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2013-05-12 14:12:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

just received this email:
You are hereby invited to the next weekly seminar in our interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition (ECCO) and the Global Brain Institute (GBI). Time: Friday, May 17th, 14:00-16:00 p.m, on the VUB Campus Etterbeek (Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels),  Free entrance: everybody welcome!
Foundations for a Mathematical Model of the Global Brain

Francis Heylighen (GBI,VUB)

Abstract:

The present talk will report on the on-going research of the Global Brain Institute with the aim of developing a mathematically founded computer simulation of the global brain, and summarize the main results up to now.
 
The global brain can be defined as the distributed intelligence emerging from the network of all people on this planet connected via the Internet and related technologies. The present talk proposes the foundationsfo... more »

2013-05-10 22:50:19 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

+Dean C. Moore, are touching on the theme of "collective intelligence" and/or  "collective wisdom" in your forthcoming book?

2013-05-04 18:42:43 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Some of you know that I am a student of the Medicine Way teachings. (I hinted earlier that my LifeWheel cover picture of my profile page is patterned on the Native American Medicine Wheel.) What you don't know is that my beloved teacher, WindEagle, will lead an "Evocative Leadership Mastery" retreat in Kent (UK), June 28-30, and I will assist her. 

ELM is an integrated holistic leadership framework that develops our innate human intelligences into crucial competencies for navigating the times we live in. This training is a time-tested system of wisdom created over many millennia through deep relationship with Nature. If you want to want to join 19 organizational professionals in this potentially life-changing experience, look up more information here: http://www.community-intelligence.com/?q=node%2F249 If you have any question, drop me a line: george(at)community-intelligence.com.... more »

2013-04-30 05:45:01 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Could democracy be the future of business?

2013-04-21 20:10:43 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 5 +1s)

Thomas Hübl is talking about the relational foundation of collective intelligence. Don't miss it.

2013-04-21 20:06:57 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Thomas Hübl is talking about the relational foundation of collective intelligence.

2013-04-21 15:54:30 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

This is an important post by +John Kellden, who originally shared it in the Conversation community:
Collaborative Sensemaking: Trust and Scenius

https://plus.google.com/u/0/106215502462371481623/posts/JMGSbUnzkhE

2013-04-21 15:50:14 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Collaborative Sensemaking: Trust and Scenius

"Trust emerges out of a dynamic balance between engagement and ongoing (re)alignment between individual and collective."
-- +John Kellden 

Dynamic Engagement Framework:
Gather: Participants, Expertise
Diverge: Personal passion, Unique talents
Scenify: Be part of something bigger, Performance
Converge: Flow, Alignment
Prototype: Satisfying work, Cocreation of value

Co-intelligence
”Healthy communities, institutions and societies -- perhaps even our collective survival -- depend on our ability to organize our collective affairs more wisely, in tune with each other and nature.
This ability to wisely organize our lives together -- all of us being wiser together than any of us could be alone -- we call co-intelligence.”
-- Tom Atleeht... more »

2013-04-20 13:38:13 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-04-13 11:44:52 (20 comments, 3 reshares, 5 +1s)

Needs some inspiration? Enjoy "Occupy Love"!

2013-04-12 11:47:36 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

biomimicry-inspired community knowledge garden

+Robert Best  wrote:

> Our tools to build and create on G+ are limited to writing posts in a chronological order (tied together loosely with a tagging system)... There are many other constraints too.

Yes, indeed!

>  I guess I just want a much more open sandbox to play in...

Me too! And when enough of us would converge on the same kind of dream sandbox, then with the combined brainpower here, why couldn't we make it happen?

> I don't think such a playground exists. We need to create it.

Yes, but not necessarily from scratch. There are zillion geek teams seeking to develop the killer of CI/collaboration tools, and some of them are present here and trying to popularize their platform worth taking a look at.

However, jumping into experimenting withv... more »

2013-04-05 11:46:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"It's not about working harder but smarter" An interview with me on communities of practice (in Spanish), just published on page 5 of this business weekly:
http://estaticos.diaridetarragona.com/resources/archivos/2013/4/2/1364896618279310313EC.pdf

2013-04-03 17:02:30 (5 comments, 3 reshares, 4 +1s)

Watching this film, I'm even more grateful for the opportunity to work with Catalonia!

2013-03-28 07:52:07 (8 comments, 3 reshares, 14 +1s)

How to solve the world's problems? The most convincing answer i found so far came from listening @dtapscott at RSA, a month ago. Now his talk is on YouTube:  Solving the World's Problems Differently It's not only worth watching but really engaging with, at least by those of us seeking to mobilize the arts and sciences of collective intelligence and wisdom for winning the biggest game on Earth: turning our global breakdowns into breakthroughs and thrivability. +Don Tapscott 

2013-03-26 18:50:42 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

dear Hosting Team and other fans of collective intelligence & wisdom,

You may wonder why you haven't heard from me since a while. Here's the reason. I'm dealing with challenging health conditions that oblige me to have more rest and cut back on the time I'm spending on all projects. So, until I get stronger, I won't be able to as actively host and participate in this community as I'd like to.

