Pierre Rossel
Position: Senior scientific fellow
Organization: College of management of technology, Ecole polytechnique fédérale of Lausanne, Switzerland
Pierre Rossel holds a PhD in anthropology and serves as senior scientific scientist at the College of Management at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale of Lausanne, Switzerland, with master and PhD level teaching and research activities in the areas of early detection of innovation potential, technology foresight and strategic intelligence in the domain of Information and Communication Technologies. In his more than 30 years of professional life, he has published more than 150 articles, reports, book chapters and books on topics and issues related to these capabilities and been involved in over 40 national and international research projects and advisory mandates. Active in both basic and applied research arenas of technology foresight, eGovernment has been one of his major ICT concerns over the past 12 years, with an advisory participation and teaching in an executive Master in eGovernance, advisory mandates in specific technological fore-fields as well as national policy constructions in several countries, and studies on the social and political sides of eGOV measurement problems, the assessment of emerging technologies and more recently on the future of ICTs, in particular on specific smart cities dynamics and ambient intelligent capacities.
Title of the presentation: Scenario design stakes and hurdles for eGovernment in a learning intensive society
Abstract: Scenario designs stakes and hurdles for eGovernment in a learning intensive society. Europe as the rest of the world is going into a highly turbulent and uncertain future, most likely to affect the eGOV domain, which in turn may possibly be one of the stabilizing factors to help solve some of the emerging problems. In this context, a key side question is not only to envision the future, but how to reflect about it to be better prepared for several options and also capable of evaluating the depth, robustness and inspiring value of future objects such as environmental scans, forecast, scenarios and visions proposed by institutional research as well as consultants. Assessing the strengths and weaknesses of existing studies is precisely what we are doing as a first step towards reaching more depth and robustness in this domain. Methods matter, but framing even more so, the main issue being whether existing or incoming studies endorse a pre-formatted view of what eGOV should hold and then build a foresight exercise thereupon or on the contrary, target key challenges to design truly contrastive scenarios, including dark ones, that may further be strategically matched with closer-to-us signals of change, leeway for promising action and learning space, within or out of current best practices and standards.
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