Knowledge Management for Development: Domains, Strategies and Technologies for Developing Countries

Abstract

Fourteen papers examine knowledge management from the perspective of developing countries. Papers discuss understanding and applying knowledge management and knowledge management systems in developing countries--some conceptual foundations; moving toward a community-centered knowledge management architecture for disaster management in sub-Saharan Africa; managing expert knowledge to assist in the management of coffee pests and diseases in Jamaica; the implementation of a multiagent supervisory system for an agricultural products sourcing network; progressive usage of business and spatial intelligence for decision support in the delivery of educational services in developing countries; migrating management information systems to knowledge management systems--a case of social welfare systems; addressing a knowledge externality schism in public policy in the English-speaking Caribbean; a methodology for developing high quality ontologies for knowledge management; the role of ontologies in developing knowledge technologies; knowledge sharing in repository-based knowledge management systems--a study in the information technology services enterprises in India; the ability to share the knowledge of doctors in teaching hospitals in Indonesia; knowledge sharing in the health sector in Jamaica--the barriers and the enablers; the Ulwazi Program--a case study in community-focused indigenous knowledge management; and knowledge management for programs on information and communications technologies for development in South Africa. Osei-Bryson is with the Department of Information Systems at Virginia Commonwealth University. Mansingh is with the Department of Computing at the University of the West Indies at Mona. Rao is with the Mona School of Business and Management at the University of the West Indies. Index.