WO2010144086A1

WO2010144086A1 - Knowledge creation system for organizations

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Publication number: WO2010144086A1
Application number: PCT/US2009/046981
Authority: WO
Inventors: Ann Racuya-Robbins
Original assignee: Ann Racuya-Robbins
Priority date: 2009-06-11
Filing date: 2009-06-11
Publication date: 2010-12-16

Abstract

In order to establish a system that maximizes the creation and benefits of human knowledge for the most people, including the wealth knowledge generates, the nature of the knowledge creation process itself must be understood and embedded in a self- governing fair system. The invention is the system that establishes a self-governing, fair and equitable organizational infrastructure and enterprise systems to support a vibrant, just and democratic community wherein an organization can securely and safely create and share its knowledge with other organizations and receive most of the wealth an organization's shared knowledge generates by preserving the income generating value possible from the novelty of an organizations knowledge while allowing an organization's knowledge to be added to and or built on by one or more other organizations.

Description

INVENTION TITLE Knowledge Creation System for Organizations

The present invention is the system designed specifically to enable knowledge creation, where an organization that creates the knowledge retains ownership and control of that knowledge, as well as most of the revenues generated by that knowledge. The system is a democratically self-governing and peaceful way to share, exchange, market, distribute, and broadcast an organization's knowledge.

An organization is a group of persons organized for some end or work, including but not limited to an: academy, aggregation, assemblage, assembly, association, asylum, band, body, business, church, circle, clan, clinic, clique, club, collection, college, community, company, concern, concourse, congregation, conservatory, convention, corporation, corps, cortege, coterie, crew, ensemble, enterprise, establishment, farm, firm, fixture, foundation, garden, gathering, group, guild, hospital, house, institute, institution, league, megacorp, multinational, muster, non-profit, order, orphanage, outfit, pack, partnership, party, pueblo, retinue, ring, ruck, school, seminar, seminary, set, society, syndicate, system, team, think tank, tribe, troop, troupe, turnout, and university.

Today we live in a world where large numbers of people's quality of life and health is poor. In addition the challenges all people face for survival on earth has never been greater. Immediate and systemic innovations are essential to ensure life. Exacerbating this situation is the fact that still today some people have extraordinary privilege while others have less than is needed to survive. People who do not have what they need to survive and see others that have a high standard of living and quality of life naturally need and should have a way to improve their quality of life. There is a sense in our world that a scarcity exists and is increasing in both resources and possibilities of a good life for many. In the United States it is estimated that 80% of new businesses fail and often without the businesses' knowledge be valued or retained.

Over many centuries people have come to understand that many activities, goals and ends can be more efficiently and effectively achieved when people join together in organizations to accomplish those goals.

When great disparities exist in which an organization's needs and wants are satisfied, a general sense of injustice and the experience of poverty emerges for many organizations. This sense of injustice and experience of poverty is not a matter of ideology but something that emerges from a sense of our common humanity. It is a kind of common sense. The invention exposes the realization that neither scarcity nor injustice are a clear picture of the world but are limitations created by how people have organized themselves. The invention is an alternate and improved way of organizing ourselves for the creating and sharing of knowledge and the wealth knowledge creates, based on valuing more kinds of knowledge from more organizations resulting in a greater sense of abundance and justice for many more people.

In our current world, knowledge is often hidden or hoarded. This hiding or hoarding occurs because today owning certain kinds of knowledge is central to the creation of wealth and an organization's livelihood. Quite naturally then, organizations feel the need to hide, obfuscate and hoard knowledge. Further the knowledge creation process is often unjustly exploited by organizations other than those who created the knowledge and to the financial detriment of the organization that created the knowledge in the first place. This current system breeds distrust and to a certain extent isolation and loneliness, a sense of being disconnected from each other. This sense of isolation, of being unappreciated and distrustful of others, seems the price of much of contemporary life. This kind of world does not support nor is it conducive to the knowledge creation process, except for a relative few organizations. Today, for the vast majority of organizations on the earth, the chances are greatest that the things an organization knows and has to share will not be heard or valued but by a few, if that.

