Catherine Amulen

Global Health Corps Alumni, Uganda Chapter 

If you asked me what it would be if I had to provide one priority
action to transform a nation like mine into a modern, prosperous
country, I would give one answer, and that answer would be
knowledge management. Needful to say, the bible identifies with the
fact that knowledge is very important and the equivalent of not being knowledgeable is equitable to perishing. ‘My people perish for lack of knowledge’ Hosea 4:6. I go a long way to defend the importance of knowledge, particularly in health and development.

I know and strongly believe that educational institutions in Uganda
right from pre-primary schools through to universities have a major
role to play as change agents, particularly in instilling and propagating the positive attitudes, promoting public awareness and understanding of knowledge-based sustainable strategies for development, and reorienting existing education through curricula reviews, appropriate pedagogies as well and institutional structures.

Knowledge systems in place where media is not excluded cannot be underestimated because media has diverse technologies available for promoting communication for development and hence channelling knowledge and putting it open to the benefit a productive generation.

For all these to take effect, an aggressive, deliberate, and coherent range of policies need to be well implemented in order to achieve an integrated, peaceful, and prosperous nation that is chiefly driven by
the knowledgeable people/citizens in its habitation. Very specifically, this comes with a knowledge base of a knowledge instrument described in a knowledge city. So, why won’t we wait for the knowledge city to break the barricades of availability, accessibility, affordability, reliability, and usability of knowledge? Why won’t we? Knowledge City, we await you eagerly!

Keywords: knowledge management, health, education, knowledge cities, Uganda