WEB 2.0 AND THE EMERGENCE OF FUTURE ORIENTED COMMUNITIES

Information and communication technologies (ICT) have been largely used in the future oriented consultations (foresight) in the last years. The emergence of the community oriented web (web 2.0) opens a window of opportunity for a new generation of foresight exercises, with a higher interactivity, better focus of expertise, a larger use of Internet resources and, most important, an accumulative content development. The paper describes the framework architecture of a web 2.0 based platform for foresight and describes its properties in the perspective of cognitive psychology and evolutionary economics. The paper concludes that such platforms may represent the basis of future oriented communities able of developing complex databases of future trends related to complex systems.