FID/II FID Information for Industry Committee THE FID KNOWLEDGE FORUM

FID/II will therefore:

• Expand its membership and encourage active and professional members who will profile the Committee as an influential and professional body both within and outside of FID
• Establish a more effective working patterns: follow-up on activities in-betwen the annual meetings and seek involvement of local and regional groups
• Develop better means of communication lines between FID/II, the General Secretariat, and Committees and SIGs to reduce delays and improve the probability of success of operations and projects within FID
• Draw on the experiences of FID/II members
• Establish a strongs economic foundation for its activities
• Establish broad contact on a cooperative basis with fellow organisations and institutions
• Work through its parent organisation FID and together with its Regional Commissions, industry- and business related Committees and SIGs
• Profile FID/II in professional journals and publications

"Mission and Strategic Means was established by a Working Party in London 15. Feb 1993; confirmed at FID/II 1993 Business Meeting in Granada, Spain"; modified by FID/II Board 11.6.96 in The Hague

The activities of FID/II are open to all FID Members in all catagories of membership. If you are not yet a member of FID and wish to join, you should write to the FID General Secretariat for information.

FID/II was established in 1961, first as a Study Committee, and later reorganized into a permanent FID Committee in 1967. The Committee was re-vitalized in 1976 after a thorough review of its objectives and working areas.

Before a forward-looking and active objective was defined in 1990, the goal of the Committee was "to establish an international professional forum for gathering, evaluating and exchanging ideas, methods and means on how to identify and how to meet effectively the need for knowledge (here understood as technical information) of the end-users in enterprises of any kind, any size and any statutory position within the private and the public sector".

Typical for the work of the Committe, such as it was and eventually will continue to be for the most part, is that it is based on personal contacts between information specialists and industrial executives. This makes it possible to advertize the impact of information and information management on business activities, on the role of knowledge and expertise in these activities, and on how an innovation-oriented working environment in which knowledge is transformed into results, may be created. The Committee therefore, is not contemplating distant, abstract goals. These goals are indeed based on a strong network of personal contacts which can promote internal and external change.

Past Committee Chairs

• Dr. Irmgard Fischli, Schwitzerland (1996-1999)
• Mr. Karl Kalseth, Norway (1990-1996)
• Dr. J. Ramon Perez Alavarez-Ossorio, Spain (1980-1990)
• Mr. Kjeld Klintoe, Denmark (1961-1980)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

Kjell Birger Hansen (Norway) Chairman FID/II Head of Section/Associated Professor Narvik Institute of Technology Section for Information Science and Library Services Lodve Langes gt. 2 P.O.Box 385 N-8501 Narvik, Norway Tel: +47 769 66282 Fax: +47 769 66811 Email: kjell.birger.hansen@hin.no Internet: http://www.hin.no/~kbh