Digital knowledge ecosystems : empowering users through context specific actionable information

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Abstract

![CDATA[Today we have to solve many global development problems often termed as Grand Challenges aiming at enhancing livelihood processes for achieving better economic, social and environmental outcomes. Increasing take-up of Smartphones and the resulting digitally connected society has opened up new possibilities to address these challenges. To better understand how this connectivity can be effectively used to enhance outcomes a project was initiated to develop a Mobile Based Information System (MBIS) for farmers in Sri Lanka. The aim was to provide farmers and other stakeholders in the agriculture domain with context specific actionable information to make optimal decisions. The term actionable information refers to such information that will enable a stakeholder to act with least amount of further processing. The research challenge was to discover a way to generate context specific actionable information to support decision making throughout all stages of a farming cycle in a way to empower users. To initiate the information flow published knowledge relevant to the domain activities were disaggregated and reorganised into an ontological knowledgebase to provide context specific actionable information. A system was devised for users to act on this information generating transaction data which in turn was aggregated or disaggregated to provide new actionable information. This mechanism will keep the information flowing in the system similar to biological ecosystems. Thus MBIS evolved into a Digital Knowledge Ecosystem. Since its deployment we observed many new major stakeholder groups joining the system confirming the correctness of the ecosystem design. It was found the evolved Digital Knowledge Ecosystem architecture and the approach to develop the system is very generic and can be applied to other domains such as healthcare and business to enhance information flow among key stakeholders, thus empowering the users.]]
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 10th IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, 1-4 July 2016, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
PublisherIADIS
Pages57-65
Number of pages9
Publication statusPublished - 2016
EventMulti Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems -
Duration: 1 Jul 2016 → …

Conference

ConferenceMulti Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems
Period1/07/16 → …

Keywords

  • agriculture
  • information technology
  • software engineering

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