Knowledge Rocks!

One of the challenges facing public health is the early recognition of problems. With the benefit of hindsight, we look back at outbreaks such as SARS and now more recently Swine Flu (H1N1) and we can see the information trail that precedes the Eureka moment or discovery point. In retrospect, with SARS, there was chatter [...]

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For a number of years, I have explored a concept (or framework) I call “Information Integration“. Whether we are looking intra-organizationally, at groups or inter-organizationally, information has a number of roles to play. For example, information acts as a vector for the transfer of knowledge (boundary spanning) or as a means of coordination. But one [...]

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