EProfessional
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An eProfessional is a Professional whose work and tasks is achieved using collaborative working environments (Collaborative Working Environment). These technologies enable an eProfessional being part of groups and communities as well as knowledge networks, and being involved in distributed cooperation processes that have not been possible before. Being an eProfessional is not a profession of its own, but it exists in combination with a business profession such as consultant, engineer, journalist, scientist etc.
An eProfessional:
- Is linked to a normal organisation by employment, but may also act in a self-employed way. The work is often performed at mobile workplace.
- Is involved in many different projects within groups, communities, projects, and with external partners in different organisations. Often these projects are constructed around highly complex and creative task that require a high coordination effort. The problems to be solved appear suddenly, they require access to information/knowledge not known before. Thus tasks and processes can not be anticipated or planned beforehand. They are of different length and complexity, involving different support tools.
- Requires the availability of the workplace in different situations, locations and places and the ad hoc availability of a cooperation environment.
- Requires support for the ad hoc identification of other eProfessionals based on similar interest and complementary knowledge. Tasks can be solved only gathering and relying on information from different sources (data and people)
- Requires the dynamic ad hoc creation of collaboration with different people and groups
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