KMAfrica2009

General Report on KMAIII - Knowledge to reposition Africa in the global economy


KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AFRICA - WWW.KMAFRICA.COM
GENERAL REPORT OF THE THIRD KMA CONFERENCE
“KNOWLEDGE TO REPOSITION AFRICA IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY”



LE MERIDIEN PRESIDENT HOTEL
04–07 May 2009, Dakar Senegal




KMAFRICA FINANCIAL PARTNERS

  • Government of Senegal

  • the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
  • The Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA)
  • the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF)
  • the African Development Bank (AfDB)
  • the Islamic Development Bank (IDB)
  • the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA)
  • the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), and the NEPAD.

Submitted by storytelling on 22 January 2010 - 8:27am. categories [ ]

KMAfrica2009 Conference Papers

KMAfrica2009 Dakar Conference Paper

We are starting to add full text conference papers from the KMAfrica2009 conference. The papers are to be found in the SIGs on http://isivivane.com/kmafrica/?q=og - currently we are looking at the economics and governance streams and more papers will be added on an almost daily basis. In amongst the conference papers, we have interspersed some general SIG conversations to approximate the kind of activity you'd find at a conference like KMAfrica2009; in amongst the formal papers we have informal conversations where a surprising amount is learned and exchanged.

Submitted by KMAadmin on 27 July 2009 - 4:34pm. categories [ ]

KMAfrica2009 Archives

KMAfricaFlash

Archive of key pages from KMAfrica2009, Dakar, Senegal including call for papers , key addresses etc. If you want to look at the actual papers and paper abstracts, please go to http://isivivane.com/kmafrica/?q=group.kmafrica

Submitted by KMAadmin on 11 May 2009 - 2:23pm. categories [ ]

Science journalism makes its mark in Dakar

Dirand Onifade and Armand Faye

One of the pleasures for a European visitor attending a conference in Africa is the colourful clothes that many delegates occasionally choose to wear — a welcome change from the drabness than usually dominates back in the UK.

Adding to the colour of the proceedings at the 3rd Knowledge Management Africa conference in Dakar this week have two long-standing champions of science journalism in Africa, Diran Onifade from Nigeria, and local science journalist Armand Faye.

Submitted by KMAadmin on 11 May 2009 - 2:03pm. categories [ ]

A voice of experience

mbow1

Few participants in the Dakar conference on knowledge management can have had more experience of the challenges facing science in Africa than Amadou-Makhtar M’Bow, a former education minister of Senegal, and director general of UNESCO from 1974 to 1987 — the first black African to head a major UN organisation.

M’Bow reminded his audience that, despite the economic challenges facing the African continent, little had happened over the past 20 years to meet them. “Africa’s share of world trade fell from 5.8 per cent in the early 1960s to 2.8 per cent in 1987,” he pointed out.

Submitted by KMAadmin on 11 May 2009 - 1:54pm. categories [ ]

A role for “honorary Africans”?

It’s relatively rare for a non-African participant to receive a warm round of spontaneous applause from an audience gathered to discuss African solutions to Africa’s problems — a key idea behind the concept of an Africa “renaissance”.

That was the response, however, to a suggestion from Malaysian Lee Yee Cheong that individuals who had lived and worked in Africa should be accepted as honorary members of the African diaspora, even if they do not have blood relations with the continent.

Submitted by KMAadmin on 11 May 2009 - 1:50pm. categories [ ]

Take-home message: it’s not what you know, it’s what you do with it

There’s a famous line Moliere’s play Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme where, after a lesson in social style, the lead character expresses both surprise and pleasure at his discovery that he has “been speaking prose all my life, and [I] didn’t even know it!”

At the end of three days of intensive discussions, a significant proportion of the 300 or so delegates attending this week’s meeting in Dakar, Senegal, may well be returning home with the same feeling about the concept of “knowledge management”.

Submitted by KMAadmin on 11 May 2009 - 1:46pm. categories [ ]

KMAfrica2009 - Outcomes - Knowledge Management Africa (KMA) Foundation - A New Body to Boost Knowledge Management in Africa

KMAfricaFlash

Dakar, 7th May, 2009

African science researchers and policy advisers have agreed to set up a foundation, to be known as the Knowledge Management Africa (KMA) Foundation to promote the use of scientific and other forms of knowledge by both public and private decision-makers in the continent.

Submitted by KMAadmin on 11 May 2009 - 11:29am. categories [ ]

KMAfrica2009 Poster

KMAfrica2009 Poster

KMAfrica2009 Poster

categories [ ]

KMAfrica2009 Conference

KMAfrica2009 Conference

Conference Photo

categories [ ]