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Knowledge Sharing Tools
On a practical level, knowledge sharing is
focused on, and facilitates, the users’ work processes.
Support for these processes will be provided by the various systems
that
are being implemented, including human resources, learning and
training systems.
UNFPA is also developing a suite of tools to foster
more efficient and effective communication among staff, and to aid
in the collection and capture of corporate experiential knowledge.
Primary knowledge sharing tools include a Corporate
Calendar, a digital Staff Directory, a
Document Centre or repository, various communication
technologies, such as Listservs and Email,
that operate in concert and in conjunction with a shared Network
Workspace. The Branch also maintains several Current
Awareness sites, such as the Internet Supermarket,
and the Current Awarness Alerting Service, that
work to broaden staff awareness of current population issues, and
the Development
Gateway Population and Reproductive Health (POP/RH) Portal,
an Internet initiative that highlights and showcases UNFPA activities
in a development context for a broad international audience of development
professionals and interested others.
The cornerstone of UNFPA's Knowledge Sharing is the Knowledge
Asset which has been designed to facilitate staff work
processes by capturing the experiential knowledge of UNFPA experts
in various areas of endeavour. UNFPA has developed a Knowledge
Asset Development System (KADS) which is now in use as part
of a broad-based organization-wide Knowledge Sharing Strategy. A
portable version, known as pKADS,
has been developed jointly by UNFPA and Business Information Systems,
University College Cork, Ireland, with full funding by the Government
of Ireland."
These tools are
readily accessible in the Knowledge Sharing Portal located in
the UNFPA Intranet.
The Corporate Calendar is directly accessible
to UNFPA staff. The purpose of the calendar is to promote and
enable more efficient
work scheduling and workflows.
The Document Centre will serve
as the primary corporate repository that will house all corporate
documents, publications and experiential
knowledge.
The Internet Supermarket is an Intranet source of published journals, reference works
and links to published digital resources.
The Current Awareness
Alerting Service is a compilation f current journal articles
with abstracts sent to staff by request on a bi-monthly
basis. The Knowledge Sharing Portal houses both the current issue
and an archive of the past 6 months of Alerting Service bulletins.
The Development Gateway Population and
Reproductive Health (POP/RH) Portal is accessible via
the Knowledge Sharing portal, the Internet Supermarket, or directly
on the Internet at http://www.developmentgateway.org/pop.
The POP/RH Portal is a joint Internet initiative offering a community-built
database of shared population information, including data, research,
projects and innovative knowledge sharing arrangements. The Portal
is led by UNFPA and links to resources in the websites of 20 partner
organizations and those of other population and development institutions.
The POP/RH Portal is a centrepiece of UNFPA external knowledge
sharing, ensuring the dissemination of lessons learned and showcasing
activities for a broad international audience of population and
development professionals and others interested in development
issues
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