I am a development practitioner in Zimbabwe in the field of ICT and
development.
I am interested in reading pointers or discussion on learning
organisations in the context of developing countries. As a co-author of a
chapter for a practical handbook on life long learning in the development
context, we have completed sections on developing learning communities in
rural and urban contexts.
At the moment, we would like to extend the focus and applicability of the
material to provide insight, motivation and prescription for institutions
to develop into learning entities.
Anybody willing to share experience or pointers in this area?
My own draft for this section currently explores technical and
non-technical measures in promoting and enabling institutional learning.
Much of the intranet enabled technologies such as JITJET, online
repositories, intelligent agents and data mining techniques are not within
many organisations' grasp. However, they do exist at some sites - and
those sites have not only 'leap-frogged' through technologies and but also
through the latter phenomena of recent management evolution (i.e.
intrapreneurship, tqm, bpr, workflow).
With the demanding pressure from economic and political instability, as
well as the high rates of staff turnover (largely contributed by the
impact of the AIDs pandemic), institutional memory and learning are key
ingredients to survival.
Some of the key questions that we are attempting to address are: how does
a resource limited organisation develop into a learning organisation, and
what organisational forms would best suit life long learning as well as
the often collaborative and extensive network-based nature of traditional
indigenous peoples/employees/members.
Thank you kindly
R. Palepu - tonga@icon.co.zw
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