The Role of Foresight in Culture Digitisation Policies in the Mediterranean

Abstract

The Mediterranean become usually the cradle of civilization and cultural historical past abounds in all the international locations that surround it. Recent efforts of digitization of this cultural historical past are looking to preserve in virtual layout what has been, withinside the wish that destiny generations can have get admission to to it despite the fact that the authentic ceases to exist because of disasters, war, robbery or different reasons. Many efforts were executed on this recognize however regulations want to be advanced and harmonized for the right conservation of this treasure of all mankind.
This studies has centered on figuring out current regulations and initiatives on this location and information the underlying modern concepts. It has in comparison and contrasted regulations and initiatives of EU member states with Mediterranean international locations. Thanks to the consequences from questionnaires and awareness groups, it concludes that there may be scope for operating collectively on this discipline with all of the applicable international locations involved, the usage of a not unusualplace device – foresight – because the manner to pick out priorities, regions, exploitation potentials and in the long run giving enter to coverage makers even as preserving innovation paramount. Foresight has already been utilized in different regions in a number of the Mediterranean (non-EU member states) international locations that had been centered on this studies, however no direct use of it's been made for searching on the digitization of cultural historical past to date. The consequences of this studies provide an encouraging view of the destiny and of the advantages to be reaped with the aid of using the usage of foresight as a device that binds collectively human beings from very numerous international locations with a not unusualplace vision – wherein we are able to nevertheless wish to have Mediterranean historical past at hand – despite the fact that in virtual layout.