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Luxor, Egypt, 14-15 April 2013
Expert Systems Roleas a tool of Knowledge Management
in Water Resource Management
Dr. Ibrahim AhmedExpert System Project Manager
MCIT - EgyptICT Trust Fund
ITU Workshop on “ICT as an Enabler for Smart Water Management”
(Luxor, Egypt, 14-15 April 2013)
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Ministry of Communications and IT
ICT Trust Fund
Eng. Hoda Dahroug
Regional Director
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Background:
Community Development Projects in:
- Agriculture & Small businesses
- Women empowerment
- People With Disability
- Youth, Employability
- Civil Society
- Knowledge for development
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Background:
We believe that Knowledge is power.
We use Knowledge to empower the
community (K4D).
One of the most integral component in
all our project is knowledge sharing
and knowledge generation.
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ICT Trust Fund flagship service is,
Kenanaonline.com, the community
development portals.
It is a network of knowledge portals
(over 100,000 websites and portals) in
several field of Development.
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Kenanaonline empowers the community with Knowledge Management tools, services,
training, and technical support to encourage them sharing their knowledges.
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Kenanaonline in Numbers
- 2 millions visitors per month
- Over 1 million published webpage
- over 150,000 websites and portals
- 40% of visitors from Egypt
- 50% from Arab countries
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Aradina.net
A network of over 400 websites and portals.
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Websites and Portals consists of:
- General Authority of Fisheries Resources Dev.
- Research centers from ARC.
- NGOs working in Agriculture.
- Hundereds of experts,practitioners, farmers..
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What is the role of
Knowledge
Management in
Water Resource
Management.
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Water Management
as in any other
“Resource Management”
needs good
"Informative Decisions"
to actually solve any
problem.
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Decision Makers
seek subject matter
Experts
Consultations
to take
informative
decisions.
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A wider base of subject matter experts
is required in order to take better
decisions.
Now the problem became clearer?!
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The problem is:
Experts are as scarce as
water resources
Experts Knowledge are as
as valuable as water.
So the Knowledge of the expert is what matter most!
The solution: Knowledge Management
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Why KM is crucial to Organization success?
Prevent knowledge leakage from organizations due to; Retirement, turnover, and poor documentation.
Knowledge sharing to eliminate duplication of efforts; saves time and money
Reduce time required to
build capacities in organizations.
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The Mission
We need to capture Experts Knowledge!
and avail it widely and openly accessible online for real time consultation.
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Capture Knowledge? Is it doable?
Yes, Expert Systems are one of the
essential tools for Knowledge Management.
It depends on
Artificial Intelligence and
Knowledge Acquisition
Methodology.
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Challenges of Knowledge Capturing:
Knowledge Acquisition methodology.
Experts have no incentive to share their
knowledges.
Organizations lack Knowledge Management
policies.
Lack of tools for building Expert Systems.
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Expert System Project
A Research project was held to answer
these challenges and identify a
sustainable model of building efficient
Expert Systems.
MCIT (Ministry of Communications and IT)
IDRC (International Development Research Center)
CLAES (Central Laboratory of Agriculture Expert
System)
Pilot Expert systems
The Expert system gather input from the user in the form of questions to finally pinpoint the diagnosis of the
problem.
We encourage Experts to add illustration photos for each answer
Expert system asks:What is the color of the root?
And gives illustration photo on demand to help user answer the question
The Expert system keeps on asking question...
Notice the list of diseases keeps narrowing as the user answer more questions.
Till it reaches a final diagnosis based on the input of the users.
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Note:
Eng. El Araby, a Pomegranate Expert, is not
familiar with IT or Knowledge sharing.
Total time invested in building this expert
system is 8 hours.
– 3 Hours Knowledge Acquisition Basics
– 3 Hours Building Expert System Rules
– 2 Hours Inserting illustration photos
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Expert System Project Output
A self paced training module on Knowledge Acquisition.
Experts can learn froma multimedia CD howto build their ownExpert System andpublish it online.
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Online Expert System Service
Develop an online service, an Expert
System platform allowing, for the
first time in the Arab world, the
Experts to build
their own
Expert Systems.
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Knowledge Portals Service
Organizations can manage knowledge generated by its stuff from articles, documents and expert systems, and aggregate all content under the organization knowledge portal.
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Expert System Keys of Success
Easy to use, Arabic enabled tools.
Multimedia Training CD.
Ownership of the created knowledge
belongs to the Experts.
Support organizations to integrate
KM in their structure and policies.
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Expert System for
Water Resources Management
Open invitation to Experts and Organizations to participate in building Expert Systems.
Contact us for:Training and Technical SupportCollaborating in a new projectSharing our research findings.
Conclusions and Recommendations
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