I2k

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I2K - Information-to-Knowledge conversion or processing

i2k Focus:

The term i2k (pronounced "eye to kay") refers to information-to-knowledge conversion or processing. i2k focuses Knowledge Management practices and practioners on the task of improving the performance of human and machine information processing agents via schemes or technology development.

i2k represents the other side of the "information overload" coin. In other words, i2k prompts one to consider that informtion overload is only noticeable or can only exist where there is a lack of capability to process a required amount of information within a specific timeframe, or to the standards demanded by a particular entity or authority.

To address increasing information processing requirements completely, solutions must be considered from the perspectives of supply and usage.

Background:

Information had actually been disseminating across the globe for thousands of years, due to advances in information, communications, and transportation technologies.

For example:
* Advances in information technology saw information go from the stationary media of cave walls to the easily transportable media of flash drives. Easier and more compact transportation of information enabled greater proliferation of information.

* Advances in communications technology saw information go from being transmitted a short distance by a shout to being transmitted around the world and beyond at the speed of light via electronic and optical media. Faster and more far-reaching communication of information enabled greater proliferation of information.

* Advances in transportation technology saw information go from being carried by people who walked and spent there entire lives within a 50-mile radius, to people who fly at great speeds to points around the world. Faster and more far-reaching transportation of information enabled greater proliferation of information.

Current State:

Advances in computer technology and networking enabled the highly desirable quantity that is information, to be stockpiled and transmitted to points of need and use more readily. But while great advances have been made in the technologies to gather and distribute information, the capability to transform information into useful knowledge has not kept pace, primarily due to the fact that general computer technology has not reached the point where computerized systems can independently look at information and make the sophisticated decisions of human actors. Additionally, the state of human learning systems and general human information processing capabilities has not yet enabled human actors to process massive information quantities in a transactionalized manner (i.e. documents/sec)consistent with computerized processors.

Information Management is at a pinnacle. Collecting, storing, and distributing information represents the height of information technology and information system purpose, as information itself is only concerned with the relationship between data and context, and not the application of data and context. Without correlating advances in information-to-knowledge conversion capacity, continuing advances in Information Management (technology and systems) are being met by diminishing value returns, as each Information Management advance amounts to adding more information onto a pile that is already too great to be efficiently and effectively used by its recipients.
Therefore, i2k and Knowledge Management are becoming more prevalent areas of need and focus in regards to intelligence management activities.

Origin:

The term i2k was used in 2001 by KM expert Reginald Patterson of KnowledgeWorld, LLC. Terms related to i2k include k2p (knowledge-to-product infusion, knowledge-based competition, and Distributed Human Processing (DHP).

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