Grafting marketable KM skills into education for information in Africa

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Aiyepeku, W. Olabode

Affiliations: Africa Regional Centre for Information Science, 6 Benue Road, UIPO 22133, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. E-mail: arcis@infoweb.abs.net

Abstract: Knowledge Management (KM) is, arguably, the fastest growing component of a burgeoning, ‘big business’ Knowledge Industry which incorporates much of the theory and practice of library, archives and information services. Against the backdrop of a description of the main features of KM, this article attempts to define a realistic, pragmatic African response to the KM challenge by first describing, in some detail, how a fledgling African business enterprise is approaching the business challenge of KM, and then discussing some issues that African schools of library and information studies might begin to address in facing up to the KM challenge implicit in modernizing their university-based education and training programmes for information in the 21st century.

DOI: 10.3233/EFI-2001-19103

Journal: Education for Information, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 19-33, 2001