About the relevance of digital ecosystems for collaborative expert group projects

The article introduces the operational and theoretical challenges associated with the ECOPACK project that targets the development on digital collaboration platforms in order to facilitate an expert group. A return on experience with expert groups run with different modalities has made it possible to understand that the challenge locates at the level of the emergence of “weak ties” within the expert group. The digital platform also requires the monitoring of collaboration traces. It has to be considered as a “boundary object”.