SE Asian knowledge management training set

MANILA, Philippines - Delegates from eight Southeast Asian countries will gather in Los Baños, Laguna for the First Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO) training-workshop on knowledge management (KM) from Feb. 29 to March 2.

SEAMEO is an intergovernment treaty body founded in 1965 to foster cooperation among Southeast Asian nations in the fields of education, science, and culture. The Philippines is represented in SEAMEO by Education Secretary Armin Luistro.

Hosted by the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA), the training-workshop will level off the understanding and motivations regarding KM among SEAMEO regional centers. Participants are SEAMEO center directors and officers in charge of KM.

Specifically, the training-workshop intends to provide participants with an appreciation of the rationale for designing and applying knowledge solutions in organizations. It will also firm up notions of knowledge partnerships.

At the end of the three-day workshop, the participants shall have crafted the main elements towards a SEAMEO KM framework and program as well as an initial action plan for establishing a SEAMEO knowledge partnership and KM collaboration agenda.

The training-workshop is the first step in the development of a SEAMEO KM System whose design will cut across and harmoniously run among and between all 20 diverse SEAMEO centers of excellence based in various countries in the region. Such KM System will enable the capture, structuring, and sharing of the intellectual assets of these SEAMEO centers for enhanced regional cooperation among Southeast Asian nations.