US Department Of Commerce International Trade & Business Bookstore: Knowledge Exchange

Questions & Answer Exchanges - where citizens can ask for and receive answers ( and the knowledge providers  get rated for the quality of their help ) As a lever for creating more responsive, open, trusted, and responsive e-gov ,this can be a powerful lever 

www.question.com

http://www.keen.com

 

Experts Exchange :- on line exchanges where communities of experts are accessible - by citizens, by gov to gov,  biz to gov experts, for free, or for a fee :-
 

 

 

 

 

Intellectual Property Exchanges : - (for both protection and leverage of IP assets) - government spending especially on sponsored R&D and  innovation, needs enhanced management just as private companies need to pay greater attention to these assets. In the knowledge based economy there is a great tension between "open source" and "proprietary" approaches. Government will be challenged to find ways of balancing these forces. People in Governments generate new ideas too - licensing these through the Intellectual Property Exchange could be a revenue source or they could be made available for free  For more people even to know what's available, these ideas need an outlet or gateway, and the e-knowledge exchange will become a key platform for doing so.

 

 

 

 

e-Learning

 

In a knowledge based economy, e-gov will create greater opportunities for citizens to access learning on line, and for knowledge providers to make knowledge content available( course, seminars, conferences ). Already some countries are building nation-wide e-learning exchange environments.

A Vignette: ( source: excerpted from www.saba.com )

 

The Country Of Norway   

Saba helps a nation institute a full-scale Internet-based learning network.

Overview:
With the arrival of a new century, Norway, like many countries, found itself facing new economic challenges. Traditional industries such as oil and gas were declining, while the need for more technically skilled workers was skyrocketing. Already 85% of all jobs in Norway required skilled labor. And that percentage was rising.

The Challenge:
To address this trend, the Norwegian government mandated that all workers be given the opportunity to assess themselves against any job role and its associated competencies. As part of this visionary legislation, Norwegian businesses were required to provide training to any Norwegian citizen who desired-or required-it.

The Solution:
A business coalition comprising Norway's largest workers' union and business association formed NKN (The Competence Network of Norwegian Business and Industry), a commercial platform designed to "up-skill" the entire Norwegian workforce. To help create a nationwide learning network capable of serving 17,000 companies and ultimately more than 2.3 million citizens, Norway turned to Saba.

Deploying a seamless learning network throughout an entire nation would be a daunting, unprecedented task. But Saba, with its extensive partnerships and alliances, worked with Norway to configure a learning infrastructure that would be: Flexible enough to effectively address any training level. Fast enough to deliver timely training solutions. Robust enough to integrate multidiscipline learning applications for every industry in Norway.

On August 16, 2000, Norway launched the world's first Internet-based Knowledge Exchange Network. The Saba-built NKN platform successfully unites government offices, universities and vocational schools, trade unions, and workers. The launch marks the first time a country has modeled the practices of successful global corporations to provide greater training and skills to its customers, partners, employees, and suppliers.

The Result:
With the capability now in place to keep its workforce up-to-date with the skills and technologies needed to compete in the Knowledge Economy, Norway is poised for long-term economic stability.

Eventually more than 2.3 million Norwegian citizens from every industry type will have password-protected PC access to the Saba-built NKN platform. The platform currently delivers learning offerings from more than forty worldwide content providers, with that number continuing to swell. Not only will the time-to-competency of Norway's workers be reduced, but the traditional training costs for companies, governments, and schools will sharply decline.

This revolutionary nationwide learning network will enable Norway's citizenry to receive updated skills to ensure that all Norwegians are optimally prepared to face the technological demands of the New Economy 

America's Learning Exchange - http://www.alx.org/

Fathom - http://www.fathom.com

 

Many experiments are underway to leverage on-line e-knowledge market-places and exchanges for the sustainable development of of communities through on-line knowledge exchange - " knowledge for development"

 

Community Of Science - http://www.cos.com/

The Global Knowledge Partnership - http://www.globalknowledge.org/

 

 

.Vertically Oriented Knowledge Exchanges :- ( Industry specific )

The Construction Industry Knowledge Exchange ( UK ) http://www.knowledgeexchange.org.uk/ke/

Whether within the enterprise or outside of it, the human capital exchange will become a preferred channel for the dynamic balancing of human capital demand and supply conditions. 
 

e-Lance -www.elance.com

Aquent - www.aquent.com

 

Hello Brain - www.hellobrain.com

 

see also http://www.kikm.org/portal/markets_stories.htm