Collective intelligence 2.0

Can an organization, operating in today’s increasingly networked world, choose to ignore the insights of employees, customers, business partners and expect to thrive?

very short..Henry Jenkins discussing the characteristics of Participatory Culture.

In the past, I have drawn a distinction between collective intelligence (based on the work of Pierre Levy) and "the Wisdom of the Crowds" model (proposed by James Surowiecki). The first is based on a model of deliberation in which diverse groups of people consciously compare notes and work through problems together. The second is based on a model of aggregation as individual decisions made autonomously get collected and mapped through some technology. The Horizon report makes a similar distinction:

"Two new forms of information stores are being created in real time by thousands of people in the course of their daily activities, some explicitly collaborating to create collective knowledge stores like the Wikipedia and Freebase, some contributing implicitly through the patterns of their choices and action....Explicit knowledge stores refine knowledge through contributions of thousands of authors; implicit stores allow the discovery of entirely new knowledge by capturing trillions of key clicks and decisions as people use the network in the course of their everyday lives."
Both forms, the report notes, have educational implications:
"Sources of explicit collective intelligence provide opportunities for research and self-study and give students a chance to practice the construction of knowledge -- they can contribute as well as consume....Implicit collective intelligence is already revealing a great deal about everyday patterns of activity based on programs that mine datasets of information from huge numbers of human actions."

Pierre Levy: The IEML Philosophy

Overview

The human species can be defined by its special ability to manipulate symbols. Each great augmentation in this ability has brought enormous economic, social, political, religious, epistemological, educational (and so on) changes.

(Via Stephen Downes)

How do we prepare students to thrive in the global society of the 21st century? Reach The World’s (RTW) programs always aim to do just that. In this particular project, RTW focuses on fostering collaboration between marginalized secondary students and volunteers traveling in study abroad programs; and between pre-service teachers and in-service teachers. The significance in applying the RTW approach to The Rafael Hernandez Dual Language School in the Bronx is the nurturing it provides to at-risk, bilingual students, engaging them to respect and promote cultural diversity. Partnering with the school will be volunteers from the Communication, Computing and Technology in Education Department at Teachers College, Columbia University; and the U.S. Department of State’s Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program.

Increasingly, curation is becoming an important participation/collaboration skill for digital citizens. I interviewed Robert Scoble, one of the most prolific...

IBM Academic Initiative Smart Planet Jam...

Surowiecki's model seeks to aggregate anonymously produced data, seeing the wisdom emerging when a large number of people each enter their own calculations without influencing each other's findings. Levy's model focuses on the kinds of deliberative process that occurs in online communities as participants share information, correct and evaluate each other's findings, and arrive at a consensus understanding.

Proceedings of the inaugural Symposium on Collective Intelligence (COLLIN 2010).

That groups of human beings can amplify the qualities present in a variety of gatherings is a common experience. We see the inspirational capacity of humans to transcend their own limitations in service of a collective good. The Apollo moon missions come to mind as an example of group intelligence in the service of lofty (literally) goals. The intensity of emotional and physical energy present at sporting events shows us the capacity of amplification that is present in group settings. On the darker side we see the manifestation of group behaviors such as Nazi Germany, or more recently the genocides in Cambodia and Rwanda as examples of the collective gone awry.

Un cours de deuxième et troisième cycle universitaire sur le Web 2.0, qui se concrétise au travers d'une production 2.0. Quand dire, c'est faire.