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Knowledge which cannot be found is useless.
Success stories, insights, good practices, lived experiences, and learning lessons are just some of the products of knowledge sharing in ALL in CBNRM . However, very few will trawl diligently through voluminous e-forum archives, workshop proceedings, and reference materials. This is unfortunate because unless knowledge is used, it will rapidly lose value. As such, these knowledge assets need to be made available to their end-users in as little time and effort as possible.
The ALL in CBNRM e-forum is an excellent avenue for sharing knowledge. Unfortunately it has its downsides when doubled as a repository.
Searching through a plethora of postings is an arduous task for the user. While the forum has its own search engine, the search results can still be overwhelming.
The postings are not systematically classified. While ordered by learning theme, there are articles whose general subject cuts across other learning themes. The e-forum does not have a mechanism to display related articles, which is very useful in retrieving information.
Knowledge sharing in the e-forum yields raw postings, which is good in that entries are direct products of the learning groups’s experiences. However, in the interest of having a compendium of organized knowledge articles, these entries need to be refined and analyzed to increase their usability.
Enter the ALL in CBNRM Knowledge Bank (KBank).
With this tool, users can access knowledge products of ALL IN CBNRM more efficiently than ever. Essentially, the KBank is an online database housing the e-forum postings of ALL IN CBNRM. These postings have been carefully analyzed and processed to make them more reader-friendly and organized. This way, users can easily locate a given entry when they need it, where they need it. |
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