Kwami Ahiabenu,II Knowledge Chief

The workshop will run from 4-8 June at Busy Internet for 20-25 participants from the different Community Radio stations/initiatives. My slot : Mon, 4 June 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon "The digital divide - what does it mean and how does it apply to Ghana?" see http://www.sflp.org/eng/007/pub1/bul19_art8.htm for information about Ghana Community Radio Network

"When spider webs unite they can entangle a lion.” Ethiopian Proverb

The National Secretariat of the Ghana Bar Association is pleased to announce that AITEC, in consultation with the GBA is organizing the 4th Legal Information and Knowledge workshop, for the corporate counsel; on Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th June 2007 at GBA Secretariat, Accra . The theme for the workshop “EMPOWERING THE CORPORATE COUNSEL FOR THE ONLINE AGE” will address pertinent concerns of corporate counsels and empower them with online tools including Web 2.0 to help them achieve organizational goals and vision through the use of modern Information and Knowledge Management System. Participants would be equipped with practical online Legal Knowledge Management skills, create their personal websites and develop strategies of deriving the maximize benefits from the myriad of online legal information and knowledge resources. Prospective participant should kindly call 021-672-884 / 024-9410-606 or ghanalegalkm at gmail.com for enquiries and registration.

Have a scheduled radio show interview on CITI FM http://www.citifmonline.com/ EBF Business Talk Topic: How ICT can be employed to enhance business and ICT potentials for entrepreneurs. Date: 10th April, 2007 Time: 2.00pm -3.00pm

So now that my company has decided to embark on a Knowledge Management (KM) path the inevitable question is: How do you measure success of the KM program? From the research I have done there seems to be no easy answers. The main issues are: KM is a soft subject, it enables many different activities within a Professional Services organization but is not directly responsible for these activities. Direct impact of KM on hard metrics such as Profitability, Resource Utilization, Resource Productivity, Margin etc are hard to attribute directly to KM, as any number of factors can influence these areas. Collection of metrics can prove to be just as difficult as determining the appropriate metrics. From the research I’ve done and conversations with my Board and other individuals I’ve come up with a categorized system of metrics. Indirect: These are metrics that KM has some degree of impact on but cannot be directly and solely attributed to KM activities. Such metrics include, Year over Year ...

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Involved and participating in The African E-Gov Forum 2007 to be held in Accra , Ghana from 27-29 March, is organised by the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation and will be one of the key conferences in Africa this year to address the issues that e-governance stakeholders face. Timed to coincide with the celebrations of Ghana 's 50 th anniversary of independence, the African E-Gov Forum 2007 will focus attention on the potential for technology to greatly improve the transparency and service delivery to the private sector and citizenry by ministries, departments and agencies (MDA's) of local and national government. The event, which is hosted by Ghana 's Ministry of Communications, will attract top-level national, regional and international specialists from government, industry and the academic world.

How many traditional companies are quickly adopting Web 2.0 concepts on their customer-facing web services? Are internal services utilizing these services as quickly ? interesting article at ZDNET http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=101

Pagebull is your visual Internet search engine. www.pagebull.com interesting

Kwami Ahiabenu,II The advent of electronic payment system has led many to predict it will become a predominate means of payment overcoming traditional means of payment as leaders in global payment system. Literature points to the fact that the electronic payment is quite ubiquitous in developed countries but in developing countries such as Ghana this phenomenon is relatively very new. In recent times most financial institutions in Ghana are striving to introduce products and solution that provide means for electronic payments. The study proposes measures that can improve the current payment system on one hand and it also assessed the prospects of introducing electronic payment system in Ghana . Using a questionnaire, the researcher interviewed key stakeholders in the financial sector and analyzed the results using descriptive statistics .The researcher describes the history and development of electronic payment system Ghana . The study found out that the electronic payment service...