Until the present invention, no system has existed to provide a secure, democratically self-governing and efficient marketplace for an organization to justly exchange, and build on other organization's knowledge about a broad range of knowledge subjects including knowledge from the experience of operating the organization while receiving most of the wealth that knowledge creates.

While variation in how an organization is valued is a natural consequence of individual differences, great disparities among how an organization is valued leads to poverty for many and is counter productive to increasing the wealth of the world and the equitable distribution of that wealth brought to the human community by each and every organization. Currently, an organization whose time is apparently more valuable is likely to have more resources to support the organization's operation than other organizations. An organization whose time is not valued is likely to have a restricted life and health and that organization's knowledge is likely to be lost to others because that organization is likely to be overlooked, ignored and even end sooner.

While the end of an organization may be a natural occurrence, the loss and under or non valuation of an organization's knowledge is a loss and detriment to the survival of the human community and life on earth.

Today, even for the few healthy organizations whose operation has better quality, much of that organization's knowledge is lost because only a select set of an organization's activities are currently valued. Systems that value some organizations' knowledge and activities while ignoring or not valuing other organizations' knowledge cannot see nor develop the abundance of wealth from knowledge. It is arbitrary and an oversight to decide that some organizations' knowledge is not valuable when you don't know what that knowledge is. Such systems increase and exacerbate poverty for many organizations and restrict and are not optimized to enable knowledge creation and the wealth knowledge generates.

The invention is the system, subsystems, methods, processes, devices, apparatus, techniques, and computer and software applications for implementing the system, to overcome the above problems.

An advantage of the invention is that the vast majority of organizations on earth can use the invention to be rewarded for the the organization's knowledge by (including but not limited to) protecting an organization's intellectual property rights and other rights explicitly protected by the self-governing invention's democratic Constitution and Bill of Rights and Responsibilities; and to receive revenues for an organization's knowledge when an organization shares or sells an organization's knowledge through the invention's Marketplace.

Another advantage of the invention is that by being democratically self-governing of its interaction with global communication networks and infrastructure, including but not limited to the internet, mobile telecommunication services and the World Wide Web, the invention can provide an efficient, secure, safe, practical and just system that enables and amplifies knowledge creation and wealth generation for its organizations.

An object of the invention is to provide a system, and subsystems including methods, processes, devices and apparatus, databases, computer subsystems and software and communication applications, that are characterized by the stated independent claims. The preferred embodiments of the invention are disclosed in the dependent claims.

The invention is based on the realization that every activity an organization does creates knowledge and that sharing knowledge from an organization's activities amplifies the total knowledge created, and often in unexpected ways.

This realization — that every activity an organization does creates knowledge and that sharing knowledge from an organization's activities amplifies the total knowledge created, and often in unexpected ways — is an expression of three key insights into the process of knowledge creation. They are:

1. doing an activity creates emergent/new knowledge of an activity, and

2. knowledge sharing is a central method of creating and amplifying the benefits and rewards of knowledge, and

3. just and fair sharing is the best way to amplify the benefits and rewards of knowledge creation for the most people.

The invention is based on the realization that the best environment for knowledge creation and wealth generation is a system that is democratically self-governed, globally accessible through communications networks such as the internet and the World Wide Web among others and that is just, secure, safe, equitable and generous. The above named insights (conceptualizations) enable us to see better how the invention is best suited to enabling knowledge creation and the wealth that can be generated from the knowledge.

An advantage of the invention is that, it is a democratically self-governing system that by valuing more organizations and the knowledge from more of an organization's activities, increases the amount of wealth generated and provides a more just system for wealth distribution.

The invention, for the first time, provides a democratic self- governing, creative, just, secure, fun, and fast system wherein billions of people can work together to solve problems, and receive a new form of revenue while creating new opportunities for life on earth. In the following the invention will be described in greater detail by means of preferred embodiments and with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 illustrates a simplified exemplary embodiment of the invention.

Fig. 2 shows a simplified exemplary embodiment of the key process and consequence of the invention with two organizations.

