ACTIVE is a consortium of twelve partner organisations from seven different European countries, co-ordinated by British Telecommunications, which aims to increase the productivity of knowledge workers in a pro-active, contextualised, yet easy and unobtrusive way. The aim is to convert tacit and unshared knowledge – the "hidden intelligence" of enterprises – into transferable, interoperable and actionable knowledge to support seamless collaboration and to enable problem solving.

ACTIVE addresses the need for greater knowledge worker productivity with three integrated research themes:

• Easier sharing of information through a combination of formal techniques based on ontologies and informal techniques based on user tags – so-called folksonomies
• Sharing and reusing informal knowledge processes – by learning those knowledge processes from the user’s behaviour
• Understanding the user’s context – so as to tailor the information presented to the user to fit the current task

The results of ACTIVE are relevant to all knowledge work; they are being validated in the domains of consultancy, telecommunications and engineering and will be a breakthrough which empowers enterprises to make knowledge technology effective for a much larger share of their essential knowledge.

1. ACTIVE synopsis
2. ACTIVE flyer
3. ACTIVE poster
4. ACTIVE presentation
5. ACTIVE annual report 2008
6. ACTIVE annual report 2009