Digital Challenges, 2012-2014 / Questions Numériques 2012-2014

What emerging phenomena, transformative opportunities, hard questions, and disruptions, will shape the coming years for the producers and the users of digital technologies? We all need to ask ourselves these questions in order to anticipate the changes ahead. Yet we lack the time and the resources to do so, and to share our insights and uncertainties with others.

Following Fing's Questions Numériques 2011-2012 workshop and publication (Feb. 2011), this mass workshop will gather 100+ participants around a number of "Tensions" (from which the future may take multiple directions), distributed in small groups who, together, will formulate of "Challenges" that speak to a great variety of stakeholders.

The resulting work will feed into a publication.

THIS WORKSHOP WILL BE BILINGUAL: Subgroups can elect to speak either English or French (or even both!)

How will the workshop happen?

• At 9:00, a board will display a number of "Digital Issues" proposed for discussion (see below). Several slots will be left empty: Participants themselves may wish to suggest another issue and motivate other participants to join them. Proponents of each issue will have 1 mn to make their case and convince others to join them at a table
• No later than 9:25, participants will sit (or stand!) at their table of choice - NO MORE THAN 12 PPL/TABLE
• At each table:
  • A blank paper tablecloth will serve as a common repository of challenges and ideas. Participants will have markers and post-its to use, and can elect to use other material.
  • The group facilitator/proponent will present his/her vision of the issue (10 mn): What are we talking about? What are the issues? Why are they important, for individuals and organization? What digital challenges and opportunities are present? Give examples, help people understand what it's about!
  • A first round of exchange will ask participants to respond to the issue in the 1st person: Why is this issue relevant to you, in you private or professional life? How have you encountered it in recent times? Have you got experiences or stories to share? Participants will map the reasons why this issue is current and important, and how it challenges society and organizations.
  • A second round of exchange will focus on possible answers, through innovation and collective action: What transformative initiatives are you aware of/involved in? What transformative initiatives could be imagined? If you were a large corporation / a public agency / a community... what would you do? These will be mapped along with the issues. And the most interesting "answers" will be discussed in more detail.

2 "speakers tables"

2 "special tables" will offer participants the chance to interact and collaborate with some of the previous day's speakers from the "URBAN" and "CARE" sessions

At these tables:

• Work will start with a short Q&A sessions on the previous day's talks
• A second round of exchange will ask participants to share how the issues and the talks are relevant to them, either individually or professionally . The answers will be mapped along with the main ideas presented by the speakers.
• A last round of exchange will focus on taking these ideas further: What other transformative initiatives are participants aware of/involved in? What future directions do they point towards? What innovations and/or collective actions need to happen? And the most interesting "answers" will be discussed in more detail.

Initial list of issues/tables

• Do-It-Yourself's new frontiers: Where is it headed, what can it change in innovation, industry, the economy, education... ? [Facilitators: Fabien Eychenne and Marie-Noeline Viguie / Language: French or English]
• Slow/Fast: Reclaiming a sense of control over the flow of time, from an individual and an organization point of vue [Facilitator: Denis Pansu / Language: French]
• Order and Disorder in large organizations: Finding a new, more productive balance between "process-led" and "disruptive" uses of IT in and around organizations [Facilitator: Amandine Brugière and Renaud Francou / Language: French]
• Speaker table: CARE, towards a new vision of healthcare and well-being [with the previous day's session's speakers / Language: English]
• Speaker table: URBAN, who needs to become "smart" in tomorrow's cities? [with the previous day's session's speakers / Language: English]
• Open Data: What happens beyond the current opening up of government data? Who comes next? How can people really be empowered by it? [Facilitator: Charles Népote / Language: French]
• Digital Life in 2020: Transformations, forkings and disruptions [Facilitator: Jacques-François Marchandise / Language: French]
• ... And more to come from the participants themselves!


Date et heure: 
Vendredi, Juillet 8, 2011 - 09:00 - 11:00
Salle: 
Restaurant room