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    Cities, human well-being and the environment: conceiving national regulatory knowledge systems to facilitate resilient knowledge, knowledge based development and inter-generational knowing
    VINES, RICHARD ; MCCARTHY, GAVAN ; Kirk, Chris ; JONES, MICHAEL ( 2010)
    In this paper, we discuss the idea of resilient knowledge and how the concept of knowledge-based development might be conceived as scientific discipline, and on what basis. Discussion is presented in two sections. In the first section we explore the idea of the epistemic loss of knowledge. We suggest this type of knowledge loss occurs where there is inadequate preservation of the knowledge necessary to explain the context, structure and meaning of information through time. We provide a brief overview of an emergent approach that could address this problem – an approach called contextual information management. In the second section, we document examples of how this new approach might be harnessed to create a framework for a (national) regulatory knowledge system. We draw upon one particular case study: the conception of quality standards within the Victorian Community Sector. By extrapolation, we suggest these ideas could well have wider applications – for example, the harmonisation of regulatory standards across State and Commonwealth areas of jurisdiction. By extension, it is suggested the focus of regulatory interventions should not be on compliance per se, but on creating a shared context between Government, stakeholders and citizens to support the dynamics of problem solving, knowledge acquisition and what we call evolutionary possibility.
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    New approaches to information management systems: can a distributed approach to IM be made to work?
    VINES, RICHARD ( 2009)
    This PowerPoint presentation was delivered by Richard Vines tothe VCOSS Interoperability Forum. In this introduction, it washighlighted that if data sharing occurred in a seamless way, therewould be an ability to monitor for emergent patterns acrossdifferent service systems within the Victorian community sector.It was this point that sparked the interest of the VictorianGovernment’s Office for the Community sector, which led to theestablishment of the “Better Integrated Standards and QualityAssurance Systems” (BISQAS) initiative, with the support of VCOSSrepresentatives. Subsequent to this Forum, the eSRC was invitedto tender for this BISQAS initiative in April 2009.