Our aim is to make India a knowledge superpower

What steps should be taken by the Indian companies to make India

a knowledge nation?



This has to begin within the organization itself. The steps should include
putting an infrastructure in place for knowledge sharing and communication

between its employees; creating repositories for knowledge sharing so that even

if any employee leaves the organization, the knowledge would be retained by the

organization; and creating and disseminating content among the employees. But,

the question now arises as to how to reward people for knowledge sharing. The

answer is simplerecognize and create knowledge champions and their role. Most

importantly, whatever is being done internally should also be replicated

externally as an enterprise goes forward.

What is the role of the Indian government in this regard?



The goal of making India a knowledge superpower cannot be achieved without
the active support of the Indian government, and in realizing this goal, the

Department of Information Technology and the Department of Science and Research

are with us. The area where the Indian government can work is creating knowledge

portals, which is at the moment being driven by MindTree. But, the need of the

hour is to bring all these portals under a neutral umbrella so rival companies

can easily share the knowledge with the neutral body for the portal. CII could

be the neutral body for this and provide a platform for sharing and aggregating

knowledge. The second is to create infrastructure and enable ecosystem for it to

flourish and, lastly, generate more intellectual property and PhDs in India.

Sadly, we are lagging behind in this area and a lot needs to be done.

The general perception is that it is only the IT companies that

are active in knowledge sharing. Whats your take on this?



Sadly, this kind of perception prevails. But, we are striving to shatter
this misconception. In fact, the winners of last year were all non-IT companies,

and we have to now make all organizations realize that knowledge is all

pervasive and any company that is using technology in some way or the other can

be engaged in sharing knowledge. This is a major challenge for us at CII to make

the non-IT companies a part of this knowledge sharing initiative and we are

taking all possible steps for this.

What is Knowledge Management India 2007 all about?



This is an initiative by CII to support Indias emergence as a knowledge
leader in a global economy. The summit will discuss building an innovation

ecosystem, creating a better collaborative structure for all stakeholders,

emerging technology trends to harness knowledge like Web 2.0, mashups, mobility,

content management practices, etc. Our aim is to make India a knowledge

superpower by creating knowledge portals and knowledge community. The idea for

hosting the second knowledge management enterprise awards is to put a framework

in place to guide companies on how knowledge enterprises should function. The

more this information is placed in the open domain, the more companies will

benefit out of it.

Stuti Das





stutid@cybermedia.co.in