Timothy Maciag presented his doctoral defense on his work developing SpiCE (Spime + Culture of Participation + Ethical Decision-making) for knowledge management. SpiCE aims to provide a more sustainable blueprint for knowledge management by focusing on people, technology, and process. Maciag demonstrated SpiCE through an Egg SpiCE case study on food sustainability which engaged local participants using narratives, surveys and a technology platform. Future work will include further analysis of SpiCE implementations and its potential for life-long learning.

1. SpiCE for Knowledge Management
Timothy Maciag
Doctoral Defense | April 14, 2016 | RICE lab, 9:00am
Department of Computer Science | University of Regina

2. Introduction
• Context/KM around the room
• Motivations
• SpiCE
• Spime + Culture of Participation + Ethical Decision-making
• Egg SpiCE
• Conclusions & current/future work
• Acknowledgements

3. It’s all about this crazy thing called
Knowledge “Management”

4. It’s all about this crazy thing called
Knowledge “Management”
Decision-making

5. It’s all about this crazy thing called
Knowledge “Management”
Decision-making

6. It’s all about this crazy thing called
Knowledge “Management”
Decision-making
Ethics

7. It’s all about this crazy thing called
Knowledge “Management”
Decision-making
Education
Learning
Ethics

8. It’s all about this crazy thing called
Knowledge “Management”
Data
Information Decision-making
Education
Learning
Ethics

9. It’s all about this crazy thing called
Knowledge “Management”
Data
Information
Mining
search & scent Decision-making
Education
Learning
Ethics

10. Motivation
• KM has been around as a thing for
40 or so odd years (*)
• Has it been a success?
(*) Lambe, Prusak, and Snowden (2008): https://vimeo.com/86950879
http://gapingvoid.com/blog/2007/08/20/complicated/

11. Motivation
• KM has been around as a thing for
40 or so odd years (*)
• Has it been a success?
• Good frameworks for KM exist, but can a
more sustainable blueprint be provided?
(*) Lambe, Prusak, and Snowden (2008): https://vimeo.com/86950879

12. Motivation
• KM has been around as a thing for
40 or so odd years (*)
• Has it been a success?
• Good frameworks for KM exist, but can a
more sustainable blueprint be provided?
• SECI
(*) Lambe, Prusak, and Snowden (2008): https://vimeo.com/86950879

13. Motivation
• KM has been around as a thing for
40 or so odd years (*)
• Has it been a success?
• Good frameworks for KM exist, but can a
more sustainable blueprint be provided?
• SECI
• Cynefin
(*) Lambe, Prusak, and Snowden (2008): https://vimeo.com/86950879

14. Motivation
• KM has been around as a thing for
40 or so odd years (*)
• Has it been a success?
• Good frameworks for KM exist, but can a
more sustainable blueprint be provided?
• SECI
• Cynefin
• KCS
(*) Lambe, Prusak, and Snowden (2008): https://vimeo.com/86950879 http://library.serviceinnovation.org/KCS_Practices_Guide/030/030

15. Motivation
• KM has been around as a thing for
40 or so odd years (*)
• Has it been a success?
• Good frameworks for KM exist, but can a
more sustainable blueprint be provided?
• SECI
• Cynefin
• KCS
• CoP
(*) Lambe, Prusak, and Snowden (2008): https://vimeo.com/86950879 http://kpopkollective.com/2013/10/31/communities-of-practice-in-digital-humanities/

16. Motivation
• KM has been around as a thing for
40 or so odd years (*)
• Has it been a success?
• Good frameworks for KM exist, but can a
more sustainable blueprint be provided?
• SECI
• Cynefin
• KCS
• CoP
• SER
(*) Lambe, Prusak, and Snowden (2008): https://vimeo.com/86950879

