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Knowledge Management and Development

‘Knowledge for all - All for knowledge’

Ewen Le Borgne – IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre

Istanbul, 20 March 2009 - session 6.1.1

Outline

• The wider picture: development, technology and the water sector

• Knowledge management, learning: What is it all about?

• Knowledge management and learning in the water sector

• KM challenges and opportunities


THE WIDER PICTURE – DEVELOPMENT,

TECHNOLOGY AND THE WATER SECTOR


The development paradigm

• Development is empowerment

• Sources of empowerment

• Knowledge and social capital

• Expanding social capital


From ICT to ICT

• Internet and the connectivity revolution

• Mobile technology: making it

happen

• Web 2.0: from push to pull

• The new dogma: connect or perishIstanbul, 20 March 2009 - session

6.1.1

Connectivity in the water sector

• From working to networking

• The Information systems’ craze

• From organisational learning to ‘sector learning’?


KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, LEARNING…

WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT?


Some definitions

• Knowledge? K=I*ESA(-ish)

• Information?

• Learning?

• Information management?

• Knowledge management?

• Find your own definition!


The facets of knowledge

• The knowledge cycle

• Three generations of knowledge management: 1) stock 2) flow 3) co-create

• From knowledge management to knowledge sharing & learning


‘KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT’AND LEARNING

IN THE WATER SECTOR


Learning fields in the sector

Sector learning, coordination, networks and

learning alliances

Organisational learning, org.

capacity development

Skills training, education,

exchange visits


Barriers to learning in the sector

• Many fishes in the pond

• Social exclusion (remember: empower)

• The research silo

• Reflect, learn, communicate, coordinate: capacity, capacity, capacity, capacity


KM CHALLENGES AND

OPPORTUNITIES


Challenges in the WASH sector

• Scaling up

• Going beyond urban

• Supporting decentralisation


KM challenges in the water sector

• Connecting actors

• Translating messages

• Encouraging:– Joint vision – Joint action – Joint reflection

• Proving the value of (sector) learning


Some opportunities

• Learning alliances: digging for deeper learning

• Resource centre networks: connecting the dots

• A wealth of tools to support

learning and sharing


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