About the Enterprise Information Research Group
The aims of EIRG were:
- 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.
Research areas included:
- 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
