Description :

The governance of knowledge seems to be the Scientific Policy most able to creating value with regard of human and its evolution in cultures and civilizations. The duty of good governance is a consideration of the transfer of knowledge related to scientific and technological progress. Intrinsically, this process requires a system of organization and knowledge management by implementing knowledge production and its influence in society.

The objective of the ISKO-Maghreb Chapter is to contribute in understanding the factors that organize knowledge and phenomena that affect the information society. Actions to be undertaken by the scientific ISKO society must take into account socio-cultural, cognitive and economic in the strategic management of knowledge. Towards the knowledge society, it should be seen in its dynamic, its content and its interaction with science and technology associated to universities, companies and politics.

In this context, a first orientation is pedagogical attempt to answer the question "what is known about the knowledge and its organization?". Then the issue is moving towards the societal issues of knowledge, theory and practice, to provide clarification to a convergence of KM (Knowledge Management) approaches. Education, science, culture, communication and technology remain the major themes covered by ISKO-Maghreb, for the development of the knowledge organization, expertise management and collective intelligence.

In a friendly atmosphere, hospitality and open to exchange, the international symposium ISKO-Maghreb'2013 was thought to enhance the Scientific Society "ISKO" with the universities, the practitioners in the Maghreb countries and the world.


Program days:

1 – Plenary Lectures:

· November 8th. (AM. and PM.) and 9th. (AM.): a plenary lecture by a half-day by guest speakers who are experts in their field. The objective is to present a current theme that concerns the scientific ISKO society.

2 – Parallèles thematic sessions:

· November 8th. (AM. and PM.) and 9th. (AM.): nine sessions of oral presentations of the best research selected by the scientific committee. After each plenary session, three parallel sessions are scheduled.

3 –General Meeting of the chapter ISKO-Maghreb:

· November 8th. (PM.): (i) Board meeting, Board Directors and members of the Chapter ISKO-Maghreb. (ii) Opening to new membership in ISKO-Maghreb and establishment of Maghreb working groups. (iii) Future Symposium ISKO-Maghreb.


Themes :

1- Digital Document
a. Effects of dematerialization: the digital for the knowledge and expertise
b. Communication and media convergence in the knowledge industry

2- Information and Communication Technologies
a. Communication networks and electronic documents
b. e-Business and Business Platforms for Digital Publishing

3- e-Learning and Virtual Libraries
a. Spaces of information for distance teaching and learning platforms
b. Virtual libraries, resource mapping, and multimedia for teaching

4- Informational and Technological Watch
a. Concepts, processes and actions in the watch and collaborative technology
b. e-Watch, identification of sources and development of resources

5- Collective Intelligence and Media
a. Media and measures of the collective performance in the knowledge economy
b. Management of collective intelligence and knowledge communitarization

6- Digitalization, Archives and Management of Cultural Patrimony
a. Digital storage, archives and knowledge management (KM)
b. Collaborative business and media issues in patrimony management

7- Knowledge Representation and Semantic Web
a. Models of Knowledge Representation
b. From Knowledge to Semantic Web: Approaches, Issues and Perspectives

8- Knowledge Management (KM) in the Internet Challenges
a. Innovation Management Models
b. Competitive Case Studies of KM
c. Management, Business Transfers and perspectives, and Professionals

9- Distance Learning: Strategies, Models and Experiences

a. Distance learning and Mobile learning : Strategies and policies
b. Virtual spaces, Learning Network Organization and communities
c. Ontologies and pedagoigical models
d. Semantic social networks for learning
e. Experiences of content development and community discovering in learning systems

10- Multimedia Information Retrieval & Knowledge Management

a. Multimedia Information Retrieval
b. Semi-Structured Information Retrieval
c. Multimedia Classification and Clustering
d. Multimedia Mining and Text Mining
e. Multimedia Knowledge Extraction, Synthesis and Visualization

11- e-Entreprise and Knowledge Management

a. Enterprise Knowledge Management and Representation
b. e-Enterprise knowledge development life cycles
c. Semantic and Strategic Alignment : new challenges for e-entreprise
d. e-Enterprise Architectures, knowledge management, and knowledge driven governance
e. From Enterprise Information Architecture (EiA) to Enterprise Knowledge Architecture (EkA)