The good side of this news is that it may inspire new hosts/facilitators/moderators to step forward and engage more with serving the evolution of the community, or we become truly self-organizing. The latter means that besides using this community space as a simple bulletin board, with the occasional random posting, no collective action will occur unless YOU care for, initiate and support it.

I will be still around but more as a passionate participantsth... more »

2013-03-10 14:20:19 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Who will ne our 500th member? How shall we find out? S/he deserves a big welcome! Of course all members do but 500 is a nice round number. When I started this community i didn't think that "collective intelligence and collective wisdom" will attract that many of us so rapidly. Maybe those memes have some power even if we don't yet fully understand what is it...

2013-03-03 13:17:54 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

A society governed by the people's wisdom...
Last weekend I joined a small group exploring the idea that society could have the capacity to generate "public wisdom" and that we could empower that wisdom to support wiser public policy and popular behavior.
Because many people don't know what we mean by "public wisdom", we clarified that, for the purposes of this inquiry, 
the word "public" means that 
- the wisdom is generated by ordinary people 
- in groups who embody the diversity of their communities 
- for the guidance of officials and the citizenry (the whole public) 
- regarding public affairs and the concerns of the citizenry 
- in forms that are known about and readily accessible to everyone. 
and the word "wisdom" means, simply, 
- taking into account what needs to be taken intoaccount... more »

2013-03-02 08:46:35 (3 comments, 5 reshares, 3 +1s)

Will it get worse before it gets better? It depends on you and me. Thomas Hübl tells how in this video about "The collapse of social structures as part of the awakening..."

#CICW   #socialstructure #globalawakening   #video   #evolution  

2013-03-02 05:38:59 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

If there was a meaning of wisdom, according to which it's about living and coming from the future, then how would a wise society look and feel like? 

For context, watch this vid: 

#CICW #future #wisdom   #wisdomsociety   #video  

2013-03-01 11:53:20 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Join me the Singularity call with Peter Kaminski, +David Weinberger, +Jerry Michalski and others...

Will you be able to upload yourself to the cloud? Are we headed for a technological Singularity? Or some other kind? Will computers become sentient?

As each year goes by, these questions shift from science-fiction fantasy to the realm of reality. But how real?

What is real and unreal about the different visions of the Singularity or the uploaded self?

Would you want to live in those worlds? Why?

When do you think we'll see the first real evidence that things are truly different?

Date: Monday, 2013-03-04
Time: 10:30am Pacific, 1:30pm Eastern
Dial: 1-626-677-3000, passcode 778778

We tweet as @yitan(and use #yitan as our hashtag). Please follow us on Twitter. This page is on the web here:more »

2013-03-01 10:48:03 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

fresh, innovative, juicy

2013-03-01 10:00:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The G+ Flash Mob Riff

In the way Google+ has of creating serendipity and then amplifying it a post I wrote at the encouragement of +Bill Gassett was picked up by +Martin W. Smith whom I met through +Mark Traphagen and generously reshared by +Vic Gundotra and here, Mark adds the final touch to it with his contribution. 

None of us would have known each other were it not for the ability G+ has of creating symmetrical relationships with a mutual benefit coefficient as standard. None of this would have been even remotely possible without the generosity of every participant who encourages, contributes, comments and reshares. 

Collectively and with relatively little effort we created a post of lasting value that can impact upon the professional lives of many. 

If anyone ever needed proof that the world has changed. This is it.

2013-03-01 09:58:08 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Collaborative Sensemaking: One post, comment, insight at a time

+David Amerland :
In The Cogs of the G+ Machine
https://plus.google.com/u/0/115620878851836664537/posts/59i4VYRqmEB

Good morning G+. Each day, so many of us spend time and energy here, sensing that in the free flow of information and idea sharing something profound is happening but unable to quite pinpoint what. 

There is a profound synergy of ideas here that the following few links perhaps illustrate: 

1. Forming a Collective Intelligence: (http://goo.gl/i6ZUz) Read the brief story of how I came to write a popular post that was shared by many and contributed to by even more. The real point of this story is that had it not been for unrelated connections made here (why would I normally want to talk to a Realtor like +Bill Gassett  when I have absolutely no intention of buyinga ... more »

2013-03-01 08:41:51 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

Short vid with simple truth about what causes intelligence increase, by Thomas Hübl

2013-02-28 08:35:36 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Generative Action Research, as a CIEL design methodology

+Joe Corneli  wrote:

"an organized view of our shared purposes regarding technology could help us make informed decisions about what to try on an experimental basis -- and what to build as developers.  There is an admirable beginning to a taxonomy and discussion in the Peeragogy Handbook...."

The http://peeragogy.org/resources/technologies/ section of the Handbook is indeed a marvelous resource! We should draw on it in the CIEL design, too. So, CIEL friends please look it up to see what we can learn from Peeragogy.

