From Knowledge Management to Knowledge Governance: A System-Centred Methodology for Designing Indigenous Knowledge Management System
The existing frameworks and methodologies for software designing encompass technological aspects and needs of the urban settings. In software development, getting sufficient and correct requirements from the users is most important, because these requirements will determine the functionality of th...
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| Format: | Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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IGI Global
2015
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/13578/ http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/13578/1/From%20Knowledge%20Management.pdf |
| Summary: | The existing frameworks and methodologies for software designing encompass technological aspects and
needs of the urban settings. In software development, getting sufficient and correct requirements from
the users is most important, because these requirements will determine the functionality of the system.
In indigenous communities identifying the user needs and understanding the local context are always
difficult tasks. This typical approach of designing indigenous knowledge management system generates
the issues of indigenous knowledge governance, de-contextualisation, and data manipulation. Hence, the
main research question this chapter addresses is, How can we introduce indigenous knowledge governance
into ICT-based Indigenous Knowledge Management System (IKMS)? The study has been conducted in
three phases with collaboration of two indigenous communities, Long Lamai and Bario of Sarawak, East
Malaysia. The main outcome of the study is the methodology of conducting a multidisciplinary research
and designing the Indigenous Knowledge Governance Framework (IKGF). The framework works as
an analytical tool that can help in understanding the essential context in which indigenous knowledge
management processes occur. The chapter argues that in order to design appropriate software tools for
indigenous knowledge management, information technology professionals need to understand, model,
and formalise the holistic indigenous knowledge management system and then use this understanding
as a basis for technology design and approaches. |
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