Who is… IKM WG 3

IKM WG3

Early October the IKM Emergent programme Management of Knowledge (WG3) had its first working group meeting. Here we are, in action and looking inspired.
front: Simon Hearn, Peter Ballantyne (participant in WG2)
back: Julie Ferguson, Sarah Cummings, Kingo Mchombu
missing: Ewen Leborgne (because he’s in Burkina Faso!)

T&M4D

The AIM newsletter had an interesting announcement, introducing a new research programme for technology and management for development. Based at Oxford University, the programme connects two fields that are of great importance to KM4D – technology and management – and explores the theoretical implications for development. This is a nice initiative, first, because it is [...]

The process diary

Mike and I have started a new blog, called the process diary - a bit of a joke based on the film my daughter likes so much call ‘The princess diaries’ – on which we are planning to post comments about the process of setting up the Research Programme. However, I’m now a bit confused about [...]

Communications Initiative

You’ve all probably noticed already but I thought I’d mention it anyway….The Communications Initiative has just launched their new site. It looks very smart and seems to be very functional, though I haven’t played around too much yet. It has expense written all over it. It’ll be interesting to see how it develops, whether a community [...]

Free range learning – the end of CoPs?

Nancy White posted such an interesting comment in response to our thoughts on the ‘next generation of KM’, that I thought I would promote it to a blog entry. In terms of the increasing prevalence of ‘web 2.0′ tools to support learning and knowledge sharing, Nancy suggests that collaborative technologies might in fact be obliviating [...]

Welcome to Pete Cranston

Pete is our first external guest to this blog as we grapple with issues around knowledge management in organizations.
If you don’t know him, Pete has taken part in a striking short video at the Web 2.0 for Development Conference, talking about the holy grails of Web 2.0: tagging, blogging, feeds, wiki and mashing up. He argues that [...]

Heralding the next wave in KM?

Yesterday I was exploring the ways in which knowledge management as a discipline has evolved, for an IKM paper which Kingo and I are working on. Many authors have written on this, both in the field of KM4D and ‘mainstream’ KM(Huysman et al. 2007, Ferguson and Cummings 2007, Koenig 2005, Snowden 2002, Laszlo and Laszlo [...]

Julie talks open access…

On 27 September 2007, Julie made a presentation  to the Information Management Working Group of EADI on the subject of open access related to the Knowledge Management for Development Journal. Click here to watch the video

Giraffes and tools

Giraffes are fantastic animals, very well designed for their environment. Yes, they are wise and far-seeing and take a broad perspective of their environment, but they are also equipped with some fantastic tools. The obvious case is their neck, superbly suited for reaching the fruit that no one else can get. Then there’s their tongue which can [...]

Knowledge management for librarians…

A paper by Michael Koenig, KM moves beyond the organization: the opportunity for librarians was originally presented to the IFLA conference in 2005. Kingo Mchombu, one of the authors of this blog, has identified is as a key ‘must read’ reference for our work.
In this paper, Koenig argues that:
KM is no ordinary management fad – first, it [...]