Fig. 3 shows a simplified exemplary embodiment of the invention with three organizations.

The present invention is applicable for any kind of knowledge creation and wealth generation from that knowledge, except knowledge that destroys, diminishes, or ends life.

The present invention establishes a system that is democratically self-governing, global and self-sustaining including subsystems, organizational infrastructures, processes, methods, devices, techniques and apparatus, including internet facilitated computer subsystems and software programs, computer architecture including database architecture and management subsystems, governance subsystems and justice subsystems for knowledge creation, knowledge recording and the equitable sharing of knowledge available over the internet and the World Wide Web.

In the following, the present invention is described by using as a simplified example, a system that enables and supports knowledge creation and wealth generation from knowledge about the daily life of an organization where the invention may be applied, without restricting the invention to knowledge about the daily life of an organization, however. To see how the invention works in the example a specific piece of knowledge about the daily life of an organization has been chosen, namely, knowledge about how an organization found a better way to handle harmful gossip and rumors among its members. A specific example of knowledge about daily life follows:

One day Eric, a member of organization R's New Service project and Eric's project leader, Amanda, found a better way to handle a harmful rumor about Jasmine, another member of the project. Organization R has already appointed or elected its representative(s) to the invention who has opened an account (ref. 102 and ref. 302) in the Account subsystem (hereafter Account) with the Knowledge Creation System for Organizations.

On June 10, 2006 R deposits (ref. 203) the following knowledge into R's account (ref. 302):

"One day Eric is approached by Jasmine who confronts Eric with the information that Jasmine had been told by a third party that Eric was trying to "kick" Jasmine out of the project. Eric tells Jasmine that there is no truth in the rumor and that Eric knows nothing of this rumor, trying to reassure Jasmine and keep the project team's morale up. Eric then becomes concerned about why and how this rumor got started and how it might effect Eric's position on the project. Eric decides to go to Amanda, the project leader, and find out if Amanda knows anything about the rumor. Amanda knows nothing of the rumor and also meets with Jasmine to reassure Jasmine. Amanda, the project leader, also decides after thinking about it, that Eric's initiative to come to the project leader, was the right action and a good policy for the project to follow. Amanda sends a strongly worded memo to project members that rumors about the project status should be checked with the project leader before being spread further." (ref. 201 )

R decides to title the knowledge deposit "Short-circuiting rumors within a project team." When organization R's representative saves the deposit the knowledge goes to the Exchange subsystem (hereafter Exchange) (ref. 103) in Figure 1 , where it is logged and returns a receipt to R's account (ref. 102) in Figure 1 for R's knowledge as recorded and deposited on June 10, 2006.

Organization R then decides to find out if R can generate revenues from R's deposited knowledge, "Short-circuiting rumors ...". R's representative browses over the internet the "Calls for Knowledge of Organization's Daily Life" database, (ref. 105) in Figure 1 , in the Marketplace subsystem, (hereafter Marketplace) where an organization can list requests for knowledge on a variety of aspects of an organization's daily life. Organization R's browsing and searching details are logged in the Exchange (ref. 103) and the browsing and searching details are returned via receipt to R's account in the Account (ref. 102) in Figure 1.

After browsing and searching organization R still doesn't find any requests for "Short-circuiting rumors..." in the "Calls for Knowledge" section of the Marketplace (ref. 105) in Figure 1. Organization R then decides to direct its representative to post "Short-circuiting rumors..." in the "Knowledge Available" section of the Marketplace (ref. 105). Organization R's decision to post R's knowledge "Short-circuiting rumors..." to the Marketplace is logged in the Exchange (ref. 103) which is governed by Governance subsystem (hereafter Governance) (ref. 104) in Figure 1 including the system's Constitution and Founding Principles and the policies, rules and remedies in the system's "Dispute Resolution subsystem". A receipt is sent to R's account (ref. 102) in the Account. R now has many options. Among R's options R can decide to float a price for the knowledge and/or find out how many organizations record an interest in R's "Short-circuiting rumors..." in the "Knowledge Available" section of the Marketplace.

