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Tech Report kmi-98-01 Abstract

Enriching Representations of Work to Support Organisational Learning
Techreport ID: kmi-98-01
Date: 1998
Author(s): Tamara Sumner, John Domingue and Zdenek Zdrahal

The ENRICH project will develop tools and methodologies supporting organisational learning addressing three core business needs: * Supporting individuals and groups to continuously reflect on and improve work practices. * Supporting distributed groups to share 'best practices' and improve their coordination efforts. * Promoting the establishment of 'virtual centres of excellence' that serve to identify core competencies and nurture their development by bringing people together (across time and geography) with relevant expertise. The project is user-driven: three pilot projects within operational areas relevant to the industrial partners will provide the context for all implementation and evaluation activities, ensuring that the tools and methodologies delivered by the project are both useful and usable. The project's results will be exploited through the european-wide ties of all partners in the areas of aerospace, engineering, power generation, and distance education.

Publication(s):

EU ESPRIT Proposal for the thematic call "IT in Learning and Training in Industry", project duration 1998/1999.

Future Internet

Knowledge
Management Multimedia &
Information Systems Narrative
Hypermedia New Media Systems Semantic Web &
Knowledge Services

Future Internet is...

With over a billion users, today's Internet is arguably the most successful human artifact ever created. The Internet's physical infrastructure, software, and content now play an integral part of the lives of everyone on the planet, whether they interact with it directly or not. Now nearing its fifth decade, the Internet has shown remarkable resilience and flexibility in the face of ever increasing numbers of users, data volume, and changing usage patterns, but faces growing challenges in meetings the needs of our knowledge society. Globally, many major initiatives are underway to address the need for more scientific research, physical infrastructure investment, better education, and better utilisation of the Internet. Within Japan, USA and Europe major new initiatives have begun in the area.

To succeed the Future Internet will need to address a number of cross-cutting challenges including:

Scalability in the face of peer-to-peer traffic, decentralisation, and increased openness

Trust when government, medical, financial, personal data are increasingly trusted to the cloud, and middleware will increasingly use dynamic service selection