The author opines that Ranganathan's Five Laws pronounced in 1931 are of eternal relevance and can be considered as the sutras of Knowledge Management. Earlier majority of population were prevented from accessing knwoledge. The revolutionary laws he proposed, democratised access to knowledge. Tim Berners-Lee followed Ranganathan's footsteps by making WWW accessible to everyone. But he went one more step ahead by ensuring participation of common people in creating knowledge also. The author opines that the present ideas of Open data (information), Open Government (politics), Open Access (scientific research), Free culture (education and culture) from which the entire society is able to benefit is what Ranganathan envisioned in Iris five Laws w hich are based on Iris principles of non-discrimination. The author also adapts the five laws to suit the knoweldge based society.
S R Ranganathan, Five laws of Library Science, Five Laws of Knowledge, Library Science, World Wide Web, Knowledge Management
