The United Nations as a Knowledge System

This book seeks to explore how the UN has generated warehoused disseminated structured packaged expanded transferred and leveraged its vast resources of accumulated information and experience throughout the decades and particularly since the start of the 21st century with the introduction of more connective information and communications technology. It examines the overarching objectives that have guided such activity and divides UN knowledge management into three distinct but often overlapping and intertwining categories: knowledge for social and organizational learning; knowledge for norm setting; and knowledge for creation of products and services. Svenson brings together these multiple aspects of UN knowledge management to present a holistic view of how the organization utilizes its global intelligence to educate advocate and serve member countriesâ development. Instead of looking at the UN as an international bureaucracy or as a peacekeeping policymaking humanitarian or development entity this work studies the UN as a generator and purveyor of information learning and experience in all of these areas. This book will be key reading for all students and scholars of international organizations. . Language: English