5. Discussion
In the previous sections literature on ICT and knowledge sharing was discussed from an ICT perspective on the one hand and a knowledge sharing perspective on the other hand. From an ICT perspective we focused on the ICT architecture. A model of the ‘shared information work space’ for ICT applications in organizations was presented. This model sheds a light on characteristics of ICT applications for knowledge sharing while the importance of the content of information of ICT applications is also conceptualized. From a knowledge sharing perspective a model of ‘processes of knowledge sharing on behalf of organizational learning’ was constructed. This model describes the various processes of knowledge sharing and the role of media use, in particular. From this perspective knowledge and knowledge sharing were defined. It was explained that we assume that ICT facilitates and stimulates mainly the exchange of explicit knowledge. Nevertheless, we expect that ICT facilitates the exchange of implicit knowledge to a certain extent too. Hence we want to explore in which way ICT applications are able to facilitate and stimulate the exchange of explicit ánd implicit knowledge.