Dear Friends, As you know, one of the major issues of the emerging information era is the question of economic development strategies. At the Athena Alliance conference last year, participants agreed that new strategies were needed strategies that helped set the conditions to help communities and businesses become more competitive by using technology. With that in mind, Athena Alliance has begun a project to explore the concept of "information-asset based economic development". Our first paper "Knowledge Management as an Economic Development Strategy" is now available at our web site at www.athenaalliance.org. This paper, written for the U.S. Economic Development Administration, looks at how knowledge management tools broadly defined can be used help communities harnessing their information and knowledge assets of a community. While focused on economic development in the United States, the paper includes examples from international development taken from examples offered by many members of this e-mail list. I hope you find the paper of interest and would welcome any comments. Ken Jarboe Athena Alliance Kenan Patrick Jarboe, Ph.D. Athena Alliance 711 10th Street, SE Washington, DC 20003 (202) 547-7064 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.athenaalliance.org ------------ ***GKD is an initiative of the Global Knowledge Partnership*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.globalknowledge.org>
