Socioculturally sensitive. The peoples of the planet represent a seemingly unlimited richness of sociocultural diversity, despite the apparent homogenization of business enterprises through franchising and social,political, and economic influences one nation may have on the peoples of another. Concerns abound about the disappearance of cultures and languages as globalizing trends bring more peoples into contact with one another, as well as move peoples of the planet toward one heavily interconnected and interdependent civilization. The sociocultural aspects of knowledge indigenous to various peoples that potentially contribute to open knowledge is the human dimension of that knowledge. Knowledge becomes sterile and lifeless stripped from those who understand and use it, for its participants are part of the context relevant to that knowledge. The human dimension is a valuable and vital ingredient that needs recognition and preservation in its diversity and richness,just as the seeds of grains are vital to the genetic diversity to perpetuate in perpetuity the food supply that feeds the human species. Knowing who is associated and interdependent with the knowledge being described and applied importantly defines in part its relevance and boundaries of application.For
example,organizational practices relevant to participants of the global organization working in tropical climates may not be effective for participants working in cold climates. Climate may be considered one major determinant of sociocultural aspects of knowledge, in that it bears heavily on what customs,