The Pacific iCLIM Project is pleased to announce the publication of two important project outputs – the Information and Knowledge Management for Climate Change (IKM4CC) Strategic Framework and the IKM4CC Guidelines.
The IKM4CC Strategic Framework outlines how information and knowledge management (IKM) can help maximise the value of climate change-related information, and the enabling factors that need to be in place within an organisation to support IKM activities. The framework will help organisations to map a strategy for developing and implementing good information management practices.
The document includes a sample framework that links together information management goals, outcomes, principles, policies and practices. It can be adopted as is or modified by governments, regional bodies and other organisations in the Pacific. It also provides advice on key information management tasks and issues.
The five IKM4CC Guidelines provide detailed advice on a range of information management topics and practices. The guidelines are relevant to information managers, information officers and anyone involved in collecting, storing, describing or sharing climate change-related information.
The guidelines include theory and practice and provide practical resources and examples from the Pacific. Although they are focussed on climate change-related information, they are also highly relevant to other types of information.
The framework was developed in response to the national and regional-level information management challenges identified in the Pacific iCLIM report “Barriers to Effective Adaptation and Resilience Planning in the Pacific: an Information Management Perspective”. It is based on current good practice government information management worldwide, and has been fine-tuned for the region through consultation with Fiji, Tonga and Vanuatu Government representatives along with regional development and information management experts from regional organisations including Pacific Community (SPC), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Pacific Regional Branch International Council on Archives (PARBICA) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The IKM4CC Framework and Guidelines can be accessed and downloaded via the Pacific Climate Change Portal at http://www.pacificclimatechange.net/document/information-and-knowledge-management-climate-change-ikm4cc-complete-set. They have been licensed with Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial Licences to allow broad distribution and reuse.
The iCLIM Project is funded by the Australian Government, and implemented by Griffith University and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), to support a regional approach to climate change data and information management throughout the Pacific.
Rebecca Brown, Data Librarian, Griffith University and Josephine Prasad during IKM Training in Suva in June.