About IT-GO 2010

The Grand Ouest meetings of the territorial intelligence IT-GO will constitute the eighth international event of the Network of Territorial Intelligence. The first one, organized to Besançon in 2003, was the opportunity to constitute the European Network of Territorial Intelligence ENTI which had gradually developed in Europe since the 90s. Three conferences preceded the action of coordination of the European network of territorial intelligence, supported by the 6th Framework program of Research and Technological Development of the European Union, within the theme "Citizenship and governance in the society of the knowledge" from March 2006 till February 2009. Meanwhile, three international conferences took place within the framework of the caENTI in Alba Iulia (Romania, in 2006), Huelva (Spain, in 2007) and Besançon (France, in 2008).

Co-organised by the network ENTI, the MSH (Houses of the Human Sciences) of Nantes, Rennes, Tours, Caen and Franche-ComtŽ, laboratories ThŽMA (Theorize and Modelize to Fit out UMR 6049), ESO (UMR 6590 Spaces and Societies), Cerma (Architectural and Urban Atmospheres UMR 1563) and the LBA association (The Onlooker Partners), the first Grand Ouest meetings the of the Territorial Intelligence have for object the emergence and the spreading of the knowledge, the practices and the tools of the territorial intelligence among the scientists of the western regions of France, as well as raising awareness of the decision-makers and the territorial actors about these emerging knowledge, practices and tools.

Organized at the core of the two big cities of reception during these days, Nantes and Rennes, these Grand Ouest meetings of the territorial intelligence IT-GO join the continuity of the network ENTI announced by the conference of Salerno, after the success of the conference of Besanﾍon which gathered 250 participants coming from 22 different countries, of which half of the participants were not part of the caENTI and 30 were not part of the European Union. By the will to develop the themes of the caENTI in the Grand Ouest region by means of participating in a big collaborative project on the occasion of the call for projects of the 7th Framework program of Research of the European Union, these days will constitute a good opportunity to discuss and enrich the areas of research resulting from the caENTI, by developing more particularly the European sizing of the network of research-action during workshops and during conferences between the members of the ENTI network and the scientists and the actors of the Grand Ouest territories.

The caENTI gradually defined the territorial intelligence as the science whose object is the sustainable development of territories and whose subject is the territorial community. It connects the multidisciplinary knowledge on territories and their dynamics. It strengthens the capacities of the territorial communities to control their development in a fair and sustainable way by improving the sharing of territorial information and by spreading its methods and its tools of analysis thanks to the technologies of information and communication.

The territorial intelligence is a tool of governance by the valuation of the ways of decision, partnership and participative practices as well as the research-action which contributes to the fair and sustainable development of the territorial community.

It aspires to realize for, with, and by the territorial actors tools allowing them to elaborate, to manage and to evaluate their partnership and participative projects of sustainable development of territories.

The territorial intelligence, such as it is defined by our research group, must be capable of conceiving forms of promotion of the development of the available ressources facilitating the development of the historic-environmental heritage while respecting the culture whose main objective is to raise awareness about immaterial needs, conceived as transnational.

The four federative principles hereafter will represent the themes of the scientific communications of these days. In the continuity of the conferences of the caENTI between 2006 and 2008, the four thematic axes of these meetings are the following:

• Sustainable development and regional identities (Alba Iulia Romania, 2006),
• Territorial intelligence and governance (Huelva Spain, 2007),
• Indicators, tools and methods for the territorial intelligence (Besançon France, 2008),
• Territorial intelligence and culture of development (Salerno Italy, 2009).

The objective of IT-GO is actually, by asserting the supremacy of these four fundamental principles, to update the synthesis and to prospect it with the quality approach of the caENTI. As such, the Quality Letter of the caENTI resulted in a reflection concerning the participative methods and the opportunities and the risks connected to the use of technologies of information and communication in the projects of sustainable development. Concerning this matter, consult: Quality Letter of Research Action facilitating the Territorial Governance of the Sustainable development of the caENTI

This quality reflection feeds actually the theme " Sustainable development and regional identities " which aims at developing territorial or on the territory actions respectful of the ethics of the sustainable development and the identity function of the cultural heritage of a territory, by promoting the ontological principles of the territorial governance.

In the same way, " Territorial intelligence and governance " will describe the practices of the territorial governance comprised in the notion of project, framework of public action expressing an evolution of the forms of legitimization of policy, and the emergence of a new type of professionals of the public action, all this contributing to organize a new type of competition between territories.

In the same logic of thematic development, " Indicators, tools and methods for the territorial intelligence " will deal with the conception and dissemination of the methods and the tools of the territorial intelligence intended to analyze the data and to supply the territorial information systems, with a particular attention for the territorialized indicators connected to the sustainable development.

Finally, " Territorial intelligence and culture of the development " will deal with the overtaking of the challenges set by the consequences of a growth without visible limit by the exploitation of the non-material resources of a territory, and the implementation of the individual and collective imagination in the construction of the territorial project. This theme will be turned towards referential experiments in the field of the collective intelligence of the territorial practices, in parallel to the professional days which are the object of a specific call for communications.