Call for Papers

Knowledge management (KM) presents organisations with opportunities to be innovative both within their own organisation and in their interactions with other organisations, government bodies, communities, and the corporate world. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are an important resource and tool for implementing KM and allow communitiesto act more effectively in their communications and work practices. In the third sector, ICTs are expressed through community informatics techniques. Together KM and ICT platformspresent fresh opportunities for building communities.

This conference will explore the issues emerging from the exploitation of KM and ICTs to empower communities. The conference seeks contributors from a wide range of backgrounds including academics, professional researchers as well as practitioners and community activists who are able to present theoretical positions, practical applications and frameworks for action. It will energise organisational and community managers, policy makers at all levels of government, and researchers.

The Australian Conference on Knowledge Management and Intelligent Decision Support (ACKMIDS) has been organised and hosted by the Knowledge Management Research Program (KMRP) in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. This year the conference is co-hosted by KMRP, the Monash Centre for Community Networking Research (CCNR) and the University of Ballarat. The conference proceedings are published as a monograph by Australian Scholarly Press.

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Conference Topics
 

Submission and Formatting Guidelines for Full Papers 

All papers must be formatted using the MS Office (Word) template* provided below.  This template includes comprehensive instructions to assist you in the production of your paper.  

* Note: Red font within the template is used to highlight examples of the text, heading & layout styles explained in the template and should be deleted from template when producing your paper. 

Papers should be submitted via email to: conference secretariat in Word format only.

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Submission Dates

Paper Submission:                                          8 August 2008
Notification of Acceptance:                         19 September 2008
Final Submission:                                            31 October 2008 

Publication & Review of Papers

Accepted papers will be published only if at least one of the authors is registered and attends the conference to present the paper.

Accepted papers with at least one registered author will appear in the conference proceedings which will be published electronically before the conference for attendees, and subsequently appear as a monograph with an ISBN number and published by Australian Scholars Publishing.

All submitted papers will be blind peer reviewed by at least two members of the International Program Committee (in line with Australian HERDC requirements). The review criteria are based on originality, rigor, and relevance of content. We seek contributions that report on completed or ongoing research.

No paper which has been previously accepted, published or presented at another meeting, or submitted elsewhere for review may be submitted.