Communities of practice( often abbreviated as CoP) - Networks of people who work together in an organization and who regularly share information and knowledge - are communities of people who share the same profession, situation, or vocation and their goal to share information and knowledge is the glue that holds them together - In organizational development (OD) concept of a community of practice refers to the process of social learning that occurs when people who have a common interest in some subject or problem collaborate to share ideas, find solutions, and build innovations. CoP is crucial to the success of any knowledge management strategy. As the communities of practice go through a series of stages in their evolution, they provide the platform for knowledge exchange. see 1.Knowledge Management - Keys to Successful Communities of Practice (Networks) http://tinyurl.com/2ags3l 2. Community of Practice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_Practice

The Semantic Web is an evolution of the World Wide Web which facilitate the ease in finding, sharing and combination of data, information and knowledge enabled by machine processable capability rather than only human oriented processing. It is a collaborative effort led by W3C ( The World Wide Web Consortium the main international standards organisation for the World Wide Web (W3) with participation from a large number of researchers and industrial partners The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. two core characteristics can be stated here 1. common platform for integration and combination of data from varied sources 2. language for recording how data relates to the real world The Semantic Web is seen as an extension to the existing World Wide Web towards (better) processing of semantically marked-up content through software processes. Machine-readable data is a pre...

I am speaking to the students African Institute of Journalism and Communications www.aijcghana.com/ on Friday Feb 07 at 12:30pm on the topic : "Online Journalism - Challenges and the Future" broadly speaking, my presentation would focus on : 1. theory of online journalism and its dynamic contest with grandfather(traditional journalism) 2. would share practical example of online journalism at work 3. conclude with the future of online journalism pointing out some of innovative opportunities while not losing sight of challenges

this article reinforces the need to take the path of least resistance through alignment http://www.mindthis.net/mindthis/2007/01/shared_calendar.html it emphasis the urgent need to align work and knowledge management moving away from the separation of work and KM activities to a situation where KM can take place without the need for additional effort on behalf of individuals

The McMaster World Congress is claimed to be the world's largest congregation of Intellectual Capital, Strategic Business Valuation & Corporate Governance experts! themes 1. 9th World Congress on Intellectual Capital and Innovation 2. 4th World Congress on Corporate Governance 3. 1st World Congress on Strategic Business Valuation This event will take place from January 24th-26th, 2007 at the Hamilton Convention, Ontario, Canada http://worldcongress.mcmaster.ca/2007/

Alvin Toffler's The Third Wave: "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn"

Kwami Ahiabenu,II Found a new search experience called SNAP. According to " snap website Snap is an Idealab company located in Pasadena, California, home of Cal Tech, the Rose Bowl, and the Doo Dah parade. We're a small group fighting a big battle to deliver a step-function change in the search experience. Together, we have over 70 years of search experience and way more than 100 years of online marketing and e-commerce experience. We're passionate, committed and are confident enough to think we can make a difference." So what does Snap offer? The other way to search(TM) Snap is saying they think Google, Yahoo, MSN and all the rest of the big search players have settled on the wrong search paradigm: text-in, text-out with slight differences in their ranking methods and index sizes. Snap claims their new search engine offers a very different alternative to the Big Search, Text-In, Text-Out, method. Some key features of Snap Fast Visual Display of Results Previews Acti...

Kwami Ahiabenu,II The internet has 55 billions webpages and growing very rapidly at the speed of light. Web Search is hard, google is the most popular but even google does not have all pages on the web, though its index is growing Recently, I got to know that, there is a growing competitive search market with a lot of playing aiming to capture some of this market. Of course what about an open source search platform. The founder of wikipedia,Jim Wales has launched http://search.wikia.com/wiki/Search_Wikia aimed at developing a wiki-inspired search engine by community members.It is envisage that the end product would be a people-powered search results powered by an open-source alternative for web search. A new community is talking about this at http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/search-l , very interesting discussion is going on here

I have written or read about E-commerce but this is the first time, I can across E-commerce and Poverty Can E-commerce alleviate Poverty, this is the subject of a recent posting at http://www.krooman.com/?p=11 where Electronic commerce (e-commerce) is defined as the use of the internet and web to transact business. More formally, digitally enabled commercial transactions between and among organizations and individuals. Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce) has almost overnight become the dominant on-line activity. Equally quickly it has become a significant element in commercial activities globally, particularly in the developed countries where suitable infrastructure support is available. Some types of e-commerce were provided. The article mentioned e-commerce as one of ICT tools and it point that evidence supports that claim that ICT can reduce poverty. E-commerce especially can contribute to wealth creation. Practical examples are given about how E-commerce can reduce poverty but it poin...