Monday, August 29, 2005

Knowledge Management in Higher Education: a gateway to excellence and innovation in Africa

Call for papers

Date: 22-24 February 2006

The Knowledge Management Research Team sponsored by the National Research Foundation in collaboration with the Information Studies Programme, School of Sociology and Social Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (Pietermaritzburg) will host the abovementioned conference from 22-24 February 2006. This conference is going to provide an opportunity for knowledge sharing and collaboration among academics, researchers, and information and knowledge practitioners.

Contributions are invited on a range of subjects relating to knowledge management and its related processes. Themes that may be addressed are wide and open, but an advanced academic level of discourse is required. Inter alia the following broad themes will be addressed at the conference
  • Academic institutions as learning organizations
  • Knowledge management as a strategy for capacity building
  • Knowledge sharing dynamics in higher education
  • Ethical issues that arise in managing knowledge at institutions of higher learning
  • Implementing knowledge management in higher education: key processes and strategies
  • Measurement of impact of knowledge management programmes
  • Organisational culture and knowledge management
  • Dynamics of collaboration among academics in higher education.

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