Organizing Committee

• Prof. Suliman Hawamdeh (General Chair): Provide consultations to the Conference Co-Chairs to help ensure the conference will run in a similar manner carrying the good traditions from past ICKM conferences.
• Dr. Samuel K. W. Chu (Conference Co-Chair in Academic): Ensure that the conference will be participated actively by high quality academics from around the world.
• Ms. Waltraut Ritter (Conference Co-Chair in Business): Ensure that the conference will be participated actively by high quality professionals from the industry.
• Prof. Patrick Y. K. Chau (Program Co-Chair in Academic): Ensure that the conference contains relevant papers that are of academic excellence.
• Prof. Eric Tsui (Program Co-Chair in Academic): Ensure that the conference contains relevant papers that are of academic excellence.
• Prof. Christian Wagner (Program Co-Chair in Academic): Ensure that the conference contains relevant papers that are of academic excellence.
• Mr. Eric Chan (Program Co-Chair in Business): Ensure that the conference contains presentations that carry themes and topics that are of interests to non-academic practitioners.
• Mr. Geoff Trotter (Program Co-Chair in Business): Ensure that the conference contains presentations that carry themes and topics that are of interests to non-academic practitioners.
• Mr. Sanjiv Varma (Program Co-Chair in Business): Ensure that the conference contains presentations that carry themes and topics that are of interests to non-academic practitioners.
• Mr. Trevor Lui (Workshop Co-Chair): Help create creative workshops in KM.
• Mr. Mark Pixley (Workshop Co-Chair): Help create creative workshops in KM.

Possible Tracks

Tracks cover both academic papers and presentations from practitioners

• Industry Track
• Technical
• Behavioral
• Knowledge Management Systems
• KM education
• Others

Possible Track chairs (by regions)

• Australia & New Zealand
• China
  • Tsing Hua, IS Dept
  • Fu Dan
• Europe
• Hong Kong
  • Maggie Wang, HKU, Faculty of Education (E-learning)
• Japan
• Korea
• Singapore
• Taiwan
• U.K.
  • University of Sheffield –Dr. Miguel Nunes (E-learning) {Sam has sent an invitation to him}
  • University of Greenwich
• USA 

Program Track Chairs & Committee Members (Reviewers)

• The following people have agreed to be members
  • Burstein, Frada (Monash University, School of Information Management & Systems - "I would rather be a track chair for your conference. Thanks for the invitation.")
  • Cheuk, Bonnie (Global Head of Knowledge & Information, Global Knowledge Sharing Program - "Happy to help, and happy to review some papers. Topics: (1) Knowledge Management and Collaboration (2) Collaborative Technologies and Cultures, Collaboration 2.0.")
  • Doug, Vogel (City University of Hong Kong, Department of Information Systems -" I could help out on Collaborative Technologies and Cultures, Collaboration 2.0")
  • Ekionea, Jean-Pierre Booto (University De Moncton, Faculty of administration - "I could be interested in your proposal to  be a track chair or Committee member for a track of the conference in the following topics: (1) Inter-organizational Knowledge and Information Flows between Organizations (2) Knowledge Management and Collaboration (3) KM in universities: Interdisciplinary Research and Scholarly Collaboration") 
  • Oyarce, Guillermo (Associate Professor, University of North Texas, School of Library and Information Science - "I will be happy to help. Here is a list of topics I would be interested: (1) Knowledge Management and Collaboration (2) Knowledge Networks and Ecologies (3) Human Interpersonal and Group Communication")
  • Khuprasert, Veerachai (Director, Knowledge Enhancement and Development for SMEs Project, Thailand - "I am pleased to accept your invitation as a Committee member for "Knowledge Management and Collaboration" track.")
  • Kinghorn, Johann (Stellenbosch University, Chair: Information Science Centre for Knowledge Dynamics and Decision Making - "I am really honoured by your invitation and will gladly accept to act as track chair.  I will feel comfortable with any of the following (but others are also a possibility): (1)Knowledge Networks and Ecologies

