Cost 269 Membership minutetitle> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../cost269.css"> </head> <body border="0" bgcolor="#ffFFFF"> <table bgcolor="#ffFFFF" width="600" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" valign="top" height="22%"> <tr valign="top"> <td height="323" > <hr width="600" size="5" color="lightseagreen"> <table height=100% cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="600" border=0 align=center valign="top"> <tr> <td width=10 height="357"></td> <td width=530 height="357" valign="top"> <b><font color=#ffffff face=ARIAL size=5><span class="cost_titre1">COST269 WORKING GROUPS</span></font></b>   <b><font color="#ffffff" face=ARIAL size=4><span class="cost_titre2">Membership/Community </span></font></b><br> Back to : <a href="../../cost_main.htm" target="_self">Main</a> / <a href="../cost_main_workgpr.htm" target="_self">Working Groups</a><br> <b><font color="#006666" face="ARIAL" size="3" class="cost_titre3">Minutes of workshop</font></b> <p>Meeting of Paris, 28/04/00 </p> <p class="cost_text">Leopoldina FORTUNATI, Claude HENRY, Samuel MAUCH, Béatrice Van Pedro GOMEZ could not be with us. He sent a text. </p> <div align="center"></div> <hr size="2" width="400" align="center"> <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><b><font color="#009999">Général issues </font></b></font></p> <hr size="2" width="400" align="center"> <div> <p>1) Some very large movements in our modern societies have strong consequences on the items we are working on. We have discussed about: </p> </div> <ul> <li> <div>technology driven society. Engineers, industrialists tightly connected/oriented with/by financial holders "take the floor" in our societies</div> </li> <li> <div>accelerated and more and more extended orientation to market, even on previously public oriented activities.</div> </li> </ul> <div> <p>2) In our general domain, Membership/Community with ICTs, a very large number of initiatives and experimentations are going-on through the Europa, on all levels. It would be an exhausted task to scan all of them. That is not the purpose of a Cost network. The aim is here to make a scientific screening on the research activity on this very dynamic domain. </p> <p>3) Cost 269 is a not so frequent encounter between social scientists and technician ones . We have to be aware of connection between ideas and technical support of them (and vice versa!) It is keenly important in a domain where there is a lot of very general ideas, and a huge literature on wishes and orientations. </p> <p>4) Fastly, we came on the necessity of having a good and formalised concept of the generics of the "User"; Britt is preparing a text on this point to Stockholm. We would like us to have a connection with her attempt. On a general view, we can see the user as </p> </div> <ul> <li> <div>A person inside the information flow </div> </li> <li> <div>A consumer </div> </li> <li> <div>A person involved with the usability of devices </div> </li> <li> <div>A person seeking for a social and personal utility of her equipment. </div> </li> </ul> <div> <p>In charge of the our domain, we should have some additional items to that short list: </p> </div> <ul> <li> <div>A subject, with rights and duties *A knowledge producer </div> </li> <li> <div>A member of several communities </div> </li> <li> <div>A citizen </div> </li> <li> <div>A social actor </div> </li> </ul> <div> <hr size="2" width="400" align="center"> <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><b><font color="#009999">Current orientations of the group:</font></b></font></p> <hr size="2" width="400" align="center"> </div> <blockquote> <div>*** <b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Definition of the domain, main purposes and bounds</font></b> ***</div> </blockquote> <div> <p><b>Both theoretical orientations:</b></p> <p><span class="cost_text"><span class="cost_text">*On one hand, we decide to start by a bottom up way, from "significative" experiments and initiatives, in each of our country; we will analyse them with two grids of reading: </span></span></p> <p><span class="cost_text"><span class="cost_text">a) the preconditions , "premices" of the planification of the chosen experiment (political ones, administrative, technical, financial, inclusion/exclusion, implicit system of values…) </span></span></p> <p><span class="cost_text"><span class="cost_text">b) how are the users perceived in each experiment or initiative? </span></span> </p> <p><b>We draw up a first list of types of initiatives:</b> </p> </div> <ul> <li> <div>E-Europa (promoted by Romano PRODI) </div> </li> <li> <div>National (or regional) action plans on "Information Society Policy", promoted on government level, with help of all sorts of expertises. </div> </li> <li> <div>Observatories on ICTs utility and usability, </div> </li> <li> <div>Digital cities and Communities *Counterveiling initiatives </div> </li> <li> <div>Large ICT learning experiments </div> </li> </ul> <div> <p class="cost_text">On the other hand, we take a top down approach: It is useful to choose some entries in the domain, more theoretical, to be aware of general issues on what we could build in the future as well a better understanding (being a possible starting up of future research projects) as a stronger key of reading of the experiments and initiatives listed above.</p> </div> <div> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>A first list was done:</b></font></p> </div> <div> <p>1)<span class="cost_text"> Possible transformation (positive and negative) of the democratic life with ICTs. Real changes or not in political life (political speech, debates and dialogue with political "elites", spreading of decision making, power equilibrium between political levels, new ways of social control…) </span></p> <p><span class="cost_text">2) What about cultural diversity, knowledge concentration (the more you have access to ICT, the more you are "quoted" in search engines and portals), easier or not knowledge management for each person, "cut and paste" culture… </span></p> <p><span class="cost_text">3) ICT and threats on public services, connection with types of exclusion and inclusion. </span></p> <p><span class="cost_text">4) Transparency, co-regulation of contents, security and privacy Obviously, the top-down approach will be connected in a dialectical way with the first bottom-up analysis.</span></p> <p> </p> </div> <blockquote> <div>*** <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><b>To do in next future</b></font> ***</div> </blockquote> <ul> <li>Start with initiatives analysis </li> <li> <div>Enhance the top down approach (some papers??) </div> </li> <li> <div>Identify "resource persons and networks " on research activity (not only general studies!!!) on the domain.</div> </li> </ul> <div> <p class="cost_text"> The gathering of initiatives and resources will be in a little bit pragmatic manner at the beginning, done in each country (five: Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Swiss), but open on all the others, with the support of the Cost Committee. Beatrice try to have a connection with COST A14. Why not an internal forum between us on Internet? </p> <p> </p> </div> <blockquote> <div>*** <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><b>For Stockholm meeting, we prepare</b></font> ***</div> </blockquote> <ul> <li> <div><span class="cost_text">A general presentation (Claude) </span></div> </li> <li> <div><span class="cost_text">Some light "results" on initiatives of the first list; E-Europa (Béatrice and Polda), national, regional or local Action Plan…(all of us) </span></div> </li> <li> <div><span class="cost_text">A list of links (to be put up as hot-links in the Web-site part of our group, starting a sort of "dissemination" between us!!!). </span></div> </li> </ul> <div> <hr size="2" width="400" align="center"> <p><b><font size="2">Notes</font></b><font size="2">. Claude circulate a better copy of the Pedro text. 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