Since a remark by Mike Powell and email by Sarah Cummings on how to market KM to CEO’s of selected countries in Africa, who have been ’sold’ the view that ICT is the magic bullet for rapid development, I have come across interesting papers on how to market KM. Chris Collison’s paper in IK Magazine, [...]
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A recent survey which shows that KM keeps on growing but lacks consensus:
If these results are to be taken at face value, they suggest that after a period in which interest in KM declined somewhat, there has been a substantial renewal and expansion of worldwide interest amongst enterprises of all types. But, in the face of [...]
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The second issue of Drum Beat focussing on knowledge management and open content access:
In this second issue, we take a closer look at how communication has played a role in shaping the way in which all types of knowledge (not only those that are “local”) are being “opened”, even in the context of efforts to [...]
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Recent issue of Drum Beat focussing on knowledge management issues:
In this series, we present just a few of the experiences, strategies, resources, and trends featured on our site that explore how communities around the world have used communication tools and approaches to preserve, protect, share, manage, and promote their distinctive forms of knowledge. This first [...]
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Today, I came accross some really interesting papers which made me think that I haven’t paid enough attention to relevant articles in mainstream knowledge management. Some of them are articles with a twist in the sense that they come from the mainstream (ie non-development literature) but they are focused on issues of interest to us. [...]
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All these abbreviations… but what do they mean? Well, this one in particular – KS & KM4D in LAC – stands for knowledge sharing & knowledge management in Latin America and the Caribbean. And this just so happens to be the theme of the new issue of the Knowledge Management for Development Journal (Vol. 3.2) [...]
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We now have another new member of our blog: Hugo Besemer. A very warm welcome to you too – we look forward to blogging with you!
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Last month (December), I posted a blog item about the conference on the ‘Changing role of knowledge for development.’
At that moment, Dr Ncayiyana’s presentation was not online but now it is, together with the other keynote presentations. On the subject ‘Knowledge for development: perspectives from Southern Africa’, he says a number of things which resonate with what [...]
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Lucie Lamoureux, facilitator of the influential KM4Dev community has now joined our blogging team. We would like to wish you a very warm welcome, Lucie, and are looking forward to your blog entries!
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