On the 25th January 2011 a seminar was jointly organised by the KMRC and the HK KMS.
At this talk Prof Eric Tsui, comprehensively summarised the KM and Intellectual Capital developments in Hong Kong with particular emphasis on the adoption and evolution of various KM techniques and systems in the city’s transformation into a knowledge-based economy.
A recorded webinar of the presentation can be found HERE
The presentation slides can be found on the KMRC website HERE
The Society has once again hosted this year’s Hong Kong Knowledge Management Conference on 30th March 2010.
With 9 highly respected international and local speakers, the theme of the conference was “Making KM productive” and luminaries gave updates on various topics including identification of critical knowledge assets, managing knowledge in a complex world, intellectual capital for knowledge organisations, design thinking approach to KM, personal KM, digital assets management and process-based KM, and critical success factors for KM projects.
Business and Governments, including University Communities, are demanding greater rethink on their investments in Education and Retraining, given the pressures for improved productivity, innovation skills and Self-directed Learning/Empowerment for Professional s and Entrepreneurs!
The battle cry of KM has reached Africa in the early years of this decade, and by now it has become a continental movement which is driven forward by governments, more so than business. The result: everyone is now supposed to “do” KM. And the enthusiasm, at least at the level of rhetoric is ubiquitous.
The issue of appropriate knowledge in and for Africa is utterly absorbing but hugely complex. It is not possible to talk about knowledge in Africa without engaging with the problem of global power relations. Knowledge is, after all, power.
Johann Kinghorn, Kinghorn, Director of the Centre
by Knowledge Dynamics and Decision-making at
Stellenbosh University, South Africa
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