Indigenous Knowledge Management in the Kelabit Community in Eastern Malaysia: Insights and Reflections for Contemporary KM Design

Alvin Wee Yeo, Tariq Zaman and Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer
Additional contact information
Alvin Wee Yeo: Institute of Social Informatics and Technological Innovations, Center of Excellence for Rural Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia
Tariq Zaman: Institute of Social Informatics and Technological Innovations, Center of Excellence for Rural Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia
Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer: Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia

International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD), 2013, vol. 5, issue 1, 23-36

Abstract: Knowledge audits and assessment help organizations to identify the status of knowledge processes and develop strategies to manage their knowledge-based assets. The structure of Indigenous Knowledge Management Systems (IKMS) is different from the organisation’s Knowledge Management (KM) systems and mainly based on the tacit and implicit knowledge forms. Hence, the existing organisation’s knowledge audit and assessment tools are not addressing the inherent structure of IKMS. The paper addresses this gap and uses a methodological approach for the assessment of Indigenous Knowledge Management (IKM) processes. The approach is tested in the indigenous Kelabit community of Bario in East Malaysia. The methods used for data collection are survey questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. The study finding argues that indigenous communities exercise the processes of storage, leveraging, sharing and applying knowledge. These processes are a combination of the knowledge and the ways in which this knowledge is put into practice in their daily life activities. These processes may be different but not less effective or less efficient in comparison to organisation’s KM processes. The study will help Information and Communication Technology (ICT) researchers to better understand the structure of IKMS and then use this understanding for designing the technological solution for IKM.

Date: 2013
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve ... 4018/jskd.2013010103 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:igg:jskd00:v:5:y:2013:i:1:p:23-36

Access Statistics for this article

International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD) is currently edited by Lincoln Christopher Wood

More articles in International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD) from IGI Global
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Journal Editor ().