Author Archives: George Pór

What Is My Collective IQ? – Boosting CI from Within

Posted on October 28, 2004 by George Pór

What if we coupled the “CI-as-out-there” perspective of investigation with the “CI-as-in-here” perspective? How would it be if we took not an external/objective but an internal/subjective look at CI? To what new approaches could these questions open access? Is participatory observation in oneself as a “collective intelligence” unit possible? Let’s give it a try and we’ll see.
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Gaian democracies and CI

Posted on August 19, 2004 by George Pór

“The soft-systems approach to ‘wicked’ problems arising in complex human systems requires the people involved in the problem situation to be actively involved in a constant cycle of thinking, acting and learning together.” — Roy Madron & John Jopling
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Defining “Collective Intelligence”

Posted on August 9, 2004 by George Pór

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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Cross-fertilizing CI and civic intelligence

Posted on August 8, 2004 by George Pór

I know it’s a short notice but I’ve received the news only last night. The opportunity it represents for the cross-fertilization of the “collective intelligence” and the “civic intelligence” movements is just too important to not try to alert you all about it.
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What is CI? – a community approach to define it

Posted on August 4, 2004 by George Pór

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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Emerging and converging fields involving collective intelligence.

Posted on July 29, 2004 by George Pór

The following fields of study and practice have an emergent, leading edge quality to them and, at the same time, seem to be overlapping more and more, and even converging into an increasingly coherent understanding of the intelligence of whole systems, and of Life as a whole.
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Seminar on CI at the U. of Ottawa

Posted on July 19, 2004 by George Pór

Seminar on Collective Intelligence at the University of Ottawa,
8, 9, 10th of August, 2004
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What is social about “social tools”?

Posted on July 10, 2004 by George Pór

When we free the creative potential of flexible constellations of communities of interest and practice, it will boost their members’ identity, mutual care and professional pride. The emerging generation of social tools can be optimized for powering up that process. When that happens, blogs graduate from personal publishing tool and become a potent enabler of collective intelligence.
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Thoughts on Wisdom and Collective Intelligence

Posted on July 5, 2004 by George Pór

One of the most intriguing aspects of collective intelligence is its relative independence from individual intelligence. It is clear to most students of the field that a group of intelligent people will not necessarily manifest group intelligence. Nor will a coalition of intelligent groups necessarily add up to an intelligent coalition. Nor will making all organizations intelligent, by itself, produce a collectively intelligent society. The intelligence of the parts/individuals varies independently with the intelligence of the whole/collective.
However, if wisdom [as defined in these notes] is present at the individual level, or in the environment where the individuals are relating to each other, then it tends to expand their individuality into the “higher” (collective) levels where all those individualities can then manifest collectively as positive, intelligently coherent functioning.
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Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, Polarization, and CI

Posted on July 3, 2004 by George Pór

The political sphere is deeply divided by partisan interests everywhere but probably nowhere more so than in the United States. Yet, not thinking of politics as a domain from which collective intelligence can emerge just as much as from business, scientific or blogging communities, is an oversight.
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