Tutorial/Workshop 3 - Knowledge

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Title

Knowledge Management in Public Administration

Date/Time

• Tutorial: 10 December 2007, 10:20 - 12:50
• Workshop: 13 December 2007, 10:20 - 12:50

Organizers

Description

This event will contribute to better understanding of knowledge management requirements of public administration and the available solutions. The tutorial will teach the fundamentals of knowledge management techniques including the use of Enterprise Architectures and ontologies within government for knowledge and information sharing, planning and interoperability. The workshop session will feature papers and discussions related to state-of-the-art applications of knowledge management in the government domain, tools and techniques for knowledge management, enterprise architectures and ontologies.

Audience

1. Government Information Managers
2. Government Practitioners
3. Government Archivists
4. Researchers with interest in Knowledge Management
5. Software engineers

Schedule

Biography

Prof. Maria A. Wimmer

Maria A. Wimmer chairs the research group eGovernment at the Institute for Information Systems (IS)research at Koblenz University, Germany. She studied Computer Sciences at the University of Linz, Austria. After her graduation, she had a two years stay at the National Research Council, Rome - Italy, and University of Siena (Multimedia Communications Lab), Italy, thereby investigating holistic design of safety-critical systems. She performed a number of field studies at the Italian National Railways control centers and started to develop her holistic concept of systems design. In 1999, she returned to the University of Linz, Institute for Informatics in Business and Government, and completed her PhD in the field of safety-critical systems design based on a holistic approach in 2000. Since 2000, Maria Wimmer also shifted her focus to ICT in the public sector (investigating eGovernment and eDemocracy). In 2003, she completed her habilitation in the domain of applied computer sciences.

Since 2000, when Maria A. Wimmer worked at the University of Linz, Austria, she managed the different projects of eGovernment research and consulting.

In 2004 to 2005, she worked at the ICT operative unit of the Federal Chancellery of Austria, Vienna. She investigated issues of interoperability, signatures and training, and she chaired the working groups on Interoperability and eGovernment training curriculum for public sector employees.

Since November 2005, Maria A. Wimmer chairs the working group eGovernment at the University of Koblenz, Germany.

The main research and teaching foci of Maria A. Wimmer are eGovernment and eDemocracy / eParticipation, systems analysis, systems design in terms of modelling and managing information, processes and knowledge in a comprehensive way based on a holistic perspective. Her domain-specific focus has become ICT in the public sector. The key research she is investigating in this respect are:

• eGovernment in general and with specific topics on IT usage in the public sector
• Holistic systems development with a multidisciplinary approach
• Online one-stop government and portal developments
• Integrated process modelling
• Modelling security aspects in eGovernment
• Knowledge management in general and with the focus of KM in eGovernment
• Knowledge ontologies and semantic web
• Standardisation of web content

Maria Wimmer is involved in five EC-funded projects of the 6th
framework programme IST:

• eGovRTD2020 (coordination and project management)
• BRITE
• DEMO_net
• R4eGov
• LEX-IS

Her teaching foci lie in systems analysis, modelling of information system, and specific topics of public management and eGovernment / eDemocracy / eParticipation. She offers lectures, seminars, students projects (practical and reserach projects) and supervision of students' qualification works: Bachelor, Master and Diploma works. Apart from that she supervises her staff's PhD projects and a few external PhDs.

Maria A. Wimmer served in a number of national and international awards and evaluation competitions in the field of eGovernment.

The head of the research group eGovernment is member of the following professional communities and societies:

• ACM and IEEE
• IFIP (vice chair of WG 8.5)
• GI (German Society for Informatics, where she is member in the board of the working group e-government, and she is proposed for the future chair of the technical comitee on Legal informatics and E-Government)
• OCG (vice chair of the Forum e|Government and member of the governing board of the Austrian Computer Society (Vorstandsmitglied))
• EGOV-Society (founding member and president elect)

Maria A. Wimmer co-organises a number of international conferences and is member of several program comitees and she has a large pubication record.

Prof. Dr. Roland Traunmüller

Prof. Dr. Roland Traunmüller is Professor emeritus in the Institute of Informatics in Business and Adminstration at Linz University, Austria. For more than 30 years, he has been carrying out projects and consulting on the implementation of information technology. Prof. Traunmüller is the (co)author of 4 books and 140 contributions. His editorial work spans more than 20 books, two journals and one book-series.)

In Austria Prof. Traunmüller heads the Forum e-Government, in Germany he is member of the steering body e-Government within the German Computer Society (GI, Bonn). In addition he is involved in various consulting activities and boards on the national and international level (Ministries, EU, UNO, UNESCO).

He founded the EGOV conference series: This means an annual international five day conference that is scientific-oriented and solely targeted on e-Government. A recent activity is spreading e-Government to countries on the way of developing e-Government.

In recognition of founding the e-Government R&D Community he got 2006 the “Prometheus” – an Award dedicated by the North-American Society on Digital Government and by the European Society for e-Government.

Presentation