SMS-Based ICT Tool for Knowledge Sharing in Agriculture

Agriculture is the world’s major industry with 60% of the global population depending on it.  Being the major source of livelihood, agriculture is challenged by issues such as food shortage, food security problems, climate change affecting crop yield, land degradation, decrease of crop varieties and others. There is a huge amount of knowledge products generated by the government agencies, local universities, private civic groups, local government units and non-government organizations (NGOs) to address these issues however the information has difficulty reaching the intended farm practitioners as end-user. With this aforesaid challenge, a technology based information sharing and access among stakeholders such as agricultural knowledge experts (academe) and knowledge end-users (farmers) is a dire need.  Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has always been an indispensable tool that can provide an environment where knowledge generators and knowledge users can use to exchange information any time and place.  Retooling and scaling up the process how information and knowledge products is being accessed and shared is indeed a critical consideration. Using descriptive research and qualitative approach, this study determined an ICT tool, a managed SMS-based system to be highly acceptable to the identified stakeholders as an information sharing medium and model and is therefore recommended for use.  The result of this research shall serve as an implementation guide for government, non-government organizations(NGOs), extension service providers, system integrators, researchers, and other related groups offering or planning to engage in similar service

Digital Art, Culture and Heritage: New constructs and consciousness

Invited presentation for special symposium at EVA London 2019. This half-day Symposium explores themes of digital art, culture, and heritage, bringing together speakers from a range of disciplines to consider technology with respect to artistic and academic practice. As we increasingly see ourselves and life through a digital lens and the world communicated on digital screens, we experience altered states of being and consciousness in ways that blur the lines between digital and physical reality, while our ways of thinking and seeing become a digital stream of consciousness that flows between place and cyberspace. We have entered the postdigital world and are living, working, and thinking with machines as our computational culture driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning embeds itself in everyday life and threads across art, culture, and heritage, juxtaposing them in the digital profusion of human creativity on the Internet

Knowledge management system (KMS) framework for outcomes-based education sustainability

AbstractEtched in official memoranda, the Philippine higher education institutions (HEIs) are in their transformational outcomes-based education (OBE) as a government-prescribed educational reform towards quality and sustainability. The educators in these HEIs have a positive attitude and knowledge towards OBE principles and implementation however they lack resources. The paper aims to understand the knowledge management (KM) practices of the Ifugao State University (IFSU) and design a KMS framework considering the most critical factors affecting its implementation, which shall serve as a reference to its development. Using a descriptive-analytical method, it shows that the institution has a strong KM culture but needs to advance their KM strategy and implement modern KM technologies. It also shows that the stakeholders are excellent in socializing and control activities but need improvement and support in networking, encountering, collaborating and coordinating activities. Thus, the proposed KMS framework was designed to build up their KM practices. It primarily informs the stakeholders on whose knowledge, what type of knowledge, how, and why they need to manage knowledge. Future research includes the development of a KMS prototype based on the framework and tests its applicability for the community of practice.</jats:p

Design considerations of a collaborative and knowledge sharing tool for a sustainable outcomes-based education

Abstract Through a directive, the Philippine higher education institutions (HEIs) are instructed to continuously perform the plan-do-check-act cycle in developing an outcomes-based, progressively brought together and less departmentally based educational plans as they advanced into a mature institution which requires the stakeholders to communicate and collaborate among each other and coordinate their activities. The paper aims to unfold the design parameters of a collaborative and knowledge sharing tool (CKT) considering the most critical factors affecting its implementation and shall serve as a guide to its development. Using a descriptive-analytical method, it shows that the institution has a strong knowledge management (KM) culture but needs to improve and retool their KM initiative and that the stakeholders are engaged more on socializing and control activities yet a lesser sum on networking, coordinating, and collaborating activities. Decomposed from the problem, design parameters of the said tool includes the plan and usage of a messaging module used for communicating and disseminating knowledge to a network; authoring, assessment and expert profiling modules used for a collaborative acquisition, development and dissemination of knowledge; and a digital library and an academic profiling module used for storing, retrieving and mining the institutional outcomes-based education (OBE) knowledge.</jats:p