MUMMY - The Project

Mobile KM ___

“Mobility” is understood today in a broader sense than simply the physical mobility of persons. Even non-personal aspects, such as mobility of work, content, and devices, are being included more and more. On the other hand, mobility, in all of its aspects, is still increasing in our society and is accompanied by a growing market penetration by mobile devices, such as mobile phones, personal digital assistants and other light-weight computers. These handheld computing devices serve as permanent companions and their support for anywhere, anytime, up-to-date and on-line knowledge access will have a great impact on our everyday life and work life in the future. The current use of the term “mobile KM” is not yet very specific or well-defined. Often, it is used to simply refer to the technical focus on mobile data access to some kinds of information systems in the context of KM. Our understanding of mobile KM has its focus on spatially distributed business processes (short: mobile processes), in which

• knowledge is associated while performing tasks,
• tasks necessitate out-of-office work, and
• tasks necessitate communication.

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