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 (Associate Professor, School of Information Management & Systems, Monash University, Australia www.sims.monash.edu.au/staff/fb/- "I would rather be a track chair for your conference.")

  • Cheuk, Bonnie (Global Head of Knowledge & Information, Environmental Resouces Management, U.K. bonniecheuk.com/default.aspx- "Happy to help, and review some papers. Topics: (1) Knowledge Management and Collaboration (2) Collaborative Technologies and Cultures, Collaboration 2.0.")

  • Doug, Vogel (Chair Professor, Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong www.is.cityu.edu.hk/staff/isdoug/cv/-" I could help out on Collaborative Technologies and Cultures, Collaboration 2.0")

  • Ekionea, Jean-Pierre Booto (Professor, Faculty of administration, University De Moncton- "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, School of Library and Information Science, University of North Texas- "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 (Chair: Information Science Centre for Knowledge Dynamics and Decision Making, Stellenbosch University, South Africa - "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 (Research scientist, 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 (Associate Professor, Faculty of Information Technology, Multimedia university, Malaysia - "I am honored to be able to serve as one of the track chairs.")

  • Lee, Matthew Ko (Chair Professor of Information Systems and Electronic Commerce,City University of Hong Kong - "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, School of Management, Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology, Australia - "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 (Center for Knowledge Management,Dominican University, USA - "I would be delighted to chair or work as a committee member for the track for the conference.")

  • Wilkesmann, Uwe (Professor of Continuing Education, Scoial and Organizational Management,University of Dortmund, Germany - "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 (Associate Professor. Institute of Systems and Engineering, School of Management, Dalian University of Technology, China - "It's my pleasure to do something for this conference.")

  • Yearwood, John (Professor of informatics and director, University of Ballarat, Australia- "Knowledge Management and Collaboration, Knowledge Networks and Ecologies") 

  • Zyngier, Suzanne (Executive Director, School of Management, La Trobe University, Australia - "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 University, -"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")

  • Rosario Rogel (Dirección de Servicios de Cómputo, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México -"The topics in winch I will be intereseted are: Strengthening School Collaboration through KM, Knowledge Networks and Ecologies, KM in universities: Interdisciplinary Research and Scholarly Collaboration, The Impact of Creative Commons on Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing")

• 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 (Professor, School of Engineering and Information Technology, Deakin University, Australia)
  • Kinghorn, Johann (Chair: Information Science Centre for Knowledge Dynamics and Decision Making, Stellenbosch University)
  • Koenig, Michael E.D. (College of Information & Computer Science, Long Island University)
  • Nazem, Fattah (Associate Professor, Islamic Azad University- Roudehen Branch, Iran)
  • Pauleen, David J (School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington)
  • Patricia Katopol (Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA)
  • Saad, Ines (Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information System, Amiens School of Management, France)
  • Swain, Deborah E. (School of Library and Information Sciences, North Carolina Central University)
  • Takahira Yamaguchi (Professor, School of Science for Open and Environmental Systems, Keio University, Japan)
  • Watanabe, Toyohide (Dr. Eng., Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Japan)
  • Zhang, Qiping (Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University)
• Will Invite the following:
  • Carla M. Forrest (Ph.D, Department of Educational Leadership and Organization Learning, University of New Mexico, USA)
  • Betsy Van der Veer Martens (Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Oklahoma,US)
  • Suliman Hawamdeh (Professor and Program Coordinator, School of Library & Information Studies, University of Oklahoma, US)
  • Roslina Othman (Deputy Dean( Postgraduate & Research), Faculty of ICT, International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia)
  • Mohamad Fauzan Noordin, Junaiza Jarjis (Director, Center for Collaborative Technology, Faculty if ICT, Dept og Lib. & Information Science, Faculty of ICT International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia.)
  • Claire R. McInerney ( Associate professor, School of Communication, Information & Library Studies,

    Department of Library & Information  Science, Rutgers University)

  • Keon-Hyung Lee (Associate Professor, Askew School of Public Administration and Policy, Florida State University)
  • Ebrahim Randeree (Ph.D, Faculty at the College of Information, Florida State University)
  • Wei Li (Assistant Professor of Accountancy, Department of Accountancy,University of Illinois, USA)
  • Quan Chen (Professor and Director, The National Key Laboratory of Biomembrane, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
  • Stefan Rankl ( Head of Institute for Management and Entrepreneurship, University of Applied Sciences)
  • Dinesh Rathi (Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, Univeristy of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)

  • Steven Kraines (Assistant Professor, Department of Frontier Science and Science Integration, University of Tokyo )

  • Margit Noll (Scientists, Austrian Research Centers)

  • Marco Remondino (Computer Science Department, University of Turin, Italy)

  • Bonnie Cheuk(Environmental Resources Management, Global Head of Knowledge & Information)

  • Zoltan Gaal (Professor, Department of Management, University of Pannonia)

  • JiangPing Chen (Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Sciences, College of Information, Library Science and Technologies, University of North Texas)

  • Wei-Lun Chang (Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration, Tamkang University, Taiwan)

  • Robert Davison
  • Atreyi Kankanhalli (NUS)
  • NTU---5 names (Waltraut)
  • SMU (Thomas Menkhoff--Waltraut)
  • India (Waltraut)
  • Taiwan
  • Korea
  • Ivy Chan
  • Karen Lee
  • UST
  • China