RealKM Knowledge Management Update No. 1,057 – 31 Jul 2026
This RealKM KM Update focuses on stakeholder and community knowledge engagement, featuring a new feature article, four new evidence for KM practice articles, and three new tools and methods articles, as well as two related series and a related article from our archives.
There’s also a new article in Hanna M. Koskinen’s “Developing the core principles of responsible knowledge management (rKM)” series, where she starts to explore her research findings.
Feature Article
Case studies in complexity (part 8): Pauline Hanson and One Nation. Reform is needed across governments and the public sector to ensure meaningful and ongoing stakeholder and community knowledge engagement.
Evidence for KM Practice
Exploring New Frontiers in Citizen Participation in the Policy Cycle. Meaningful citizen participation in policymaking is now critical.
Lived experience is often dismissed – but we should recognise it as a form of expertise. Lived experience is knowledge developed through ongoing learning that emerges from engagement.
The Policy Playbook: Bending the arc of policy towards public good. Practical frameworks and real-world insights to help you create policies that truly serve the public good.
Bridging the Gap: Citizens, Elected Officials and Deliberative Engagement in Australian Democracy. In deliberative spaces, the input and ideas of citizens can be meaningfully integrated.
Developing the core principles of responsible knowledge management (rKM): Section 4.1 – Characteristics of the sample. Hanna M. Koskinen reports that the research sample was surprisingly coherent in its underlying preoccupations.
Tools & Methods
Using cross-cultural dialogue to break down inappropriate knowledge hierarchies. How can indigenous, local, artisanal, craft, tacit, counter, gendered and experiential knowledge better inform solutions?
Structured decision-making as a framework to incorporate social equity into conservation decisions. Structured decision-making is used to deconstruct problems and apply a logical approach to choosing actions.
How to run a language-inclusive international conference. International conferences offer invaluable opportunities for knowledge exchange, but the default use of English limits participation.
From the Archive
Why a multiple knowledges approach is essential to the success of the UN Pact for the Future and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Stakeholders have an essential role in making complexity evident.
Case studies in complexity series. Case studies in knowledge management (KM) in the face of complexity from Bruce Boyes’ previous work.
Stakeholder and community engagement. A series highlighting the importance of appropriate and effective processes for stakeholder and community participation in decision-making.
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