2006 Horizon Project Wiki

Welcome to the 2006 Horizon Project Wiki. This space was originally created as a place for the members of the Horizon Project Advisory Board to manage the process of selecting the foci for the 2006 Horizon Report, co-published by the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI).

All of the discussions, content, and comments that were part of the research and subsequent selection process are included here, and now we have opened the wiki up to the NMC membership and friends of the NMC to continue the discussions with a broader audience. The menus below will lead you to a variety of resources, news items, discussion areas, links, and more.

Your Thoughts and Comments are Welcome!
Please consider this our collective work area, and feel free to add comments, content, categories, new pages, and lots more resources. You can edit the content of this or any page using the Edit Page link on the right.

The items in these areas are meant to grow - please add to them liberally from your own readings and environmental scanning - and above all, leave comments!

Discussion Area - weigh in on these topics, or add new ones!

PROCESS: Within each of the discussion areas below, please add your perspectives and observations. We are particularly interested in comments about the topics in the current report, and your perspectives on which topics in the previous Horizon Reports may still be relevant, or which may have moved to a closer planning horizon. In addition, we'd like to gain insight into any that may have missed the mark.

• The 2006 Horizon Report Active Discussion
• Research Question One Active Discussion
• Research Question Two Active Discussion
• Research Question Three Active Discussion
• Research Question Four Active Discussion
• Research Question Five Active Discussion
• Where are they now? — 2005 Horizon Report Active Discussion
• Where are they now? — 2004 Horizon Report Active Discussion
  
• What's Missing? — things we've not yet considered, but should Active Discussion

Press Clippings - technology news and reports that informed our work

PROCESS: Advisory Board members reviewed the articles in this section, and ranked ordered the ones they thought were most important to our work in the first four areas. The other areas contain live links to up-to-the-minute tech news as well as links to the published lists of "technologies to watch" produced by several other organizations.

We'd like to know what you are reading! Please feel free to add new articles by including a short summary and a link to the end of the any of these lists! We encourage you to "sign" your posts by putting your name in italics at the end of your post, but it is not required.

The items in the categories below have been rank ordered. Please add new ones at the bottom of the page.

• Emerging Technologies
• Trends and Potential Trends
• Google Watch
• Miscellanea -- Stories, Examples, Food for Thought

The categories below are not ranked, but it will help preserve the record if you add new ones to the bottom of these pages.

• Government and Technology
• Digital Rights
• Live Tech News - Selected RSS Feeds
• del.icio.us Links
• Published 'Technologies to Watch' Lists
  
  

Sandbox — this is the space where the work of the 2006 Horizon Report took place. Virtually all aspects of the project are captured here.

Summaries of completed work

• 2006 Horizon Report
• 2006 Short List One-page descriptions of the 12 technologies ranked highest from the more than 80 originally considered.
• Research Question Ranking Summaries Summaries of the raw rankings of the responses to each of the research questions
• Responses to the Research Questions Downloadable pdf reflecting posts as of 10/25/2005
• Summary of the 15 Top-Ranked Press Clippings Downloadable pdf reflecting rankings as of 10/15/2005
• October 5 Advisory Board Meeting at Yale
  

Wiki sections where work has been completed

• "Short List" Discussion area Completed
• Responses to the Horizon Project Research Questions and Rankings Completed
• Rank Ordering of the Press Clippings Completed

Horizon Project Publications and 2006 Advisory Board

• 2006 Horizon Report
• 2005 Horizon Report
• 2004 Horizon Report
• 2006 Advisory Board members
• Advisory Board Resources

For additional detail on the timeline, including all activities and due dates, click here or on the graphic above.