R decides to find out how many organizations record an interest.

R's request to find out how many organizations record an interest is logged in the Exchange (ref. 103) and a receipt with the decision particulars is sent to R's account in the Account (ref. 102).

One day later, on June 11 , 2006 a message is sent from the Exchange (ref. 103) to R's account (ref. 102) in the Account that 150 organizations are interested in finding out about R's knowledge. R decides to price R's knowledge at $100.00 per view. Organization R knows how difficult controlling rumors can be and how damaging rumors can be to an organization's morale, especially in hard economic times. 100 organizations decide to purchase a view of R's knowledge. The particulars of the offer, agreement and purchase are logged into the Exchange (ref. 103) and a receipt with the particulars is returned to R's account (ref. 102). By logging and receiving receipts in R's account (ref. 102), R's ownership in the chain of knowledge transactions is documented and secured. The buyer's money is put into an escrow-like place in the Exchange (ref. 103) and delivered (ref. 205) to R's account (ref. 102) as the buyers view the knowledge. In one day R receives $10,000.00 for R's knowledge. All of the aspects of the transaction are self-governed by the system and are securely and safely kept. R receives $10,000.00 for the knowledge "Short-circuiting rumors..." as recorded and deposited on June 10 in R's account (ref. 102). This knowledge had no monetary value, previously.

Both buyers and sellers are knowledge contributors to the Knowledge Creation System for Organizations and all have accounts (ref. 102) where an organization's activities are logged and documented. This logging through the Exchange (ref. 103) forms the basis for dispute resolution and establishing better and more just mechanisms of the system's self-governance.

R can continue to make decisions about the marketing, development, distribution and broadcasting of R's knowledge "Short- circuiting rumors.... For example R can decide to add more details about how fast the rumor was short-circuited for an additional $15.00. All R's decisions are logged in the Exchange (ref. 103) and returned via a receipt to R's account (ref. 102). All activities of the Exchange (ref. 103) are governed by the system's self-governance subsystem (ref. 104).

In the example above, organization R freely deposits its knowledge into the invention through an account (ref. 102). R is motivated to deposit its knowledge in order to receive revenues, although R can elect not to receive revenues but rather donate R's knowledge to the invention's Public Library or some other organization's account (ref. 102). R is also motivated to deposit its knowledge because R feels delight and excitement in discovering something R didn't know before and knows is a common problem for organizations and wants to share it with others. It is a common human experience to feel delight, excitement and wanting to share something it has discovered. All of these feelings can make R feel it has not only helped itself but has also made a contribution to others, leaving R with a sense of community and self worth and esteem.

One of the buyers (ref. 205) of R's knowledge "Short-circuiting rumors... " is organization S in Figure 2. Here the implication can be seen clearly that the limits of knowledge creation are indexed to the number of organizations and length of their lifetimes (ref. 207). Systems, such as the invention, that protect and enhance life also protect and enhance knowledge.

Figure 2 represents the invention's central realization that any life activity contains the knowledge creation kernel which is that emergent/new life activities appear freely from living and reliving a life activity (ref. 201 and 202). While Figure 2 shows that the emergent/new life activity, in this case "Short-circuiting rumors... " (ref. 202) relates to the life activity R was undertaking namely, project New Service, the emergent/new life activity may have related to a life activity about something else entirely. A very simple personal example of the emergent/new life activity related to a life activity about something else entirely is the experience many of us have had namely, that when watching or hearing something creative being done by another organization our own ideas, often emergent/ new and unrelated ideas are stimulated. Artists and writers, in general are familiar with this experience. This is a type of resonance principle that exists in the knowledge creation process when knowledge is shared.

The exact piece(s) of the emergent/new life activity(s) that is created and when it is created remain largely unknown. For the purpose of the present invention it is enough to know that emergent/ new life activity is integral to the knowledge creation process itself. Once created if the system within which it is created is just and democratically self-governing the emergent/new life activity is immediately available to be shared and used, built on or added to by each organization and all organizations and yield revenues for organizations.

