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The ‘participative web’ is an Internet influenced by new intelligent, web services enabling users to contribute to developing, rating, collaborating and distributing Internet content and developing and customising Internet applications. The collective intelligence of Internet users is driving new social and economic applications across an expanding range of business, research and innovation and social activities, ranging from participatory democracy to new ways of doing science.
The OECD Technology Foresight Forum of the Information, Computer and Communications Policy Committee (ICCP) will address these new issues, focusing on the social and economic benefits and barriers to development. It will be the first international policy forum dealing with emerging policy issues related to the participative web.
The themes of Creativity, Confidence and Convergence during the Foresight Forum will contribute to the The Future of the Internet Economy - OECD Ministerial Meeting in Seoul, Korea, 17-18 June 2008.
Previous yearly OECD Technology Foresight Forums have dealt with Radio-Frequency Based Identification Technologies (RFID) (2005) and Next Generation Networks (2006).
2008 Ministerial on the Future Internet Economy
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