The project is focused on the study of wild cards and weak signals, in other words the study of issues which are just emerging or not yet visible but with far-reaching implications. The project will also focus on IT applications on social media and second life technologies. Web-based tools established during the project are going to be used also in the EU's own foresight systems.
The project is co-ordinated by the University of Manchester and Manchester Business School. The partners, including the FFRC, are Z-Punkt (Germany), RTC North (UK), Techonology Centre (Czech), University of Tel Aviv, ICTAF (Israel) and IT companies Mindcom Ltd. (Finland) and CyberFox (Czech).
iKnow is part of the EU's BlueSky programme. It is carried out during the years 2008-2011.
Further information:
Jari Kaivo-oja, Research Director
jari.kaivo-oja(a)tse.fi
Tuomo Kuosa, Researcher
tuomo.kuosa(a)tse.fi
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