Knowledge management tools in the digital era

Abstract

With the advent of the digital era, communication became easier around the world, slowly closing the distance gaps and allowing to know more about any event worldwide f aster than ever, thus creating the knowledge society we live in right now. Whenever something relevant happens somewhere in the world, the information travels instantly throughout the globe and humanity know more than ever before, but this does not come wi thout weak points, there is hardly any control on the information being disseminated and the quality of it. So while we may consider the society as a knowledge society as a whole, the definition would be closer to an information society, there are a lot of data available but most is bogus or unverified information and only a little qualifies as actual knowledge. This is especially true when we talk about internet and the multiple sources of information it contains, what may start as true knowledge, for exam ple a scientific finding or a unbiased report, it can quickly be misinterpreted and misrepresented and spread throughout the web, thus causing the opposite effect of creating knowledge. Now more than ever we need to create a way to identify and classify in formation in order to create a knowledge network and filter the useless information out.