Using new communication technology to involve stakeholders in a strategic planning process: an social learning approach design with the delphi and gdss

Author: 
Marguerite Wotto

The consideration of sustainable development and the governance reinvent a negotiation and consultation culture around the public stake concerns and fertilize the group animation practices. As regards development plan, policy and program evaluation, the strategic stakes negotiation process remains difficult and its success dubious. Such a process invites to take into account several considerations such as: the exigencies of an integrative prospective eco-development vision, the determinants of a planning process for the means and the long term (scope, objectives, steps, changes and results), a transversal analysis the projected stakes beyond the current interests, the actors mobilization around new strategies of action, and especially a capacity of information collecting and sharing. How can the numerical information and communication technologies contribute to such a process? Do their capacity of mobilization of the actors, support an avenue for a social community learning, participative planning and a collective decision?

Paper No: 
880