IT-GO 2010: "Grand Ouest", a sustainable intelligence

Through distributing operation and action modes at territorial levels and opening discussion about indicators and tools research field to all great west territorial actors, IT-GO days have confirmed the perfect fitting of West-france actors within the network’s international action plans.

All along this international meeting, actors and searchers from Great West, but also France, Europe, Mercosur and Canada, together with institutional actors, As a first result, a consensus has been established on the sustainable development as the major way to ensure peoples well-fare and well-being, regarding the mostly destroying effect of economical globalisation on eco- and sociosystems.

Progress as an « econological » awareness [1] should answer the challenges set by the ecological, environmental and especially human consequences of the myth of the economic growth with treating simultaneously environmental exclusion and vulnerability. This is the condition for assuming the convergence of economy and ecology sustainability goals as a complementary paradigm of the territorial production-consumption organization.

As the state of the planet arouses many anxieties, when the differences continue to be considerable between Northern and Southern countries, when the sciences often call to the ethics, the societal commitment of the citizens becomes an essential stake against environmental vulnerability.

Within territorial action field, contributions have shown evolution from governance classical tools to a competition between territories through local governance assets implying other actors like institutions or organizations.

Intelligent co-action between the two main West-France metropoles has been defended by the decision makers and elected officials for the Great West, with presenting original initiatives, such as " public dialogue tools to ensure the citizen dialogue at the levels of public policies design, implementation, and evaluation, in order to anticipate territorial changes" (Pascal Bolo, Nantes Métropole).

Thus, “ Collective intelligence remains the most effective means to advance towards solutions of the sustainability objectives convergence, by avoiding the conflict by the measures of agreement front setting, with sparing the particular interests while advancing the general ones” (Horacio Bozzano, Territorios posibles). In other words, “ It is necessary to cross intelligences to have an anticipator glance on the future of the city, the periphery and the rural world”( Gwenaële Hamon, Rennes Métropole).

This is the reason why association between scientific knowledge and territorial action is the major way to solve the convergence challenge between the three sustainable development objectives: economics, ecologics and social, through their three interactional interdisciplinary and intersectorial components solving.

Therefore, one of the main contributions of these days concerns the necessary inhabitants co-action into the territorial buiding process. So, as a governance toll by decision-making valuation, research-action participation and partnership processes considers territorial intelligence as an ontologic action structure serving the territorial community sustainable development, through:
With respect to this participative viewpoint, territorial intelligence implies a new territory-scaled governance, assuming the paradigmatic change from neo-classical economic models to territorial actions socio-ecological transition, unique way for sustainable adaptation to running globalisation.

Information, knowledge and ethical goals sharing between all actors constitutes one of the main ambitions for territorial intelligence networked action. Therefore, we can state that the territorial communities capacities to control their development in a sustainable way are sharply related to territorial information sharing at every scale of decision-making. As a consequence, a common territorial knowledge representation is an absolute necessity for collective social bond co-construction and spatial co-action in order to assume a territorial sustainability foresight.

After the international conference in Salerno, held on November 4-8th, 2009, this eighth international event of the Network of Territorial Intelligence has been co-organised by :

the network ENTI, laboratories ThéMA (Theorize and Modelize to Fit out UMR 6049), ESO (UMR 6590 Spaces and Societies), and the LBA association (The Onlooker Partners),

with the partnership of the MSH (Houses of the Human sciences) of Nantes, Rennes, Tours, Caen and Franche-Comté, Cerma laboratory (Architectural and Urban Atmospheres UMR 1563), ENSA Nantes, Nantes and Rennes metropoles and universities, Bretagne and Pays de Loire districts, Nantes University formation continue and the CNRS.

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