KM and KA in International Coooperation - Lesson from the K-Link project in Central Asia

Gianluca Colombo, Alessio Vertemati, Emanuele Panzeri, Eva Grolíková, Philipp Reichmut

2015

Abstract

The K-Link initiative concerns a Knowledge Management (KM) solution for Central Asian institutions committed to Sustainable Land Management (SLM) and Natural Resource Management (NRM) projects implementation in the framework of international development cooperation. It supplies a technical solution based on the use of a distributed network in which all data and information remain stored on each institution’s server and can be accessed from each institution’s website without the need to create a central hub. Plugged into pre-existing content management platforms that run at the end-users institutions side, K-Link extends those systems with information retrieval, management and sharing features. One of the main issues regarding the sharing of documents in the Central Asian context actually regards motivations for sharing. In fact the trigger for information sharing in Sustainable Land Management in Central Asia (SLM) is given by the management of information. This principle verified and tested with the participant institutions led to the resolution to design and implement a specific Document Management System (K-DMS) in order to allow end users to get to know the sharing features of K-Link as special cases of more general information management ones. The K-DMS represents computer-based environment for the production and sharing of knowledge artifacts.

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Colombo G., Vertemati A., Panzeri E., Grolíková E. and Reichmut P. (2015). KM and KA in International Coooperation - Lesson from the K-Link project in Central Asia . In Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 3: KITA, (IC3K 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-158-8, pages 421-428. DOI: 10.5220/0005660904210428


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@conference{kita15,
author={Gianluca Colombo and Alessio Vertemati and Emanuele Panzeri and Eva Grolíková and Philipp Reichmut},
title={KM and KA in International Coooperation - Lesson from the K-Link project in Central Asia},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 3: KITA, (IC3K 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={421-428},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005660904210428},
isbn={978-989-758-158-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 3: KITA, (IC3K 2015)
TI - KM and KA in International Coooperation - Lesson from the K-Link project in Central Asia
SN - 978-989-758-158-8
AU - Colombo G.
AU - Vertemati A.
AU - Panzeri E.
AU - Grolíková E.
AU - Reichmut P.
PY - 2015
SP - 421
EP - 428
DO - 10.5220/0005660904210428