Knowledge Management Problems of Developing Countries, with Special Reference to India

Highlights the value of human resources in knowledge management. Describes the knowledge accessibility problems of developing countries and depicts the Indian scenario of knowledge management problems. The DAISY Consortium, project NOVA and several other initiatives facilitate knowledge access even for disadvantaged people and hence there is no dearth of technologies for knowledge access. Problems of knowledge accessibility arise due to uneven access to technology which leads to the digital divide. Indicates the efforts being made at the international level to overcome such problems and concludes that there is a need to develop ICT infrastructure for tackling knowledge management problems of developing countries.