WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY

Knowledge is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as (i) expertise, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject, (ii) what is known in a particular field or in total; facts and information or (iii) awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation. Philosophical debates in general start with Plato's formulation of knowledge as "justified true belief".

the term Knowledge Society refers to any society where knowledge is the primary production resource instead of capital and labour. It may also refer to the use a certain society gives to information. A Knowledge society "creates, shares and uses knowledge for the prosperity and well-being of its people".

A society that creates, shares and uses knowledge for the prosperity and well-being of its people.

Characteristics

Knowledge societies have the characteristic that knowledge forms a major component of any human activity. Economic, social, cultural, and all other human activities become dependent on a huge volume of knowledge and information. A knowledge society is one in which knowledge becomes a major creative force.

Knowledge societies are not a new occurrence. For example, fishermen have long shared the knowledge of predicting the weather to their community and this knowledge gets added to the social capital of the community.

What is new is that

• With current technologies, knowledge societies need not be constrained by geographic proximity
• Current technology offers much more possibilities for sharing, archiving and retrieving knowledge
• Knowledge has become the most important capital in the present age, and hence the success of any society lies in harnessing it.

SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA

GIVE THREE DEFINITION OF INFORMATION SOCIETY

Information Society is a term for a society in which the creation, distribution, and manipulation of information has become the most significant economic and cultural activity. An Information Society may be contrasted with societies in which the economic underpinning is primarily Industrial or Agrarian. The machine tools of the Information Society are computers and telecommunications, rather than lathes or ploughs.

Information Society: A society characterised by a high level of information intensity in the everyday life of most citizens, in most organisations and workplaces; by the use of common or compatible technology for a wide range of personal, social, educational and business activities, and by the ability to transmit, receive and exchange digital data rapidly between places irrespective of distance.

source: encarta

An information society is a society in which the creation, distribution, diffusion, use, integration and manipulation of information is a significant economic, political, and cultural activity. The knowledge economy is its economic counterpart whereby wealth is created through the economic exploitation of understanding. People that have the means to partake in this form of society are sometimes called digital citizens.

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CHILD LABOUR IN GHANA

Child Labor is a widespread phenomenon in the developing world. The cause of this which has been narrowed poverty, do not convincingly show on data. Child labor prevents victims from participating in the education process. it has also increased tremendously of which Ghana is included.Victims in the Ghanaian society end up in stone quarries and sand weaning sites,and also as hawkers in the cities streets.
In Ghana, a lot of factors contributes to the problem of child labor.It includes poverty,irrelevance of education,high cost of schooling, etc. Parents should note that, ensuring the proper upbringing of their wards is neither the responsibility of the mother nor the father,but rather both.
It is so disheartening to see children of school going age selling all sort of items under the scorching sun and in the rain. Often these children become victims of sexual harassment, drug abuse and are sometimes knocked down by careless drivers, an incident that happened not long ago on the Kasoa road.
In other cases, responsibility towards children comes to a halt as soon as parents realize that their wards are capable of taking care of themselves regardless of their age. This often result in child labor,simply because the child has to find a job in order to be a survivor.
I think the most effective way of reducing child labor is the Increase demand for schooling.