[Sigkm-l] [Fwd: [km4dev-l] KM4Dev Journal Call for papers: KS & KM in LAC]

[M.J. Menou]

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Sujet: 	[km4dev-l] KM4Dev Journal Call for papers: KS & KM in LAC
Date: 	Tue, 15 May 2007 09:39:47 -0600
De: 	Margarita Salas <msalas at bellanet.org>
Répondre à: 	KM for Development <km4dev-l at dgroups.org>
Organisation: 	Bellanet LAC
Pour: 	KM for Development <km4dev-l at dgroups.org>



Please distribute widely

*Call for Papers*



/Knowledge Management for Development Journal
/Vol. 3, Issue 2, November 2007



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*Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Management in Latin America and the
Caribbean*

The ‘Knowledge Management for Development Journal’ (KM4D Journal) is an
open access, peer-reviewed, community-based journal on knowledge
management in development – for and by development practitioners and
researchers. The journal is closely related to the KM4dev community of
practice, and can be read and downloaded at: www.km4dev.org/journal
<http://www.km4dev.org/journal>



Vol. 3, Issue 2, to be published in November 2007, will focus on
knowledge sharing and management in Latin America and the Caribbean
(LAC), providing a show-case for recent approaches, case studies,
practices, tools, concepts and methodologies applied in development. We
would like proposed articles to highlight how knowledge sharing and
knowledge management have been introduced in specific regional contexts,
as well as how concrete regional experiences have opened up new debates
in the international arena of knowledge management and sharing.



The Guest Editor team for this issue comprises *Margarita Salas,**
**Kemly** Camacho, Simone Staiger-Rivas and Camilo Villa,* working in
combination with co-Chief Editors, Lucie Lamoureux and Sarah Cummings.


*Rationale*
Knowledge management has relevance worldwide to productive,
organizational and social processes in development. Much discussion and
action in this field has arisen in different parts of the world, often
originating in Northern-based organizations and developed countries.
However, there has not been a systematic discussion of how these
approaches are being applied in development practices in Latin America
and the Caribbean. Many different approaches have been tested,
introduced, scaled-up and out, but have not necessarily been well
documented.



There are specific knowledge management practices in existence in this
region which have never been classified directly as such. For example,
indigenous knowledge practices, the action-research approach, and Paulo
Freire’s approach to popular education all have relevance to knowledge
management, within and outside the region. We would particularly welcome
papers describing and analyzing knowledge management initiatives which
refer to these approaches.

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*This issue*

The issue will have a regional focus on Latin America and the Caribbean;
this does not exclude people and organizations from other latitudes as
long as their submission is focused in LAC.  We invite researchers,
academics, and practitioners working in the context of development in
/Latin America and the Caribbean/ to propose papers covering topics such
as:

     * Challenges and key success factors to integrate knowledge sharing
       and knowledge management (KS/KM) in development projects;
     * Good practices and case studies of  KS/KM  processes;
     * Theoretical/conceptual discussions about KS/KM;
     * Challenges and key success factors to integrate KS/KM in
       development projects;
     * Development of new KS/KM methodologies and techniques;
     * Documentation of local knowledge, and local knowledge sharing
       practices;
     * Needs and requirements that are regionally specific to carry out
       KS/KM processes;
     * Use of Dgroups; and
     * Development of KS/KM with groups that have been historically
       subject to discrimination (women, youth, indigenous, people with
       disabilities, etc).



As this is an English language journal, we would, if possible, like
potential authors to submit proposals in English. Submissions in
Spanish, Portuguese and French are possible but will not make up more
than one third of the accepted contributions.

Potential authors can submit proposals to prepare full articles, case
studies, stories and community notes.

* *

*Proposed deadlines*

Submission deadline for the title and abstract
                 15 June 2007

Acceptance/rejection of paper proposal
               5 July 2007

Submission of paper
                                       5 September 2007

Peer-review completed
                                         5 October 2007
Author revision completed and final version of paper submitted
             31 October 2007

(e)-publication date
                                     15 November 2007


If you would like to submit a paper, or be actively involved in this
initiative in any other ways, please send your abstract (minimum one
paragraph – maximum one page) or your message by email to
km4dj-editors at dgroups.org <mailto:km4dj-editors at dgroups.org>



Guidelines for authors are available on the journal website:
http://www.km4dev.org/journal/index.php/km4dj/about


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Dr. Michel J. Menou
Visiting Professor, SLAIS, University College London, U.K.
Consultant in ICT policies and Knowledge & Information Management
Chair ASIS&T International Relations Committee http://www.asis.org/irc.html
Adviser of Somos at Telecentros board http://www.tele-centros.org
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