Dear Professionals

            An International Workshop on Knowledge Management (IWKM 2009) was held on January 24-25, 2009 organized by Maulana Azad Library, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.

The major objectives of the workshop were:

• To identify Knowledge Management implementation in various corporate and academic institutes.
• To understand the processes involved in capturing and sharing organization’s knowledge assets, both tacit and explicit.
• To learn handling of select KM models/technology tools such as MASK, KMM, CKF etc for developing KM in the respective fields of participants.
• To identify constraints and challenges, while implementing Knowledge Management programme.

The workshop was inaugurated by Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis, the Vice Chancellor, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. In his speech, he said that a creative approach to KM in R & D institutions can result higher research productivity and information flow and  he emphasized the need of capturing tacit knowledge of scientists and academicians using modern communication technology.

Padamshri Prof. P. N. Kaula, Chief guest of the function highlighted the importance of KM in present society. He said concept of KM is fast developing and the time is here to implement the application of KM in Libraries and Information Centers.

Prof. Jean-Louis Ermine, Associate Dean, TELECOM School of Management, Paris France delivered keynote address.

Prof. Jean-Louis Ermine was the main resource person. Dr. Parag Sanghani, Director, AESMPGIBM, Ahmedabad, Dr. Debahsis Patnaik, IIT Kanpur and Dr. Zafar Numani, Dept. law, AMU delivered lectures on different aspects of KM.

About ninety delegates from libraries, management, IT, medicine, corporate, NGO and research organizations from India and abroad participated in the two day workshop.

Prof. Jean-Louis Ermine gave hands on training in KMM and CKF module of KM technology. Study materials were distributed along with few exercises on CD-ROM for further developing their KM expertise. A cultural evening was also organized on 24^th Jan.

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Prof. V.K Abdul Jaleel, The Registrar, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh distributed the certificates to the participants in the valedictory function.

Dr. Naushad Ali P.M

Reader/Organizing Secretary

IWKM 2009