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An approach to Informatics foresight

Abstract:

Most curricula in Informatics and other sciences at the universities are in permanent change. An informatics foresight is useful to update the study programs and to develop and offer new study curricula tuned for the local needs. More of these types of studies are developed by governmental departments and specialized groups because of the number of variables to analyse, the complexity of scenarios, and the wide number of experts needed, not to mention the cost and the governmental plans and goals a country has. In this paper we have adapted a simple method to define an informatics foresight using the information already available in internet and specialized electronic libraries. The method was applied to a study case: the future of the informatics and computer science majors at Escuela Politécnica Nacional of Quito Ecuador.