Taxonomy Integration

In the digital world of online repositories, taxonomies and ontologies are the primary ways to categorize content by their underlying (or implicit) information domains. Taxonomies mean any controlled vocabulary

for tagging content. Thus a taxonomy is a logical organization based on how a

particular…

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Invitation for the August 17, 2010 K-NET Event :: Webinar and a Knowledge-Lab…

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The idea here is quite simple and related to the assessment phase of KM introduction inside any organization, as far as I understand it.

Until today I've seen various tools used by most KM practitioners to try to reply to the very basic question in a KM assessment exercise: "where does this organization stand in terms of KMS"? The tools I've seen are:

• questionnaires (manual, to be distributed to a wide statistical sample)
  
  
• questionnaires (web-based such as…

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Africa is perhaps the most culturally imaginative and creative region in the world. It is extremely diversified, rich in talents and ingenuity with unlimited

resources and potential. It has colonized the planet and it enriches humanity

through inimitable arts. Yet, one African out of two lives in dismal human conditions.

And despite spectacular progress here and there, it also remains profoundly…

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(This post was originally published on the K4Health Blog)

By Elizabeth Duncan McLean

One of our most critical outcomes from the three day meeting in Lilongwe, Malawi, with the District and National level stakeholders, was that the group no longer saw knowledge management as a problem that’s “out there” but rather began viewing it as a challenge that they wanted to take on as…

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Today is the day of the official inauguration of the Change Journey.

My colleague Vesa Purokuru and I have worked for the last year to present you this meta model to change processes. It does not replace any other model or tool - it incorporates the entire wisdom and knowledge that exists on the dynamics of change processes.



The Change Journey is a radical approach to change. It is based on the paradigm that… Continue

(This post was originally published on the K4Health Blog)

By Scott Dalessandro, Communication Specialist & Toolkit Coordinator

As my family and friends in Washington and Baltimore coped with the so-called “…

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In an effort to assist the thousands of aid workers in Haiti responding to the aftermath of the 7.0 earthquake and subsequent aftershocks, K4Health has published the Haiti Relief Toolkit which provides practical and technical health-related information for those on the ground.



The Haiti Relief Toolkit is a resource to help health workers respond more effectively to the earthquake relief efforts underway in… Continue

As emerging information and communication technologies (ICTs) diffuse throughout the world, the transference of knowledge, ideas and perspectives has become more seamless, instant and affordable. On the same token, however, the ability to reach the right audiences amidst all the noise is becoming more difficult.



ICTs have democratized publishing, allowing organizations, large and small, to sidestep traditional media outlets and step onto their own digital soapboxes and broadcast… Continue

[Cross-pollinated on the K4Health Blog during the International Family Planning Conference in Kampala, Uganda]



As the International Conference on Family Planning: Research and Best Practices gets underway in Kampala, Uganda, it’s important to remember that to increase family planning (FP) worldwide, information needs to be shared and exchanged among program managers and health service providers working on the front lines.… Continue

Knowledge Management is the convergence of planning, sharing, networking, collaboration, analysing and reusing of both information resources and/or intellectual capital to achieve maximum efficiency and effectiveness in risk control, process and product innovation.