Knowledge Management for Development: The ABCs

Dear All,

This is to inform you that Department of Library and Information Science, Central University of Tamil Nadu has organized a special online lecture series Gyan Pravah: An Online Lecture Series in LIS. The eighth lecture in the series was organized on 16th July, 2021 (Friday) at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM through Google Meet. Dr. Aparajita Suman, KM & IEC Specialist, DDWS, Ministry of Jal Shakti, Govt of India was invited as resource person and she delivered the talk on “Knowledge Management for Development: The ABCs”.

The program commenced with a welcome address given by Dr. Akhandanand Shukla, Associated Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science, CUTN, Thiruvarur followed by a brief introduction about the resource person Dr. Aparajita Suman.

Dr. Aparajita Suman stared her lecture by giving a brief and eloquent idea about the term “Knowledge Management” and the principles behind it. According to her, Knowledge management is the process of creating, sharing, using and managing the knowledge and information produced in an organization. Further she focused on achieving the objectives of the organization and how to improve the performance and emphasized that KM gives keen attention in delivering right knowledge to the right person in right time. Different types of Knowledge such as tacit (knowledge difficult to express or extract) and the explicit, old and new etc. were also discussed. KM jargons with its purpose and relevance were simplified during the lecture. Different strategies and instruments in KM were also briefly mentioned which includes communities of practice, exit interviews, storytelling, white pages, identifying and sharing best practices etc. Core components required for the development of KM environment such as people, process, technology were mentioned and enlisted some tools and techniques of knowledge management. Some after effects of KM, the way in which it can be measured were explained. The reason for measuring it, how to measure and what to measure, some common approaches in measuring the effects were also discussed. A few questions were asked at the end of the session and those were answered neatly.

The lecture was coordinated by Dr. Anila Sulochana, Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur and attended by 29 participants. The lecture session ended with a formal vote of thanks proposed by Dr. Anila Sulochana. Mr. Abhijith B., Junior Research Fellow, worked as the rapporteur in the program.

The glimpses of the program are given below:

Department congrats to all who attended the program and taken the benefit to listen to Dr. Aparajita Suman on some of the practical aspects of the Knowledge Management.

Thanks.