A Framework for the Knowledge Society Ecosystem: A Tool for Development

With the increasing worldwide need for the development of the knowledge society. multi-disciplinary research concerned with the subject is becoming of increasing importance. This paper introduces a framework that provides a comprehensive scope of the knowledge society ecosystem that organizes and integrates its various issues. The framework gives a tool for identifying structuring, and inter-relating, knowledge society problems that need to he investigated. At the core of the framework is the "knowledge circle", with its activities of knowledge generation, diffusion. and utilization that can lead to sltstainahle development. The framework considers the basic domains, interacting with these activities. to be based on the STOPE view of "strategy, technology, organization, people, and the environment". The paper addresses the use of the framework as a generic common base for future investigations on the development of the knowledge society.