Territorial Intelligence Research Articles

Local Governance and Territorial Intelligence:Witch impact forthe Territory Project

The relationship between man and space in sociology has always been marked by considerable complexity, due to the multiplicity of interests, elements and actors who interact in it, and who have sometimes common interests, sometimes distinct ones in relation to that common geographic anchor, for Morin 2005, Is Complex what cannot be summed up in one key word, which cannot be reduced to a law, nor reduced to a simple idea and it is well the case for a good number of concepts which will be evoked throughout this paper, who tries in an analytical perspective of interpretation, to review some answers to better understand the seeds at the origins of the two concepts with the rich semantics , in our case: Territorial Intelligence, And Governance. At this level the question who rises is: “What are the possible Junctions between governance and intelligence ?, and how to make from this Creed, a vector of local development? ”, This questioning appeared necessary to us following the identification of the panoply of actors, actions, and specificities of the territories, in addition to the reticular aspect of the local public cases. For this study, we first propose to review 1) The different kaleidoscopic aspects of both “intelligence” as a process, and “territory” as a construct, before evoking the intersection and the rise of territorial intelligence, and then in the second part we will talk about 2) The emergence of the concept of governance.

Mediatic, Informational and Digital Skills and Competencies in Students from Agricultural Family Schools and Rural Family Home, in the Amazon Biome, Brazil

The article presents partial results of an ongoing research action, within the scope of the project “Geodigital Inclusion and Territorial Management of Family-Based Production Units: Generation of Sustainability Index for the Amazon Biome”. This project provides for the definition and availability of indicators of environmental, economic, agricultural, social and governance sustainability, aiming to assist family farmers in the management of the property, subsidizing them in decision making and increasing family income. Embrapa Territorial Intelligence carries out the execution of this research project in partnership with Embrapa Agricultural Informatics, units of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), headquartered in Campinas, São Paulo (SP), Brazil. The article presents a contribution to the education of the field in Brazil, through a continuous formation action, in the non-formal education modality, through presential and distance training courses, for students of the Agricultural Family School (EFA acronym for which it is known in Brazil) and Rural Family House (CFR acronym for which it is known in Brazil) in the Amazon Biome. This action was based on a training needs diagnosis, conducted through a questionnaire applied to 144 students, distributed between EFA and CFR, located in the Brazilian states of Acre, Amapá, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Pará, Rondônia and Roraima. The objective of this diagnosis was to identify and analyze the training needs regarding: 1) media, informational and digital skills and competencies of these students; 2) students’ level of knowledge and domain of issues related to agricultural production systems and the sustainable development of family agricultural production units. This paper analyzes and presents the result of the diagnosis regarding only the students’ media, informational and digital skills and competencies. In this sense, the analysis of these competencies provided the subsidies for the elaboration of a formation and qualification program, oriented under the Pedagogy of Alternance approach, and that considers the specificities and the aspirations of the young students, in search of an education of the field compatible with the local reality and the aspiration of the subjects involved in the process.

Evolutions in estuary governance? Reflections and lessons from Australia, France and New Caledonia

Estuaries are cradles of life for the communities who live around and within them. They are valued in multiple ways for the services they provide to humans, including food production, recreation, water purification, navigation and amenity. Various groups of stakeholders all place different importance on these values, how their needs and practices interact, and what it means to effectively manage an estuary towards a range of desirable goals. This typically creates value conflicts over how estuaries should be managed. Navigating such conflicts requires governance arrangements and methods that allow multiple parties to find a common path forward. Using Evolutionary Governance Theory (EGT) and a hybrid analytic framework incorporating aspects of multi-level/multi-scalar governance, risk governance and territorial intelligence theory, this paper explores the (co-)evolution of governance processes by analysing lessons learnt from action in and observation of estuaries in Australia (Lower Hawkesbury), France (Thau) and New Caledonia (Thio). A multi-method research approach to data collection was used and comparative analysis across the three estuaries undertaken to understand the evolutions in each of their governance systems. From this analysis, several reflections and lessons for the governance of other land-sea systems emerge on: the importance of boundary organisations and boundary negotiations in re-defining integrated approaches to land-sea governance; how particular information systems or models, as well as discourses from other key actors shape co-evolutions of estuarine governance; and that risks or shocks still appear to be the catalysers of new forms of collective action and major reconfigurations and evolutions of estuarine governance.

