Expert and analytical community: knowledge intensity and responsibility

The article considers expert-analytical communities as self-organizing voluntary associations of people based on interests and expertise in a specific field of professional activity, and it is expertise (knowledge intensity) that is the dominant feature of the community. The authors believe that the main purpose of these communities is to determine the range and methods of posing significant problems, as well as to develop and justify competing approaches to solving them and predicting possible consequences. The article states the difference between experts and analysts in terms of the content of the activity, its nature, as well as the final documents.