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and telecommunication technologies, are expected to have a very positive impact within an optimistic information society scenario. The same technology,

see Andersen et al. 35.18 FISTERA Foresight on Information society Technologies in the European research area was funded by the European commission between 2002

on Information society Technologies in the European research area) 49.475 E. A. Eriksson, K. M. Weber/Technological forecasting & Social Change 75 (2008) 462 482 identifying a hierarchy of driving variables such that some are seen as more fundamental/independent and others as more derived.

I. Miles, Foresight on Information society Technologies in the European research area (FISTERA), Key Findings, IPTS, Sevilla, 2006.37 M. Weber, R. Hoogma, B. Lane, J. Schot, Experimenting with Sustainable

i e. from an information society into a knowledge society and from that towards a knowledge-value society.

from an information society into a knowledge society and from the knowledge society stage towards a knowledgevaalu society and towards the society fulfilling the requirements of sustainable development.

each containing three indicators (Fig. 1). In the information society, information production, processing, dissemination and exploitation play a central role in all societal sectors.

In the technology barometer, the definition of an information society is focused around the investments in human and intellectual capital,

These investments show how effectively the information society related objectives will be achieved. In conjunction with the reform of the Finnish information society strategy, the knowledge society is defined as one where knowledge

and competence constitute the foundation for education, and the crucial element in production, with information and communication technologies comprehensively supporting interaction, the dissemination and exploitation of knowledge between individuals, businesses and other communities, plus the provision and accessibility of services.

The knowledge-value society refers to an advanced formthat has developed froman information society via a knowledge society,

When assessing societies by information society indicators the Nordic countries particularly Finland and Sweden excel (Fig. 2). This is partly explained by vigorous investments in the development of intellectual capital.

A Venture in Social Forecasting, Basic books, New york, 1976.9 Y. Masuda, The Information society as the Post-Industrial Society, Institute for the Information society, Tokyo, 1980.10 T. Sakaiya, The Knowledge Value

FP1 Socioeconomic Improving human potential Innovation/dissemination International cooperation Energy Environment Competitive and sustainable growth Information society Quality of life Fig. 2. Evolution of framework programme priorities

including its societal perspectives, for instance, sustainability, security and information society. While foresight is used commonly in connection with the public-Futures 43 (2011) 252 264 A r T I C L E I N F O Article history:

Whereas the paper reports some findings on the future of challenges especially related to sustainability, security and information society,

sustainability and information society issues requires typically many types of participants as well as different kinds of methods to adapt to the interests

In the security, sustainability and information society fields, stakeholders have the possibility to develop scenarios on

Foresight on Information society Technologies in the European research Areag 21 Informative Identification and SWOT analysis of socio-techno-economic trends, drivers and challenges;

futures challenges, applications and priorities for developing the information society in the EU. Instrumental Outputs contributed to prepare the FP7 (Framework programme) ICT programme.

Results were discussed with both DG Information society and DG Transport and Energy of the European commission. Diverse Description of a large degree of uncertainty of impact of ICTS on the environment.

f Commissioned by the Finnish Government. g A FP5 IST Thematic Network (2002 2005) coordinated by JRC-IPTS and managed in collaboration with DG Information society. h Commissioned by JRC-IPTS.

Information society: a term put forward by Castells 15 to describe a society built on technologies of information storage, retrieval,

Information society calls, for instance, for a new legislative framework to recognize and protect the users of cyberspace.

