Tools for, with and by actors (Jean-Jacques GIRARDOT, Coordinator, Université de Franche-Comté, France)

This activity, coordinated by the Université de Franche-Comté (France), designs, makes and disseminates territorial intelligence methods and tools accessible to territorial actors and respecting the sustainable development ethics.

It also aims at designing a European Observatory of Elementary School.

Catalyse use four generic methods and instruments that were initially used by the laboratories and to which we have added:

1. Pragma, for quantitative analysis of individual data (by service, structure, area, public …). It can also be used with services data or territorial indicators.
2. Anaconda, for qualitative analyses : factors of data structure, typology and needs profile. It can also be used to analyse services or territorial indicators. Nuage, a software that was used to show Anaconda results in 3D is now integrated within Anaconda.
3. Mapping and spatial analysis to represent and analyse the distribution of territorial indicators, but also of profiles of needs or of class of services on the territory.
4. Evaluation of actions relevance, efficiency and impact.

Diagram 6: Pragma software of quantitative analysis

Since the caENTI beginning, research activities and technological developments about the tools were led according to three axes about information contents, analysis tools of these contents, and uses of these tools within territorial multi-sector partnerships. Thus, we will present the progress, the results and the tasks to conclude according to these three axes.

Conceptual, methodological and technological specifications of Catalyse contents and tools were defined in 2006. They guarantee the respect of Catalyse theoretical pillars and of its fundamental principles, the quality of methodological protocols and of the statistical, economic and spatial analysis of data, of the results interpretation and communication methods, as well as the adaptation to technical specificities and constraints, especially of data processing nature.

Contents concern the diagnosis and evaluation guide questions, the information of services repertory and territorial indicators. They were harmonised, on the one hand, from the experience of a synthesis of the gathered contents and analysed by the Catalyse observatories and, on the other hand, in accordance with the existing European standards, or even the international ones (deliverables 51, 52, 53).

In 2007 we draught:

• The specifications of an online “Inclusion Itinerary Accompaniment File” (IIAF). This file is a broader document than the guide. As a digital document, it allows a better individual follow-up, the individual project elaboration and the user's inclusion itinerary assessment, by a multi-sector and multi-professional team of stakeholders;
• The specifications for the processing and editorial chain from territorial data to results in order to integrate tools and put them online.

In 2007, caENTI suggested a structure for the accompaniment file, a tool useful for the persons' multi sector accompaniment, by many stakeholders (deliverable 57). The links between the guide and the file are analysed with the dividing of the file into three spaces:

• The guide refers to the whole individual indicators that can be collectively used to make diagnostics, evaluations and observation.
• The observation form organizes according to thematic blocks, indicators that can also be collectively mobilized to deepen the diagnostics and the evaluation of a public, a project or a particular service.
• The file, strictly speaking, gathers individual information and documents useful for the persons' accompaniment, protected by the professional secret and accessible according to rights mentioned to stakeholders, who make this accompaniment.

The articulation between the guide questions, the information on the services and the territorial indicators and thier compatibility so as to make comparisons and confrontations useful for the territorial diagnosis and for services evaluation was also modelled.

These research activities prepared the drafting of the specifications of:

• A European portal of webmaping of territorial indicators available on line;
• A territorial information system adapted to the development partnership uses, the Territorial Intelligence Community System.
• A more global survey and experimentations about the uses of territorial tools in the development partnerships.

In 2008, we started executing a European portal for the territorial indicators webmapping, that will be presented later.

The tools specifications were drafted according to a process that is similar and complementary. It allowed initiating the tools upgrade, their harmonisation and their integration. Multi-platform and multilanguage versions were made as well as compatible online versions.

These tools can be downloaded in the "Catalyse Community" website.

The objective we presently follow is the tools integration in a community system of territorial intelligence. This work was preceded by the creation of specifications regarding the analytic and editorial chain of territorial information from gathering to online publication (deliverable 58).

A Territorial Intelligence Community System is a territorial information system for a partnership of territorial actors that want to develop democratic governance at the service of sustainable development.

• It favors the information sharing within a territorial development partnership;
• It instruments the data cooperative analysis and the results participative interpretation;
• It introduces the citizens’ participation in the process of decision-making;
• It provides the actors with the useful information to draft projects, and then to manage them and evaluate them.

After the data processing integration of the processing software, the management and edition of the documents produced during the analysis, the present research concern the analyse protocols of the different information types and the adaptation of the system to the specific needs of the multi-sector development partnerships.

The specific participative governance of the territorial observatories was analysed in 2006 thanks to the analysis of the development partnerships developed within the caENTI and of their observation devices.

Within the framewok of the territorial intelligence tools uses, the constitution of a repertory of the projects of territorial intelligence started by the caENTI observatories and research-action actions. A descriptive and analytical form was defined and filled in. its structure should now by lightened before publicating the online repertory so as to open it to all the territorial intelligence projects. The objective is to allow a specific presentation of the observation function within the territoria intelligence projects so as to allow analysing the uses of the territoriak intelligence methods and tools by the actors.

The group on uses also coordinates the experimentations of the territorial intelligence tools. The first and most advanced one is the experimentation started at the partnership observatories of migrations coordinated by Accel, which gathers a network of experimented and novice observatories and that articulates the local level and the national one.

ACCEM

A new experience started more recently in Chapelle-lez-Herlaimont in Begium, on the basis of use recommendations by the caENTI Walloon participants.

All the caENTI territorial actors develop experimentations.

The Catalyse Community gives a first online version of the Catalyse toolkit.

The integration of the software progressed much. The website ready to use Catalyse’s Contents Management System is a first simple TICS.

We have strongly initiated the specifications of the documentary and editorial chain with several approaches: documents, data modelling, and metadata.

Analysis of uses has mobilized all the caENTI territorial actors to elaborate a first set of recommendations on uses in the framework of participative partnership. The actors also initiated the constitution of a portal of territorial intelligence actors. They are now engaged in the specifications of the observation meetings in development partnerships.