Agriculture is the dominant sector in the Ethiopian economy but it is characterized by low productivity. Ethiopia is interested in creating access to agricultural knowledge through an agricultural knowledge management system (AKMS). Such a system has been developed using a web-based portal named Ethiopian Agriculture Portal (EAP). It is facilitated through Woreda Knowledge Centers (WKCs) which ...

Knowledge is recognized as a vital asset in organizations. A large number of organizations are implementing knowledge management systems (KMS) in order to leverage their knowledge resources, a common form of which are electronic knowledge repositories (EKR). Since EKR implementation is costly, management needs to be aware of the factors that will make EKR more usable in order to reap benefit fr...

A national knowledge management system consists of internal knowledge management systems of governmental agencies and various knowledge services playing a role of intermediary, catalyst, and network. A policy knowledge service plays the roles of abstracting, codifying, and diffusing knowledge in public sector. Through abstraction and codification, it maximizes the proprietary value of knowledge...

Impediments to the Deployment of Knowledge Management Program in the Provincial Department of Education in Yazd M. Zanjirchi, Ph.D. M. Hakkaaki A.R. Konjkaav Monfared F. Behniyaa To identify the impediments to the deployment of knowledge management program in the provincial department of education in Yazd, a questionnaire was completed by a carefully selected sample of 2...

It is acknowledged that MIS knowledge has always resided in conceptualizing and developing applications in the context of ‘explicit’ and well defined knowledge. In this paper, however, we contend that the less tangible aspect of knowledge, ‘tacit’ knowledge, is now the area that demands more attention from MIS researchers and academics. Tacit knowledge provides the organizational context for MI...

Both Knowledge Management and Appreciative Inquiry attempt to amplify human and organizational capacities by leveraging the best of each. Whereas knowledge management systems aim to help identifying the substantive organizational knowledge in its broadest sense and leveraging it to benefit the organization and its stakeholders, the appreciative inquiry methodology is also about the search for t...

McCall et al. (2008) KMS use Decision performance and knowledge acquisition ACT-R theory Experiment Students who enrolled in a managerial accounting class WebCT, an internetbased course portal In the short term, KMS increased decision performance, but in the long term, it did not help development of domain expertise Test scores, encoding of explicit knowledge and problemsolving skills Journal o...

Alexander Serenko is based at the Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada. Nick Bontis is based at the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. Abstract Purpose – This paper aims to explore antecedents and consequences of intra-organizational knowledge hiding. Design/methodology/approach – A model was developed and tested with data...

We present in this paper some attempts to design a Machine Learning method to predict preference knowledge in a multi-agents context. This approach is applied to a corporate knowledge management system.

Knowledge is the most valuable asset of teams. At present, members in small and medium projects usually carry out each task in the form of temporary project teams. In this process, although the members of the teams could exchange information and experience with each other by which everyone would promote himself on technology and experience, large amount of valuable knowledge resources relating ...