This article is an introduction to KALiF, a proprietary system or methodology used to accelerate the development of, and strengthen, different kinds of social systems, from real social networks and real communities of practice to large scale industrial clusters and coherent cultural spaces. Some of the underlying theory of the method is available in edocr at http://www.edocr.com/doc/371/understanding-technology-knowledge-and-cult.... This is one of two articles on KALIF at EDOCR the second describes its application to large scale systems such as innovation and entrepreneurial networks and high-tech industrial clusters, each of which will have a characteristic cultural space we could also call an ecology of ideas in practice (see the theoretical background). KALiF, like EDOCR, is based on the idea that documents can be used to trigger or stimulate conversations, which in their turn may generate relationships, which might develop as partnerships, alliances, networks, systems, new enterprises, and so on. Such documents which maybe held on-line then become an 'organic' knowledge repository which will naturally reflect the interests of its members, their expertise, the problems they wish to solve, the solutions they feel are workable within the group's expertise. This knowledge repository forms an integral component of the group's, or the invidual enterprise's knowledge and learning infrastructure.
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