Territorial Intelligence through the application of Business and Competitive intelligence: The case of Guadalupe, Zacatecas (Mexico)

The competitiveness it is a quality demanded by organizations, independently of its nature, size, or position in the value chain, public administrations also do this. Public administrations, on its side, have decided to bet for the development of initiatives that prompt the development of a single knowledge, which allows to improve the activities between agents installed in its action zones and, thus, enhancing its competitiveness in a coordinated manner, fulfilling its most immediate needs, and building a trustful environment. With this intention, public administrations require formal studies that identify and measure each one of the elements that compose competitiveness of the organizations, and allows each person involved to analyze and make decisions for adequate economic planning, sustainable development of the region, the enhancement of the life quality, and the perception of an environment of opportunities. For this reason, the city council of the municipality of Guadalupe, Zacatecas (Mexico) in collaboration with the National Institute of Geography and Statistics (INEGI, by its acronym in Spanish) have launched an initiative for identifying, finding, and cataloging, 100% of the active businesses in the territory comprised in an intelligence and geolocalization system, that was named “Inteligencia Competitiva del Comercio, Guadalupe, Zacatecas (ICCGZ)” that roughly translates to “Competitive Commerce Intelligence, Guadalupe, Zacatecas”. This initiative allows to know rapidly the current status of the local commerce and establishes strategies for strengthening and growing up it, through the intelligent use of the data and information.

The New Public Management and Stakeholders theory applied to the territorial intelligence.

In the context of territorial intelligence, territorial actors and, in large part, public administrations in particular are in constant development.
 For this reason and to support territorial development, several theories and practices have been adopted.
 Among the theories developed to carry out the function of territorial governance, we find the stakeholder theory that comes to put in place a strategy centered on the systems of corporate governance.
 Thus, the NPM also appears as a new management tool, considered as a "hybrid, processual and evolutionary construct" or/and as a slippery label.
 The present article aims to conduct a literature review of the above mentioned theories in order to identify the advantages and disadvantages of each.

Urban sprawl of Ziguinchor city (Senegal) and territorial intelligence issues

The urban sprawl of African cities raises several issues, including city-country relations. The objective of the article is to determine the socio-economic, environmental and land impacts of the advancement of the urban front of Ziguinchor city on its rural district bordering Niaguis as well as the governance mechanisms adopted by the various actors facing to the phenomenon. The methodology used is based on photo-interpretation and mapping to determine changes in land use over the last twelve years. Quantitative and qualitative surveys of local populations and resource persons are carried out to complete the analysis of observed phenomena. Between 2004 and 2016, the proportion of space occupied by buildings and orchard fields in the district of Niaguis is increasing rapidly. In the same period, the vegetation cover recorded a spectacular loss of its space initially occupied. The local population estimates at 76% that this degradation of the vegetation is linked to the urban sprawl of Ziguinchor city. Agricultural areas, like highland crops and rice fields, are also affected with a significant decrease. The strong land pressure on the rural district is accompanied by important social changes. Land previously loaned to the local population is thus 70.2% removed by the owners to sell or rent to newcomers from the city. The governance strategies deployed by the two municipalities to face the crisis are failures. The analysis of all its dynamics from the point of view of territorial intelligence makes it possible to launch a battery of recommendations that take into account the imperatives of sustainable development, in particular the consultation and the participation of all the actors in the governance of the urban sprawl problem and the development of participatory territorial development plans.

