When Social Appropriation of Science and Technology is Subject to “Management”. A reflection from the colombian case

• Main Authors: Tania Arboleda Castrillón, Sandra Daza-Caicedo
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano - ITM 2016-07-01
• Series: Trilogia
• Subjects: social Appropriation of Science and Technology; knowledge management; science and technology policy; Colombia
• Online Access: https://revistas.itm.edu.co/index.php/trilogia/article/view/401/407

this paper aims to reflect and problematize the issue of knowledge management for Social Appropriation of Science and Technology (SAST) which is presented as a line of action of the National Strategy on this matter issued in 2010 by Colciencias, Colombia’s National Organism of Science and Technology. This analysis is made in the light of the proposals of actors that contribute to SAST initiatives and that participated in the National Forum on this matter that took place in 2014. We ask about the meaning and challenges that involves thinking knowledge management for SAST. As far as SAST understands knowledge as mobile, diverse and located, and therefore difficult to manage, we try to show the threat over these processes that could cause a reductionist view on knowledge management that privileges criteria of novelty, efficiency and evaluation through indicators.