Digital technology has overwhelmed our industries, our services, our ways of consuming, our behaviour, it is changing deeply our access to knowledge, health, information and even our relationship to the other. Everyone is currently looking to digital technology. The El Dorado of the 21st Century, this revolution has already begun and is not going to stop. But is it a fatality for the citizen? Should they be carried off by a power which very often has no democratic existence? Can they influence this process? Are they uniquely a consumer? Are they ready to see their daily life, their thoughts, their individual and collective behaviour driven by artificial intelligence which knows its centres of interest and its ways of consummation, and which analyses their needs, even predicts its wants?
The E-TIC project aims, without resorting to science fiction or obscurantism, to rely on a framework which can be a true laboratory for this revolution. This evolution is accelerating but may be sufficiently circumscribed in order to think about how general interest values, ecology, solidarity, sovereignty, democracy, will be at the heart of this transformation.
The choice has been made to consider data to be the DNA of digital technology, where it could be considered to be software, robot, platforms, or even AI. Data is the source of digital technology. It is ubiquitous in our daily life. Its quality, truth, freshness are as important and impact our decisions and those of economic and public actors. Data is used through infrastructures. It is transformed by applications. It is consumed or produced by actors. It thus appears that it is the raw material of digital technology. Applications, treatments (AI, etc.) or infrastructures allow it to live through different stages in its life, from its creation to its suppression.
The E-TIC project “Data of a territory: uses and governance” was born under the impulsion of Pierre Cohen, former Deputy Mayor of Toulouse, and a work group Toulouse personalities working in the digital domain, which he has led since 2014. E-TIC nourishes the ambition to bring a heuristic look at the relationship that territories maintain with digital data. The objective is, ultimately, to provide elements for reflection to territorial collectives and their partners.
Report Data of a territory. Use and governance
Study of digital platforms and innovations in intelligent cities
Study of the life cycle of data
The Project is supported by the Banque des Territoires (Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations), and is hosted by the Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme, and the firms TACTIS and Société Laurent Cervilla have also collaborated
