KM Resources: KM Websites - International Sites
This section highlights KM websites with an international focus
as well as KM websites from organizations around the world.
Highlights:
 Standards Australia
Standards Australia is an authoritative Australia standards organization (comparable to the American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC) of the U.S.) With over 70 years experience in creating knowledge using a range of collaboration processes, it provides over 6000 Australian Standards . Professionals in the region should look at its web site as it hosts important KM events, seminars and workshops every other month in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, Australia Last updated on February 19, 2003 |
ENTERWeb
www.enterweb.org/know.htm
This website dedicated to enterprise development has recently developed
a section on "The Knowledge Economy" with links to a variety of resources
related to national and global elements of the knowledge society.
Entovation International
www.entovation.com
A global innovation research and consulting network linking 80 countries
throughout the world.
GK-AIMS (Global Knowledge Activity Information Management System)
gkaims.globalknowledge.org
GK-AIMS is a set of online tools which facilitates information sharing
on "who is doing what" and allows for greater collaboration among project
planners. As a result it acts as a central information resource for all those
interested in building the information, communications and knowledge resources
of developing countries. It includes organizational profiles, a projects database,
a document repository and an event calendar.
GKII (Global Knowledge Innovation Infrastructure)
www.gkii.org
[Not to be confused with GKII, the second Global Knowledge Conference
which took place in Malaysia, March 2000]
GKII is an initiative of Entovation International and the Banff Center
for Management. The initiative includes training and research components meant
to "explore, create and develop ideas and possibilities, through an interactive
collaborative programme with researchers, theorists, practitioners and founding
sponsors."
Global Development Network
www.gdnet.org
The Global Development Network (GDN) aims to enhance the quality and availability
of policy-oriented research and strengthen the institutions which undertake
this work. The GDN offers tools, services and networking opportunities to
help these institutions and their members join together to fight poverty.
An electronic discussion (ongoing in April 2000) has sought broad feedback
and inputs to develop a web strategy. The main idea is to develop a strategy
to use the web most effectively for collaboration, research and dissemination
of research findings for development purposes. For more information about
this discussion, see http://www.worldbank.org/devforum/forum_gdnwebstrat.html.
Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP)
www.globalknowledge.org
The GKP has the following goals: 1) acquire knowledge, information and
technology that can improve peoples' lives; 2) obtain the tools of knowledge;
3) learn to use modern technologies. It is a partnership of public, private
and not-for-profit organizations that share the same mission. Partner organizations
are committed to sharing information, experiences and resources to promote
broad access to, and effective use of, knowledge and information as tools
of sustainable, equitable development. The GKP emerged from the Global Knowledge
97 Conference, "Knowledge for Development in the Information Age." The work
of the GKP is currently coordinated by a small secretariat located within
the World Bank Institute (WBI).
Horizon Solutions
www.solutions-site.org/about.htm
This site provides access to peer-reviewed answers to problems in environment,
health, population and development. It is a collaborative effort with UNDP,
UNEP, UNFPA, UNICEF, Harvard University, Yale University, and IDRC.
IICD Stories
www.iicd.org/stories
The ICT Stories Project is a partnership between the International Institute
for Communication and Development (IICD) in The Hague and the World Bank's
InfoDev program. The objective of the initiative is to capture the learning
process that accompanies the introduction and implementation of ICTs for development.
The stories describe good practices and lessons learned from contributors'
experience.
Indigenous Knowledge Network
www.nuffic.nl/ik-pages/ik-network.html
The IK-network aims at the sharing of information among various stakeholders
in development and to contribute to the challenge of knowledge for development,
which is to combine indigenous (local) knowledge with similar experiences
from around the world, and with elements from the world of science and technology.
See also: Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor (IKDM) http://www.nuffic.nl/ciran/ikdm.
International Development Markup Language (IDML)
www.idmlinitiative.org
The goal of this initiative is to create an Internet protocol and an associated
set of information sharing standards that will expand the depth and breadth
of information sharing among all development actors. In doing so, the initiative
hopes to facilitate transparency, learning and coordination of action in service
of sustainable and equitable development.
Knowledge Board
www.knowledgeboard.com
A huge KM expert community in Europe. KnowledgeBoard is a fantastic European
KM resource featuring a nice, dynamic collection of interesting articles,
industry news, online and offline discussion forums, contacts and case studies.
Excellent source providing to customers informative and relevant contents
from the European perspective.
Learning for Development in the Information Age (LDIA)
www.bellanet.org/partners/ldia/index.htm
LDIA is a Bellanet program that explores the process by which organizations
learn from their experience with information and communication technologies.
LDIA is also trying to capture and disseminate lessons learned and best practices
with regards to the use of ICTs. The site leads to a database of lessons learned
called LID (Learning about ICTs for Development).
"Learning Nations" How Developing Nations Acquire and Diffuse Knowledge
www.vita.org/technet/knowarch
Technet discussion, May-June 1996.
MOST Clearing House Best Practices
www.unesco.org/most/bphome.htm
The MOST program (Management of Social Transformation) of UNESCO created
this Best Practice Database about a variety of projects, policies and strategies
related to the eradication of poverty and the reduction of social exclusion.
Panos Institute and World Bank Institute (WBI) - "Knowledge and Information
for Development"
www.worldbank.org/devforum
Electronic Discussion Forum In May 1999, the World Bank Institute
and Panos Institute facilitated an electronic discussion based on the World
Bank's World Development Report on "Knowledge for Development" and the Panos
Institute's response (critique) in a series of papers on Information, Knowledge
and Development.
Standards Australia
www.knowledge.standards.com.au
Standards Australia is an authoritative Australia standards organization
(comparable to the American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC) of the
U.S.) With over 70 years experience in creating knowledge
using a range of collaboration processes, it provides over 6000 Australian
Standards . Professionals in the region should look at its web site
as it hosts important KM events, seminars and workshops every other month
in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, Australia.
This section of the site was last updated on February 20, 2003.