Category Archives: Definitions

Elements of collective intelligence in organizational context

Posted on June 17, 2010 by

collective intelligence — “The capacity of a social organism, such as a corporation, to: sense its needs and that of its environment (stakeholders) generate choices that will satisfy those collective needs anticipate the consequences of those choices to make choices … Continue reading →

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CI through the “cognitive” lens, Pierre Lévy

Posted on January 27, 2008 by

“The expression ‘collective intelligence’ relates to an extensive body of knowledge and thoughts concerned with several objects that have been diversely labeled: distributed cognition, distributed knowledge systems, global brain, super-brain, global mind, group mind, ecology of mind, hive mind, learning … Continue reading →

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CI 2.0 governed by meaning and evolutionary values

Posted on May 31, 2007 by

Tor Nørretranders, author of C i v i l i s a t i o n 2.0 has just opened Reboot 9 with an inspiring talk on what mae us human: Dare, Care and Share. To get his message across … Continue reading →

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A source document for Collective Intelligence

Posted on January 22, 2007 by

Collective Intelligence as a Field of Multi-disciplinary Study and Practice by Tom Atlee and George Por In this paper we define intelligence as the ability to interact successfully with one’s world, especially in the face of challenge or change. Human … Continue reading →

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Web 2.0 marries collective intelligence

Posted on November 25, 2006 by

I’ve just come across yet another interesting, simple but somehow limiting definition of how collective intelligence is achieved, in the The Hype and the Hullabaloo of Web 2.0 by Ellyssa Kroski: “Companies that adhere to Web 2.0 principles understand how … Continue reading →

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Forms of Collective Intelligence

Posted on May 1, 2006 by

There are many forms, manifestation of CI, and correspondingly, many “tribes” of its practitioners. This is an abbreviated overview. A more detailed inventory by Tom Atlee can be found here. a. Dialogic CI — A diverse group of participants suspend their … Continue reading →

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A local-to-global definition of CI

Posted on June 5, 2005 by

Collective intelligence as “the property of systems whereby the collective behaviors of entities interacting locally with their environment cause coherent functional global patterns to emerge.”
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Another definition of CI. What difference it makes?

Posted on March 26, 2005 by

Another definition of CI. What difference it makes?
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Defining “Collective Intelligence”

Posted on August 9, 2004 by

DEFINING “COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE”
“Collective intelligence” is a richly diverse domain of study and practice. Having an inclusive definition may help diverse practitioners work and explore together. One such definition might be simply:
Collective intelligence is the INTELLIGENCE of a COLLECTIVE,
which arises from one or more SOURCES.
Expanding on each of the highlighted terms in the definition allows us to paint an inclusive picture of the whole domain. (In my blog entry, I do that, and then add 17 definitions of CI found on the web.)
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What is CI? – a community approach to define it

Posted on August 4, 2004 by

There are as many definitions of CI as different kinds of discipline-oriented or mission-oriented communities practicing it. I imagine that CI for the intelligence community, or marketers using it for predicting consumer trends, has a meaning quite different from what I suggested, in an evolutionary perspective, to use by a potential community of evolutionary agents.
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