Every emergent/new life activity adds to the number and range of possible life activities available in the invention for organizations to use. When an organization ends before sharing an organization's knowledge, the "life" of that knowledge ends.

Figure 2 illustrates that when R shares the knowledge "Short- circuiting rumors... " through the invention (ref. 203), the knowledge "Short-circuiting rumors... " persists at least twenty years beyond R's life (ref. 207).

When the knowledge creation process is further shared and recorded with three organizations as in Figure 3 of the invention, the total knowledge created "blooms" with a large number of variations or combinations of a life activity (ref. 310) and emergent/new life activities (ref. 301 ) and (ref. 303) made available to others. This blooming is expressed in Figure 3 as possible combinations of the user R's and S's knowledge (ref. 310). It is the invention that creates and/or enables the combinations. The total knowledge created while dependent on R and S is no longer bounded by the lives of R and S that created it, but is now available in varying proportions for any organization to use and benefit from. In this way the invention enables the knowledge created to exist until all life is dead.

In Figure 3 R has already deposited "Short-circuiting rumors..." and received revenue (ref. 301 ) from S's purchase of "Short- circuiting rumors..." in R's account (ref. 302) in the invention. S has already received "Short-circuiting rumors..." in S's account (ref. 304).

In Figure 3 user S, has tried out R's knowledge "Short- circuiting rumors...", and found it to be successful in reducing harmful rumors. Organization S continues to experiment with R's "Short-circuiting rumors..." and finds that some members of the project are very reluctant to approach the project leader but when the project team member is rewarded verbally by the project leader the incidence of rumors drops even further. S decides to come up with a set of rewards for team members with different difficulties in approaching the project leader to discuss rumors. S titles S's discovery "Impact of valuing and rewarding strategies for short- circuiting rumors" (ref. 304). S decides to deposit S's discovery "Impact of valuing and rewarding strategies for short-circuiting rumors" into S's account (ref. 304) in the Knowledge Creation System for Organizations about Organization Daily Life.

Organization T in Figure 3 also has a problem with harmful rumors and is interested in finding better ways of handling the negative impact on morale by rumors. Organization T, a young organization, opens an account (ref. 305) with the Knowledge Creation System for Organizations about Organization Daily Life to look for knowledge about handling rumors. Organization T decides to buy a view of R's "Short-circuiting rumors" and S's "Impact of valuing and rewarding strategies for short-circuiting rumors" (ref. 306). S receives revenues from T in S's account (ref. 307). R receives Ts revenue in R's account (ref. 308). Surprisingly. T not only receives R's and S's knowledge (ref.309) but T also receives possible combinations or mixes (ref. 310) of R's knowledge and S's knowledge. Here the amount of knowledge created is much greater than R's and S's knowledge alone.

In Figure 3 it is possible to see that the more organizations there are in the invention the more knowledge the invention will enable to be created and at an unprecedented speed.

Figure 3 is an example of knowledge from one life activity shared by three organizations which creates an abundance of possible combinations that can be used. Today the earth has millions of organizations, most of which are eligible to participate in the invention.

Because emergent/new life activities arise freely and naturally in the knowledge creation process there is no need to force its appearance. While discipline and other methods may increase the likelihood of emergent/new life activities' appearance it is not necessary. Emergent/new life activity is an expression of an organization operating more or less freely and naturally and an organization's need and will to survive.

In order to build the system, the first step is to create the Governance subsystem. Without a strong and just Governance subsystem, stealing, hiding, hoarding and obfuscating can flourish unchecked and limit the invention's capacity to generate knowledge and wealth for the greatest number of organizations. Further the invention's Governance subsystem begins by establishing Founding Principles and a Constitution. The invention's founding Governance subsystem is illustrated in a preferred exemplary description of the Governance subsystem as described below.

The Constitution of the Invention Declaration of the Establishment of the Invention

The invention is established to create a vibrant and just community wherein all organizations can share their knowledge about organizations and elect to be compensated for what they know.

