Contemporary knowledge societies are characterized by high resilience

The high flexibility in cognitive societies is due to the speed of their response to societal changes through the continuity of its members in technological and cognitive learning without stopping for the sake of human progress as a whole, as it is a society that creates, produces and participates.

The World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has defined contemporary knowledge societies as societies capable of identifying, defining and processing all information, and then transmitting and disseminating it to the whole world for human progress and development.

Knowledge societies are given the authority of the societal vision, which includes a number of privileges such as pluralism, inclusion, solidarity and participation, and need continuity in learning at the individual and collective levels, in order to ensure the continuity of knowledge and achievement.

What are contemporary knowledge societies?

They are new societies that have emerged as a result of contemporary societal changes resulting from technological innovation and the individual development of human groups through continuous learning and participation among members of the same society.

There are many definitions of the contemporary knowledge society, so it can be defined as:

• A new society is the result of contemporary societal changes resulting from technological innovation, and the development of the human cognitive mentality, through the personal growth of individuals through the continuous participation of experiences and innovations.
• A society that places the transfer of its knowledge resources between generations at the forefront of its personal priorities, as it is a society that does not stop spreading its knowledge development to a specific generation, but rather inherits knowledge resources from one generation to another.
• It is a society that creates, produces and shares knowledge among all members of the same society in order to ensure the improvement of the human condition.
• A society in which information flows smoothly, through the continuous development of data processing and communication systems.
• A society that differentiates between abstract information and knowledge, as information is the cornerstone of knowledge, while knowledge includes the acquisition and application of information as well, it is an implicit concept of what exists in the human mind that can be translated into many tangible things.
• The knowledge society is a broader concept of the information society, in which everyone participates as teachers for future generations.
• An image that reflects the previous cognitive society, as it is an extension of the success in the societies that preceded it cognitively, and the subsequent industrial and economic development.
• A society that makes both scientific and technological progress a major driver of societal and economic progress, using knowledge to reach new evolutionary stages.
• A human society in which the happiness and prosperity of individuals comes through the use of knowledge to create new things that ensure their development and change.

Characteristics of contemporary knowledge societies

• Cognitive attainment.
• Cognitive application.
• Cognitive flow.
• Cognitive appreciation.
• Continuous development.

Contemporary knowledge societies have a number of their own features, such as:

Knowledge collection and application: The knowledge application in contemporary societies depends on the ability of its members to process data in order to obtain information and then convert it with practical experience into a knowledge application that can be circulated among members of the same society.

It is a society that believes in the impact of individual and collective knowledge participation on the change of society in general and individual change in particular, and the following picture shows how information turns into a knowledge outcome.

Knowledge flow: Contemporary societies have a broader concept of the information society, in which everyone participates as teachers for future generations, and information flows from one generation to another through technological development through the emergence of computers, data processing systems and communications.

Cognitive appreciation: The contemporary knowledge society is a society that values knowledge, for which knowledge is an inexhaustible treasure from which it can be taken as it pleases, as it is the main engine of economic and societal development and its cornerstone.

Continuous development: Development is an inevitable result of the continuity of members of the knowledge community in the acquisition and application of knowledge and then disseminated among members of the same society and future generations.

Continuous development includes the ability of members of contemporary society to continuously develop through continuous knowledge of science and technology, in order to achieve social and economic development.

Contemporary cognitive societies are fully and continuously subject to cognitive development, which includes the continuous acquisition and management of knowledge properly, which requires a good understanding of particular knowledge.

What is knowledge?

The concepts of knowledge have varied throughout the intellectual and philosophical ages, but in the end they include physiological changes that occur as a result of perception, learning and thinking in general, there is no clear and explicit definition of knowledge, but truth comes inherent to knowledge.

Knowledge is innate, since the beginning of creation, humanity has insistently sought to know more, by exchanging experiences by talking, reading or experimenting, and knowledge acquisition includes watching videos and other daily behaviors in our time.

Knowledge is considered organizational structures of information acquired on a daily basis, and knowledge reflects each of the stored features accurately and exclusively, and the cognitive development of the individual and groups results in a remarkable development in science and technology, and knowledge is represented in a number of concepts such as:

• Individual understanding and perceptions of material, social and cultural life.
• The last composition of the information linked together is special and unique.

Stages of cognitive development

• Acquire information coherently for the cognition universe.
• Accumulation of knowledge.
• Cognitive development.

