United Nations & KM

Recently there has been a big rise in governmental efforts to measure KM for various purposes:

1. To instigate discussion towards common accounting standards (which inevitably will lead to the taxation of intellectual capital in the future)
2. To enable technology and know-how tranfer between countries and organisations
3. To improve their own KM (including external know-how and current awareness, e.g. the US government's huge investments in current awareness (= Big Brother) on the internet.)

In August this year Dr. Yogesh Malhotra gave an invited keynote presentation to the UN Advisory Meeting of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs on Measuring Knowledge Assets of a Nation: Knowledge Systems for Development which again gives the basic overview on measures for KM but beyond that also gives some valuable insights in how the knowledge of a nation could be measured. Have a look at e.g. the table on page 25 to find out more about this.

Also I would like to thank Joy London for mentioning my new weblog on exited utterances . It is the first mentioning I know of and I been a regular reader of exited utterances for quite a while myself now. Thanks a lot.