The European commission has been an active promoter of the information society. 4 While the authors consider diverse approaches valuable in the realm of foresight to address societal challenges, for the purposes of this paper,

A quick scan was performed on foresight projects that address security, sustainability and/or information society issues. The suitability of the identified projects was discussed

They are expected to improve the understanding of present 4 In 1997 the European commission published a"Green Paper"pointing at the development of a new Information society

in order to support the development of the Information society in Europe. In parallel with addressing regulatory aspects, the European union (EU) included in its Fifth Framework programme for Research and Technological development (FP5:

1998 2002) a specific programme for research on a"User-friendly information society"."Today, with the i2010 policy framework, the EU aims to"promote the positive contribution that information

Foresight on Information society Technologies in the European research area (2002 2005) was an FP5 IST Thematic Network coordinated by JRC-IPTS

/Futures 43 (2011) 252 264 261 Information society. FISTERA highlighted priority application areas where R&d investments should be intensified in the future,

Outputs were discussed with both DG Information society and DG Transport and Energy of the European commission. Findings were used also in subsequent JRC-IPTS projects 25.

we elaborate and attest its validity in the context of ex post analysis of a number of foresight projects focusing on sustainability, security and information society and their contribution to policy-making.

/Futures 43 (2011) 252 264 263 foresight is ever more important to position foresight as one of the key supporting tools for policy-making to anticipate how major societal challenges ahead can be addressed such as those tackled in this paper, e g. security, sustainability and information society challenges.

and the implications for regulation towards an approach for the information society, COM/97/623, December 1997.17 Nordic ICT foresight, available at:

Foresight on Information society Technologies in the European research area, available at: http://fistera. jrc. ec. europa. eu/(2009-11-10). 22 Future impacts of ICTS on Environmental sustainability Project, available at:

Foresight on Information society Technologies in the European research area (FISTERA) Key Findings, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), Technical Report EUR-22319-EN, Seville, 2009, available at:

id=1431 (2009-11-10). 24 A. Fujii, Foresight on information society technologies in Europe, in:

The EPIS Annual Monitoring Synthesis Report, The Role of ICTS as Enabler for Energy efficiency, the European Perspectives on Information society (EPIS) project, 11/2008, EUR Number:

and roadmapping conducted for ISTAG (the Information society Technologies Advisory Group) of the EC 26. The Ami work had focused on the benefits of the emerging ubiquitous IT systems,

ISSN 1463-6689 DOI 10.1108/14636681211256116 Norberto Nuno Gomes de Andrade is a Scientific Officer and Legal expert with the Information society Unit, European commission, Joint research Centre (JRC

The FIDIS project (Future of Identity in the Information society) aimed to shape the requirements for the future management of identity in the European Information society (EIS)

Rannenberg, K.,Royer, D. and Deuker, A. 2009), The Future of Identity in the Information society:

About the author Norberto Nuno Gomes de Andrade is a Scientific Officer at the Information society Unit of the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) of the European commission's Joint research Centre.

The area addresses the issue of constructing a new information society system where ICT underpins the basic infrastructure of society,

''which is a large-scale technological foresight study that was designed to benchmark current information society technologies (ISTS) and develop strategies for future ISTS

Fujii, A. 2006),‘Foresight on information society technologies in Europe''''Science & Technology trends Quarterly Review, No. 18, available at:

Adaptive foresight is applied by Abadie et al. to the highly uncertain environment of the European creative content industries as part of the European Perspectives on the Information society project.

Michael Friedewald and K Matthias Weber This paper discusses the approach adopted to carry out a techno-economic foresight on the creative content industries, within the European Perspectives on the Information society project.

we preseen our methodology, analysing its most important Fabienne Abadie is a scientific officer at the Joint research Centre Institute for Prospective Technological Studies workiin on techno-economic foresight studies and the impact of ICTS on the Information society.

She was responsible for the European Perspectives on the Information society (EPIS) project, a prospective study dealing with the future evolution of the creative content industtries She has worked also for many years in the field of electronic communications policy and regulation at Europeea level.

Among others, he has been involved in the Europeea projects FISTERA and EPIS, both dealing with the future of the information society.

European Perspecctive on the Information society: Delphi Report. EPIS Deliveerabl 2. 3. 1. Available at<http://epis. jrc. ec. europa. eu/>,last accessed 28 january 2010.

The Information society, 20 (4), 255 267. Corrie, B H, T Wong, S Zimmerman, A s Marsh, J Patrick et al. 2003.