Introduction: The FuturICT Knowledge Accelerator Towards a More Resilient and Sustainable Future

TL;DR

FuturICT aims to develop an open, decentralized information platform leveraging real-time data and models to enhance the resilience, sustainability, and adaptability of socio-economic systems through participatory methods.

Contribution

It introduces a novel, participatory framework combining data, models, and experimental methods to transform understanding and management of complex socio-technical systems.

Findings

Proposes a global, decentralized data platform.

Integrates real-time measurements with theoretical models.

Aims to improve system resilience and sustainability.

Abstract

The FuturICT project is a response to the European Flagship Call in the Area of Future and Emerging Technologies, which is planning to spend 1 billion EUR on each of two flagship projects over a period of 10 years. FuturICT seeks to create an open, global but decentralized, democratically controlled information platform that will use online data and real-time measurements together with novel theoretical models and experimental methods to achieve a paradigm shift in our understanding of today's strongly interdependent and complex world and make our techno-socio-economic systems more flexible, adaptive, resilient, sustainable, and livable through a participatory approach.