PLATICAR is a knowledge ecosystem for transferring agricultural technology in Argentina. It aims to enable knowledge sharing, not manage knowledge. It uses a knowledge ecosystem metaphor where communities cultivate relationships and practices for creating, integrating, and using knowledge, similar to a biological ecosystem. The knowledge ecosystem decreases the agricultural technology adoption timeframe through education, participation, feedback, and adaptation which builds confidence and lowers failure rates. Building an effective knowledge ecosystem is a long process that requires participatory methods to ensure community ownership.

1. PLATICAR: A Knowledge ecosystem for
transferring agricultural technology
Laura M. Ramírez Cartín
Leonardo E. Cordero Jenkins
National Institute of Innovation and Agriculture Transference
Technology (INTA)

2. What is a knowledge ecosystem ?
Is a complex adaptive system (CAS) of people in communities co-
located in the same space, physical and/or virtual, in which they
cultivated relationships, tools, and practices for creating,
integrating, sharing and using knowledge.
It’s main objetive is enabling knowledge not manage it, because the
knowledge can´t be managed

3. The knowledge pyramid
Thomson, 2008 http://adaptivekm.com/ke_more.html#pyramid
The trophic (food) pyramid
The knowledge ecosystem metaphor
Anderson, 2011
http://schoolworkhelper.net/2011/01/energy-movement-in-ecosystems-trophic-energy-pyramid/

4. The knowledge ecosystem metaphor
The trophic (food) web The relationship web
Emment, 2011 http://www.eoearth.org/article/Food_web
Thomson, 2008 http://adaptivekm.com/ke_more.html#pyramid

5. The knowledge ecosystem metaphor
Thomson, 2008 http://adaptivekm.com/ke_more.html#pyramid
Knowledge metapopulation
Ecological metapopulation
Kayneugux, 2011. http://kayneugux.livejournal.com/615.html

6. Knowledge ecosystem components

7. Value
Organizational Model
Catalyts
The Circles
Champion
Preexisting Networks
Ideology
Brafman & Beckstrom, 2008
Pór, 1997
Starfish

8. Build capacities and competences
in users and beneficieries
•Sistematize experiencies-Repository-
and easy access
•Comunication between producers-business
•Close digital gap: ICT capacity building
•PLATICAR Portal Web profit
•Capacity building: knowledge management
methodologies
Training Education

9. What is a GECO (KM-Center)?
Condentation nuclei centers
Foster community identity
Spaces knowledge fostering
Face to face meetings
Gathering

10. How PLATICAR knowledge ecosystem
decreased technologycal adoption timeframe?
Education-Understanding-Decision-making
Participation-Relevance-Commitment
Feedback-Adaptation- Lower failure rate
Confidence
Decreased
technologycal
adoption timeframe

11. S
Hydroponic
Champion
Planning
Education
Replication
Systematization
Closing digital gap
Adoption
Feedback

12. ABC
Champion
Planning
Education
Replication
Systematization
Closing digital gap
Adoption
Feedback

13. Conclusions
Building a knowledge ecosystem it is at least 5
years process- Entails actitude shifting
Only participative process guaranty PLATICAR
K-Ecosystem ownership
Knowledge dialoge and mutual respect are pivotal
to success
Knowledge ecosystem can take different shapes
depending on the context.
NO two Knowledge Ecosystem are the same!