Visitor from US House of Representative

Just when I was about to go to bed, I saw the stats of my blogs and saw a visitor from "US House of Representatives". Don't know what it means and what implications it may have... but I've got some attention. Probably.
 

National Knowledge Commission, India

Quoted directly from the press-release (grammar may have been modified).

Prime Minister of India, Mr Manmohan Singh, has constituted the National Knowledge Commission. Shri Sam Pitroda will be Chairperson and Dr P.M. Bhargava will be Vice-Chairperson. The Members of the Commission will be Shri Nandan Nilekani, Dr. Deepak Nayyar, Shri Ashok Ganguly, Dr. Andre Beteille, Dr. Jayati Ghosh and Dr. Pratap Bhanu Mehta. (The members are eminent persons from industry or otherwise.)

The Commission will advise the Prime Minister on matters relating to institutions of knowledge production, knowledge use and knowledge dissemination. The mandate of the Commission is to sharpen India's "knowledge edge".

The Commission will advise the Prime Minister on how India can promote excellence in the education system to meet the knowledge challenges of the 21st Century; promote knowledge creation in S&T laboratories; improve the management of institutions generating Intellectual Property; improve protection of IPRs and promote knowledge applications in agriculture and industry. It will suggest ways in which the Government's knowledge capabilities can be made more effective, making the Government more transparent and accountable as a service provider to the citizen. It will also explore ways in which knowledge can be made more widely accessible in the country for maximum public benefit.

The National Knowledge Commission will be assisted by a Technical Support Group to be staffed by young recruits, hired on contract from premier educational institutions in the country. The Planning Commission will provide logistic support to the National Knowledge Commission. The National Knowledge Commission is expected to interact with different Ministries that handle knowledge areas and encourage Ministries to generate their own plans for upgrading institutional capacity.

The Commission will be guided in its work by a National Steering Group chaired by the Prime Minister and including the Ministers of Human Resource Development, Agriculture, Commerce and Industry, Communication and Information Technology, Dy. Chairman, Planning Commission and Minister of State, Science and Technology.

The Commission will identify its action programme by 2nd October, 2005 and complete its work by 2nd October, 2008.

Comment on the last paragraph -- a very daunting task!

Knowledge Management A-Z: Workshop

On the KM group, Kate posts about the 2nd KM-AZ workshop on 23rd June, 2005 in Brisbane.

The workshop shall focus on practical HOWTOs for top ten tools and techniques for KM. The workshop is accompanied, he says, with a 120-page guide to on-job KM application and implementation of each technique.

Now, that's something pretty interesting and nice to have. If anybody's going to the workshop, please give me a copy of the HOWTOs.. ;-)

The contact details are:

Dr Kate Andrews
Partner, Intellectual Capital
BDO Kendalls
GPO Box 457
Brisbane  4001
Queensland, AUSTRALIA
 
Telephone:  61 7 3237 5839
Mobile:     0418 153 917
Fax:        61 7 3221 9227
E-mail:     kandrews@bdokendalls.com.au
Website:    www.bdokendalls.com.au