Remember nomads?

In the pre-industrial age, nomads were people that moved with their livelihood (usually animal herding) instead of settling at a single location. Industrialization forced the settlement of many nomadic peoples…
…but, something new is emerging in the 21st century: Knowmads.

A knowmad is what I term a nomadic knowledge worker –that is, a creative, imaginative, and [...]

Upcoming event:

October 31, 2008

Mexico City, Mexico
Conference website: www.e-competencies.org

The Knowledge Society demands that we leapfrog ahead in our education systems, build a new digital literacy, and improve soft skills (creativity, innovation, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking, among others) that could help all 21st century citizens become productive, effective knowledge workers. Educators, policymakers, business leaders, parents, [...]

Peter Senge, Bryan Smith, and Nina Kruschwitz wrote an article in Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.’s strategy+business on transforming business thinking to combat climate change.
We cannot meet the 80-20 challenge under the present industrial system. Success will require a sea change in the prevailing kinds of energy we use, cars we drive, buildings we live and [...]

[Cross-posted from e-rgonomic]
Passport of skills for a knowledge worker:

Not restricted to a specific age.
Highly engaged, creative, innovative, collaborative and motivated.
Uses information and develops knowledge in changing workplaces (not tied to an office).
Inventive, intuitive, and able to know things and produce ideas.
Capable of creating socially constructed meaning and contextually reinvent meanings.
Rejects the role of being an [...]