Pierre Rossel

Coherent Streams, Switzerland · R&D

Translation in Farsi of Transforming the Future: Anticipation in the 21st Century Translation team: Reza Dehnavi; Atousa Poursheikhali; Somaye Nuri Hekmat; Ali Masoud; Pardis Pourshikhali

This article introduces the Integrated Quality assurance framework implemented in the Maestro project. This framework aims to support both seniors and their carers to select health related solutions to improve personal quality of life and well-being by using an ICT platform. Maestro enables seniors to view a selection of products that are recommend...

MAESTRO (Sustainable Reference Framework evaluating equipment and services for seniors) is a web-based ICT multi modal platform providing a broad range of services and benefits in the domain of monitoring and self-monitoring systems for well-being and health-related information acquisition. Specifically, MAESTRO aims at realizing an innovative fram...

L’apport de la littératie des futurs à l’anticipation se rapproche de celui de l’écriture à la parole. La langue parlée tout comme l’anticipation relèvent de capacités innées à l’espèce humaine. Il nous est possible de renforcer et de déployer l’étendue de ces capacités grâce à des compétences socialement et historiquement construites : l’écriture...

OPEN ACCESS: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351047999 Anticipation is a fundamental building block of this universe. It is a key to turning complexity from a liability into an asset. Yet few have thought about the anticipatory systems and processes that not only surround us but are critical ingredients of the actions everyone, from a bab...

Since the end of 2008, European countries face a low economic growth and are under pressure to reduce their expenses. This context, associated with the short-termism defined by political deadlines, is strongly limiting their participation into disruptive technologies and in particular their efforts regarding new transportation systems. Disruptive a...

This article presents a comprehensive review of literature and practice on the measurement and evaluation of ICT impact in general and of selected public eServices (eGovernment, eHealth, and eInclusion), within the context of the Information Society paradigm. It calls for a sustained meta-level analysis, in which it is important to have a self-refl...

This paper marks a milestone in a six year research cycle on weak signal analysis and early detection issues in futures studies. While providing a broad view and discussing a variety of contributions on this topic, the aim of this article is to offer a more constructivist approach to early detection studies than has been typically the case so far....

Attempts have been made to measure the Information Society, globally or partially, ever since computing and telecommunications became ICTs, some twenty to thirty years ago. The least we can say is that it has not been easy. Though this complexity lessens when measuring specific features for local appraisal goals or benchmarking them within a broade...

In the domain of futures studies, the need to develop methods and concepts to identify risks or opportunities “early enough” has become an issue and almost a discrete sub-field with its own debates, specialties and schools of thought.Our examination of the literature in this domain shows that early detection, early warning or weak signal analysis,...

Wi-Fi has become the preferred means for connecting to the internet – at home, in the office, in hotels and at airports. Increasingly, Wi-Fi also provides internet access for remote communities where it is deployed by volunteers in community-based networks, by operators in ‘hotspots' and by municipalities in ‘hotzones'. This book traces the global...

Wi-Fi has become the preferred means for connecting to the internet - at home, in the office, in hotels and at airports. Increasingly, Wi-Fi also provides internet access for remote communities where it is deployed by volunteers in community-based networks, by operators in 'hotspots' and by municipalities in 'hotzones'. This book traces the global...

Purpose When coping with complex, but also possibly disruptive and open‐ended social dynamics, the anticipatory system idea, which was developed by Rosen in the realm of physical and biological system observation, remains a reference framework, but one that may need to be reinforced by other theoretical considerations. This paper aims at using a de...

This paper revisits theories of weak signal analysis using the concepts of 'framing' and 'meta-framing' to provide an enriched methodological environment for management and decision-making in turbulent contexts. This attempt takes place within the effort that futures studies have deployed to cope with the need to be 'early' in change processes, and...

In this paper, we aimed at conceptualizing the notion of e-governance, as there is a need to explore the new configurations and knowledge issues having emerged out of such pressures as globalization, economic competitiveness, the evolution of the State and the development of information and communication technologies (ICTs). In fact, we postulate t...

Building on the experience of the First Edition of the "Executive Master in e-Governance - e-gov", managed by the Chair of Management of Network Industries (MIR) of the College of Management of Technology (CdM) of the EPFL -- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (http://egov.epfl.ch), the proposal is to discuss the conceptual and theoretical fr...

Since the 1980s the network industries (post, telecom, electricity, air and rail transport, and water) worldwide are undergoing substantial transformations. These transformations have been triggered by institutional changes in both property regimes and coordination mechanisms (unbundling and subsequent competition in the liberalized segments of the...

Our paper draws upon concrete research cases to show: firstly, how the approach, the perspective and the representational framework of eGovernment initiatives influence the nature of the changes taking place and, as too many problems remain unaddressed, why there is an urgent need for a more convincing and robust supportive scheme to qualify progre...

This study is making the case that the Universal Postal Service as currently defined at the European level should be modernized. The European Union plans to liberalize and build up an internal market for postal services by 2009 with the aim to foster improved services and innovations in the postal sector to benefit the customer. This paper argues t...

The paper is conceptual in nature and provides insight into the ongoing research on electronic governance. The core argument developed in this paper is that the rapid development of information and communication technologies in the last twenty years has given rise to a paradigm shift of how collective problems are being solved in the future. The re...

The objective of the paper is to contribute to the discussion about the ideas and concepts of electronic governance. In the first section, the paper describes the authors' conceptual model of electronic governance and its theoretical underpinnings. The second section of the paper presents the cases of the city of Tampere (Finland) and Issy-Les-Moul...

Consultation de recherche “mobilité et territoires urbains” Lettre de commande PUCA n° F0147 du 25/09/01

Swissmetro is a high-speed (500km/h) MAGLEV project, which uniquely distinguishes itself from the other existing systems such as the German Transrapid, the Japanese MLX and the Japanese HSST, by its underground infrastructure of stations and tunnels under partial vacuum (8000 to 10000Pa). The Swissmetro technologies, within a national and internati...

Mise en perspective critique du projet de révision de loi sur les télécommunications.

Methods to find weak signals for foresight and scenario planning.

Study realized for the Office of Culture of the Canton of Geneva, in order to plan a new law on culture