Discuss the need for the Arab Knowledge Bank, the Methodology, Theory, Technology, System and Business Model of the Arab Knowledge Bank. It comes under Knowledge Industry as a Big Business with lot of Investment and Profit Making Opportunities.

1. DR. RAJU M. MATHEW

2.  Data Bank, Information System and Document
Delivery System are some of the contributions of
Information Technology.
 However, it is natural for the people who fed up
with over loaded or unwanted data or
information, to think of Artificial Intelligence or
Expert System or Knowledge-based System or
Data Mining or some time Semantic Computing to
deal with ‘Knowledge’
 Unfortunately they too are ‘Data-based system’
to end with ‘Information’ and could not enter
the world of Domain Knowledge, because they
too are built upon ‘Algorithms’ based not on
‘Knowledge Structure’ but on ‘Data Structure’.

3.  Arab Knowledge Bank is founded on ‘Knowledge
Structure’, ‘Knowledge Theories’ and ‘Knowmatics’ so
as to deal with Knowledge (not with Data or Information
alone) for making ‘Knowledge Accessible’ to the
millions, including the illiterate and marginalized men
or women, boys or girls.
 The building blocs of knowledge are concepts; concepts
are multi-dimensional; concepts can be presented
simple or abstract form. Knowledge structure is non-
linear and dynamic. Knowledge can be consumed,
produced, marketed or delivered on a massive scale.
There exists a common structure for all domains of
knowledge.
 These questions have been dealt at length in the paper,
Mathew, R. M. and Mathew, R. R. ‘Knowmatics- A New
Revolution in Higher Education’, Journal of the World
Universities Forum 4,1,2011:1-11. Its video
presentation has been posted in YouTube.

4.  Even though the Arab World is talking too much on
‘Knowledge Economy’, High-tech Education System
or Smart Class Rooms’, and invest millions for
Information Technology, it may take hundred of
years for it to become Knowledge- Intensive’ and
to enter the age of Knowledge Economy.
 ‘Thousand and One Night Stories’ or Aesop Stories’
were the old Arab inventions to deliver knowledge
even to the illiterate in an effective way.
 By taking into account all these facts, besides
making use of the latest technological advances,
Arab Knowledge Bank has been proposed.

5.  Arab Knowledge Bank is a Live Dynamic and
Customized Knowledge Delivery System at
different levels –simple to complex to abstract
levels.
 System, Technology and Business Model for the
Arab Knowledge Bank have been developed on
the basis of nearly thirty years research on the
Nature and Structure of Knowledge and
Theoretical Foundations of Information
Technology, including Information Systems,
Expert Systems, Semantic Computing, Web
Technology and etc. Since it involves several IPR
issues, details will be given later.

6.  Humanity is getting realized the increasing value of
‘Knowledge’ in every aspect of life, especially Education,
Culture, Professional Services, Scientific Research,
Decision Making besides Agriculture and Industry.
 Humanity is also getting aware of the unproductiveness of
the over loaded and fragmented Data or Information or
Documents and total absence of authentic and reliable
Knowledge Delivery System and the associated social
wastage in terms of billions on the other.
 This has prompted to develop Innovative Business Model,
Technology and System for the mass production, delivery
and marketing of Knowledge Modules, Packages and
Solutions to the humanity.
 Arab Knowledge Bank is an innovative business model to
generate income and profit in terms of billions, besides
serving the Arab world to cherish its dreams for the
Knowledge Society. Making knowledge access is the most
effective way to empower the people.

7.  Knowledge Industry – mass production,
delivery and marketing of knowledge – has
been emerging as a big industry surpassing the
entire IT based or enabled Industries.
Knowmatics is the basis of Knowledge Industry.
 Arab Knowledge Bank comes under the
emerging Knowledge Industry, offering very
great Investment, Income, Business and Profit
Making opportunities. Besides, it offers
unprecedented socio-economic development
potentialities for ‘Knowledge Empowers People
; Knowledge facilitates dreams, Visions and
Innovations’.
 Email: drrmmathew@gmail.com