Knowledge citizen's approach to knowledge sharing, rewards and incentive

Abstract

A recent blog raised an interesting question: Does knowledge sharing occur regardless of rewards and incentives because, ultimately, knowledge sharing relies on the motivation and passion from participants who would readily share their experience and knowledge, at the exchange of nothing (tangible)? If yes, this begs yet another question: Are these participants not the ‘knowledge citizens' that we have been discussing in this column? If they are, then can endorsing knowledge citizenship not be an answer to the thorny issue of rewards and incentives for knowledge sharing?