Knowledge Management Toward Poverty Reduction

Abstract

Knowledge Management (KM) is a very valuable asset and becomes an added value for anyone who owns it. This research is intended to gain a better understanding of the use of KM and eLearning for the purpose of economic development and poverty alleviation. The main question concerns how KM and eLearning can provide information and decision to the policymaker. This question lends itself to a broader discussion of how the creation, communication, and utilization of eLearning and knowledge can increase capacity in Government (competency and productiveness), design and apply planning more knowledge-based, and come up with greater acknowledgment of program implementation (accountability) and help planning, budget allocation, implementing, monitoring social protection programs. Based on our findings, Local governments need assistance and collaboration in dealing with increasing intricacy and unsureness in poverty targeting. We look into how differential scheme of technological change in using KM are turning government work processes in terms of competence and productivity in their results, we sent questionnaire form to 295 districts and we took peer-to-peer interview from 6 districts in Indonesia and in every district, we visit 3 offices which utilizing the unified database. The conclusion of this paper, that KM and eLearning can support governments as a tool for expanding socio-economic development, such as poverty reduction, especially in the case of rotation and mutation of positions, we have found that KM and eLearning system can fill the gap for the new policymaker to continue the social protection program.