International School of Information Management
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| Motto: | Harnessing Technology Building Knowledge Capital |
| Established: | 1st June 2005 |
| Type: | Public |
| Executive Director: | Shalini R Urs |
| Location: | Mysore, Karnataka, India |
| Campus: | Manasagangotri, Mysore |
| Website: | http://www.isim.ac.in/ |
The International School of Information Management (ISiM), is a public-private partnered school, part of the University of Mysore, Karnataka, India.
It offers Master of Technology programmes in Information and Knowledge Management. It is located in the Manasagangothri campus of the University of Mysore at Mysore, India.
The ISiM is based on a public private partnership model. It was funded with seed money of $400,000 from the Ford Foundation. ISiM received Rs 5,000,000 funding from Bangalore based Informatics India Ltd for the first phase of its building under construction, while the University of Mysore has provided the land on its Manasagangotri campus. It has collaborations with Dalhousie University in Canada, University of Pittsburgh, Syracuse University and University of Michigan in the US, and the International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore.
As an information and knowledge management school, the ISim can be termed as an I-School. I-schools are academia's response to the in a rapidly changing global economy and the requirement to manage knowledge and information. The school recruits international faculty and follows a curriculum on par with other international information schools. The curriculum of ISiM prepares its graduates to design, develop, implement, manage, and evaluate information systems in a wide range of environments in the global context.
ISiM graduates find career opportunities as
- Chief Information Officers (CIOs),
- Information System Developers,
- Content Managers,
- Management Information Analysts,
- Information Marketers,
- Knowledge Portal Managers,
- Knowledge Management leads,
- Web / Online Content Analysts,
- Data Analytics / Business Intelligence Specialists,
- Data Warehousing Professionals,
- MIS Officers,
- Archivists,
- Librarians etc.
[edit] Research
In Mar 2007, ISIM received Rs 1 core funding and collaboration from Rediff to research Indian language content management and Optical Character Recognition. (Indo-Aryan languages,Dravidian_languages).
[edit] External links
- International School of Information Management (ISiM)
- University of Mysore signs MoU
- The Hindu Businessline news article I-Schooling at the ISiM in Mysore
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