The International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM) provides researchers and practitioners from all over the world a forum for discussion and exchange of ideas concerning theoretical and practical aspects of Knowledge Management. Since the first ICKM was held in Singapore in 2004, subsequent conferences have been held in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.A. (2005); Greenwich, London, U.K. (2006); Vienna, Austria (2007); Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. (2008); Hong Kong (2009). Pittsburgh (2010), and South Africa (2012).  The 9th International Conference on Knowledge Management will be hosted by the Association for Information Science and Technology and will be held in conjunction with ASIST annual meeting, which is scheduled for November 2-6, 2013. The main theme for ICKM2013 is “Knowledge Management Metric, Performance Measurement; Capacity Building and Certifications.”  ICKM 2013 encourages submission of high-quality research papers, case studies, country reports, posters and oral presentations areas that include but are not limited to the following:

* Capacity Building and Training

* Communication, Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing

* Digital Curation, Content & Document Management

* Competitive and Business Intelligence

* Indigenous Knowledge Management

* Intellectual Capital & Knowledge Management Measurements

* Information Architecture and information Management

* Knowledge Acquisition and Discovery (AI, Data Mining, Text & Web Mining)

* Knowledge Organization (Meta Data, Taxonomies & Ontology)

* Knowledge Retention, Policies and Practices

* Knowledge Management and Project Management

* Knowledge Management in Healthcare

* Knowledge Management in Public Sector and Not-For-Profit Organizations

* Knowledge Management Metrics

* Knowledge Management in Libraries and Information Centers

* Knowledge Loss, Brain Drain and Turbulent Economic Times

* Knowledge Management Strategies and Implementations

* Knowledge Management Training and Certification

* Learning Organization & Organizational Learning

* Social Media and Social Network Technologies

* Social and Ethical Issues

* The Challenges of Complexity

Full papers and Posters Submission: July 1, 2013

Practitioners and Work in Progress Presentations (Abstracts Submission):  July 1, 2013

Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2013

Final Camera-Ready for Full Papers Submission: September 1, 2013.

Research papers, practitioner’s presentations, research in progress and posters should be submitted online at:http://www.softconf.com/asis/ICKM

Selected papers will be published as a special issue of JIKM. 

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