Knowledge Management of 5 Wellness Communities for the Buddhist Community Innovation Development

Abstract

The purposes of this research article were 1) to manage 5 wellness community knowledge; and 2) to evaluate and extract lessons from managing 5 wellness community knowledge for developing Buddhist community innovation. It was action research consisting of 3 steps as follows: planning step to create community awareness, practice step to identify knowledge, and creating and seeking knowledge by meeting 7 community leaders, organizing a seminar with 60 community representatives, and monitoring and evaluating knowledge step by evaluating the project with ZIP with 16 community representatives, and participatory observation using descriptive content analysis technique. The research results found that 1) the process of managing 5 wellness community knowledge consisted of 1.1) knowledge was synthesized and identified to provide a clearer framework for knowledge identification, 1.2) in seeking knowledge, there should be expanding the target area, creating a host mechanism, setting common goals, and creating a knowledge map and a letter of consent, etc.,1.3) knowledge collection, knowledge retrieval, knowledge processing and filtering were divided into 5 categories, with a total of 68 knowledgeable persons, 1.4) brainstorming to confirm the community data set  consisted of community discussions and video clip contests, 1.5) knowledge transfer consisted of the creation of a community knowledge book and the creation of a knowledgeable map, 1.6) expansion and value creation of the knowledge set had chosen a prototype, which was a “bullet”, and 2) Zip model evaluation consisted of contextual aspects, which were social operating areas and had strong cultural capital; for input aspects, there were community leaders, volunteers, and the community potential was strong and continuously supported; in process aspects, there was a community agreement, a host mechanism, and a joint goals set; in terms of output aspects, activities were driven to develop all areas, but there was a lack of knowledge transfer. And the results of the lessons learned found that the problems and limitations were the time constraints of the knowledgeable and the loss of the knowledge set. The success factors were support from the government, community potential, cultural capital, participation, and strong community leaders/volunteers.