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Elisabeth Davenport is Professor of Information Management in the Napier University School of Computing in Edinburgh, Scotland, and a Visiting Scholar in the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University. She is the leader of the Social Informatics Group in Napier, and a Research Fellow of the International Teledemocracy Centre, a new initiative funded by BT Scotland and Napier University. Her background includes qualifications in Ancient Greek and English literature, Earth Sciences, and Information Science, and her current research interests include social intelligence, activity-based design, classification in the workplace, the construction of knowledge in business, digital genres, networked learning in small enterprises. Dr. Davenport holds a Ph.D. from University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.