The invention's ability to make this Declaration is due to the democratic and just qualities of the Constitution of the United States of America and the just qualities of the development of the United States of America over time. Further the invention's creation and development stands on the shoulders of: — the native people of the Americas including the Iroquois Confederacy that first established democratic practices here — the native people who handed down to current generations the beauty of the Americas' land

— and the Great Giving (please see The Constitution of Mercy forthcoming) of the countless named and unnamed men and women from around the world that have spent their lives in support of the living earth, justice for all and the power of the free human spirit.

Founding Principles

The invention holds as self evident that: — knowledge is the essential labor of every organization. — every organization has an inalienable right to and responsibility for its knowledge.

— every organization has a right to revenues generated through or from the shared use of its knowledge.

— all organizations encode in its unique signature an intrinsically creative insight into organization.

— the world is bountiful with human creativity in organization.

— the greatest value of creativity is reached when it is shared in a respectful and just manner.

— democracies and institutions within democracies are living entities that can and must grow, change and refine themselves in order to create more just, compassionate and free societies and organizations.

— no organization should end without its legacy being valued and that each organization develops knowledge that is irreplaceable and needed by the human community.

— every organization has its knowledge and that taken together all this knowledge is a most powerful force for good in the world.

— every organization in the invention must tell the truth.

— the invention is held to the same standards and rules of conduct as an organization.

— no organization should steal or help another organization, person or entity to steal other organization's knowledge.

— the protection of children's knowledge and general well being up until the age of majority is among the highest responsibilities of every organization.

— the appreciation of creativity and creative acts in an organization stimulates more creativity in one's own organization and in other organizations.

— the safety and security of an organizations' and the invention's knowledge is a shared responsibility. That the invention is responsible for making good faith efforts to ensure the safety of the invention's systems and an organization is responsible for making good faith efforts to secure the access of an organization to the invention.

— this list holds the seeds and the promise of the invention's ultimate unfolding.

Preamble

The invention is governed by the laws of the United States of America and the treaties to which the US is a signatory. Further the invention is governed by its own democratic Constitution, Bill of Rights and Responsibilities and System of Justice that the invention that will be evolving, amending and restructuring from time to time.

Article I Amending the Constitution

Upon completion of the invention's Constitution approximately 5 years after the invention's creation the Constitution will have in place democratic procedures and mechanisms for amending and improving itself, establishing policies, rules and regulations. While the list of Founding Principles of the invention may not yet be complete the principles articulated under Founding Principles cannot be removed from the Constitution.

The Constitution will include compassionate, brave and just methods and mechanisms of enforcement and remedies for abuse of its Constitution, stated Founding Principles, rights, responsibilities, policies, rules and regulations. The invention will build on the wisdom and traditions from around the world.

Article Il

Dissolving and Transforming the Invention Upon completion of the invention's Constitution, the Constitution will have in place a set of rules for the orderly dissolution and transformation of the invention if the invention ceases to be a force for good in the world.

Article III

System of Justice Section I Judicial Power

(to develop, administer and adjudicate a set of rules of organization conduct based on Organization's Rights and Responsibilities.)

Section Il Enforcements Random audits of the Exchange logs Supervised analysis of the Exchange logs Person(s) organizations responsible for the Exchange are elected

Section III Remedies To Begin - a simple set of consequences.

Article IV Organization's Rights and Responsibilities

Section I Organization's Rights

An organization owns the knowledge in an organization's account. An organization can make, and in some cases must make decisions about an organization's knowledge including: — electing or appointing one or more bonded representatives to act on behalf of the organization in the invention

— how, if at all, to assign the rights to an organization's knowledge

— how to pass on the rights to an organization's account

— if and how to have an organization's knowledge distributed on the system's Distribution and Broadcasting subsystem Figure 1 (ref.

106)

— how to display an organization's knowledge in a range of display formats offered to an organization by the invention possibly including new display formats suggested by an organization.

— how and when to add and/or edit the knowledge in an organization's account

— when to close an organization's account with the invention.

— an organization has the right to invoke the Dispute Resolution subsystem of the invention, where the ability to pay legal fees is equalized such that an organization with greater financial resources can not unjustly prevail over users with fewer financial resources.

