Journals & Articles
  A shop front advertising cheap calls to the Pacific Rim for migrant workers in Australia. This image is a reminder that access and ownership are separate issues in the diffusion of technology.

The Odyssey Group ran a workshop at the University of Ghana from 23 August to 7 September 2001, exploring the use of locally available Internet Cafe access for the creation of a web presence for local government and non-governmental organisations.

The Greenstar Ghana project at Patriensah, east of Kumasi, demonstrates an alternative route via state-of-the-art connectivity.

Last update 28 September 2005

The links displayed on this page were located by students from the 2000K to 2003K presentations of B823

Overviews and Definitions of KM

Knowledge Praxis, offer their definition of knowledge management

AIAI is a technology transfer organisation at the University of Edinburgh working with Artificial Intelligence applications and interested in their relevance to KM.

KMWorld is a journal covering knowledge management technology and available online.

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young maintain a business innovation site which covers some knowledge management issues, in particular the issue of intangible assets.

Emerald Information Services offers a range of KM material at the managementfirst.com site where Paul Quintas is accorded guru status.

A range of special reports and surveys are available from the Financial Times site.

Technologies and Applications

Englebart's Unfinished Revolution is the record of a symposium on the pioneering work and enduring influence of Doug Englebart, who defined many of the interface components of current computing

Building on Virtual Common Ground is a paper produced for the Common Ground Design conference. It describes action research into collective knowledge management using Internet technologies conducted by a network of academics and practitioners in a range of locations.

Implications of Knowledge Management

The Knowledge Management Forum is a virtual community of practice focused on furthering the development and understanding of Knowledge Management.

The Simpler Work study has a range of papers at http://www.simplerwork.com/library/, including one by Peter Cochrane of B.T.

Download the full report from http://www.simplerwork.com/k/profilefull.htm

Buckman Labs and other example of progress towards Cochrane's' vision at http://www.fastcompany.com/online/03/buckman.html

Business Week has published an article on Buckman Laboratories experience with Knowledge Management over fifteen years in Business Week

US-based Melcrum Publishing publish a bi-monthly journal called Knowledge Management Review with a free newsletter and a sample copy of the journal available from their site at www.melcrum.com

An article on Ten Knowledge Domains — Model of a Knowledge-Driven Company? By Daniel Holtshouse The Xerox Knowledge Initiative is available here

A critical review of Nonaka's work by René Jorna, Associate Professor in Knowledge Systems and Decision Support Systems at the Faculty of Management & Organization, University of Groningen, The Netherlands is available from the Semiotic Review of Books.

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Stephen Little
Head, Centre for Innovation, Knowledge and Enterprise
Open University Business School
Milton Keynes, U.K.
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