A portal at the territorial intelligence service
The territorial intelligence portal aspires to become a reference space on the territorial intelligence concept. The portal in particular deals with knowledge, methods, governance and tools for action, as they are presently developed in the framework of the coordination action of the European Network of Territorial Intelligence (caENTI).
Started in March 2006 in accompaniment of the caENTI, funded by the 6th research programme of the European Union, the portal progressively enriched with contents and tools. A more editorial version was born in Octobre 2007. The final version of the portal, which aggregates all the data, the tools and the services developed within the caENTI framework, will be available at the beginning of the year 2009.
The laboratory ThéMA "Theorize and Model to Lay out” (UMR CNRS of the University of Franche-Comté) has initiated since 1989 actions and research activities in territorial intelligence within the framework of different experiments : diagnoses, evaluations and territorial observatories at the European scale. They are also presently supported by the Institute of Humanities, Social and Environment sciences Ledoux (USR CNRS). In September 2003, the European Network of Territorial Intelligence started the first website devoted to this concept. The caENTI aspires to give it a portal dimension.
This portal presents the scientific bases of the thematic and ambitions to build an actors network concerning territorial intelligence. The international partners of the European network contribute to enrich this portal with the current research activities, with the results of the led works, what already makes available a wide scientific content:
- The acts of the international conference of Territorial Intelligence of Alba Iulia 2006
- The acts of the international conference of Territorial Intelligence of Huelva 2007
- The caENTI scientific reports
At the territorial intelligence service
To organise the informational intelligence concerning territorial intelligence, the editorial space is organised in 7 sections:
- The section What’s new? explains, in an editorial way and with a hierarchy, the territorial intelligence events. There are editorials, in depth-articles, as well as events and information on the projects or conferences in progress.
- The section Projects lists the projects regarding territorial intelligence. There is a detailed description of caENTI with its objectives, activities and participants, but also the documents and events linked to this project.
- The section Ongoing research presents the state of the research activities on the notion, methodologies and results.
- In the section Scientific events, there is the agenda and the news of the conferences and seminars (presentation, calls for communication, reports…)
- The section Publications corresponds to a documentary base, which references all the documents available on the portal.
- Formations allows listing and presenting the trainings (academic and professional) linked to territorial intelligence.
- Laslty, Tools and links puts at disposal the tools that are generated by the research activity led by the caENTI as well as a links directory that allows enriching the network.
Tools and links section
Prefiguring the portal final version, aggregating all the data, the tools as well as the services developed within the caENTI framework, the section Tools and links already started its transformation.
The tools were gathered in three categories:
- Tools for Territorial Intelligence (Catalyse toolkit, Evaluation of the research-action quality, …)
- Portal services (Photos galleries, RSS feeds, Site map, Key-words (Tag), Research)
- Cooperative work tools (Intra-consortium, CooSpace)
In the Tools for Territorial Intelligence section, we can accede to a description of each presented tool.
Among the presented tools, there is in particular the Journal of Territorial Intelligence that aims at providing the international community with a high-level scientific journal in the territorial intelligence field. The issue zero is announced at the end of September 2008. It will include the best six contributions to the fifth international annual conference of territorial intelligence (Huelva 2007), selected in double-blind by a scientific committee that is presently constituted.
As regards the Links part, websites are regularly added to the different categories (territorial actors, European research activity, laboratories, trainings, observatories…).
Other tools will progressively be added on the portal by the international conference of Besançon 2008. There will in particular be a space that will give access, in several languages, to the documentation and the notices of the tools of the Catalyse toolkit. The portal prototype in its final version will be presented and debated in Besançon 2008 and put online at the beginning of 2009.