PREFACE

Abstract. Simply defined, a Smart City is a city overlaid by a digital layer, which is used for the governance of the city. A Smart City uses intelligent technology to enhance our quality of life in urban environments, bringing together people and data from disparate sources such as sensors, demographics, topographic and 3D mapping, Building Information Models and many more. Increasingly, Smart Cities use this data in a variety of ways, to address key challenges related to transportation, communications, air quality, noise, well-being of the citizens, decision making relating to education and health and urban planning, as well as in relation to initiatives such as startups and fostering economic growth and employment within the city. As more data becomes available, the challenges of storing, managing and integrating such data are also multiplied. This increasing interest in Smart Cities world-wide, along with a growing understanding of the importance of integrating “Smart” data with other data and wider applications for the benefit of citizens, made the choice of hosting the third Smart Data, Smart Cities conference in Delft – in conjunction with three other conferences – a very natural one. Together the four conferences were held during the week of 1st–5th October 2018, and alongside SDSC participants were invited to attend the ISPRS Technical Commission IV Symposium, the 13th 3D GeoInfo Conference and the 6th International FIG Workshop on 3D Cadastres. Participant interaction – and the ability to attend sessions across the four events – was particularly encouraged. SDSC 2018 itself was organised by the Urban Data Management Society (UDMS www.udms.net), ISPRS and TU Delft (the Delft University of Technology), and Professor Volker Coors Chaired the SDSC committee. As in previous years, three key conference themes were proposed to represent the Smart Cities: Smart Data (sensor network databases, on-the-fly data mining, geographic and urban knowledge modeling and engineering, green computing, urban data analytics and big data, big databases and data management), Smart People (volunteered information, systems for public participation) and Smart Cities (systems of territorial intelligence, systems for city intelligence management,3D modeling of cities, internet of things, social networks, monitoring systems, mobility and transportation, smart-city-wide telecommunications infrastructure, urban knowledge engineering, urban dashboard design and implementation, new style of urban decision-making systems, geovisualization devoted to urban problems, disaster management systems). This volume consists of 18 papers, which were selected from 34 submissions on the basis of double blind review, with each paper being reviewed by a minimum of three reviewers. These papers present novel research concerning the use of spatial information and communication technologies in Smart Cities, addressing different aspects of Smart Data and Smart Citizens. The selected papers tackle different aspects of Smart Cities: 3D; Citizen Engagement; transport, sustainable mobility; dashboards and web GIS; citizen engagement and participation; sensors; urban decision making. The editors are grateful to the members of the Scientific Committee for their time and valuable comments, which contributed to the high quality of the papers. Reviews were contributed by: Giorgio Agugiaro, Maria Antoniabrovelli, Ken Arroyoohori, Martina Baucic, Michela Bertolotto, Pawel Boguslawski, Azedine Boulmakoul, Caesar Cardenas, Ofelia Cervantes, Volker Coors, Isabel Cruz, Vincenzo Delfatto, Claire Ellul, Tarun Ghawana, Gesquiere Gilles, Gerhard Groeger, Eberhard Gulch, Jan-Henrik Haunert, Stephen Hirtle, Umit Isikdag, Martin Kada, Snjezana Knezic, Robert Laurini, Liu Liu, Ed Manley, Viviana Mascardi, Marco Minghini, Raul Monroy, Regina Motz, Beniamino Murgante, Marco Painho, Dev Paudyal, Alenka Poplin, Ivana Racetin, Ismail Rakip Karas, Preston Rodrigues, David Sol, Wei Tu, Wei Tu, Genoveva Vargas, Kavita Vemuri, Edward Verbree, Mingshu Wang, Maribel Yasminasantos, Sisi Zlatanova. We are also grateful to the work of the local organising committee at TU Delft, without whom this conference would not have been possible. ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume IV-4/W7, 2018 3rd International Conference on Smart Data and Smart Cities, 4–5 October 2018, Delft, The Netherlands

Urban logistics and spatial territorial intelligence indicators: State-of-the-art, typology and implications for Latin American cities

This paper reviews the state of the art in spatial accessibility and attractiveness indicators for urban freight transport and logistics, from a territorial intelligence and analytics viewpoint. It proposes a first typology of indicators and analyzes their potential in Latin American urban planning and development. After presenting the main notions of business intelligence and analytics, as well as a definition of territorial intelligence and analytics, the paper proposes an overview of territorial intelligence indicators, focusing on accessibility and attractiveness indicators, and a typology of five categories of indicators: infrastructure-based indicators, generation-based indexes, distance/time/cost measures, gravity-based indicators and space-time compatibility indexes. Finally, the main issues for implementing such indicators are presented, in terms of data requirements and potential applications focusing on the Latin American context.

Diseño de la transición e inteligencia territorial. Enfoques para la regeneración de la agencia en la era del Antropoceno

Este texto aborda una de las principales urgencias del Antropoceno: la necesidad de regeneración de la agencia humana, mediante una mejor integración entre el conocimiento y acción, ante los importantes desafíos socioecológicos. Se presentan brevemente las propuestas de dos campos de investigación-acción emergentes, la inteligencia territorial y el diseño de la transición, que persiguen esta misma integración con diferentes perspectivas, y se discuten las sinergias que es posible establecer entre ellos a propósito de la revitalización de esta agencia. La conclusión es que existe un gran espacio para la colaboración de la que ambos campos pueden salir mutuamente fortalecidos, ya que comparten objetivos, principios, métodos y herramientas propias de cada campo, que son complementarios y contribuyen a reforzarse mutuamente.

