Welcome to the IFIP Working Group 8.3 Task Group on Knowledge Management. This group was formed at our most recent working conference in Cork, Ireland. Our first task is to decide on the scope and aims of the group. What is listed below is only a draft and comments are very much solicited. The second task is to create a track on knowledge management for our next conference to be held in Prato, Italy, at the beginning of July 2004. The third is to ??? (possibly produce a book, please provide your suggestions).

Aims

To develop and disseminate research on the application of information systems technology in knowledge management across a range of social levels (organization, group, individual).

Scope

• The task group defines knowledge management in terms of the processes of creating, acquiring, sharing, using, updating and retaining knowledge.
• The task group recognizes the usefulness of the design, technical, managerial, behavioral, organizational, and economic perspectives on knowledge management.
• The task group encourages the exploration of the processes and socio-technological enablers of knowledge management in operational, innovation, and crisis situation contexts.

Conferences

An upcoming conference that involves members of this group is the "The 4th European Conference on Knowledge Management - ECKM 2003" at Oriel College, Oxford University, UK, 18-19 September 2003. Information can be found at http://www.mcil.co.uk/2o-eckm2003-home.htm.

Another conference that also involves members of this group is the "Australian Conference for Knowledge Management & Intelligent Decision Support (ACKMIDS'2003)" in Melbourne, Australia, December 11-12, 2003. Information can be found at http://www.sims.monash.edu.au/research/km/ackmids2003/.

The working group co-sponsors the workshop on "Knowledge Management in Electronic Government" (KMGov-2004) in Krems, Austria, May 17 - 19, 2004. Information can be found at http://falcon.ifs.uni-linz.ac.at/kmgov2004/.

Journals

Several of the members of the task force are involved in the new journal Knowledge Management Research and Practice. Further information is available at http://www.palgrave-journals.com/kmrp/.

Knowledge Management Research Centers

Several of the members of this IFIP task group are affiliated with research centers focusing on various aspects of knowledge management. Here is a list.

• Monash University Knowledge Management Research Program
• Aston University Knowledge Management web site
• University of New South Wales Knowledge Management Research Group

Members of this Task Group

Here is the list of people who have expressed interest in this topic and are associated with IFIP WG 8.3 either as a member, participant at our recent conference, or through some other linkage. There is a mailing list that is maintained by George Widmeyer (widmeyer@umich.edu).

Alfs Berztiss (US) Patrick Brezillon (FR) Cyril Brookes (AU) Frada Burstein (AU) Sven Carlsson (SE) Bjorn Cronquist (SE)

Viktor Dorfler (HU) Neil Duffy (ZA) John Edwards (UK) Meliha Handzic (AU) Gianpaolo Iazzolino (IT) Shuhua Liu (FI) Piero Migliarese (IT)

Karen Neville (IE) Jean-Charles Pomerol (FR) Camille Rosenthal-Sabroux (FR) Graeme Shanks (AU) Ralph Sprague (US) George Widmeyer (US)

Links to other IFIP locations

• IFIP home page (in Austria)
• IFIP TC8 information (from Georgia State University)
• IFIP WG 8.3 home page (from University of Michigan)