Knowledge is a source of strength that characterizes knowledge organizations for their own economic and social development, and cognitive development goes through a number of steps, including:

Information acquisition: The human mind begins to receive information from various educational or life methods, from neighbors, relatives and teachers, as well as unique or repeated personal experiences.

The primary and first source of knowledge is science in its pure form, where science is based on the integration of information related to various natural sciences and other sciences through logical systematic thinking, which creates multiple scientific accumulations that must be organized, which successively lead to the formation of different disciplines and multiple relationships between one science and other sciences.

Knowledge accumulation: Knowledge accumulation occurs when the cognitive outcome increases mainly, the accumulation of knowledge is similar to the opening of closed doors, how much you want to know what this closed door hides, and when the door opens to announce another door to start with and occupy your mind to learn more.

The knowledge yield increases accordingly to increase the technological output of groups and individuals,

Cognitive development: Educational attainment can stop at a certain limit if it is developed, and the development of knowledge outcome is driven by a strong desire to meet the economic, technological and social need for industrial development, such as technological development that occurs with mobile smartphones on a daily basis in order to provide a unique experience for its bearer.

Human cognitive access includes a number of sources such as education, communication or experience, knowledge is divided into 3 types according to the knowledge source:

• Explicit Knowledge.
• Implicit knowledge.
• Latent (Tacit knowledge).

Virtual Knowledge in Knowledge Societies

Virtual knowledge is known as (Explicit Knowledge), and the source of knowledge for virtual knowledge is the acquisition of information in educational institutions according to a mandatory approach such as schools and universities, and this approach is supervised by a number of professors and teachers.

Virtual knowledge answers the question "What do you know about?" , which includes explicit and clear information, to be later known by a number of other names such as Explicit Knowledge or Explicit Knowledge.

Explicit knowledge contains a number of knowledge bases that can be circulated in a simple way through writing, where the knowledge outcome at this stage is theoretical, rarely applied or confirmed in practice, it is knowledge acquired through indoctrination.

For example, companies can share explicit staff knowledge as a tradable database to help new staff understand company policies.

Tacit Knowledge in Knowledge Societies

Implicit knowledge is known as (Implicit knowledge), and the source of knowledge of tacit knowledge is application and continuous experience, and tacit knowledge answers the question "Do you know how?" , it is the knowledge acquired as a result of the application of the acquired apparent knowledge

It is a process of combining the two processes of acquiring information that occurs in explicit knowledge and the application related to tacit knowledge, for example, studying a book on the structural shape of the aircraft and the way the aircraft works in the case of command is considered outward knowledge, tacit knowledge is knowing what happens after the application of this information.

Latent knowledge appears in the form of individual abilities that differ from one person to another, making it difficult to internationalize or codify, as the acquisition of skills does not only include taking full knowledge of the same thing, but also includes the process of applying successfully, even once.

Knowledge inherent in knowledge societies

Latent knowledge is known as (Tacit knowledge), which is the knowledge acquired automatically, which is often understood without being said, which makes it difficult to interpret, and this knowledge is the result of the culture surrounding the individual and his previous experiences, as it is the product of long time experience combined with the high ability to apply, which makes it difficult to write down most of the time.

Latent knowledge may integrate more than one database stored within the human mind to produce one latent cognitive object, and a good example of this is the sales representative, so the learner can easily obtain the foundations of sales marketing (virtual knowledge), and can easily apply its steps (tacit knowledge), but it is difficult to teach him how to choose the right time to start the marketing process.

A salesperson's ability to hunt for the perfect time to present his presentation is not limited to the nature of apparent or implicit knowledge, but a number of interpersonal skills such as experience, social cues reading and the individual nature of each listener are combined to form this unique piece of knowledge.

Are outward, implicit and latent knowledge integrated into knowledge societies?

Yes, outward, tacit and latent knowledge is integrated in knowledge societies to ensure the highest rates of development if applied within a society that believes in the dissemination of knowledge while providing learning possibilities.

Where the union of external, implicit and latent knowledge within one business unit results successfully, on an integrated knowledge management, where each of the three types complements the other, where the three types of knowledge are applied during one institution as follows:

• A manual of work policies in a clear and organized manner, which can be circulated among the members of the same institution, which expresses the apparent knowledge.
• A practical application of the established labor policies, which expresses tacit knowledge.
• Individual skills resulting from the combination of personal experience, application and frank knowledge, which expresses the underlying knowledge.