Elizabeth (Liz) McLean is an information scientist, knowledge management SME and knowledge engineering professional practicing primarily in the international development field. She is passionate about implementing and facilitating human-centered approaches to improve access and discoverability to key knowledge domain expertise and learnings for innovation and impact.
Liz formerly worked at the Knowledge Services Center at USAID providing and instructing the agency and its implementing partners on the use of collaboration platforms and knowledge sharing communities. Additionally, she worked as a digital librarian for the Development Experience Clearinghouse, where she assisted users, provided training, catalogued and classified assets of project reporting. The combination of these two roles has informed her ongoing work in understanding of the program cycle, types of reporting and their usages, and who needs to access what for organizational learning and adapting.
Recent projects in the KM4Dev space include:
-Designed information architecture based on stakeholder requirements for internal portal assets, trained PowerAfrica personnel, provided content governance recommendations for ongoing management of portal content
- Provided corpus analysis, taxonomy design and metadata practices, and implemented classification procedures for ILAB projects for public facing project portal for Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/ilab-project-page-search.
Now focusing on taxonomies, ontologies, knowledge graphs, and gen AI applications for KM4Dev workflows, Liz's goal with these course offerings is to place our experts directly in the driver's seat for AI literacy and responsible use. This course will use a facilitative and coaching approach to collaboratively identify participants' processes to engage, iterate, and apply conversational generative AI applications specifically tailored your work.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/efmclean/
https://knowsaic.net
