The International Labour Organization (ILO) is the UN specialized agency which seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights. KMi's Simon Buckingham Shum has been working with the ILO's HIV/AIDS Education in the Workplace programme as they develop their knowledge management capacity. With HIV/AIDS decimating workforces in many regions around…
KMI, the technology lead partner in the international not-for-profit Compendium Institute, is delighted to announce that v1.4 of the Hypermedia Knowledge Mapping tool is now released. The major advance is the integrated Apache Derby database enabling single click installation. This will be default database for new users, who will no longer need to manually configure…
KMi's popular Instant-Messaging-Meets-Maps service, BuddySpace, has been simplified with the launch of a new 'Web Client' interface. The new interface requires no downloads, no installations, and not even a modern browser or speedy internet connection. The idea is to 'run anywhere', 'by anyone', 'using any computer' with 'any installed software base' (within reason, naturally). The…
Interested in Educational Podcasting? Well, it may be no replacement for the little white box itself, but we have been asked so often what our educational podcasts would look like on Apple's iPod that we produced a virtual one that will play any podcast. Sadly, our virtual iPod can only play podcasts, but it can…
Posted by someone on the 7summits forum on 22nd April – but in a different section, so I've only just seen this: The Wider World Wide Web Thought you guys would like to know that a link to Lorenzo's Everest Ascent will soon be up on the BBC Radio Suffolk website. I have chosen his…
An exciting new experiment in computer-supported argumentation launched today as the GlobalArgument.net website was published, and the controversial Iraq Debate begins to be mapped. Conceived by KMi's Simon Buckingham Shum, and co-led with former Australian Cabinet Minister Peter Baldwin, GlobalArgument.net operates around the concept of Argumentation Experiments, in which 'Players' focus on a topic for…
On 7th February 2005 KMi played a host to representatives from a number of leading institutions active in the area of Semantic Web research. This workshop was the first in what is hoped to become a series of regular meetings aiming to make a significant push towards “the second generation Web” (as Semantic Web is…
Compendium's most recent application has been in assisting the 'planning cells' who rescue isolated personnel in conflict situations. The Compendium visual modelling tool is designed to bring together diverse perspectives and arguments to support real time collaborative sensemaking. In personnel recovery, Compendium has been trialled as a next generation tool for assessing the political, economic…
We have a pretty big community who have been running FlashMeetings for a long time now and are used to regular feature updates. We have not bothered to mention the addition of little things like Voting and Smileys to the cute things that we do. But the new minuting tool is worth a mention. Pretty…
World Vision International is a global relief and development agency working in some of the most deprived areas of the world. KMi has been working with WVI to help them analyse feedback from a global consultation on its programmes. At the heart of this analysis was the Compendium software tool, which provides a visual sensemaking…
