RealKM’s Bruce Boyes wins Knowledge Management Award 2025 (Individual Category)!
RealKM’s editor and lead writer Bruce Boyes has been awarded the international Knowledge Management (KM) Award 2025 (Individual Category) by Knowledge Management Austria (initiators of the Agenda Knowledge for Development) and the Knowledge for Development Partnership (K4DP). The KM Award 2025 ceremony took place online on 11 December 2025.
Laudation of Bruce Boyes by Dr Sarah Cummings:
Bruce Boyes with the Column of Knowledge Award:
About the award
Annually since 2009, the international Knowledge Management Award is bestowed upon an international organization as well as an outstanding personality. Anyone can nominate a person or an international organisation for the Award. After a review, the members of the Presidia of both Knowledge Management Austria and the Knowledge for Development Partnership select the winners.
Recognition
The prize is given in recognition of the winner’s outstanding accomplishments in research, implementation or innovation of successful management methods for knowledge politics and knowledge management. It is also meant to recognize the impact made on the development of a knowledge society in general and more specifically on knowledge creation, transformation, distribution and application.
Column of Knowledge
The physical instantiation of the Knowledge Management Award is the metallic sculpture created by the Austrian artist Prof. Helmut Margreiter, named the Column of Knowledge (picture above). The object depicts the dialogue between established and well-proven knowledge, represented by a glossy, cylindrical pillar, and the innovative pursuit of the unknown, the undefined and fragile, represented by a rough counterpart in a triangular shape. In this respect, knowledge is understood as an intangible, fluid condition between these two worlds where the appreciation of the well-known is combined with a yearning for novelty. The KM Award sculpture was presented for the first time in public in its tall version at the UNESCO World Day for Cultural Diversity on 21 May 2008.
Header image: Column of Knowledge. Source: Knowledge Management Austria.
