Author Archives: George Pór

CI through the “political economy” lens

Posted on January 27, 2008 by George Pór

What was “collective intelligence” in the cognitive and evolutionary contexts, becomes “general intellect,” in the language of political economy. The difference is not only semantic. The general intellect embodied in the collective knowing of the society, embedded in all the … Continue reading →

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CI through the “cognitive” lens, Pierre Lévy

Posted on January 27, 2008 by George Pór

“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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Research Assistant in Personal Knowledge Gardening and CI wanted

Posted on November 30, 2007 by George Pór

It’s not New Year yet but I already have a clear resolution that corresponds to a desire that has been ripening in my heart for the last couple of years. In 2008 and beyond, I will spend more time on … Continue reading →

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Facebook and Collective Intelligence

Posted on October 27, 2007 by George Pór

It seems that Facebook can help members in “real-life” communities and networks to be more visible to themselves and increase their opportunity to think, feel, learn, and act together. That brings up two questions: What combination of current Fb apps … Continue reading →

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Collective Intelligence Cinema

Posted on October 26, 2007 by George Pór

Welcome to the Collective Intelligence (CI)nema, a collection of my favorite videos on CI! Now that we are discovering our collective intelligence, what are we going to do with it?

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” If our world is a living system of systems”

Posted on October 24, 2007 by George Pór

Sofia Bustamante wrote: > If our world is a living system of systems (holistically embedded), then the base concept of ecology must have biological connotations… I love both the depth of her insight and what it inspired me to see: … Continue reading →

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Social Presencing Theater for scaling up collective intelligence

Posted on September 4, 2007 by George Pór

In his new book on Theory U, MIT professor Otto Scharmer describes one of his 7 enabling conditions for inspiring a positive shift on a global scale: “A new social art form I call Social Presencing Theater that stages media … Continue reading →

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The collective intelligence of functional mutations

Posted on August 24, 2007 by George Pór

Evolution’s Edge from Best Futures says: Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that all the necessary elements of a sustainable system will develop quickly enough to prevent irreversible environmental and social damage. Major evolutionary transformations only occur after a critical number … Continue reading →

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CI by collaborative sense-making in participatory video

Posted on August 20, 2007 by George Pór

Talking about the phases of collaborative film making, Kent Bye wrote in Building a Theory of Collaborative Sensemaking | Echo Chamber Project: The ideal collaborative sensemaking system would allow people to add their own context through each of these phases … Continue reading →

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Collective Intelligence through Citizen Participation

Posted on August 20, 2007 by George Pór

Echo Chamber Project Receives A $55,000 Grant | Echo Chamber Project Kent Bye wrote: Tapping into collective intelligence is achieved by aggregating context and meaning on video segment sound bites through the mechanism of “user-contributed metadata” (i.e. credibility ratings, quality … Continue reading →

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