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 IKM SYSTEMS IN DISASTER RISK REDUCTION Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) aims to reduce the damage caused by natural hazards like earthquakes, floods, droughts and cyclones, through an ethic of prevention. Disasters often follow natural hazards. A disaster's severity depends on how much impact a hazard has on society and the environment. The scale of the impact in turn depends on the choices we make for our lives and for our environment There can be several relations between these two. One is how to improve the risk management process by applying the knowledge management system (KMS) to it. The other is how to identify risks in the knowledge management system and how to manage the risk in that system, in order to obtain the best results in terms of the risk reduction. IKM enables and sustains informed decision-making for managing disaster risk and is essential for coordinated action. Informed decision-making needs a solid information and knowledge. Many of us ...

THE VALUE OF BLOG POSTS AS A LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER TOOL. Share Your Knowledge If you’re someone who loves to teach, starting a blog can provide the opportunity to educate others interested in your field of your expertise. The best part is that, as you build resources on your blog to teach others, you also increase your knowledge. The knowledge captured on blog can be transferred easily to readers and other bloggers. Recording Project Activities Project teams may use a blog as an online version of a project log, and as a means of recording knowledge and insights gained through the project. The insights from After Action Reviews, for example, or from ongoing Learning History interviews, could be transferred to a project blog. Improving junior knowledge A learner, perhaps a junior shadowing an expert, or being mentored as part of a Knowledge Transfer program, can keep a learning blog. This can be shared with other learners, and over tim...