Your Place in the Knowledge Economy

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Your Place in the Knowledge Economy

• Preparing to Empower Others for the Knowledge
  Economy

Gbenga Sesan
me_at_gbengasesan.com www.gbengasesan.com
KnowledgeHouse Africa Retreat. Ibassa Island,
Lagos, NIGERIA. July 3 2004
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What Exactly is the Knowledge Economy?

• He who receives an idea from me receives
  instruction himself without lessening mine as he
  who lights his taper at mine receives light
  without darkening me. - Thomas Jefferson
• Technology and knowledge are now the key factors
  of production. What of Land, labour, capital and
  entrepreneurship?
• Enhancing human capital is critical for GDP
  growth. GDP is a measure of the economy adopted
  in the United States in 1991 the total market
  values of goods and services by produced by
  workers and capital within the borders of a
  nation during a given period usually 1 year
• Globalization, Information/Knowledge Intensity,
  and Networking/Connectivity are the driving
  forces of the Knowledge Economy
• Know-why and know-who matters more than
  know-what
• Life long learning is vital for organisations
  and individuals
• ICT releases people's creative potential and
  knowledge
• Knowledge gained by experience is as important
  as formal education and training

For further enquiries, please contact
www.enterweb.org/know.htm, topics.developmentgatew
ay.org/knowledge, www.skyrme.com/insights/21gke.ht
m, and www.med.govt.nz/pbt/infotech/knowledge_econ
omy/knowledge_economy-04.html
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Physician, Heal Thyself

• You can only give what you have. Empowering
  others would mean youre already empowered
  yourself
• KnowledgeHouse Africas increased influence will
  bring increasing demands within an increasingly
  complex economy
• Meeting the need of others would require
  additional efforts twice the work others will
  do
• The Knowledge Economy comes with a self-serving
  pool of resources, accessible through the
  opportunities that the Internet provides

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Practical Steps

• What is your IP address, or URL? Playing a key
  role in the KE demands web presence e.g. a
  website or a blog spot (www.blogger.com,
  www.20six.co.uk)
• Connect with ongoing national/regional/global
  efforts hat rhyme with your mission. For example,
  AISI Youth list, eNigeria Yahoo Group
  NigeriaTomorrow, ICT4D News and the WSIS Process
• Be a proactive and creative pioneer. Some say
  why? and I choose to ask, why not?
• Add energy to group efforts, and whatever you do,
  always make time for IMPACT!

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Your Place in the Knowledge Economy

• Preparing to Empower Others for the Knowledge
  Economy

THANK YOU
Gbenga Sesan
me_at_gbengasesan.com www.gbengasesan.com
KnowledgeHouse Africa Retreat. Ibassa Island,
Lagos, NIGERIA. July 3 2004