KHUB2
KHUB2 aims and structure
Gianluca Colombo, Diego Bernini, Sebastian Stride
SIRIS Academic
{g.colombo, d.bernini, s.stride}@sirisacademic.com
Contextualizing KHUB 2.0
• Human Beings
• Stakeholders working in the
field of Natural Resource
Management (NRM).
• Information Technology
Systems
• Knowledge Management
system providing NRM
stakeholders with services to
support their work
Why KHUB 2.0?
• The main idea of KHUB 2.0 is to
facilitate the exchange of
expertise, best-practices and
experience among stakeholders
working in the field of Natural
Resource Management.
• The project aims to design and
develop an information system
sensitive to the end users’
needs and to the complexity of
any information sharing
solution.
Privacy
Sharing
Ownership
Distribution
Bottlenecks
• Why manage the exchange
of expertise, best-practices
and experience among
stakeholders working in the
field of Natural Resource
Management?
• How to design and develop
an information system
sensitive to the end users’
needs and to the
complexity of any
information sharing
solution?
Why manage Best Practices?
Best Practice
Process of developing and following a standard way of doing things
that multiple organization can use
Knowledge
At the core of any decision making process
Knowledge Management
Best Practice
Detection
Best Practice
Representation
Best Practice
Management
The role of Requirement Analysis
KHUB2
Best Practice
Detection
Best Practice
Representation
Best Practice
Management
Requirements
Analysis
Knowledge
Modelling
Knowledge
Use
Users’ Needs
Services Design and Implementation
The role of Requirement Analysis
KHUB2
Best Practice
Detection
Where are NRM Best Practices conserved?
How do they work?
Which actors are involved?
What are their requirements?
Requirements
Analysis
Users’ Needs
How can these requirements be supported?
How can we guarantee system capacity
building and sustainability?
Services Design and Implementation
Detecting Best Practices
KHUB2
Best Practice
Detection
Where are NRM Best Practices conserved?
Partially in people’s minds, in their experience
Partially in texts
Requirements
Analysis
If Best Practices are the processes of developing and
Users’ Needs
Best practitioners
follow and develop Best Practices
following a standard way of doing things
By accessing
and generating
Core
that multiple
organization
canDocuments
use
Detecting Stakeholders
KHUB2
Best Practice
Detection
Which Actors are involved?
What are their requirements?
Many Actors and many requirements
that are orchestrated by Best Practices
Requirements
Analysis
How do Best Practices work?
In a collective arena
Users’ Needs
The collective game
KHUB2
Best Practice
Detection
Searching and Managing Core Documents
Sharing them without loosing ownership
Searching
Requirements
Analysis
Users’ Needs
Sharing
Managing Docs and ownership
Towards the use case
KHUB2
Best Practice
Detection
Requirements
Analysis
Users’ Needs
Searching and Managing Core Documents
Sharing them without loosing ownership
…to experiment our approach
we analyzed a subset of actors and their
requirements in the NRM domain
Towards Use Case: Actors
KHUB2
Best Practice
Detection
Requirements
Analysis
Users’ Needs
Which Actors are involved?
– Donors
– Implementing Agencies
– NGOs
– Research Institutions
– Governmental Institutions
– Private Companies
Towards Use Case: Actors
KHUB2
Best Practice
Detection
Requirements
Analysis
Users’ Needs
Which Actors are involved?
– Donors
– Implementing Agencies
– NGOs
– Research Institutions
– Governmental Institutions
– Private Companies
Towards Use Case: Actors’ needs
KHUB2
Best Practice
Detection
Requirements
Analysis
Users’ Needs
Which Actors are involved?
What are their requirements?
– Donors  To generate projects
development and reporting
– Implementing Agencies  To monitor
resources and regulate things
– NGOs  Projects proposal to donors
– Research Institutions  To generate
scientific paper
– Governmental Institutions 
Monitoring state of affairs
– Private Companies  Pricing
strategies; Technical information;
Business Models
Towards Use Case: Direct Analysis
KHUB2
Best Practice
Detection
Which Actors are involved?
What are their requirements?
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Research Institutes
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Requirements
Analysis
Camp AlaToo
ASBK
ACTED
Implementing Agencies
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Users’ Needs
NGOs
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International University of Kyrgyzstan/Computer
Science Department
KGUSTA (Kyrgyz Transport and Architecture University)
UCA/MSRI
KNAU
CAIAG
GIZ NRM
Business Companies
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GIS Service Company
ACA/GISScience
TAIC (Training and Innovation Center)
System Design
KHUB2
Best Practice
Detection
Searching and Managing Core Documents
Sharing them without loosing ownership
How to support these needs?
Users’ Needs
Service Design and Implementation
System Design
KHUB2
• A Knowledge Management initiative for cooperation in
Central Asia will be successful on the condition that
– it enables sharing
– whilst respecting ownership
– without imposing a single model
Best Practice
Detection
System Design
KHUB2
• The KHUB 2.0 proposal presents a possible technical solution to
this problem, based on
– the use of a distributed network,
– in which all data and information remains stored on each institution’s
server and can be accessed from each institution’s website
– without the need to create a central hub
– and integrating pre-existing platforms
Best Practice
Detection
So what
services?
Service
Privacy
Access
Information
Information
Management
Information
Retrieve
Information
Sharing
Sharing
Ownership
Distribution
Privacy
Sharing
SERVICES and NEEDS
Access
Features
Visibility
Policies
Docs
Types
Docs
Types
Text Mining
Search Engine
Local/Global
Search
Social Features
Ownership
Distribution
Global/Local Search
LOCAL INSTITUTION
Distributed
(Global)
Main Requirement:
Search
Main
Service:
Main
Processing:
Local
search
over
Localrepositories
search
results
Automatic
Analysis
local
of
ofDocuments
document
content
LOCAL INSTITUTION
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LOCAL INSTITUTION
Visibility Policies: Sharable vs. Not
Sharable
• Private contents: accessible by local search only
• Sharable contents: public vs. constrained vs.
restricted contents
– Public contents: fully accessible by global search from
whathever institution
– Constrained contents: fully accessible by global search
from a specific set of institutions only (determined by
the owner institution)
– Restricted contents: only a preview is accessible by
global search (contacting the owner institution is
required)
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SERVICES and NEEDS
• Local vs Global search
• Documents Privacy and Visibility Policies
• Case Study
Knowledge Hub (KHUB2.0) system for Natural Resource
Management was developed in the framework of the
FLERMONECA project (Forest and Biodiversity Governance,
including Environmental Monitoring) financed by European
Union and implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH (the German
federal enterprise for international cooperation).
Thank you for attention!