Architecture of participation

September 8th, 2006 Robert Bosman

Co-creation will be the very heart of Society 4.0

As mentioned in these blog articles ‘The Next web’ and ‘The Next Web & the Next Society’, we are in the midst of the 3rd web and heading for the ‘next next web’, Web 4.0, that eventually will create a tremendous change of our society.

Web 4.0 will never evolve based on the ‘island approach’ in ICT, in which every person, every organization and every government creates it’s own information system and after that spends a tremendous amount of time and effort on building bridges between all those seperated information islands. Web 4.0 and Society 4.0 will be based on a new ‘architecture of participation’. Or even better on ‘an architecture of co-creation’, because co-creation will be the very heart of Society 4.0.
One of the main characteristics of that architecture is that it will be multidimensional: we will be able to look at the same data form many different perspectives. For example, the perspective of the company is different of that of the individual or the government; but they do share a lot of the same information. Why wouldn’t we organize that information in such a way, that that overlapping information can be generated from one and the same source? In order to do that, the new architecture has to cover at least the following dimensions:

We’ll talk more about these dimensions in the nearby future and also explain some of the terms mentioned in it.

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