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their role in the near future unless they adopt the lines of e-commerce. The
transition of the weight from the capital owner to the owner of knowledge and
intelligence, and those who have the intelligence, and devices of information
technology, created and still creating new concepts in the world of language,
economy, culture, politics and society.
To clarify the mechanism of this transformation in a simple way, the description
of information age in which we live is not an accurate description, as the bit of
information is only the beginning of the thread. In the beginning, the human
acquires science through symbols received constantly. These codes are many,
as well as scattered and incomprehensible. When summarizing these symbols
(the letters and words and numbers... etc), they turn into information, but -
and this is the test - this information does not become knowledge unless it
benefited the human who turned it into a daily reality for ever. Only thus, and
through this mechanism the knowledge society is created.
In short, the concept of the knowledge society can be defined as follows:
• Adopting a holistic concept of knowledge to mean all the ideas, visions, ways
of thinking and behavioral patterns gained through forms of formal and informal
learning, as well as forms of self-education and practical experience in addition to
work and life experience.
• The society should be based on knowledge production, organization,
dissemination and usage over all areas of life.
• A society that is characterized by its members’ freely owns information and
easily circulate and broadcast it via information technologies, computers,
communications, employs information and knowledge and make it in the
service of man to improve his standard of living.
By virtue of the foregoing a knowledge society can be described as:
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The society which is based on the production and dissemination of knowledge
and using them efficiently in all areas of society activity: the economy, civil
society, politics and private life, in order to achieve a sustainable social
development.
The elements of building a knowledge society:
1. Knowledge:
The building of a knowledge society requires three activities: knowledge
production, dissemination, and dealing with it in resolving the issues of the
society.
The production of knowledge usually takes place in universities and research
centers. In order for the production of knowledge to flourish its outcomes, it
needs to be used by the various institutions of society, especially economic
institutions. The search need not be reversed to the sterile process that does
not contribute to the development process.
The use of knowledge in resolving issues of the society is the only way to drive
further production of knowledge.
But knowledge is not only a result of the research It is also a result of mental
operations performed by the individual to make the information he read
about or heard of. These mental processes must be taught to all citizens since
their childhood, whether in school or outside. The knowledge society must
know how to classify information and associate them with each other and
analyze, criticize them, and assemble them and synthesize them again until
that information becomes knowledge which can be used to solve individual
problems of daily life and also in building healthy relationships with others.
This capability of reversing the scattered and unrelated information into
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