In earlier times, it was felt that knowledge had to be accumulated over a lifetime, and this consisted of facts, events, procedures and other matters. This was stored in our memories, while today a lot of the storage takes place in the memory disks of computers whose capacity keeps increasing and it is the job of the information technology specialist who has to advise us on where the information is to be stored and when the time has come for changing our storage systems. Combined with this is the end of a situation in life where one concentrated on a single job throughout life, and today we have individuals changing their jobs as they develop, in search for better opportunities. In earlier situations, the knowledge available with an individual was lost when th

It has to be understood that solutions to problems of knowledge management often do not lie within the areas of technology only, but often have to be supported by human technology. This means adapting of the methods of knowledge management to behaviors of individuals within the organization, and probably the greatest difficulty in management of knowledge has been seen to be changing of people's behavior. Those who deal with knowledge for the better part of their lives often feel that knowledge is an asset in itself and thus it is a matter of exchange not to be given away free.

It is the group of people providing the required technological support to information technology that can keep all developments of information technology within an organization running in a manner that will provide support to each other and stop the exchange of information. It is clear that the intelligence of the developers of knowledge within a university that provides for the success of the organization in terms of fulfillment of the purpose for which it was set up. For this purpose, it is important that all knowledge developers be students, teachers, and researchers simultaneously. The skills of a student are required to learn the changed knowledge in a fast changing world, the skills of a teacher are required to be able to spread out the acquired knowledge among a large group who are collaborating in the developing of the knowledge and it is the research individual who will create the new developments as a university is expected to do. (Carvalho; Ferreira, 2001)

At the same time when knowledge is sent over the Internet, it is sent in the form of a document which can be stored and even referred later, so that with the development of knowledge of the individual who had requested the information, it may become more useful to him. In many instances the limitations of using knowledge comes from our own pride as we all feel that we are superior to others. This is a psychological problem and cannot be solved through any method other than the development of man, which is a natural process and no one can really say when the change will take place. Often the change comes with age, when an individual realizes the limitations of his own knowledge and th

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