17. Motivation
• KM has been around as a thing for
40 or so odd years (*)
• Has it been a success?
• Good frameworks for KM exist, but can a
more sustainable blueprint be provided?
• SECI
• Cynefin
• KCS
• CoP
• SER
• OT/MOOC – finally a hint of what it
could be!
(*) Lambe, Prusak, and Snowden (2008): https://vimeo.com/86950879

18. SpiCE
• Spime wrangling
• Culture of participation
• Ethical decision-making/praxis

19. SpiCE
• Spime wrangling
• Culture of participation
• Ethical decision-making/praxis
https://lasindias.com/el-largo-camino-hacia-la-ciudad-etiquetada

20. SpiCE
• Spime wrangling
• Culture of participation
• Ethical decision-making/praxis

21. SpiCE
• Spime wrangling
• Culture of participation
• Ethical decision-making/praxis

22. SpiCE
• Spime wrangling
• Culture of participation
• Ethical decision-making/praxis
http://john.do/discovering-you/

23. SpiCE
• Spime wrangling
• Culture of participation
• Ethical decision-making/praxis
https://unikeyword.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/prosumer/

24. SpiCE
• Spime wrangling
• Culture of participation
• Ethical decision-making/praxis
https://thedailyomnivore.net/2012/04/11/

25. SpiCE
• Spime wrangling
• Culture of participation
• Ethical decision-making/praxis
http://ictevangelist.com/why-i-love-gapingvoid-conversation-on-educationux/

26. SpiCE
• Spime wrangling
• Culture of participation
• Ethical decision-making/praxis
http://www.infed.org/biblio/b-praxis.htm

27. People, Technology, Process
Ideas & “Remixed” Innovations

28. People, Technology, Process
Ideas & “Remixed” Innovations

29. People, Technology, Process
Ideas & “Remixed” Innovations
FSF/Stallman SpiCE
The freedom to run a program for any purpose The freedom to openly cross-culturally learn and
create knowledge without boundary
The freedom to study how a program works and
adapt it to specific needs
The freedom to openly learn and reflect upon
created knowledge for decision-making
The freedom to redistribute copies of the original
software code and working program(s)
The freedom to collect, capture, and share
unfiltered and unbiased structured data for
knowledge creation
The freedom to (re)distribute copies of modified
(adapted) versions of the software code and
working program(s)
The freedom to interact with others to share and
evolve knowledge and experiences to form habits
that are sustaining, or that can enable praxis

30. People, Technology, Process
Ideas & “Remixed” Innovations
http://gapingvoid.com/blog/2007/04/09/the-network/

31. People, Technology, Process
Ideas & “Remixed” Innovations

32. People, Technology, Process
Ideas & “Remixed” Innovations
http://sci2s.ugr.es/dicits/index.php?p=software

33. People, Technology, Process
Ideas & “Remixed” Innovations
http://gerardnico.com/wiki/data_mining/association

34. People, Technology, Process
Ideas & “Remixed” Innovations

35. People, Technology, Process
Ideas & “Remixed” Innovations

36. People, Technology, Process
Ideas & “Remixed” Innovations
Respect for Mepham TTL Imp
Stakeholder Autonomy
Fairness
Well-being
Social
(people)
Economic
(profit)
Environment
(planet)
…
TTL = Triple Top Line | Imp = Implications

37. People, Technology, Process
Ideas & “Remixed” Innovations

38. Egg SpiCE
• Food sustainability
http://www.sustainablecitiesinstitute.org/topics/food-systems

39. Egg SpiCE
• Food sustainability
• Building knowledge through
narratives and surveys
• 21 local participants with a variety of
background
http://www.storycoloredglasses.com/p/participatory-narrative-inquiry.html

40. Egg SpiCE
• Food sustainability
• Building knowledge through
narratives and surveys
• 21 local participants with a variety of
background
• Egg SpiCE configuration
• Starting with the idea of SOLE food
Stakeholders
Producers
Consumers
Animals
Plants
Land