Territorios posibles y utopías reales. Aportes a las teorías de la transformación: inteligencia territorial y justicia territorial

Este artículo de reflexión procura sintetizar la cuestión acerca de cómo la perspectiva epistemológica de territorios posibles aporta hace tres décadas en la construcción de Teorías de la Transformación. Se incluyen diálogos con la perspectiva de las utopías reales en Wrigth (2015). La hipótesis general plantea una fórmula básica entre la Gente y las Políticas Públicas para co-construir otro desarrollo: Territorios Posibles, Utopías Reales u otros conceptos, pero comprometiéndonos con la decisión de transformar nuestro mundo con las “patas de la mesa” de la Inteligencia Territorial latinoamericana: gente, científicos, políticos y empresarios. La fórmula se organiza teóricamente mediante cuatro hipótesis, se aplica con un método, Territorii, y se sostiene en resultados de un buen número de investigaciones ejecutadas desde 1984 y de otra en desarrollo desde 2014: el Proyecto PIO UNLP-CONICET “Gestión Integral del Territorio”. En el PIO dos Agendas Científicas operacionalizadas con Mesas de Trabajo permanentes vienen produciendo resultados concretos en materia de “Urbanizaciones Informales” y “Territorio-Industria-Ambiente” co-construyendo Poder y Políticas Públicas desde la Gente y la Ciencia con la participación de un actor que habla su propio idioma: el Ambiente. Participan siempre instituciones y empresas en el marco del sistema dominante en sus dos facetas: formalidad e informalidad.

The role of the diaspora in the emergence of economic and territorial intelligence in Haiti

Increasing attention has been placed on diasporas and migration globally, for a number of reasons, including the growing size of this group. Within this context the diaspora exists as one of the key stakeholders and sources of knowledge and innovation in many developing and emerging countries. Nevertheless, approaches such as economic intelligence and territorial intelligence, which accord a major role for innovation, knowledge, and the involvement of stakeholders, have paid little attention to the value of this group, particularly in emerging and developing contexts. We propose that for many emerging countries, given the history and reality of a growing global diaspora population, the diaspora is emerging as a critical stakeholder in the growth of their home countries and its ability to grow and develop TI and EI. This is illustrated through an examination of the case of Haiti which helps to shed new light on the potential for the Diaspora in this regard, helping to extend the literature and understanding of TI & EI and the role of diasporas as sources of innovation and knowledge.

The role of the diaspora in the emergence of economic and territorial intelligence in Haiti

The role of the diaspora in the emergence of economic and territorial intelligence in Haiti

The Impact of Territorial Intelligence on Local Development: Case Study of Tunisia

The Impact of Territorial Intelligence on Local Development: Case Study of Tunisia Cyrine Nour Bahri, Issam Bouchrara Abstract This paper tackles the question of the impact of territorial intelligence on local development, mainly in the most disadvantaged regions, in a context of globalization and crisis, more precisely the post-revolutionary situation of Tunisia. Given the ambiguity of the notion of local development in the Tunisian context, the interest of our research concerns the understanding of the dimensions related to this concept and the enrichment of the literature available on the subject. As the subject was briefly discussed, an exploratory study was imposed on us through a qualitative analysis based on six semi-structured interviews with public project promoters and a rather restrictive documentation obtained, describing projects carried out in collaboration with the State in order to ensure the desired development. For this purpose, theoretical proposals on this subject have been formulated. The results of our research show the immediate consequences of the revolution of January 14th were first of all a success in terms of individual freedoms and in the establishment of democratic transition institutions. But the positive effects were not at all levels. Several reforms must be taken into consideration, including the introduction of good governance principles and the establishment of a territorial intelligence system, on the other hand, by ensuring the circulation of relevant information between local actors. These results, with respect to this mode of development, are more convincing given the field of research, a State in the phase of renewal.. Full Text: PDF DOI: 10.15640/ijlc.v5n1a9

Aplicación del método Territorii en dos asentamientos espontáneos de Puerto Madryn, Argentina

<p>El trabajo aborda una problemática socio-territorial en dos asentamientos no planificados de la ciudad de Puerto Madryn: La Lomita y Alta Tensión, caracterizados por la presencia de condiciones de vulnerabilidad social, económica, jurídica, territorial y ambiental significativas. El objetivo del trabajo es aplicar el Método <em>Territorii</em> y sus ocho fases –territorios reales, vividos, pasados, legales, pensados, posibles, concertados e inteligentes- en dichos asentamientos, a fin de acompañar a las comunidades en la construcción de territorios más sustentables. Asimismo, se pretende identificar en los actores partícipes del proceso en qué medida están presentes las cuatro modalidades de transformación propuestas en la INTI Network: subjetiva, social, ambiental y desicional, así como también las “cuatro patas de la mesa” de la inteligencia territorial latinoamericana: actores públicos, comunitarios, empresarios y científicos.</p><p> </p>

