Trends of "experts in "knowledge management" about smart applications in environmental protection institutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

The study was applied in two phases, the first was the study of citizens and aimed at introducing four problems facing the environment in Saudi Societies, such as: Afforestation of streets and parks, and the problem of environmental pollution which aimed at raising awareness of the concept of the cognitive and organizational culture of the environment. The survey method was used by directing two questionnaires in both phases. The citizens study concluded several results, the most important of which showed that there is a large discrepancy between the opinions of citizens on the issue of dealing with waste in the required manner, and it became clear that the level of change in their state of knowledge about the environment during several periods was either weak or slow, although there is a very slight change in relation to the recent period.The study was applied in two phases, results of the sample of experts in the second part of the study found opinions varied about the types or methods that should be adopted as sources of explicit knowledge, and that one of the most important approaches used in codifying knowledge was to enable explicit knowledge, collective tacit knowledge.It also resulted that knowledge management processes are considered of great importance as one of the solutions to these problems, and the most important elements of which lie in knowledge sharing, represented in: Encouraging workers with the environmental mission to provide their colleagues with technological expertise and knowledge that help exchange knowledge electronically.