    (2) Inter-organizational Knowledge and Information Flows between Organizations

    (3) From e-Government to Participatory Government")
  • Leitner, Karl-Heinz (Austrian Research Centers, Department of Technology Policy - "I can support you as Committee member in the areas of: (1) KM in universities: Interdisciplinary Research and Scholarly Collaboration (2) Measuring the Intangible Value of Collaboration)
  • Lee, Chien Sing (Multimedia university, Faculty of Information Technology - "I am honored to be able to serve as one of the track chairs.")
  • Lee, Matthew K o (City University of Hong Kong, Chair Professor of Information Systems and Electronic Commerce - "I will be glad to chair a track for the conference around the theme of "Knowledge Management in the context of Web 2.0".)
  • Mohannak, Kavoos (Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology, School of Management, Faculty of Business - "I would be happy to be a committee member of the ICKM2009 conference and would be interested in the following topics: (1) Knowledge Management and Collaboration (2) Inter-organizational knowledge and Information Flows between Organizations)"
  • Srikantaiah, T. Kanti (Dominican University, Center for Knowledge Management - "I would be delighted to chair or work as a committee member for the track for the conference.")
  • Wilkesmann, Uwe (University of Dortmund, Professor of Continuing Education, Scoial and Organizational Management - "I could help you organizing a track. I can provide support for tracks about the following topics: KM in Universities, and Knowledge transfer and knowledge sharing")
  • Wu, Jiangning (Dalian University of Technology, Institute of Systems and Engineering - "It's my pleasure to do something for this conference.")
  • Yearwood, John (University of Ballarat, Professor of informatics and director - "Knowledge Management and Collaboration, Knowledge Networks and Ecologies") 
  • Zyngier, Suzanne (School of Management, La Trobe University - "I am pleased to accept. I am most interested and able to assist with Inter-organizational Knowledge and Information Flows between Organizations")
  • Niknejad Amir (Hewlett-Packard Development Company, Global IT, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Data Warehouse -"I would be glad to support you as part of the Committee to review papers and workshops in the following tracks of the conference: Knowledge Management and Collaboration, New Models of Virtual Real-Time Collaboration, 3-D Collaborate Environments, Collaborative Technologies and Cultures, Collaboration 2.0, Strengthening School Collaboration through KM, KM in universities: Interdisciplinary Research and Scholarly Collaboration, The Impact of Creative Commons on Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing, Convergence of Audio, Video and Web Conferencing, Social and Ethical issues of (Virtual) Collaboration, Human Interpersonal and Group Communication")
  • Toyohide Watanabe  (Nagoya Universit, -"My interesting fields are: Knowledge Management and Collaboration, New Models of Virtual Real-Time Collaboration, 3-D Collaborate Environments, The Impact of Creative Commons on Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing, KM in Synchronous and Asynchronous Collaborative Environments, Social and Ethical issues of (Virtual) Collaboration, Inter-organizational Knowledge and Information Flows between Organizations, Knowledge Management and Game Theory, Human Interpersonal and Group Communicatio")
• Has sent out an invitation:
  • Bedi, SP (Professor, Department of Education and Educational Management, National institute of Technical Teachers’ Training & Research, India)
  • Garner, Brian J (Deakin University, School of Engineering and Information Technology)
  • Kinghorn, Johann (Stellenbosch University, Chair: Information Science Centre for Knowledge Dynamics and Decision Making)
  • Koenig, Michael E.D. (Long Island University, College of Information & Computer Science)
  • Nazem, Fattah (Associate Professor, Islamic Azad University- Roudehen Branch, Iran)
  • Pauleen, David J (Victoria University of Wellington, School of Information Management)
  • Patricia Katopol (Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA)
  • Saad, Ines (Department of Computer and Information System, Amiens School of Management, France)
  • Swain, Deborah E. (North Carolina Central University, School of Library and Information Sciences)
  • Takahira Yamaguchi (Keio University, School of Science for Open and Environmental Systems)
  • Watanabe, Toyohide (Dr. Eng., Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Japan)
  • Zhang, Qiping (Long Island University, Palmer School of Library and Information Science)
• Will Invite the following:
  • Robert Davison
  • Atreyi Kankanhalli (NUS)
  • NTU---5 names (Waltraut)
  • SMU (Thomas Menkhoff--Waltraut)
  • India (Waltraut)
  • Taiwan
  • Korea
  • Ivy Chan
  • Karen Lee
  • UST
  • China