ONLINE PLATFORM
Facilitating exchange of experiences and knowledge brokering; developing partnership and synergies between distant stakeholders; fostering collaboration and exchange within a neighbourhood… can be enhanced by appropriate and open digital tools. Key is not a sophisticated IT development –especially for the critical starting phase- but the involvement of the potential participants into a flexible co-design process, combining and experimenting existing technological bricks to facilitate appropriation and kick-of effective use of the platform…
Within the Nanoplat FP6 research project, very simple chat and wiki tools were combined to reproduce online the conditions of a proper deliberative process and engage production, consumption and regulation parties disseminated in Europe to debate nanotech issues in the food sector and form a converging position…
