Knowledge Activists are a new breed of local community workers who make use of the knowledge and caring found in each of us as well as from across the world. This means we play a critical role in the healthy functioning of our democracy.
We do this by helping citizens to make sense of the important issues that are affecting our communities. Equipped with reliable knowledge, we are all empowered to make better decisions together. Through our collaborations, we help our local communities to generate information and news that everyone can trust.
Then, we distribute information and intelligence to media outlets, policymakers, activists and subscribers across the region. We also provide training and support to help communities form teams and develop their knowledge worker skills using innovative tools and methods.
Here are some examples of the work Knowledge Activists do:
- Identify and prioritize target knowledge projects and challenges
- Collaborate in research teams focused on priority projects
- Develop and evolve a clear set of intentions for the team
- Help teams to gather information resources
- Consult with experts and community members to harvest ground-level wisdom
- Create libraries of digital assets and process these into intelligence
- Integrate information to identify the symptoms and causes of challenges
- Propose solutions and publish findings
- Run community projects to develop KA skills more widely