TIKI: A Trigger-Based Infrastructure for Knowledge and Information Sharing

This paper describes TIKI (Trigger-based Infrastructure for Knowledge and Information sharing) and scenarios for its use as a knowledge management support system in an international peacekeeping coalition. TIKI is a lightweight infrastructure to support knowledge management across loosely connected virtual enterprises using mobile computing devices. TIKI allows users to mark-up physical space with triggered task, location and time information. Relevant information can be downloaded onto the user’s mobile device, where it remains persistent until purged. This allows operation in a disconnected environment or where poor connectivity exists. As a user moves through time and space, the mobile device evaluates information triggers and displays the associated information if trigger conditions are met.