The Territorial Intelligence Process: The Informational Perimeter Study of a 21 Local Agenda for Building an Ecology System of Communication

Abstract

Aims: Because we have been working for years into the field of territorial intelligence, we'll explain why studying the informational perimeter of a Local Agenda 21 is an important step to design an ecology system of communication through a territorial intelligence process. Study Design: This specific step of research aimed identifying how, at a regional level, ICTs and communication, are worked, or not, to build an ecology system of communication and organize the required participation in sustainable development policies. Place and Duration of Study: University of Toulon, Vitrolles town in South Paca Region (France) and College for Teaching and Education ESPE from between 2010 and 2014. Methodology: The adopted information retrieval protocol for this research was based on three levels of studies, macro, micro and intermediate (meso). We are here showing how the meso dimension of global research protocol has aimed to analyze the sustainability of ecosystem designed by relationship between territory, in its physical and virtual representations, and local authority to drive component to be linked with ecosystem sustainability and couple community/territory. Results: The features provided by collected information through using search engines, listed and then compared to the assumptions of territorial intelligence, indicate the level of territorial formal capital, organic link territory has to set up for the formulation of a development project, is not here sufficient as the study has established so. Conclusion: We here displayed a case of an ecosystem, shaped within local stakeholders relations, made of physical and virtual relations. This ecosystem has not enough showed potency to allow participation, required by a 21 Local Agenda, to contribute implementation of sustainable development agenda in a long term view.