distributed knowledge are Google, Intel and AmazonItalic text. For one, it turns out that Google, Intel, and Amazon each survey their employees extensively to better understand and improve on their employees’ experience. Google uses surveys to improve engagement and management. The people who design Google’s workplace culture make full use of what we call Employee Powered Data. They’ve dedicated a hefty amount of resources—whether it be industrial organizational psychologists, behavioral economists, or statisticians—to continually have their pulse on the employee experience and discover improvements. What is Google’s staff doing to uncover these improvements? For one thing, they’re using surveys! Surveys run at several stages of the employee experience, each serving a unique purpose. Together with this, these companies are also planning to make surveys for customers to rate their products and recommendations for improvement.

References

R. Fagin, J. Y. Halpern, Y. Moses, and M. Y. Vardi. Reasoning about Knowledge, The MIT Press, 1995. ISBN 0-262-56200-6

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