Outcomes of HacKMthon 2023
Knowledge Management Global Network
Most Collaborative Global Knowledge Management Network
This year, KMGN HacKMthon focused on Global Challenges in an attempt to leverage on the KM community, to explore how organisations can leverage on KM to help address challenges faced across the world, namely the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).
Challenge A
What was it about?
A HacKMthon challenge was posed on how generative AI may change the practice of KM in the area of family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH), Sustainable Development Goals 3 (Good Health & Well Being) and 5 (Gender Equality).
Specifically, target 3.7 which calls on countries “by 2030, to ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes”.
Contributors include:
Meena Arivananthan, Radhika, Pranab, Samirah, Dialah, Achmad, Zonke, Manfred Bornemann, Jonathon, Jade, Selvi, Rajesh Dhillon, students from NTU KM Masters program, Reema AbuSaleh, Pavel Kraus, Chishala Lukwesa, Sunday Juma , Joshua Azaki
Outcomes for Challenge Owner
The HacKMthon session provided the following insights which the team will explore moving ahead.
Leverage AI:
Connect repositories/ directories/ databases to healthcare experts
Build stories through generative AI. Build skills for practitioners to be able to do (AI-enabled) storytelling to present and communicate messages for their communities
Use infographs and comics to simplify AI processes
In the existing mentoring programs (KM Champs) – consider getting their knowledge digitized
Planning tool for experts and practitioners
Use predictive analytics to forecast future knowledge needs, trends, issues
2. Communicating benefits and building trust
Practical case studies on how tech helped facilitate knowledge transfer (examples: Indonesia, China)
Need to ensure secure and tamper-proof environ for K sharing
Advocacy, awareness, training on using AI to improve KM;
Improve tech literacy with user-guides for beginners
3. Artificial Intelligence intervention for knowledge capture and transfer
Personalized learning: auto-content generation through a Q&A system (in which we feed the system with information so that it is customized)
Summarize documents
Auto-summaries from Zoom tool
Summarize feature in YouTube
Translation
4. Tools to connect with youth
Gamification: Apps for adolescents, sharing feature, mobile-friendly
ChatGPT, Trello
Chat bots and virtual assistants for instant support
Voice recognition technology for immersive learning
Challenge B
What was it about?
KM4Dev & RealKM represented by Bruce Boyes had put forth the 14 Knowledge Development goals and sixth generation of KM for Sustainable Development (K4SD), and posed a challenge on how they might be implemented globally to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Contributors include:
Bruce Boyes, Sarah Cummings, Mercy Kgosidialwa, Arun Battula, Phomolo Lebotsa, Beranger Tossou, Fitsum Habtemariam, Manfred Bornemann, Kholane Chauke, Neo Jesaya Kutu, and Faiz Selamat.
Outcomes for Challenge Owner
The HacKMthon session provided is a turning point for K4SD (Knowledge for Sustainable Development) as it provided stark realisation on the severity of the situation with regard to tacit/human-centred knowledge and the SDGs.
After reflecting on the Challenge B outcomes and some further research, a proposal had been put forth to lKM4Dev Core Group meeting to make a significant positive and proactive response to the key issue of the lack of high-level UN recognition of the need for tacit/human-centred knowledge in the achievement of the SDGs.
The plan is to work with KM journals to do a coordinated knowledge and SDGs focused editorial action. This was done previously by Chris Zielinski (KM4Dev Core Group) with 300 medical journals with regards to the climate and nature crisis as a global health emergency.
Sample editorials: https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj.p2355
Full list of editorials:
Information on Chris' project can be found at https://www.ifipnews.org/the-multi-journal-editorial-project/
Educator, knowledge manager, environmental manager
5moMany thanks to Mohamad Faiz Selamat and the Knowledge Management Global Network team for the opportunity to convene Challenge B of the HacKMthon with Sarah Cummings, PhD (she, her). The Challenge B discussions have been a significant pivotal point in regard to action to address human-centred/tacit knowledge in the SDGs. KM4Dev and RealKM look forward to further valuable collaboration with KMGN! Fitsum Habtemariam Gladys Kemboi Chris Zielinski Arthur Shelley Stuart French
Founder and CEO of Intangible Assets Consulting; Co-developer of InCaS - Intellectual Capitals Statements made in Europe
5moThank you Meena Arivananthan and Bruce Boyes for contributing these challenges and reporting on the findings! It might seem "obvious" to leverage knowledge as the one unlimited resource to resolve these global challenges - but is far from self-running. I am looking forward to support Mohamad Faiz Selamat and his team of volunteers in the next HacKMthon with Knowledge Management Global Network