Foresight Wiki Dan Grosu National School for Political and Administration Studies The 4th International Seville Conference on Future-Oriented Technology

Foresight Wiki

Dan Grosu

National School for Political and Administration Studies

The 4th International Seville Conference onFuture-Oriented Technology Analysis (FTA)

12 & 13 May 2011

How-to Develop Foresight Capabilities in Enterprise 2.0 Driven Organizations

Topics

Enterprise 2.0 &Web 2.0

Foresight Wiki

Content Analysis

Theo van Doesburg “Composition XVIII in three parts”


Enterprise 2.0

organizations using social software

describe how web 2.0 technologies could be used on organizations’ intranets and extranets, and to recognize the impact they could have on business

emergent and self-organizing network of relationships which enables executives to digitize and monetize collaboration

open exchange of ideas will support business value and personal development

highly connected and agile organizations, sensitive in respect to societal trends, concerns and needs

http://traction.tractionsoftware.com/traction/permalink/Blog1351


Web 2.0

dimensions

set of social, architectural, and design interaction models between communities, people, computers, and software

human interactions become an important aspect of software architecture

web-based applications built on a core set of design patterns that blend together human experience with technology

http://www.learnit2.com/tutorial%20018/index.php

blurring the boundaries between human agents and software


Web 2.0

controversy

enthusiasts proclaimed its empowering value associated with new forms of interactivity, unlocking content to be used in new and innovative ways

design patterns are described as “architectures of exploitation”

the celebrated interactivity is no more than a seductive expression of power based on condescension, a deliberate masking of power in order to exert effective control

http://www.contrasens.com/2007/06/20/romanii-si-web-20.html


Web 2.0

the new usability

interaction between humans and software was supposed to be composed out of a sequence of self-evident choices

web 2.0 technologies hold the liberating possibility of a narrative approach which offers the user a chance to think and write

usability and design are an integral part of agile development, bringing users and engineers together as design partners of improved environments within which the user is at liberty to define her/his choices

http://www.syntagm.co.uk/design/articles/simuser.htm


Foresight Wiki

What is FORwiki?

the Foresight Wiki is an application of ideas and concepts from the “new usability” to the FORLEARN online foresight guide

FORwiki articles rely on both primary sources – no original research! – secondary sources, and have looser rules for style, and language skills

FORLEARN online foresight guide, a unique resource on institutional foresight and its techniques, critical steps of design, implementation and follow-up of a foresight project

http://www.forwiki.eu


Foresight Wiki

open editing model

the Foresight Wiki uses the most common wiki engine (MediaWiki), but it is not an encyclopaedia (such as Wikipedia)

no article is owned by its creator or any other editor

all the articles are collectively owned by the FORwiki community

articles may be created or edited by any registered user

changes to an existing article become instantly available without review

http://www.community-of-knowledge.de/beitrag/die-qual-der-wiki-wahl/


Foresight Wiki

Foresight Wiki concept

Foresight Wiki articles are meant to foster distinct voices within the Foresight Community of Practice and to gear them in dialogical fashion

editing a Foresight Wiki article means adding new sections, providing new understandings for a concept, while anticipating other

the language of the Foresight Wiki is dynamic, relational and engaged in a process of endless re-descriptions of futures thinking

http://www.community-of-knowledge.de/beitrag/die-qual-der-wiki-wahl/


Foresight Wiki

content structure

http://www.forwiki.ro

http://www.forwiki.ro/wiki/Main_Page


Foresight Wiki

Connectivism

in rapidly changing landscapes, robust decision-making is dependant upon the ability to draw distinctions between what is important and what is unimportant

we no longer experience and acquire learning personally, but derive our competence from our capability to form connections

learning is a process that occurs in environments, not entirely under the control of the individual

learning processes are focused on connecting specialized information sets

http://www.connectivism.ca/


Foresight Wiki

eLearning 2.0

offers the possibility to modify its content dynamically, following the pace in which the foresight community of practice is changing

grows through Active Projects, places for a group of members of the FORwiki Community to coordinate works on specific topic

Educational Projects usually include announcements, reviews, new articles, cleanup and expansion requests

the goal is to develop the learner’s connection-making skills

http://www.brandon-hall.com/publications/learning2.0/learning2.0.shtml


Content Analysis

Foresight Wiki Community

if there is practice, there is community ; community building is not creating something from nothing; it is molding what exists and catalyzing unknown opportunities

building the community involves developing a stronger sense of inter-subjectivity around its practice

what proves to be critical is building inter-subjectivity, i.e. shared understandings of the practice and community itself

http://knowledgemanagement-review.blogspot.com/2011/02/knowledge-management-and-community-of.html


Content Analysis

dialogues

ten mutual learning workshops, to be organized in Bucharest between September 1st 2009 and October 31st 2011

the concept is a variation of Bohm Dialogues, where experts can get together and discuss fundamentals of foresight

the result is FORwiki initial body of content:

27 articles on practices (methods)

2 article on fundamental concepts

21 narratives of foresight exercises

http://forwiki.ro/wiki/Current_events


Content Analysis

methodology

empirically grounded method, exploratory in process, and predictive or inferential in intent

data are viewed as representations of texts, images, and expressions that are created to be seen, read, interpreted, and acted on for their meanings

transcends the traditional notion of content as “what” of a communication, replacing it with the informatics matter with which contemporary societies operate and understand themselves through texts

http://www.internetmarketingdelhi.com/content-writing-delhi-content-writing-and-seo.html


Content Analysis

first results

goal was to unveil patterns of relations between narratives of foresight exercises, uploaded to the Foresight Wiki

stories of institutional foresight seem to propagate

methodological choices are constricted by the the vocbulary in which they are verbalized

the reading of a foresight narrative occurs through its textualizing

an interpretation of the “foresight process” arises in that the textualities are creating new meaning-structures

http://www.clicktale.com/enterprise/solutions/challenge/content_analysis


Concluding Remarks

on the role of a Foresight Wiki

the importance of this “language of foresight” as both hallmark and underpinning in the interpretation of narratives

using the community’s textual impressions in the Foresight Wiki we were able to describe one way in which the system is processing meanings

Enterprise 2.0 driven organizations will trend to connect their foresight capabilities in socio-cognitive spaces of innovation, creating thus networked structures of FTA

http://www.adevarul.it


Thank You!

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Foresight Wiki Dan Grosu National School for Political and Administration Studies The 4th International Seville Conference on Future-Oriented Technology