We are delighted to announce that the 2010 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC) Annual Conference will be held at the City University of Hong Kong from December 1 to 3 in collaboration with City University of Hong Kong and the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI). The theme for this year's meeting is:

 

 

       In the information age, digital content has become an important asset which has significantly altered the way we pursue knowledge. As organizations store ever increasing volumes of digital information it has been realized that digital content is, in fact, just one type of an array of "knowledge" critical to enable company processes, add value and generate profits. Knowledge assets can either be considered as loosely tangible, contained in databases, technologies and various other vessels that organizations own or need, or "process based" such as know-how and experience. Along with recognition of the knowledge asset, comes the concept of conscious knowledge management, crucial for avoiding unnecessary repetition of data acquisition, facilitation of data utilization, implementation of cross-discipline collaboration and so on...

 

       During this year's conference, the concept of digital content as knowledge asset will be explored in presentations such as "Managing Knowledge Asset", "Meta-Library-Gateway to World Knowledge Assets and Digital Services", "The Power of Digitalized Knowledge"  and "Access to Information and Public Licenses in the Digital Environment". The PNC cordially invites you to participate in this event. We believe it will be a great opportunity to learn and share up-to-date knowledge.