What is K-Comm (Knowledge-based Community)?
K-Comm stands for Knowledge Community
K-Comm is a knowledge-based social network where people come to
- seek answers to their questions and
- to be linked to people who might know the answers to the questions.
As the name suggests, members can form communities and group with like-minded people according to their areas of interest (real-life groups like students taking a particular module, belonging to a certain country etc.). It provides for a gathering of user profiles, structuring and categorizing of questions, representation of answers in multiple formats (Q&A, taxonomy, mind map, related questions/answers) and rating of answers. A "knowledge resume" is automatically generated based on the user's history of answering questions. Instead of stereotyping experts and novices, K-Comm’s expert directory is built on the belief that every individual is an expert in one area or the other – and helps capture this, enhancing the individual’s self-worth in the process.
