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APDIP e-Note 10 - Expert Systems: Capacity Building and Local Empowerment

By Glen Harris

http://www.apdip.net/news/apdipenote10

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As information communication technologies (ICTs) become increasingly
sophisticated and refined, the potential returns from utilizing them in
areas such as education and business is immense. Expert systems represent an
opportunity to assist users lacking expertise in a specific area to carry
out complex tasks, promote efficient governance and enable sustainable
decision-making in developing regions. The ability of expert systems to
guide and educate means they can also be used for knowledge building and
tackling the low level of information technology literacy that have a direct
negative impact on socio-economic advancement in developing regions.

This APDIP e-Note provides a summary of what expert systems are and how they
operate; the opportunities they can provide in building capacities and
promoting empowerment; and the general processes involved in developing an
expert system including the challenges faced. Examples of expert systems
used in the field of environmental management and agriculture, knowledge
management, and medicine and health are given.

APDIP e-Notes are brief snapshots that present analyses of specific issues
related to ICTs for sustainable human development in the Asia- Pacific
region. This online series introduces readers to the who, what, where, why
and how of a wide range of current issues related to ICTs such as Internet
governance, ICTs and poverty reduction, e- governance, free and open source
software, and many others.

Download APDIP e-Note 10 from http://www.apdip.net/apdipenote/10.pdf 

All APDIP e-Notes are available at http://www.apdip.net/apdipenote/ 

All APDIP e-Resources are available at http://www.apdip.net/elibrary/ 





Submitted by: Christine Apikul, UNDP-APDIP