(Eastern Times; November 14, 2006)
Reported by : Standley Dikod

KUCHING: KNOWLEDGE management (KM) is a key target that the State must achieve as it strives towards a k-public service. "The key feature of a k-public service is innovativeness and creativity. But also important is knowledge management, in other words, proper acquisition, development, sharing, analysis and storage of knowledge, in the public service," said the State Secretary, Datuk Amar Haji Abdul Aziz Datuk Haji Husain.

The question for the implementors of public service was how to develop the State's information management practices and systems to incorporate knowledge management.

The State Secretary stated this in his welcoming speech at the 2006 International Information Management (IM) Conference held at a leading hotel here yesterday.

"To me, IM and KM are riot two different programmes, but different parts and progressions of the same continuum total and quality information management," Aziz pointed out.

He added that it was obvious the old methods such as the old concepts of the registry room, the filing room and the archives were not applicable anymore. He pointed out that the State's public sector must regularly change and update its IM practices in response to the technological and societal changes.

"IM should be a function and responsibility of everybody in the organisation, and not just the registry," added Aziz, who is also the deputy chairman of Sarawak Information Technology and Resource Council.

The conference was officially launched by the Deputy Chief Minister, Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Dr George Chan. Both later witnessed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between agencies from the Sarawak State Government and the Canadian Government.

The Canadian Government was represented by its Senior Trade Commissioner and Counsellor (Commercial), Rene-Francois Desamore whiles the chairman of Sarawak State Library Board of Management, Tan Sri Datuk Amar (Dr) Haji Hamid Bugo represented Sarawak.