Activating quasi-organizational memory in environmental scenario building

This article presents the results of an on-going research project aiming at developing GraviCS, an information system supporting local government and citizens in managing argumentations during the setting up of a Regional Natural Park in Southern Italy. The authors consider that organizational memory, structured within information systems supporting decision-making and action in organizational environments, can be a useful means for developing multilevel (individual, group, organizational) collaborative learning; in this sense the system architecture was designed referring to the organizational domain emerging in the decision making context of a Park and was finalized to the dynamic representation of the organizational memory. Starting from the case study - the process for the Gravina Natural Park setting-up -, the article describes the system’s architecture and discusses some issues related to: possible dynamic representations of organizational memory; creation, use and storage of decision/learning histories.