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"ContextPortal for Outlook solved two of my most painful problems, e-mail overload and quickly finding all of the inter-related information that is relevant to the people, projects and relationships that I need to manage. For me, the power of this solution was that it immediately presented related information in the form of powerful, contextual maps, organized the way I want to work."

M-Venture, Inc. [use case] [about company]

"ContextPortal is a great tool for managing knowledge. In our project Mountain Knowledge Partnership designed to collect, classify and disseminate information materials about the Hindu Kush Himalaya Region, ContextPortal is the core technology.

Diverse knowledge objects such as documents, maps, images, databases, audio and video clips, available in many languages are categorized and linked to provide the users with effective navigation and search mechanism."

Zbigniew Mikolajuk [use case] [about company]

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)

M-Venture Inc.

Solution Highlights:

• Extracting meaning from unstructured text
• Overcoming information overload
• Keeping e-mail organized the way I think and work
• 1 solution: ContextPortal™ for Microsoft Outlook® from MODEL Technologies Inc.

Challenges and Objectives:

The key to knowledge management is to focus on the discovery of high quality relevant information. Special challenges are posed by business turn-around cases, when an independent, impartial and quick expert assessment needs to be formulated. This necessitates a huge exchange of communication, conducting due diligence, and building momentum to create value in order to provide vital strategic plan to rescue troubled business ventures. Getting to the point fast is essential when researching vast amounts of disparate information in order to form clear understanding and make informed decisions.

Solution:

Relevant information that is readily available is indispensable in our business, where we must efficiently integrate new information into well thought-out business solutions. Working on Internet time requires smart automation in order to keep up with all the demands on our time. The constant challenge we face is how to go through massive numbers of documents and emails with the goal of making smart business decisions.

ContextPortal™ for Outlook® works as an intelligent information filter. It extracts meaning from unstructured text, enabling professionals to quickly scan huge amounts of information and make fast, effective decisions by finding, summarizing, and classifying semantic relationships in unstructured text content.

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Mountain Knowledge Partnership Project

Solutions Highlights:

• Eight countries
• 300 partners
• Approximately 2 terabytes of information
• 1 solution: ContextPortal™ for Windows from MODEL Technologies Inc.

Project Challenges and Objectives:

The Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) project includes a wealth of information available on a vast range of subjects including farming, natural resources, weather, water, good practices, biodiversity, cultural approaches, economics, and names of people with skills. This breadth and depth of information has the potential to provide key input needed for development initiatives.

This information and knowledge is contained in equally diverse locations: libraries, monastery records, oral testimonies, publications, films, training manuals, project reports, government department and local authority records, NGO observations, research theses, and many more.

The items in this large information collection are available in a wide variety of media and forms, from books and brochures, databases, recordings, and handwritten files, to maps, songs, CDs, films, photos, and satellite images.

At the same time, there is a huge need for the right information to solve urgent practical problems -- from a farmer trying to understand what is needed for a new crop he is growing for market, through development workers who want to evaluate the results of similar initiatives in other geographical areas and donor agencies who want to be sure that a new proposal is not just a duplication of previous effort, to policy makers trying to establish a new policy for efficient resource management.

There is a need for a comprehensive, coordinated system to document and disseminate the wealth of information in the HKH region, or indeed in other mountain areas.

Solution:

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) piloted the use of ContextPortal™ for Windows to provide a platform for a common solution framework to organize data, information, and knowledge, and to structure results and resources across interdisciplinary domains for improved retrieval of information about the existence and location of relevant knowledge objects.

ContextPortal for Windows has proved to be an effective portal for addressing the challenges ICIMOD faces.

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About M-Venture, Inc.

M-Venture specializes in strategic business restructuring.

M-Venture researches, identifies, supports and funds ideas, technology and services for Wireless Internet e-commerce. M-Venture provides independent, impartial and confidential advice that helps chart business in a vital new direction.

About the Mountain Knowledge Partnership project

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) leads a major initiative to promote, facilitate, and support knowledge-sharing in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region.

The Mountain Knowledge Partnership project involves all the stakeholders of Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region who are responsible for the design, development, and operation of the knowledge sharing infrastructure. ICIMOD is an international institution with links to more than 300 partner organizations in the eight countries of the region. It works with multiple international research bodies and donors, who are interested in the Mountain Knowledge Partnership as a platform for dissemination of the knowledge developed in their own projects.

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