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This is because you need to know now.
Cool thing, everybody. This conversation with mister Andrew
Hurd at the European Space Agency, and we're
gonna talk about some new endeavor that he's
sinking his teeth into. Andrew? Yeah. It's the,
Kilometers landscape 2025. This is something I'm working
with, the knowledge management global network.
The Kilometers landscape will present how Kilometers is

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in 2025.
That's the bottom line. That's what we're aiming
for. The whole field of knowledge management is
gonna be represented in this. Is it built
for academics, practitioners,
researchers, who? It's really for,
anybody who would like to use it. If
you kind of imagine you're outside with literally
a landscape in front of you and you
take photographs,

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it's a 2 d impression
of everything that's out there. It's not a
3 60. You won't see everything, but it
will be a perspective of hopefully the reality
around the world. I mean, this will be
a global activity. So it will be a
conference,
an event,
a one time thing? This is basically a
3 month activity

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to pull together what thought leaders
practitioners believe is the reality of knowledge management
around the world. There will be difference of
opinions, and we want to capture all of
that. How are people gonna input to this
activity? It's like a working group. We've called
it a topic group. It depends how many
people turn up because it's an open invitation.
The sign on is in the KMG website.

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They did send you to a,
just a simple survey, and you leave your
name and we'll get back to you. But,
basically, everybody who registers will be involved.
If you go to this show's website
on Pioneer Knowledge Services,
that link will also be there. But I
presume they can go to your LinkedIn and
find it also. Yeah. We have a LinkedIn,
article. One of the things we have to

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recognize is there's a whole bunch of good
stuff out there. I call it KM for
free. So on my blog, you'll see hashtag
KM for free. But in a more grown
up sense, we might think of it as
KM pro bono.
KM is helping other KM is.
And at the moment,
it's organized
to some degree and it's accessible to some

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degree. But the landscape
will take an image of that and make
it more accessible, more available.
First of all, there's the activity to establish
what's there
and then to publish it. And that's where
the journals come in. That's where the conferences
come in to get the awareness of what
is the reality of today,

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and then maybe try to work together to
improve that.
Why are you doing this? I've been working
in knowledge management, like, 100% of the time
for the last 10 years.
And recently in my organization, we've reached a
level maturity that's allowed me to put my
head up above the parapet and see the
horizon.

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And in looking out, like I say, there
are all these wonderful resources, these great dedicated
people.
We can all name the ones we know
if you're in in the area, you know,
but we have to stand up and say,
are we doing Kilometers well
for Kilometers?
Are we applying
legacy?
Are we applying
accessibility

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to our databases? Do we have a terminology
or a set of classification, a taxonomy
that we commonly agree on? Then academics or
industry, because we could be talking about technology,
can work on those gaps so that next
time it's published,
the position paper will be more mature,
more solid, more robust. At the moment, we
expect there to be holes, we expect there

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to be inconsistencies.
What we need is a set of guidelines
for the global situation.
And we need discrete guidelines
for local application. I think that's a really
nice
sort of synergy with Kilometers. You know, there
are no global universal rules. So are you
gonna invite the International Standard Organization that built

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the knowledge management standard? Actually, we already have
some of the major players involved. Maury Levy,
she's headed up both in 3 or 4
or 1 issue 1 and she's working on
issue 2 as well. But just to say
that we're working on some of the feedback
from doing
that I see document and we're trying to
improve on it so that we have greater

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inclusion.
If you had to make a pitch
to 2 different elements of the world, 2
different people populations, 1 kilometers to get involved,
your your call to action, And 2,
to the rest of the world that's not
really Kilometers related or aware,
how do you make a pitch to them
that they should be interested in this? For
the Kilometersers, particularly those at work, I would

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highly recommend that you include this in your
yearly assessment. You know, make it part of
your work. See the benefit. I would say
KMS,
get involved. It'll be part of your personal
development.
For those who are non KMS or on
the fringe of Kilometers, I would say there's
a lot you can learn from being involved
and that you contribute.

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One of the things that we've been, let's
say, highlighted is, you know, are we a
monoculture? Those people that are involved in the
communities already now,
are they all talking the same thing in
the same way, pointing the same direction,
and are there voices that we're not listening
to? So for those non KMS, I would
say either get involved
or see what comes out. And if it

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doesn't meet your needs, let us know, and
then we'll work on it.
I absolutely love the whole concept of making
a visual diorama of knowledge management
in a very inclusive way. I think it's
a great model and a great image to
go with. I wish you all the best.
Cool. Maybe we can come back in a
few months' time and let you know where
we are and give everybody an update. Thank

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you for being a part of the future
with Because You Need to Know Now.