Democratising access to knowledge |
Introduction
The United Nations has emphasised the importance of effective knowledge sharing in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. At the same time emerging digital technologies, social networks and working practices provide huge potential for increasing the visibility and reach of new ideas.
But the potential benefits of these new technologies and approaches are not always accessible to all and this, in some cases, could be creating new digital divides that restrict rather than encourage effective knowledge sharing.
Knowledge sharing platforms, libraries and knowledge management initiatives all have a role to play in addressing some of these inequalities but to do this more effectively we need to do more work to understand some of the barriers to engagement that are preventing progress and to identify opportunities to address these.
This survey will help us to better understand these barriers. The results of the survey will be presented at a workshop at IDS in September 2016.
Information you supply about yourself will only be available to the research team working on the paper and will be held in strict confidence. However aggregate data will be shared and it may be possible for third parties to identify individuals based on their responses.
The survey should take approximately 10 minutes.
If you have any problems with this survey, please contact us at: a.stanley@ids.ac.uk
But the potential benefits of these new technologies and approaches are not always accessible to all and this, in some cases, could be creating new digital divides that restrict rather than encourage effective knowledge sharing.
Knowledge sharing platforms, libraries and knowledge management initiatives all have a role to play in addressing some of these inequalities but to do this more effectively we need to do more work to understand some of the barriers to engagement that are preventing progress and to identify opportunities to address these.
This survey will help us to better understand these barriers. The results of the survey will be presented at a workshop at IDS in September 2016.
Information you supply about yourself will only be available to the research team working on the paper and will be held in strict confidence. However aggregate data will be shared and it may be possible for third parties to identify individuals based on their responses.
The survey should take approximately 10 minutes.
If you have any problems with this survey, please contact us at: a.stanley@ids.ac.uk