Knowledge Management for Development

Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson is a Professor of Information Systems at Virginia Commonwealth University and Research Fellow of the Information Systems Research Institute since Fall 1998. He was previously a Professor of Information Systems and Decision Analysis in the School of Business at Howard University, Washington, DC, U.S.A. He has also worked as an Information Systems practitioner in both industry and government. His research covers various areas including: Data Mining, Database Systems, Expert Systems, Decision Support Systems, Group Support Systems, Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, Cluster Analysis, Integer Programming, and Parametric Programming. His teaching areas include: Data Mining, Data Warehousing, Database Systems, Systems Development. His papers have been published in various journals including: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge & Data Engineering, Data & Knowledge Engineering, Information & Software Technology, Decision Support Systems, Information Processing and Management, Information Systems, Computers & Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Annals of Operations Research, Mathematical & Computer Modeling, Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, Application of Management Science. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Computers & Operations Research journal. (A full CV is attached for each editor)

• Chapter 1 Towards Understanding and Applying Knowledge Management and Knowledge Management Systems in Developing Countries: Some Conceptual Foundations.- Chapter 2 Towards a Community-Centered Knowledge Management Architecture for Disaster Management in Sub Saharan Africa.- Chapter 3 Managing Expert Knowledge to Assist in the Management of Coffee Pests and Diseases in Jamaica.- Chapter 4 Implementation of a Multiagent Supervisory System for an Agricultural Products Sourcing Network.- Chapter 5 Progressive Usage of Business and Spatial Intelligence for Decision Support in the Delivery of Educational Services in Developing Countries.- Chapter 6 Migrating MIS to KMS: A Case of Social Welfare Systems.- Chapter 7 Addressing a Knowledge Externality Schism in Public Policy in the English Speaking Caribbean.- Chapter 8 A Methodology for Developing High Quality Ontologies for Knowledge Management.- Chapter 9 The Role of Ontologies in Developing Knowledge Technologies.- Chapter 10 Knowledge Sharing in Repository Based KM Systems: A Study in the IT Services Enterprises in India.- Chapter 11 Ability to Share Knowledge of Doctors in Teaching Hospitals in Indonesia.- Chapter 12 Knowledge sharing in the Health Sector in Jamaica: The Barriers and the Enablers.- Chapter 13 The Ulwazi Programme: A Case Study in Community-focused Indigenous Knowledge Management.- Chapter 14 Knowledge Management for Programs on Information and Communications Technologies for Development (ICT4D) in South Africa.

From the book reviews: "This book is a compilation of several scientific papers related to knowledge management (KM). ... By reading this book, policy makers, consultants, and information technology (IT) experts working in development efforts could leverage their existing strategies. The book provides some interesting insights into the needs and limitations of implementing KM systems, yet, as the editors posit, 'Knowledge is considered to be the competitive resource.'" (Carla Sanchez Aguilar, Computing Reviews, June, 2014)