BRAINCHILD, Building a Constituency for Future Research in Knowledge Management for Local Administrations

Abstract

The overall objective of this network of excellence is to train the BRAINCHILD change masters, champions and activists (called “Chief Knowledge Officers) in knowledge management for local administrations,. Applying the action learning method for a C.K.O. Graduate Course, a pilot group of C.K.O.’s will develop at the same time the strategic roadmaps for future applied research in Public Admin e-Work & Next Generation KM Systems. After validation the C.K.O. Graduate Course will be offered on a large European scale to the members of the founding BRAINCHILD networks (Telecities & Elanet) of advanced local authorities. The course will have official accreditation, from ecKM - Groupe ESC Marseille Provence and other participating academic institutes.

This article is a compilation of inputs from many contributors to the BRAINCHILD network of excellence, of which explicitly should be mentioned Daniele Chauvel — the Director of ecKM, the European center for Knowledge Management, at the Graduate School of Business Marseille Provence (France) and Alasdair Mangham — programme manager for the Camden Connect Team (London Borough of Camden, UK)

Based on input from Alasdair Mangham