Abstract
The current research project proposes a framework that can be used for building IT infrastructure for sharing of knowledge, with particular emphasis in the gulf region. The research project is important as currently, there is scarcity of the research projects addressing similar issues especially for the KM based infrastructure in the gulf region. Previously, authors have demonstrated that an effective approach of sharing knowledge is with IT. There are only a limited number of research works addresses KM infrastructure for the gulf region. To achieve this, the project effectively answers two research questions: what are the existing studies regarding IT and knowledge sharing from the gulf perspective. In addition, what framework, based on IT and knowledge-sharing concepts, can be used to build IT infrastructure for sharing of knowledge? The IT infrastructure can find a way of easing the sharing of tacit knowledge in much the same way as it eases the sharing of explicit knowledge, by demonstrating what makes the knowledge valuable, subsequently capturing this tacit knowledge in an explicit way, which can be achieved via the mode of externalization (tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge). The research used the systematic literature review as the research methodology to study the research objectives initially set from carrying out the study on past studies. In coming up with the IT infrastructure it is important to consider unique needs of an organization, the ease of use of the IT infrastructure for SOK, the availability of the technology as well as costs related to the technology. This report proposed a framework to build IT infrastructure for sharing of knowledge in the gulf region after considering the various findings.