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Authors:
Bourret Christian
Keywords: intelligent systems ; socio-technical devices ; unemployed people; social responsibility ; economic activities creation; entrepreneurship ; mediator artifacts; disadvantaged areas.
Abstract:
In France, with the economic crisis and the huge rate of unemployment, the role of Universities has changed in the recent years with a new challenge of social responsibility. They try to promote the creation of new economic activities to attract new people, especially coming from disadvantaged areas in great town suburbs, particularly unemployed young people. We present the experiment of Creators of Activities University Degrees (DUCA) around cooperative devices or Creators’ Groups (GC). These DUCA / GC correspond to an individual project, part of a global dynamics in a collective approach. In a perspective of helping disadvantaged people to rebuild their life in a project dynamics of creation of economic activity, information and communication issues are central. These DUCA / GC areas of interactions and cooperations constitute socio-technical devices progressively evolving to potential Social Intelligent Systems. We propose to analyze these cooperative devices through two Mediator Artifacts developed in the DUCA / GC areas of cooperations: the business plan of the activities’ creators and the training serious game “Solutia”. They help to better master the emotions and feelings of activities’ creators to develop their self-confidence, their motivations, their entrepreneurship skills and their individual and collective knowledge. These areas of projects constituting potential and evolving Social Intelligent Systems correspond to a specific way of sustainable development to try to build “democratic solidarity” on territories.
Pages: 81 to 89
Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2017. Used with permission.
Publication date: June 30, 2017
Published in: journal
ISSN: 1942-2679