Abstract: There is little doubt that we have entered the knowledge economy where what organizations, institutions and communities know is becoming more important than the traditional sources of economic power capital, land, plant and labor which they command.

The value attributed by stock markets to companies in sectors such as software development and biotechnology far outweighs their tangible assets. Even in industries as traditional as manufacturing, companies are obtaining competitive advantage through technological know-how, product design skills, problem solving expertise, personal creativity and the ability to innovate.

Knowledge management is the discipline of capturing these knowledge-based competencies, storing and disseminating them for the benefit of the organization as a whole. Much has been written about knowledge management. We have tried to utilize the power of Knowledge hidden amongst the members of a community, to provide a comprehensive tool for the development of Knowledge based economy. By harnessing the information present amongst its members we have tried to develop a framework for the growth of Knowledge powered communities.

Overview: iOn enable users to perform online queries and post questions. The system then carries out an instantaneous search for an answer by either referring to the pre-stored database or by crawling the Internet for experts with the required qualification. Thus the need to post a question in a newsgroup and wait for an undefined period for a solution is eliminated. This is achieved using mobile agents traversing the Internet.

Business Plan and Market Analysis: The project was submitted and selected in various Business Plan competition. Read the Business Plan Executive Summary here and here

This projects was submitted for the Sun Microsystems – Singaren Distributed Computing Competition in which we got the Best Project for Commercial Implementation Award.