[AISWorld] final reminder March 9th lecture on Knowledge and Social Media

Sun Mar 6 13:10:11 EST 2011

March 9th 2011

Room: HRM215

London Venue: 

Marylebone Road. (Opp. Baker Street Station, and Mme Tussauds)

Time: 6.15pm - 8.00pm including questions. Cost: Free.  Coffee and biscuits provided. All welcome! Especially PG students.

Directions from Security

To ensure a place, register as soon as possible with: coakese at westminster.ac.uk

Past lectures on www.bcs.org/sociotechnical <http://www.bcs.org/sociotechnical>  and updates on the group's activities

Andrew Woolfson

Director of Knowledge Management & Capability 
Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, LLP

The business application of social media and knowledge management.

Outline 

Background to the dynamics if business / social media and knowledge 

The nature of social media and its relationship to individual / collective benefits & tensions 

The use of new social media tools inside a business and the effects on core IT and users 

Lessons learnt from recent experiences in tying social media & KM 

Expected roadmap & drivers for business process and technology applications 

Possible future outcomes when social media and KM catalyse the way we work and the ambitions we have 

Bio - 

Andrew Woolfson has over 25 years experience working in information, IT and knowledge management. Andrew is currently the Director of Knowledge Management & Capability at Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP - a city based law firm. Previously Andrew spent 2 years as the Global Director for IT & knowledge at BDO International and 11 years as BDO UK's Knowledge Director. Prior to BDO Andrew has worked in a variety of information and knowledge roles for KPMG, Reuters, Shell and Oxford Analytica. Andrew's career to date has tracked the rise of KM as a key aspect to the way organisations mobilise their experience, capabilities and knowledge. He is currently involved in a KTP with the University of Westminster in the area of social media based KM solutions. 

His passion is knowledge management, but he now links this into the deployment of an innovative social media framework.  Which he perceives to be the bridge to link people and their tasks, liberating their knowledge and innovation to make tasks easier to complete and enhancing effectiveness and productivity. He recognises that technology is the enabler that needs to become an everyday tool, and that addressing the social and behavioural aspects are as essential as the deployment of the tools themselves in shifting use from early adopters, to the whole firm.

Look for further details nearer the time on www.bcs.org/sociotechnical <http://www.bcs.org/sociotechnical> 

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look for the 'cybercrime event' May 4th  - more details to come

Panel to include:

Professor Frank Land [LSE] 

and 

Professor Andy Phippen 

- Professor of Social Responsibility and Ethics in IT - 

[Plymouth University]

A potential theme for discussion: Contributions welcome!

IS research is driven by the notion that technological innovation is there to be used for the benefit of society where that may be expressed in Business School terms such as competitiveness and shareholder values, or in Sociotechnical terms such as improvements in the quality of working life.  

But we live in a complex universe.  And not all participants share these values. These include some of our most successful entrepreneurs and innovators.  They range from those operating on the dark side of society who would use the technology for ends which range from the criminal to the anti-social, to those operating in greyer areas, epitomised by the recent performances of Wikileaks.  

Of course, some would place Wikileaks firmly on the dark side for making publically available state secrets and would like to see its leaders hung drawn and quartered - or worse.  Others see Wikileaks as Knights in Shining Armour exposing to the public what rightly belongs to the public.

It is worth noting that some of the black arts of the cyberworld are now being copied by the establishment.  A good example is the attempt by the US  and Israel to slow progress on Iran's nuclear ambitions by the successful insertion of a worm, Stuxnet, in Iranian software controlling their nuclear operations. 

By and large the activities of this alternative world of entrepreneurs and innovators, has played only a minor role in the IS research agenda.

Where it has surfaced it has been reactive in the sense that research has concentrated on finding ways to counter cyber crime, mainly by building protective mechanisms.  

Understanding the counter culture in way criminologists study the criminal world has not been part of the IS research agenda.  Yet the impact and potential damage of using technology in this way is growing all the time and is regarded as a major threat.  

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Coming June 22nd

Willy Coupar 

Director: Bayswater Institute

Elayne Coakes (Dr)
Senior Lecturer in BIMO,WBS
CG70 x3338

Editor-in-Chief: the International Journal for Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development: 
www.igi-global.com/IJSKD 
Book Series Editor: Advances in Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development, 
Editor: Knowledge Development and Social Change through Technology: Emerging Studies (due Jan 2011) IGI Global Publications: Hershey
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