RECHERCHE-ACTION ET INTELLIGENCE TERRITORIALE EN AMÉRIQUE LATINE

The paper is an attempt at identifying significant relationships between research-action and territorial intelligence. Conceptual and methodological aspects are being considered, including their implications in intervention and action in practice. The cultural space of reference is that of Latin America where research-action has strong roots, but territorial intelligence has only recently emerged as project and territorial actoruniversity researcher partnership-based development theory and practice.

Combining personal diaries with territorial intelligence to empower diabetic patients

Information is today recognized as a major source of benefit, for those who are able to properly create and manage it. With the advent of new computing, storing and networking technologies, transforming data into useful, ‘marketable’ information has become a major goal for companies, organizations and governments. The healthcare domain makes no exception. Governments and healthcare companies are paying increasing attention to patient-centered care and to its positive effects on business metrics, such as finances, quality, safety, satisfaction and market share. Appropriate information sharing and communication are then recognized to be one of the key factors for patient-centered care. In this paper, we propose an infrastructure for defining new processes to support a fruitful exchange of strategic information at the local level, which could encourage local dynamics and improve the relationships between ultimate users and the territory and vice versa. This is particularly relevant in the healthcare domain, so we have developed a mobile application to provide diabetic patients with personalized services based on a technology with a low level invasive impact, through the experimentation of new process models meant to share information and integrate software components. Such a special-purpose application is meant to improve care experience of diabetic patients while creating public value for services. This is achieved by a profitable combination of territorial knowledge with personal data and events available and processed on smartphones.

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

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.

Territorial Intelligence and Export Performance of Maghreb SMEs

This paper aims to analyze the impact of the various devices of territorial intelligence on the export performance of SMEs based on their intensities of exports, in the specific case of the Maghreb SMEs. The originality of this paper lies in the lack of empirical studies in the subject of territorial intelligence in developing countries in general, and the Maghreb countries in particular, which is added the enhancement of the mediating effect of competitive intelligence of SMEs on the success of the territorial intelligence approach in terms of export performance.

Reflexiones sobre la práctica turística: abordaje territorial para definir lugares sustentables. Iniciativas en Minas, Lavalleja (Uruguay)

Se reflexiona sobre acciones e iniciativas desarrolladas en tres lugares turísticos del departamento de Lavalleja, Rou del Uruguay, en el marco del Observatorio de Inteligencia y Desarrollo Territorial como estrategia más amplia de desarrollo turístico sustentable y herramienta útil de conservación de biodiversidad, del patrimonio y mejora de calidad de vida. Se indaga la relación entre los lugares, el desarrollo turístico sustentable y la inteligencia territorial, entendida como un campo multidisciplinar que tiene por objeto el desarrollo sustentable de los territorios, y por sujeto, a las comunidades territoriales. Se analizan fuentes primaras, secundarias y, desde una metodología cualitativa (entrevistas), en qué medida están presentes en las acciones e iniciativas de los diferentes actores del territorio: a) la valorización de aspectos patrimoniales naturales y culturales en lugares seleccionados, b) el alcance de dimensiones de sustentabilidad, c) en qué grado se manifiestan lecturas en clave de inteligencia territorial.

Predicting and visualizing traffic congestion in the presence of planned special events

The recent availability of datasets on transportation networks with higher spatial and temporal resolution is enabling new research activities in the fields of Territorial Intelligence and Smart Cities. Among these, many research efforts are aimed at predicting traffic congestions to alleviate their negative effects on society, mainly by learning recurring mobility patterns. Within this field, in this paper we propose an integrated solution to predict and visualize non-recurring traffic congestion in urban environments caused by Planned Special Events (PSE), such as a soccer game or a concert. Predictions are done by means of two Machine Learning-based techniques. These have been proven to successfully outperform current state of the art predictions by 35% in an empirical assessment we conducted over a time frame of 7 months within the inner city of Cologne, Germany. The predicted congestions are fed into a specifically conceived visualization tool we designed to allow Decision Makers to evaluate the situation and take actions to improve mobility.