Section Editor: Ragnvald Sannes
ISWorld Net's Mission is to provide information which is intended to be of universal interest to all IS researchers. This page provides supplementary materials of specific interest to IS academics in Norway. Many of the links point to information in Norwegian.
Please give us:
»Time to get the material better developed; and
»Assistance, by drawing to the editor's attention things that should be plugged in
If you're new to the WWW, you might prefer to start by looking at the Association for Information System's 'plugging-in' page, which provide guidance about the electronic resources that are available for IS researchers. The most important single set of resources is, of course, ISWorld Net itself.
The 'NOKOBIT' (Norsk konferanse for organisasjoners bruk av informasjonsteknologi) mailing list (NOKOBIT@listserv.bi.no) is a discussion list in Norwegian for IS academics. The list has been operational since 1993. It was a developed from the NOKOBIT annual conference, a conference for Norwegian IS academics and professionals concerned with organisations' use of information technology.
»'NFIV_D' discussion list
The Norwegian Council for Information Science - NCIS (Nasjonalt Fagråd for informasjonsvitenskap - NFIV) manages a general discussion list (NFIV_D@hifm.no) concerning matters within research and teaching of information science and topics related to this. Discussions are normally in Norwegian, but questions or viewpoints in english are also most welcome. The list has been operational since 1995, when The Norwegian Council of Universities appointed NCIS with members from IS departments of the public universities and colleges. To be added to the list, send an email to, listproc@hifm.no with subscribe NFIV_D yourfirstname yourlastname in the body of the message.
None exist at present.
»NCIS (NFIV)
The Norwegian Council for Information Science (NCIS) (Nasjonalt Fagråd for informasjonsvitenskap - NFIV) is appointed by the Norwegian Council of Universities and represents the researching and teaching units of information science of the public universities and colleges. NCIS manages an open discussion list and supports the NOKOBIT conference;
»NCS (DND)
The Norwegian Computer Society (Den Norske Dataforening) is the professional body for Norwegian IT people;
»NOKOBIT
NOKOBIT (Norsk Konferanse for organisasjoners bruk av informasjonsteknologi) is a Norwegian annual academic conference on organizations' use of information technology. The conference language is Norwegian, but papers in English is also accepted;
»NOKOBIT information on www
(in Norwegian).
»NOKOBIT 1998 (in
Norwegian) including papers
(most in English) as PDF-documents.
»IRIS
The IRIS (Information systems Research In Scandinavia) Association is a non-profit, professional organization aiming to promote research and research education in the use, development, and management of information systems in Scandinavia, and making that research known in the international research community and among practitioners.'
»The annual IRIS conference
»Information Science departments in Norway
Member departments in NCIS (avdelinger tilknyttet NFIV)
»The ISWorld Net Faculty Directory
The directory includes listing of Information Systems faculty in Europe;
»European Current Research Information Systems
European Current Research Information Systems, pointers to research institutes and other research related WWW-servers in Europe;
Suggestions for new links are most welcome!
»Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems is available on-line.
Suggestions for new links are most welcome!
»Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities
Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities (Humanistisk Datasenter) is a national center for research and development of computer technology applied in the humanities. Among other things, they have developed computer applications for linguistic analyses of electronic texts;
»NSD
Norwegian Social Science Data Service (Norsk Samfunnsvitenskaplig Datatjeneste) is a cross-discipline organ under the Research Council of Norway. The main purpose is to prepare and distribute data and computer applications to research centers and universities in Norway;
Suggestions for new links are most welcome!
None available at present.
»Agder University College
Department of Information Systems (Institutt for informasjonssystemer);
»Norwegian Computing Center
The Norwegian Computing Center (Norsk Regnesentral);
»Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
Department of Strategy and Management; (Institutt for strategi og ledelse)
»Norwegian School of Management BI
Faculty Group of Information Management;
»Telenor Research and Development
Telenor Research and Development, Tromsø unit;
»University of Bergen
Department of Information Science (Institutt for Informasjonsvitenskap);
Department of Informatics (Institutt for Informatikk);
»University of Oslo
The Department of Informatics (IFI);
IFI's systems development group;
»Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Department of Computer and Information Science (Institutt for Datateknikk og Informasjonsvitenskap);
»NETTO
Network-based Organization of Work at Telenor Research and Development, Tromsø, ended December 1998;
»RAISA
RAISA = Representation, Assessment and Improvement of information Systems Architecture at Department of Information Science, University of Bergen;
»ROSA
The ROSA project at Department of Information Science, University of Bergen focuses on themes from information systems development, object-orientation, and artificial intelligence. The purpose of the project is to investigate how one could use analogical reasoning as method to support systems development;
»Studio Apertura
Studio Apertura is a research program on organisation of knowledge work. The program runs 1998-2002 and is located with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology inTrondheim
Suggestions for new listings of research projects are most welcome!
»NCIS's list of IS related education
Educational programs in Information Science - listed by the Norwegian Council for Information Science (in Norwegian);
»Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities
Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities (Humanistisk Datasenter) is a national center for research and development of computer technology applied in the humanities. Among other things, they have development projects on educational IT;
»The Norwegian School of Management BI
List of courses in Information Management, some with resources on the web (In Norwegian)
»ISWorld Net Denmark
»ISWorld Net Sweden
»BIBSYS
BIBSYS is a shared library
system for all Norwegian University Libraries, the National Library and
a number of research libraries.
»BIBSYS search;
»Norges Forskningsråd
The Research Council of Norway (Norges
Forskningsråd);
»UNINETT
»UNINETT is the Norwegian academic
and research data network;
»UNINETT Metaindeks (in
Norwegian);
»NORWEB list of Norwegian
web-servers (in Norwegian);
»Clickable map of Norwegian
web-servers;
»ODIN
ODIN is the central web-server for the Norwegian Government, the Office of the Prime Minister and the ministries;
»People on the net in Norway
»UNINETT's X.500 katalog;
»Seek and find Norwegians on the net by Morten Simonsen;
»Guides to Scandinavian links
»KVASIR by Scandinavia
Online;
»ORIGO by Telenor;
»ISWorld Net
»Home page
»ISWorld Net Conferences Worldwide;
»ISWorld Net Call for Papers for conferences Worldwide;
»ISWorld Net Call for Papers for journals Worldwide;
»ISWorld Net Journal Section
»the ISWorld Net Directory of Departments and Academics
»The Association for Information System's 'Plugging In' page