Knowledge for Regional NRM

Jane Chrystal18 May 2010

Canberra

56 Regional NRM Bodies

Information overload:A major issue for regional NRM

Central West CMA – pilot for Regional Knowledge

Strategy• Five-stage process

– Explores both information and knowledge• Three lines of enquiry:

– Information mapping– Surveys – internal & external– Anecdote circles

• “Sensemaking” & action planning workshops & strategy development

‘G’ Drive (duplicated in 3-4 other reports and currently

being reviewed Shared drive per office

‘G’ Drive: personal drives at individual level

Office library collections of books and reports (incl

consultant reports)Paper files – CARMS system of contracts and

documentation – this is the authoritative source

Team BMP files – 4 themes + people and communities

‘G’ Drive (duplicated in 3-4 other reports and currently

being reviewed

ARCHIS Project mgmt database (under dev’t)

Internet site (public site)www.XXXXXXXX

Intranet (runs on GroupWise)

‘Q Drive’ – reference source (data dump) – spatial data

provided by DNRStakeholder DB (located in

Bathurst) across whole CMA – who can access it??

DECC provide NRO

Land titles db

PAMS (Property Administration Mgmt

System) (DECC)

TOOLS2

Objective DRMS (in development)

TRIM (DECC DRMS)

SALIS (Soils db) (DECC)Water licensing system

Licensing and Administration system (L&AS)

Dep’t of Lands – Integrated Property WarehouseSOE NSW

State of the Catchment Report

NHT Joint Steering committee Reports

National L&W Resources Audit

CM

AS

tate

AG

S-C

CW CMA – DRAFT INFORMATION MAP

Vegetation Mgmt (PVP Developer) – ARC mapping product (under

redevelopment with M/Soft

Future Links

Current Links

AANRO

Aboriginal Heritage Info Mgmt System (AHIMS) (DECC)

Significant Sites Register

Social survey (Mark Fenton)

NSW Social survey

CW Social survey

CANRI?

CRCs RDCs

Anecdote circles

• Stories/experiences• Personal accounts - an approach for

conveying complex issues• Actual spoken words recorded …then

written into text • Drawing out tacit knowledge

Central West CMA Knowledge Strategy

• Projects - eg Inter- CMA networks, staff knowledge inventory

• Small actions – eg emails include detailed “subject”, audio books, podcasts

• Sets boundaries - as much about what we aren’t doing as what we are doing

• Simple, direct and live

LWA Products & Services

• Regional NRM bodies supported to produce a Regional Knowledge Strategy usingRegional Knowledge Resource Kit (RKRK)

• NRM Toolbar• Evidence Bases• Gotta question? Knowledge hotline