Sifting through the information overload…
The new world of Learning - panel discussion series
How do you filter the knowledge in the Web 2.0 scenario with so many options available? Wikipedia is so huge. There are hundreds of thousands of blogs. How do you make sure what is knowledge and how would I measure that it is useful for me?
Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni
Again there are two ways of doing this. One is people. So today if you look at many Wikipedia entries they have reviews by peers, who have edited the entry in some way. Assume that every one of your peers is a potential editor of the content you are creating. So it is the collaborative model itself which is going to be self-correcting and will help in improving the overall quality. So I am not saying that it is a perfect approach, but that is the model.
It is the same thing in open source. How do you get your software to work perfectly in the open source world? It is basically the peer review, peer feedback, the appreciation of the contribution you have made by the peers. Its the ego boost which each of you get by contributing. It is this whole collaborative ecosystem in the open source model which is delivering you high quality software in the open source world. Open knowledge is about the same thing.
The second element is about technology. Today there are analytics technologies available which are doing blog analytics, and analytics of the entire unstructured information in your world. These are able to capture what is being said in some text format, but can provide some kind of an analytical capability over that, and give you filtered trends to help you absorb that this is a top level trend and choose. So, it is not that you are going to solve the problem perfectly, but technology and people - these are two dimensions which can answer.
Infosys’ Learning Services recently conducted a panel discussion on the topic “ The new world of Learning “. We are running a series of questions that the audience posed. The panelists were - Srikantan Moorthy, Vice President and Head - Education and Research; Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni, Principal Researcher- SETLabs and Kaiser Masood, Principal Consultant, Infosys Leadership Institute.
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