actKM 2007 - Call For Proposals To Conduct Participatory Knowledge Activities And To Present Papers
Graham Durant-Law
The committee of the ACT Knowledge Management Forum (actKM) invites you to
actKM 2007, which will be held in Canberra Australia in the week beginning
Monday the 22nd of October 2007. actKM 2007 will be a two day event
consisting of a conventional conference and a research forum, interspersed
with participatory ‘unconference-type’ activities.
Broadly the event will have four streams as follows:
§ Stream One - Tools, Techniques and Methods. Examples of papers and
activities in this stream might include, but are not limited to, Social
Network Analysis; Narrative Technique; Dynamic Facilitation; Taxonomy
Creation and Management; Collaborative Software; and Integrating Multiple
Tools and Methods.
§ Stream Two - Theoretical Papers and Case Studies. Examples of
papers in this stream might include, but are not limited to, Complexity,
Chaos and Knowledge Management; Wisdom Management; and Government-sector,
Not-for-Profit, and Industry case studies.
§ Stream Three - Participatory Knowledge Activities. Examples of
activities in this stream might include, but are not limited to, Knowledge
Cafés; Knowledge Clinics; Open-Space Events; 30 Tips in 60 Minutes; and
Speed Geeking.
§ Stream Four - Knowledge Management Research Forum. The actKM
Research Forum is for full and part-time research students at any stage of
their studies in the areas of Knowledge Management, Intellectual Capital,
Innovation, Organisational Learning, Complexity Studies or associated areas.
Students must be currently undertaking a research degree from a recognised
university, at either Master or Doctoral level.
We are seeking proposals from interested parties to conduct participatory
knowledge activities and to present papers.
The participatory knowledge activity proposal must include:
§ the name and type of activity;
§ the purpose, objectives and value of the activity;
§ the intended audience;
§ required space and equipment;
§ length of time to conduct the activity; and
§ the full names, addresses and email addresses of all activity
leaders; and
§ a contact e-mail for at least one activity leader.
Papers can be on any topic that meets the streams and themes identified
above. Paper abstracts should be a minimum of 100 and no more than 300
words. Authors may elect to present either a 20 minute or 40 minute paper,
and may also elect for the paper to be peer-reviewed. Peer-reviewed papers
will be published in the actKM Online Journal of Knowledge Management.
Submissions must include:
§ the proposed title for the paper;
§ the full names, addresses and email addresses of all authors;
§ a contact address for at least one author;
§ an indication whether this is a 20 minute or 40 minute paper; and
§ an election for peer review or otherwise.
Your proposal or abstract should be sent to mailto:gra...@durantlaw.info .
Proposals or abstracts must be received no later than Friday the 23rd of
March 2007. You will be notified of 'in principal acceptance' by e-mail on
Friday the 30th of March 2007.
Information on actKM can be found at this link http://www.actkm.org/ .
Further details on actKM 2007 will be posted in the coming weeks to this
link http://www.actkm.org/actkm_2007_conference.php .
Finally we ask that you disseminate this e-mail to anyone you think may be
interested in either presenting or attending. In particular we ask that you
forward this e-mail to other lists you may be involved with, and for those
of you who have Blogs and Websites that you include details of actKM 2007 in
these mediums.
Graham Durant-Law
actKM 2007 Convenor
mailto:gra...@durantlaw.info