Universiti Teknologi Petronas Virtual FYP Communities An Online Knowledge Sharing and Resource Centre

The emergence of knowledge management (KM) has made individual and organization
realized the importance of managing knowledge as it should be. It allows community to
acquire tacit knowledge of human expert and transfer it into explicit knowledge before
document it and share among community. Information and knowledge is crucial asset
the organization strain to obtain particularly from other competitor. However they
sometimes overlooked the important asset which is information and knowledge that lies
inside the organization itself. The objective of the proposal projectis to provide a means
of organization like Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) Computer and
Information Science (CIS) department to manage their intellectual capital via KM
approach. In addition this system focuses on developing KM application that aims to
create a virtual workplace for their community, where they can manage (upload, delete,
edit, download, view and comment) the content and discover information. The
development project will provide a means of collecting, managing, sharing, locating
information and discover of knowledge within community. Through the concept that
people learn by asking and getting answer, announcement and latest news update, The
"UTP Virtual FYP Community" is being developed as a remarkably easy to use, yet
highly effective KM tools. Lacking of knowledge sharing might as well affect the
community performance. "UTP Virtual FYP Community" will provide a way for
information and knowledge can be spread widely among community including students
and lecturers. By having such knowledge management system, there will be a
systematic way in storing and managing knowledge. It is hopedthat this method ofKM
created can be leveraged by community and others. By using information technology,
this project helps create the opportunities to capture knowledge which may require
collaborative environment.