Ever since the ancient Greek period, philosophers have
discussed what knowledge is. Early thinkers such as Plato
and Aristotle where followed by Hobbes and Locke, Kant
and Hegel, and into the 20th century by the likes of
Wittgenstein, Popper, and Kuhn, to name but a few of the
more prominent western philosophers. In recent years, we
have witnessed a booming interest in knowledge also from
other disciplines; organisation theorists, information
system developers, and economists have all been swept
away by the knowledge management avalanche. It seems,
though, that the interest is particularly strong within the
IS/IT community, where new opportunities to develop
computer systems are welcomed. A plausible question to
ask then is how knowledge relates to information
technology (IT). Can IT at all be used to handle