What struck me when I started to address the topic of knowledge management in the context of development was the awareness that the meaning of "knowledge management" changes depending on the particular notion of "development ” with which it is used. There are different schools of thought on development and how it should be measured, just as there are different schools of thought on knowledge management. Even though I should bother comparing IM4D and KM4D, or looking at the MDGs in the context of KM, I was fascinated by the diversity (even contradiction) of the meanings of these concepts, even as I was reading the speech. At some point, I started to think that it would be more interesting to tackle this particular problem instead. In the literature I have read on KM4D/KM4Dev, everyone agrees on the importance of harnessing the power of knowledge in today's dynamic, increasingly interconnected and information-saturated world. world. However, what is meant by “knowledge”, “knowledge management”, as well as the general understanding about who directly benefits from exploiting “knowledge” for some development purpose, varies. I think it is important to examine these different notions, as the concept and practice of knowledge management has been increasingly used in public policy and, especially, in development practice. Focusing on the concept of “development”, there appears to be a divide between those who see development in terms of “growth” or “modernity” and those whose idea of ​​development is one measured by assessing whether or not people have access to basic needs such as education, health and livelihoods, and whether or not these people live in a society that has some respectable… middle of paper… lopment organizations were struggling to define what it means to have tools and strategies of development and knowledge management embedded within the framework of the “growth” notion of development began to be appropriated as tools or management strategies for these new notions of development, ignoring (or perhaps not realizing) the originally growth-focused nature concept business. I believe this is an interesting area of ​​study for those researching KM4D, as these obscure details often open up opportunities for selfishly motivated interests to take advantage of them to exploit new resources such as knowledge and information, to the detriment of particular groups and sectors of society . It wouldn't hurt to be especially cautious, especially in a world where people suddenly realize that knowledge is not just power, but also money, much of it..