The conference's four main themes are: improving access to information and establishing communities of practice; knowledge-sharing; the use of technology for monitoring and evaluation; and the delivery of supply-chain items in remote locations and in emergency situations.
In the context of knowledge sharing, the term ontology is used to mean a formal specification of shared knowledge so that vast amounts of information, data, and concepts can be structured and organized for storage, querying, and retrieval (Gruber 1993).
For educational practice, the study suggests three ways of supporting knowledge sharing in CoPs, i.e. use of technology-based conceptual artifacts, roles and division of labor, and purposeful communication in CoPs.
Booth found that linking CoPs in different sites via the virtual college accelerated their guideline development process for nurses [ 31] and Curran's rural emergency departments benefited from their city cousins sharing expert knowledge and from the use of knowledge experts [ 40].
Knowledge sharing using Knowledge Management (KM) systems helps nurses to understand and acquire appropriate knowledge that influences the quality of healthcare service.
The ASTPC was organised as a free event to encourage the sharing and exchange of knowledge through the use of social media.
Generating knowledge for the use of policy-making, foresight shares a common ground of participative and policy-impacting challenges with the deliberative democracy theory.
The results show that knowledge sharing is a coordination game with multiple equilibria, reflecting the fragility of knowledge sharing between innovators with conflicting interests.
This research considers two key design factors that cause non-use: the extra burden on users to document knowledge in the repository, and the lack of a standard knowledge structure that facilitates knowledge sharing among users with different perspectives.
As a result of the process, the growers began knowledge sharing and collaborative learning in two villages of the study area, using a learning club as the platform.
Billed as "a knowledge sharing solution for the new enterprise" ThoughtFarmer can be used as a standalone intranet or extranet, a collaboration hub or "the knowledge-sharing component of an existing intranet".
