The increasing diversity of formal and informal sources of knowledge is causing growing confusion in the domains of capacity building and management of human resources. In many situations one is always confronted with making appropriate decision to judge formal and informal merits, e.g. educations versus literacy. The increasing diversity of gaining knowledge in our globalized, multi-cultural and modern ICT-based society have created an increasing complexity in judging formal and informal knowledge, e.g. education, literacy, ethics, training, internship, social and cultural background, interest, motivation, experiences, languages, ….. etc.

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