Title: Knowledge management in mobile environment

Authors: Xiaoqing Li, Te-Wei Wang

Addresses: College of Business and Management, Department of MIS, UHB 4024, University of Illinois at Springfield, One University Plaza, Springfield, IL 62703-5407, USA. ' College of Business and Management, Department of MIS, UHB 4033, University of Illinois at Springfield, One University Plaza, Springfield, IL 62703-5407, USA

Abstract: Many knowledge management activities occur in working places and in our daily activities. On such occasions, mobile devices are tools to connect people with knowledge bases. In the mobile scenarios, the important knowledge management issue is how to quickly find and acquire the right knowledge using handheld mobile devices. More importantly, the acquired knowledge should be delivered in a format easily understood by mobile users under strict time limits. However, many important and specific issues of mobile knowledge management have not been carefully investigated until recently. To better serve people|s increasing knowledge requirements in daily activities, this paper discusses and investigates the issues and opportunities of using mobile devices to facilitate knowledge management.

Keywords: mobile knowledge management; knowledge sharing; knowledge applications; handheld devices; mobile devices; mobile communications; mobile commerce; m-commerce.

DOI: 10.1504/IJNVO.2007.015162

International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, 2007 Vol.4 No.3, pp.229 - 244

Published online: 19 Sep 2007 *

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