— electing the person(s) responsible for the Exchange.

— That this list holds the seeds and the promise of the invention's ultimate unfolding.

Section Il Organization's Responsibilities An organization is accountable for attesting truthfully that: — the member(s) of the organization that created the knowledge are member(s) of the organization when the knowledge is deposited by the organization's representative(s)

— the member(s) of the organization that created the knowledge are acknowledged and attributed by name — the organization has provided the invention with notarized documentation of the name(s) and election process, status and bonding information of the organization's representative

— that one or more members of the organization originated the knowledge in an organization's Account

— the organization is the owner of knowledge in an organization's

Account

— the organization has not assigned an organization's rights before depositing an organization's knowledge in the invention.

— the organization is not the owner but has been assigned the rights to this knowledge by someone else or some other organization

— the organization is not reporting on a third party conversation where an organization was not present

— the organization may be contacted at the location given to the invention

— is not depositing illegal content in the invention including Child

Pornography, Defamatory or Libelous speech.

— is not depositing adult pornography. As to pornography the decision of the invention is in its sole and absolute discretion is final.

— is not contributing content for violent or terrorist purposes and/or is not encrypting or obfuscating violent or terrorist knowledge in order to deposit and transfer this knowledge through the invention.

— is not depositing any form of malware, including viruses, worms and new forms.

— in case of disputes, an organization will use the invention's

Dispute Resolution Subsystem. — electing the person(s) responsible for the Exchange.

After creating the Governance subsystem Figure 1 (ref. 104) the invention needs to create the Exchange subsystem Figure 1 (ref. 103) where information about the invention and an organization's interaction with the invention are recorded and returned to that same organization. In this way an organization retains an interest in and access to how the system is recording and sharing an organization's knowledge (including the Account subsystem Figure 1 (ref. 102) Governance subsystem Figure 1 (ref. 104), Marketplace subsystem Figure 1 (ref. 105) and Distribution and Broadcasting subsystems Figure 1 (ref. 106) when they have been built).

Next the secure Account subsystem and then the Marketplace subsystem Figure 1 (ref. 105) is created.

The next step is to provide a media-rich way to distribute and broadcast an organization's knowledge through the Distribution and Broadcasting subsystem See Figure 1 (ref. 106). The number and richness of the ways in which an organization's knowledge is distributed allows greater amplification of the wealth generating capacity of the knowledge.

The last step is to review what the invention knows including about itself, in order to improve and innovate in the invention itself and in ways that are not expected through the New Knowledge subsystem. This New Knowledge subsystem is an opening or clearing left in the invention so the emergent/new is anticipated and welcomed when it arrives. See Figure 1 (ref. 107). In general, while extracting knowledge from the knowledge creation process, including emergent/new life activity may be possible the invention shows that not only is extraction without an organization's informed consent not practical or just but it actually diminishes the freedom and privacy that created the knowledge in the first place.

In general, when one user attempts to take, or force the extraction of another user's knowledge, that first user is likely to feel violated, injured and reluctant or even outright refusing to participate in the extraction. Since the invention itself must abide by the Governance subsystem the invention is prohibited from extracting an organization's knowledge without an organization's informed consent. The invention provides a secure and just operating environment where an organization can control the deposition, sharing, development, marketing, broadcasting and governance of its knowledge.

The invention embodies the most practical, fun, fast, efficient and just way to gather knowledge from the knowledge creation process and create the most wealth for its organizations.

The full description of the implications of the conceptualizations in the knowledge creation process in the invention lies beyond the scope of what is necessary to understand the present invention. The intention here is to lay the essential framework of conceptualizations of the knowledge creation process so that the invention can be more fully understood.

In summary, there are three principal limitations on how much knowledge can be created by an organization. One limitation is the length of an organization's life. The second is the number of activities an organization can do. The third limitation is somewhat unexpected and is how much knowledge an organization is able to justly share. In this way knowledge sharing becomes a central aspect of knowledge creation and is highly favored, but not forced in the invention. In a common sense way sharing knowledge allows the knowledge to live on in other organizations.

