Conference topics

From Knowledge Transfer to Knowledge Management:
Knowledge as an organisational resource

Knowledge: implications of new theories and concepts for knowledge management

Scientists, practitioners, laypersons, and the role of experts

Classifying knowledge assets: tacit and explicit knowledge; expert knowledge and know-how; material, individual and collective knowledge

From data collections to Knowledge Management: identification, acquisition, maintenance, search and retrieval of knowledge

The Learning Organisation:
Implementation of Knowledge Management Strategies

Knowledge Networks: connecting experts beyond established structures

Creating Incentives and dealing with restraints: What makes practitioners and scientists spending their time on knowledge and know-how exchange?

Knowledge Management, public relations, extension, training, and the science-policy-interface: the role of communication experts in forestry in the realm of the controversial environmental discourse

Knowledge Engineering:
Information systems and new media

Net based communication: Taking advantage of exciting technologies

From information to communication platforms: new approaches in network building in the new media context

Tool or toy: Integrating media in a comprehensive strategy

Computer-based processing of knowledge: acquisition and representation of explicit and tacit knowledge assets

Information systems: effective tools for forest management and problem-solving?

Participation in knowledge exchange: How to enhance the willingness and abilities of participants in knowledge exchange

Communicating knowledge and know-how

Transgressing the border: connecting experts and laypersons, scientists and practitioners

Cost pressure: How to compensate decreasing face-to-face contact

The unknown forest owner: What are our partners communication needs?

Keeping the thread: Editing information for communication needs in politics

NGOs and forestry: How to stand in competition