Mobile Knowledge Portals: A new way of Accessing Corporate Knowledge

Abstract

Knowledge portals are constructed through the use of web and internet technology and are accessed to add, retrieve or update knowledge and are done through a web browser using a computer system. Corporate knowledge portals are used by organizations for sharing, storing and retrieving knowledge by all its customers, employees, vendors and partners. Corporate knowledge portals allow organizations to become more competitive and innovative. This paper discusses the use of mobile portals as a new form of accessing corporate knowledge through the use of the mobile devices and identifies the main issues when mobile portal is meeting knowledge management, the paper focus on mobile knowledge portals which are considered to be the main ICT to support mobile knowledge management.