NCSI Context Mapping Services

                                                                                                   28 Feb 2012

Context mapping service (on the drawing board....)
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Scientists , engineers, research students, citizen scientists, academic
decision makers, academic and business consultants, medical
practitioners, media, civil society....

Do you seek to receive/send knowledge from and across organizational
boundaries and domains different from yours? To move knowledge across time?
In different contexts?

IISc recognizes that scientific knowledge generation and utilization
cannot take place in a vacuum, that scientific knowledge production involves
multiple stakeholders like you, that the whole process is becoming
increasingly 'distributed' and that knowledge ought to constantly flow in
and out and between us for the societal good.

We at NCSI (in IISc) can be partners in your endeavour: our knowledge
transfer team can help fulfil your goals.

We recognize that moving knowledge from one place to another
is no child's play: professional hand-holding support will be needed
to deal with the inherent complexities.

Our knowledge of and access to sources and resources will help us build
on-the-fly integrated knowledge transfer systems catering to your special
requirements. We seek to do this by identifying the type of knowledge that
is to be transferred, the similarity of the task and context of the source
and the intended receiver of the knowledge and the nature of the task that
would make use of the knowledge.

Our CONTEXT-MAPPING UNIT in the knowledge transfer division will work
closely with you in identifying and addressing relevant context issues and
setting priorities. A map will be constructed using a plethora of tools and
techniques such as social network analysis that will then be used to design strategies
that will help avoid problems, overcome obstacles, exploit opportunities and deliver results
with optimum impact.

The report of the context-mapping unit will then determine which of
the other units of NCSI- the institutional research unit, the peer-assist
division, the project knowledge management division, the NCSI Science shop,
the citizen scientist unit, learning services division, interdisciplinary
research facilitation unit, training and evangelist unit, scientific
consultants' casebase cooperative - will be involved in your customized knowledge
transfer project.

For more details, please contact the Context-Mapping Unit in the
Knowledge Transfer Division at NCSI.

                 email: cmu@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

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         NCSI: THE PEOPLE AND KNOWLEDGE CONNECTORS AND LINKERS
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Manu Rajan
National Centre for Science Information
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore 560 012

email: manu.rajan134@gmail.com
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