Jordan Times :: Jordan to develop Arabic version of knowledge-sharing software
...AMMAN (JT) - A knowledge-sharing software, whose Arabic version is to be developed by Jordan, was released during the World Summit for the Information Society (WSIS) under way in Geneva.
The portable Knowledge Asset Development System (pKADS), a tool used to collect, distill and synthesise lessons learned in a way that would improve results and inform policy and development strategy, was developed by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, Business Information Systems, and University College Cork, Ireland, with full funding from the government of Ireland. The CD-ROM will be distributed free of charge.
According to a statement released by the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (MoICT), pKADS is a CD-ROM version of UNFPA's Intranet-based Knowledge Asset Development System.
"We are excited at the opportunity of building bridges of cooperation between global and local learning institutions for the development of pKADS in the Arabic language," said MoICT Minister and Minister of Administrative Development Fawwaz Zu'bi.
He said the application of such knowledge management software both within and outside of government presents a prospect for knowledge sharing between development projects in Jordan and across the region...