The meaning of Wikis in knowledge management of the defensive policy

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Knowledge management

• The meaning of Wikis in knowledge management of
  the defensive policy
• Foreign Military Missions from Defence Economys
  Point of View (with Afghanistan in Focus)
• May 29-30, 2008
• BUDAPEST, Hungary
• Mens agitat Molem
• The mind
• moves the matter

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Overview

• Knowledge
• Knowledge Management in the armed forces
• Wiki

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Knowledge
Knowledge is a net of abilities skills which
somebody uses to solve a task.
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Processing of information The human brain
Quelle Schulz-Schaeffer, Reinhard (2001)
Hirnanatomen teilen die menschliche Großhirnrinde
in vier Sektoren ein, in Geo Magazin (Hrsg.)
(2001)Gehirnforschung Der vermessene Verstand,
http//www.geo.de/GEO/mensch/medizin/634.html,
Abrufdatum 04.10.2007
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sensory perception and spatial processes
Processing of information The human brain
Planning and action
visual center
Hearing, memory and object recognition
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sensory perception and spatial processes
Processing of information The human brain
Planning and action
Sharing of experiences   Learning in Social
Association Additions allow
Visual center
Hearing, memory and object recognition
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sensory perception and spatial processes
Processing of information The human brain
Planning and action
For the user a positive feeling.
visual center
Hearing, memory and object recognition
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sensory perception and spatial processes
Verarbeitung von Information - Das menschliche
Gehirn
Planning and action
visual center
Hearing, memory and object recognition
Knowledge base for appropriate new knowledge
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sensory perception and spatial processes
Verarbeitung von Information - Das menschliche
Gehirn
Planning and action
visual center
Satisfy the curiosity
Hearing, memory and object recognition
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And now
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Overview

• Knowledge
• Knowledge Management in the armed forces
• Wiki

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Knowledge management

• High costs for education and implementation
• Easy operation
• Data must be arranged, seperated, presented and
  target-orientated be stored.

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Knowledge management

• Support of collaborations of international actors
• International applications, new application
  scenarios knowledge-technically accompanied
• Development of a knowledge platform for disaster
  services

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Organizational knowledge base
People and systems of information in knowledge
management
Explicit represented knowledge in
information-systems
Persons as a knowledge bearer
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Knowledge Management in the armed forces

• is a complicated instrument for the systematic
  development of the enterprise knowledge
• deals with the knowledge about knowledge
• provides rules how to handle with knowledge
  professionally
• creates possibilities of a structured knowledge
  exchange
• is a dynamic and active process.

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Knowledge management

• Abilities- or competence-network-orientation
• New learning and unlearning of established old
  traditions
• No uniform knowledge management at the armed
  forces

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Knowledge management of the armed forces

• It has to be across all hierarchy levels and has
  a high availability

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Overview

• Knowledge
• Knowledge Management in the armed forced
• Wiki

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Needed system

• available to everybody
• Contents uncommitted changeable
• Changes are taken over immediately
• Browser acts as an interface (just in time)
• Linkable sites

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WIKI
Pratical implementation

• wikiwiki hawaiianical fast
• The purpose of a Wiki is it generally to
  express experience and knowledge treasure of the
  authors kollaborativly in texts.

We do not want you to imagine Wikipedia, but
rather the functionalities!
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Empty Wiki after the installation
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New theme
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Offer a new theme
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Facts Features

1. Every visitor can change every site
2. Changing and generating of sides is made as easy
   as possible

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Reasons for a WIKI

• Quickly detectable at a central, defined place
• Short ways of communication
• Avoidance of additional work by care of only one
  document with several authors
• Changes are available to all partners immediately

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Advantages

• Low costs
• Easy access
• Multi-user capability
• Uncomplicated administration
• Easy linking
• Upload features
• Direct cooperation
• Changes immediately visible for everybody
• Subscription functions, Alerting, RSS, protocol
  function
• Simple structure
• Search engine
• Comments and discussions
• Gradated access control
• Backlinks

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Disadvantages

• Lack of structure
• Manipulation danger
• Vandalism
• Chaos because everybody can change everything

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Result

• Easy
• Cheap
• Efficient
• Informations are not collected and associated
  centrally any more but introduced, valued,
  corrected and quality ensured by the user
  himself.
• Knowledge management is not a unique thing with
  a defined introduction appointment. Requirements
  change, new ways have to be gone. A continous
  process which constantly searches his adjustment.

Success with employee's motivation by Wikis
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End
It is not to be known enough, one must also apply
it it is not to be wanted enough, one must also
do it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Implementation

• Collaboration of the partial armed forces
• Test run of such a system
• Introduction to trainings ? Importance of
  information

Practical implementation
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Example
Practical implementation

• Installation of a WIKI- system.
• Conditions
• Webserver
• PHP5
• Database linkage(MySQL/ Oracle)
• Shown by an example MediaWiki