The invention addresses and rectifies injustices such as stealing, manipulating, tricking, overvaluing some knowledge and under or not valuing other knowledge or making it logistically and financially unfeasible for an organization to protect an organization's rights. These injustices limits the amount of knowledge and wealth that a system can create.

Because the invention maximizes the wealth of the invention and for its organizations, and the invention's wealth is based on knowledge, more than materials and natural resources, the pressure on natural resources is diminished giving the earth a better chance to provide life essential resources for people. In fact in many cases the knowledge of something alone may be sufficient development of something.

Because the knowledge creation process is recognized and supported by the invention, the invention itself will become dramatically more creative and better able to support the knowledge creation process.

Because the invention supports, facilitates and amplifies knowledge creation through sharing, revenues generated are amplified and many more people are able to provide for themselves and others. In the invention an organization involved in the knowledge creation process will increase its chances of surviving and flourishing. The full description of the implications of the invention lies beyond what is necessary to understand the invention. But these conceptualizations and the invention built on them exemplify a system through which an organization's survival is improved when a group of organizations survives.

Claims

ClaimsIt will be obvious to a person of common sense that as technology, political, social and economic systems advance the inventive concepts of the invented system can be applied in various ways. The invention and its embodiments are not limited to the examples described above but may vary within the scope of the claims.

1. The invention claimed is a system for knowledge creation, that uses an electronic-network based system for creating, marketing, buying, selling, gifting, distributing, and broadcasting knowledge, by an organization only, not an individual person, in particular knowledge from life experience and especially about how to live, and that is global, self-sustaining, democratically self- governed, just and generous, including: subsystems, devices, computer subsystems, software applications, internet and web infrastructures, and a contracting step that manages the buying, selling, gifting, distributing, broadcasting and creating of knowledge through the operations of an embedded, democratically principled, fair and equitable system of self-governance that allows an organization to enter into secure commercial transactions while the self-governing invention protects and defends the intellectual property rights of each organization.

2. The system for the creation of knowledge according to claim 1 , further comprising: contains and uses a self-governing Governance subsystem that is democratically principled, fair and equitable, to protect an organization's rights and enforce an organization's responsibilities (including but not limited to) an organization's intellectual property rights, and responsibilities, an organization's right to receive revenues for an organization's knowledge when an organization sells an organization's knowledge through the invention's Marketplace subsystem and other rights and responsibilities that the invention may extend to an organization, and preserves the income generating value possible from the novelty of the knowledge for an organization while allowing an organization's knowledge to be added to and or built on by one or more other organizations, thus removing the need to use a Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) or any instrument that performs like an NDA, which limits the disclosure and creation of knowledge and hinders the broader sharing and wealth generation of knowledge.

3. The invention claimed is a system for knowledge creation, that is a method for the creating, buying, selling, gifting, marketing, distributing, and broadcasting knowledge, by an organization only, not an individual, in particular knowledge from life experience and especially about how to live, and that is global, self-sustaining, democratically self-governed, just and generous, including: processes, methods, techniques, communication, community, and self-governance subsystems, and a contracting step that manages the buying, selling, gifting, distributing, broadcasting and creation of knowledge through the operations of a built-in democratically principled, fair and equitable system of self-governance that allows an organization to enter into secure commercial transactions while the self-governing invention protects and defends the intellectual property rights of each organization.

4. The method for creating knowledge according to claim 3, further comprising: contains and uses a self-governing Governance subsystem that is democratically principled, fair and equitable, to protect an organization's rights and enforce an organization's responsibilities (including but not limited to) an organization's intellectual property rights, and responsibilities, an organization's right to receive revenues for an organization's knowledge when an organization sells an organization's knowledge through the invention's Marketplace subsystem and other rights and responsibilities that the invention may extend to an organization, and preserves the income generating value possible from the novelty of the knowledge for an organization while allowing an organization's knowledge to be added to and or built on by one or more other organizations, thus removing the need to use a Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) or any instrument that performs like an NDA, which limits the disclosure and creation of knowledge and hinders the broader sharing and wealth generation of knowledge.