What is Knowledge Management (KM)? - Knowledge Sharing Stories
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Implementing Best Practices (IBP) Knowledge Gateway The IBP Knowledge Gateway is a dynamic electronic tool designed to facilitate communication among public health professionals around the world. It was created by the World Health Organization and 26 partner organizations in the IBP Initiative to improve reproductive health by enhancing networking and collaboration at the global, regional, and country levels. |
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Introduction to Communities of Practice as a Knowledge Management Tool (PowerPoint presentation) Presentation Notes Communities of Practice (CoPs) are networks of people who work on similar processes or in similar fields and who come together, virtually or in-person, to develop and share their knowledge for the benefit of both the individual and the organization. For organizations just starting out with KM, CoPs are among the most popular and easily adopted of the core KM practices. This INFO presentation gives an overview of what communities of practice are, how they work, their goals, the advantages of starting them, and typical CoP features. It also briefly reviews how to start a community of practice. |
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The INFO Project Blog The INFO Project Blog is a collaborative Web log providing a platform for conversation between INFO product users and project staff. Posting daily in a typical week, bloggers draw attention to news stories, innovative Web tools and multimedia clips related to the project's mandate to disseminate the latest evidence-based reproductive health findings. Hosted by WordPress, an open-source blogging tool, the blog also provides personal perspectives on new publications and products from the INFO Project. |
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Managing Knowledge to Improve Reproductive Health Programs
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A Tool for Sharing Internal Best Practices This tool, developed by the INFO Project and prepared by Adrienne Kols and Margaret D'Adamo, includes a step-by-step process, tips, case studies and links to additional resources that explain how an organization can more effectively share its own best practices internally. |
Other KM Resources:
Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (AHPSR): Training Modules on Health and Knowledge Management Canadian Health Services Research Foundation Doing More with What You Know: A Tool Kit on Knowledge Exchange A Handbook on Knowledge Sharing: Strategies and Recommendations for Researchers, Policymakers, and Service Providers IDRC Digital Library
This online module on KM includes five self-contained units that cover the following topics:
The Canadian Health Services Research Foundation promotes and funds management and policy research in health services and nursing to increase the quality, relevance and usefulness of this research for health-system policy makers and managers. The Knowledge Transfer and Exchange section of their web site contains information on promising practices in research, knowledge brokering, networks, exchanges, resources, and tools among others. One of the featured tools in this section is INFO's A Tool for Sharing Internal Best Practices.
The Provincial Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health at CHEO promotes partnerships and networks, funds new research, promotes knowledge exchange and offers supports through consultation and education. The Centre has developed a series of toolkits based on the best available evidence and in keeping with its broad focus on child and youth mental health. Doing More With What You Know provides a set of user-friendly tools. These tools include a variety of ways to complement your work and go beyond traditional information dissemination.
The eGranary Digital Library provides millions of digital educational resources to institutions lacking adequate Internet access. Through a process of garnering permissions, copying Web sites, and delivering them to intranet Web servers INSIDE their partner institutions in developing countries, eGranary delivers millions of multimedia documents that can be instantly accessed by patrons over their local area networks at no cost.
Chock full of unique, useful and adaptable KM ideas and strategies, this free monthly e-mail newsletter created by David Gurteen, a UK-based knowledge consultant stimulates thought and interest in KM and related areas, including organizational learning, creativity and the effective use of Internet technology. We recommend that you create a Gurteen Knowledge-Letter folder and store your issues there for your future reference needs, which are sure to occur.
This handbook, created by the Community-University Partnership for the Study of Children, Youth, and Families (CUP), represents an attempt to bring together the diversity of information and resources related to knowledge-sharing. It includes an introduction about what knowledge sharing is, as well as chapters on bridging the research to practice gap, what is currently known about knowledge sharing, and looking ahead at knowledge sharing.
The IDRC Digital Library is the first Open Access Institutional Repository established by a Canadian research-funding organization. The IDRC Digital Library provides full access over the Internet to IDRC’s research archive. The Digital Library is an institutional repository – a database driven by open source software that makes content freely available through the Internet, permitting users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to information, as long as the source is acknowledged and cited.
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