Social knowledge management for rural empowerment : bridging the knowledge divide using social technologies

Rural empowerment : bridging rural-urban knowledge and information divide. Knowledge, knowledge divide and knowledge capability : a conceptual framework ; Rural empowerment : a knowledge-theoretic approach ; Contemporary initiatives undertaken for rural empowerment ; Information asymmetry and rural producers ; Knowledge asymmetry and its mitigation through enhancement of knowledge capability -- Social knowledge management and social technologies : conceptual foundations. Knowledge management and its evolution in organizational context ; Social technology and knowledge management practices ; Efforts undertaken to manage social knowledge and information for social benefit ; Social knowledge management : a social technology-enabled framework to bridge knowledge asymmetry of rural producers through virtual community formation -- Social knowledge management in action : some empirical studies in rural India. Cultivating online communities of practice to facilitate practice-oriented rural-urban knowledge exchange through collaborative learning spaces ; Cultivating communities of purpose to enhance market opportunities of rural producers through collaborative knowledge transaction ; Cultivating communities of circumstance to enhance community resilience through knowledge sharing using collaboration and connections -- What tomorrow may bring. Summary discussions ; Building a developmental ecosystem for rural empowerment.