Pakistan Flooding/Knowledge Services: An Analysis
Guy St. Clair
SMR’s August 26th post described the work of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) in helping Pakistanis, as the flood disaster moves into the post-disaster recovery phase. Pakistani Floods: KM/Knowledge Services at Work provides strategic knowledge managers with a dramatic example of how KM/knowledge services – as a management or functional discipline – comes into play in a critical “real-life” situation. In the quote from UN-HABITAT’s staff newsletter, we learn that assessment teams will collect information on damage and then share that information with relevant partners, who will then help support the recovery. The teams are expected to deal with…
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