Knowledge Management and Role of ICT for Development

Knowledge Management has become the key factor for the success of all organization. KM is all about
making available the right knowledge to the right people. It is about making sure that an organization can learn, and
that it will be able to retrieve and use its knowledge assets in current applications as they are needed. Most often,
generating value from such assets involves sharing them among employees, departments and even with other
companies or institutes in an effort to devise best practices. Knowledge management is the practice of identifying,
creating, communicating, socializing, measuring and improving knowledge to support strategic objectives. (Anna Mar,
Simplicable). Thus, Knowledge sharing is facilitate through information and communication technologies including
computers, telephones, databases, e-mail, data mining system, video conferencing equipment, search engine and many
more. This paper focus on identify the significant role of information and communication technology in knowledge
management.