Knowledge management and the coronavirus pandemic: an online discussion

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  • Chris Zielinski University of Winchester

Keywords:

Knowledge management, infodemic, infodemiology, volume of information, velocity of information, multiple discourses

Abstract

Between 30 March and mid-June 2020, the Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) listserv was host to an online discussion on KM & Coronavirus, moderated by Chris Zielinski. Over 30 participants submitted some 80 contributions to the discussion. A Knowledge Café was held on 14 May 2020 in which the topic was further discussed (https://vimeo.com/420811042). The present paper seeks to organize this rich material thematically and summarize the discussions. The KM4Dev wiki contains the complete set of emails received (http://wiki.km4dev.org/Talk:KM_and_Coronavirus). The principal contributors to the discussion are named in this summary, and the full list of discussants is given in the acknowledgements.

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2020-10-22

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 2 (2020): The unusual suspect? The private sector in knowledge partnerships for agricultural and rural development

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Community Notes

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