Outward Engagement and Knowledge Sharing

Knowledge sharing comprises the practices and activities that enable stakeholders to receive and exchange information and expertise within and beyond the EMIS ecosystem. This includes sharing research findings, insights, best practices, and lessons learned to enhance understanding of the EMIS and foster collaboration. These practices also support innovation and sustain up-to-date knowledge bases in educational and organizational settings, promoting the continuous improvement of the EMIS.

Explore these essential resources for insights on knowledge sharing

1. Knowledge Sharing: 5 Strategies to Share Knowledge in the Workplace – This article highlights five strategies to improve knowledge sharing in the workplace. It explains how effective knowledge sharing boosts productivity, fosters social interaction, builds trust, and strengthens the organization’s knowledge base for long term success.
2. How to build a knowledge-sharing culture in your organization? – This article explores the risks of keeping information in siloes and its impact on employee productivity and organizational growth. It explains the importance of knowledge sharing and offers practical tips to create a knowledge-sharing culture in any organization.

Types of knowledge

In an EMIS ecosystem, knowledge can be categorized as explicit or tacit. Both types of knowledge are important to enhancing and sustaining the EMIS ecosystem.

Explicit knowledge

• Easily documented.
• Often draws on research data, such as information collected through M&E processes.
• Can be shared through reports, books, training programmes, conferences, and webinars.

Tacit knowledge

• Less structured and harder to articulate or express.
• Derived from on-the-job experience./li>
• Shared through mentorship, storytelling, or communities of practice.

Steps and approaches to facilitate knowledge sharing in EMIS at all levels

• At the international level, government decision-makers and stakeholder organizations, such as major service providers or NGOs, can participate in forums to share knowledge about policy development, data privacy regulations, system architecture challenges, and solutions to problems they encounter in their national EMIS.
• At the regional level, governments can share knowledge and negotiate cost-effective, scaled solutions to meet the technical requirements for their EMIS. They can also share data sets on regional assessments and other common education-related topics. Regional knowledge-sharing platforms such as online portals, symposiums or conferences, and forums, provide opportunities to exchange experiences, published research, and the results of systemic evaluation and findings. This enhances understanding, fosters collaboration, and can provide a basis for benchmarking best practices.
• At the national level, stakeholders in the EMIS ecosystem can participate in sharing explicit and tacit knowledge about EMIS data and analysis, as well as well as technical and operational aspects of EMIS management at different levels.
• At all levels, communities of practice can be developed to facilitate the sharing and receiving of tacit knowledge, experiences, and data. As the EMIS evolves with education policies and systems, it is important for representatives to discuss the implications of broader educational change for the EMIS infrastructure.