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e-Government & Knowledge Management |
Source : OUM Open University Malaysia. September 2006 Meteor Sdn Bhd (METEOR) and its subsidiary, Open University Malaysia (OUM) recently played host to an International Conference on e-Governance Enhancement via Knowledge Management (EG/KM), which was held from 11 -14 September 2006 in Kuala Lumpur. Otheer co-organizers of the event included Asia IT & C Programme of European Commission (EC), Open University United Kingdom (OUUK), and University of La Rochelle, France. The conference was also supported by media publications, the Education Quarterly (Malaysia) and eGov Magazine (India) as well as The Gurteen Knowledge Website. The Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, YAB Dato' Sri Mohd Najib Tun Hj Abdul Razak officiated the opening ceremony and delivered the keynote address in which he said, "The discipline of knowledge management is very relevant for a country such as Malaysia as it is in line with our aspiration to transform our economy into a knowledge-based economy as envisaged in Vision 2020. Our commitment towards this direction is strengthened under Malaysia's Ninth Malaysian Plan where efforts will be intensified to raise our human capacity for knowledge and innovation." The YAB Deputy Prime Minister expressed his hope that EG^M would serve as a launching platform for greater public-private sector collaboration in the field of knowledge management. He noted that the Malaysian Government has always been supportive of the role played by the private sector, especially in new areas of growth such as ICT and urged NGOs to continue innovating and adopting new approaches and mechanisms to enhance public-private sector collaboration. The CEO of METEOR and President/Vice-ChancellorofOUM. YBhg Professor Tan Sri AnuwarAli, in his welcoming remarks emphasized the importance of a reliable and effective e-Government system. He said, "I believe the Knowledge Management (KM) processes, which encompass Knowledge capturing (creation), Knowledge sharing, Knowledge enhancing, and Knowledge preserving must be effectively instituted. The practice of knowledge management where knowledge flows smoothly from a source with knowledge to a destination that needs knowledge will consistently add value to the delivery system in the public service, thus supplementing the matrix of a meaningful development process." EG2KM relates with the findings of KIWI - Building Innovative
Knowledge Management Infrastructure within European Public Administrations, an
IST project. It is a project aimed at developing innovative KM infrastructures
for the purpose of transforming public administrations into knowledge-driven and
dynamically adaptive learning organizations while empowering public employees to
be fully knowledgeable workers. The EU project partners play an important role
in transferring their expertise, experience and providing intellectual inputs in
the area of KM and e-Governance especially to their Malaysian counterparts via
Technical Training Programme, conferences, workshops and working camps.
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