| Welcome to the EIRG |
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Based in the School of Information Management and Systems, the EIRG brings together a range of research activities with the common objective of improving enterprise and interpersonal information flow and recorded memory. |
| What is Enterprise Information? |
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Enterprise Information is defined broadly as communicative interactions between people acting individually or collaboratively in complex and dynamic information ecologies. It encompasses information-as-knowledge, information-as-evidence and information-as-infotainment. |
| What are the aims of the EIRG? |
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- To improve enterprise and interpersonal information flow and recorded memory through the development of theory, models and tools for the analysis, design, development, use and management of information systems, products and services, particularly in e-business, e-government and virtual communities.
- To improve how people create, manage, categorise, seek, obtain, evaluate, and use information.
- To break down barriers to satisfy the information needs of people and to extend their use of information and information technologies.
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| Research Areas |
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- Community informatics
- Decision support systems
- e-business and e-government
- Electronic recordkeeping and archiving
- Information and telecommunications needs
- Information systems development
- Information systems policy, strategic planning and management
- IT governance
- Knowledge management
- Metadata
- Mobile commerce
- Records continuum theory and modelling
- Virtual communities
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| EIRG Programs and Facilities |
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The EIRG provides a collaborative environment for researchers from the SIMS Research Groups.
EIRG is also affiliated with the Knowledge Management Lab, a flexible, state-of-the-art facility for enterprise knowledge management research.
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10/06/04
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