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KnowNet - Open Source for Collaborative Knowledge Development and Learning

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KnowNet is a small software, research and web services company located in Wales. It was founded in 2000 to research and develop new architectures, ideas and internet software for collaborative knowledge development and learning.

Our research, and the research of others, has led us to believe that innovation, learning and new knowledge are developed in a social context - through interaction, sharing and discourse among individuals and communities. Our basic approach differs fundamentally from conventional ideas of knowledge management based on document repositories, and of e-learning based on the digital delivery of learning materials. We believe that online technologies could be great enablers of learning and collaborative knowledge development, but that mainstream technology developments are failing to tap this potential. New ideas and new technological developments are needed. KnowNet is developing systems, applications and ideas to facilitate and enhance discourse within and between communities of knowledge workers/learners, and to support the negotiation of meanings around shared objects.

KnowNet is unusual in being a research and ideas organisation that produces working software used by real clients, and in being a software-development organisation which is deeply involved in theoretical work to understand how people collaborate to develop knowledge. We believe that both strands must be developed in concert if fundamental progress is to be made in enhancing online environments for knowledge work and learning.