41. Egg SpiCE
• Food sustainability
• Building knowledge through
narratives and surveys
• 21 local participants with a variety of
background
• Egg SpiCE configuration
• Starting with the idea of SOLE food
Respect for Mepham TTL Implication
Consumers Fairness:
affordable
food
Economic Good price
Social Availability of
quality
selections
… … … …
Animals Autonomy:
Behavioral
freedom
Social Free range,
maximum
space
… … … …

42. Egg SpiCE
• Food sustainability
• Building knowledge through
narratives and surveys
• 21 local participants with a variety of
background
• Egg SpiCE configuration
• Starting with the idea of SOLE food

43. Egg SpiCE
• Food sustainability
• Building knowledge through
narratives and surveys
• 21 local participants with a variety of
background
• Egg SpiCE configuration
• Starting with the idea of SOLE food

44. Egg SpiCE
• Food sustainability
• Building knowledge through
narratives and surveys
• 21 local participants with a variety of
background
• Egg SpiCE configuration
• Starting with the idea of SOLE food
• Technology design
• Live demo: http://spice.cs.uregina.ca/
http://spice.cs.uregina.ca/

45. Egg SpiCE
• Food sustainability
• Building knowledge through
narratives and surveys
• 21 local participants with a variety of
background
• Egg SpiCE configuration
• Starting with the idea of SOLE food
• Technology design
• Live demo: http://spice.cs.uregina.ca/
• Follow-up/usability/utility study
http://vedhamanikandan.blogspot.ca/2012/06/user-experience-in-mobility.html

46. Conclusion, current & future work
• Context:
• Lots of good frameworks for KM
• Still the struggle in finding sustainable solutions

47. Conclusion, current & future work
• Context:
• Lots of good frameworks for KM
• Still the struggle in finding sustainable solutions
• Motivation:
• Frameworks can be “remixed” to provide better blueprint for sustained KM success
• Focus on people, technology, process key

48. Conclusion, current & future work
• Context:
• Lots of good frameworks for KM
• Still the struggle in finding sustainable solutions
• Motivation:
• Frameworks can be “remixed” to provide better blueprint for sustained KM success
• Focus on people, technology, process key
• SpiCE:
• Successful in engaging interest
• Deeper analysis is required for Egg SpiCE/Food SpiCE
• SpiCE at eHealth > Quite successful

49. Conclusion, current & future work
• Context:
• Lots of good frameworks for KM
• Still the struggle in finding sustainable solutions
• Motivation:
• Frameworks can be “remixed” to provide better blueprint for sustained KM success
• Focus on people, technology, process key
• SpiCE:
• Successful in engaging interest
• Deeper analysis is required for Egg SpiCE/Food SpiCE
• SpiCE at eHealth > Quite successful
• Future work:
• Full implementation, analysis of social computing/KM engagement, and analysis of
SpiCE for life-long learning

50. Acknowledgements & Q/A
• My wife and family: Nova Scheidt, Anna and Joe Maciag, Joey, Krista (Alex),
and Tess (Geoff, Harry, Ollie, and Ella) Park-Maciag, Ajay and Kim Fahlman
• My supervisor: Daryl Hepting
• My committee/chair: Katherine Arbuthnott, JoAnn Jaffe, Howard
Hamilton, Bob Hilderman, Dominik Slezak, Lisa Watson, Marjorie Delbaere,
Paul Laforge
• My office mates: Richard Spring and Sean Targett
• My work mates: Jacky Hoffert, Cindy Ikola-Gellner, Shannon Waugh,
Murray Webb, Ron Burnell, Kirsty Jewsbury, James Anderson, Norine
Janzen, Tina Neudorf, Margo Brown, Danica Navarro, Adam Chomos, Sarah
Wynn, Brenton Wilson, Chris Zimmer
• Others: Harvey Hill, Jim Wright (Nature’s Best), Andy Knoll (Body Fuel
Organics), Rick Morrell (Eat Healthy Foods), The Pusch Brothers, Janeen
Covlin, all of my study participants