Call for papers of the International Conference of Territorial Intelligence (Besançon 2008)
Territorial Intelligence was born within the information society of which it uses technologies and tools it uses. It also shares the concerns of sustainable development of which it pays attention to respect principles, particularly a global approach based on people’s current and future needs, partnership and participation. In the knowledge-based society context, territorial intelligence presently emphasizes the link between knowledge production and territorial action, as well as the importance of the human and social capital in the innovation process.
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The concept of territorial intelligence was mainly fed by information and communication sciences and by knowledge management, as a cognitive and organisational process of economic sciences and geography, to analyse the territories structure and dynamic as geographic spaces and as a space of the human communities’ project development.
The Territorial Intelligence systems widely mobilize the information technologies to gather, share, analyse and exploite in a cooperative way, and then to diffuse pluri-disciplinary knowledge and multi-sector information. They are data-processing systems that broadly appeal to the geographic information systems, data statistical analysis and projects management and evaluation.
The territorial actors are solicited to suggest projects, to advocate and evaluate the relevance, efficience and impact, and to implement their principles of global approach, partnership and participation. If methods and scientific tools adapted to these principles are available for the experts, the territorial actors do not have simple, cheap and friendly tools to draft their action projects, then to follow them, observe and evaluate them, whilst respecting the sustainable development principles.
This conference will pay a special attention to these tools, the generic scientific methods that inspire them, and to the links between scientific research activity and territorial action.
