NETWORKING

COMMUNICATION WITH NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES

Experience from the milestones 1 (future search conference) and 2 (seminar) have shown that human contact and the open exchange of opinions are very significant. Therefore it is understandable that present information technologies have only drawn a limited, fragmentary and even distorted picture of reality. Computers are machines for collecting and storing data but no learning instruments able to change our perception and interpretation of information.

So the city partners also want to establish via Internet an information and communication system. An information technology based on a web site with a geographical information system and a relational data bank are supposed to enable the partner cities to publish the key issues of their work as well as local development schemes.