ICT-ENSURE is the leading European project for establishing a coherent European Research Area in the context of ICT for environmental sustainability. As a Support Action funded within the 7th Framework Program it aims at structuring a yet unstructured and distributed field. One central part in achieving this aim consists ...

The increasing complexity of both the environment in which companies operate and of their internal workings combined with an increasingly high pressure for innovation make knowledge and its efficient management central to business success today. The management of knowledge is more than directly managing knowledge as a ...

Recently, large organisations, private or public, such as the City of Cologne, have been placing more and more emphasis on distributed information management. This comprises the provision of query tools, presentation tools and tools to capture information which is pertinent for the employees to perform specific tasks. ...

Das Management von Wissen ist heute ein zentraler Erfolgsfaktor für Unternehmen jeder Art. Auch in öffentlichen Umweltverwaltungen wird dem Management von Wissen aufgrund der vielerorts bevorstehenden Einfiihrung einer Kosten-Leistungsrechnung in Zukunft ebenfalls eine sehr große Bedeutung zukommen. Das Management von ...

Experience shows that the effects leveraged by technology transfer initiatives can be improved in terms of short term success and long term sustainability. A shortcoming of today’s technology transfer initiatives is their character of selective interventions, consisting of a simple shift of knowledge and technologies ...

HUDA (Hypermedia Techniques for Environmental Data) is a research and development project in the framework of the environmental information systems of the Federal Republic of Germany and the State of Baden-Württemberg. The objective of HUDA is the design and implementation of a toolbox for the largely automatic production ...

Heutzutage werden immer mehr Umweltinformationen in Internet-basierten Umweltinformationssystemen nicht nur für die Öffentlichkeit sondern auch unternehmensintern zur Verfiigung gestellt. Um diese Informationen anwendungsund aufgabenspezifisch optimal nutzen zu können, ist es erforderlich, Konzepte zu Personalisierung ...

In this paper, we have described our efforts to introduce a web based community platform to an existing community in the field of ICT for environmental sustainability. We argue that a given already established community solution can effectively foster collaboration between the experts and professionals. An interest group ...