Explain the terms knowledge

The terms 'data', 'information' and 'knowledge' have been defined and distinguished in the write-up for other units of this course. We shall not repeat it here. It is useful to recall that there are three elements involved in the knowledge process: the knowee, the knower, and the process of knowing or cognition (operating in the knower).

Knowledge is created when the knower knows the knowee. It implies that knowledge is what a knower knows; and there is no knowledge without someone knowing it: Outside of the knower only embodied knowledge (resource) exists. Information becomes knowledge once it is processed in the mind of an individual. This knowledge then becomes information again once it is articulated or communicated to others in the form of text, computer output, spoken, or written words or by other means.