The Handbook's editors did ask from their contributors what tools they use in their own peer learning practices, but we want to take that approach one step further, in the direction I call "Generative Action Research." Action research in this context implies thatp... more »

2013-02-28 00:07:00 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-02-27 22:11:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-02-27 20:57:34 (10 comments, 3 reshares, 5 +1s)

The Collective Intelligence Enhancement Lab (CIEL) is open to new team members

We're less than 1/2 year away from the 2013 ISSS conference in Vietnam  http://isss.org/world/Hai_Phong_City_2013 where we want to demonstrate a prototype of CIEL built on top a Wordpress+BuddyPress platform enhanced with wiki and other plugins.

Building this prototype with us is a great opportunity for any member of the CICW community, who knows Wordpress and wants to use his/her passion for collective intelligence and wisdom for making a high-leverage impact in the real world.

To explore how you can weave together your talents and aspirations with the needs of building the CIEL prototype, please contact me.

cc: +Alexander Laszlo 

2013-02-25 17:08:47 (18 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

+Charlotte Pierce wrotte:

"How about a practical problem, like how to get reliable internet service throughout Africa so the vast reservoir of intelligence and wisdom there can be tapped?"

Dear Charlotte, would that be a project that you personally feel energy for and want to dedicate some and attention to? The reason I'm asking because I think the world doesn't lack great ideas for possible projects but enough people who want to commit to work on them, particularly, when a challenge is as complex as the one you named.

So if it was a project that you would want to get involved with and invite others in the community to develop a CICW approach to it, then a good place to start could be mapping the work  of the dozens or so NGOs and international government agencies, what they are missing and what is needed to accelerate it.

What do you think?

2013-02-25 07:59:46 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

+Joe Corneli asked:
 what kind of experiments does the Collective Intelligence & Wisdom group want to try?

Joe, unlike Peeragogy, CICW didn't come together around a project, but a very loosely interpreted and shared interest around the memes in the name of the network. So there simply is not a CICW group with a common identity and volition to try certain kind of projects.

The hosting team came together in our last hangout around suggesting this as a shared focus for the community: "Becoming a healthy, vibrant, co-creative self-organizing community of CICW interest, which makes a positive difference for the world."

Now, I guess our challenge is to discover how we can test and build alignment around that proposal, using what means and processes, before we can develop a group intention for any particular experiments. 

#CICWPurpose  
... more »

2013-02-24 03:45:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I have re-published the English version of my article for the new commons book at keimform.de. The book contains tons of other interesting articles as well, some of which have already been published on their website.

2013-02-23 12:02:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

The following design of this team hangout grew out from numerous exchanges among members of the community's hosting team.  The current structuring of our numerous areas of interest into the agenda sketched out below  is my suggestion.

Hosting Team hangout, 23-24 February, suggested design

date and time

Dan: Sunday, 7 - 8:30 am (Brisbane)
John: Sunday, 10 -11:30 am (Auckland)
Robert: Saturday, 4 - 5:30 pm (Warerloo)
George: Saturday, 9 - 10:30 pm (London)

overall Purpose

To establish a shared focus and common priorities of the CICW community hosting team  

expected Outcomes

Agreements about 5 areas of issues:

1. What we see as a the overall purpose of the hosting team?

2. Community-building
• How we want to finalize the structure and content and of thecommun... more »

2013-02-23 10:06:07 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Roles and accountabilities

Roles in a self-organizing team or community are general areas of one's contribution, which also represent a creative or otherwise rewarding potential for the person who wants to hold that role. A person can have more than one role, and a role can be held by more than person. Roles can be chosen on a time-bound or ongoing basis.

An accountability is a gift to the community, offering my response-ability for a specific result within a time frame specified by me, thus letting my team mates know what they can count on me for.

Roles and accountabilities are the self-organizing antidote to the command-and-control way of coordinating group action. Without them no effective, freedom-based coordination of multiplayer, complex action is possible. Let's think about and share what roles and accountabilities do we want to offer to the CICW... more »

2013-02-22 15:39:35 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

+Joe Corneli wrote in another community:

" it's important to recognize that building a focused work cycle comes with a tremendous multiplicative factor.  As long as people agree with the focus..., then that's a good enough reason to get organized."

Isn't focus that we'd need to develop first, maybe tomorrow in Hangout?

2013-02-22 10:53:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-02-21 17:05:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-02-18 13:49:43 (24 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Collective Intelligence? Tired! — Connective Intelligence? Wired!

+Golda Dennis wrote, "it is important what each of us contribute to the "collective intelligence"...and that's the big picture! 
and +John Kellden replied, perfect! Each one's unique contribution adds vaue to the collective intelligence!

What is slightly misleading about those statements is an "additive" overtone of CI that could be captured with the "two minds are better then one." Well, it is not necessarily so. If we just add our bits of knowledge to a common pool, it doesn't necessarily makes us more co-intelligent. In contrast to the additive, "pooled" CI, I started talking about "connected" intelligence that Alia also termed as "emergent CI" and characterized as "trans-human".See: ht... more »

2013-02-17 16:43:30 (37 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Why don't we use Diigo?

Does Metamap or any other tool that you know of offer as many affordances for collaborative curation of our content that Diigo?
https://fusionfinds.wordpress.com/2011/10/02/using-diigo-for-collaborative-curation/

If not, shouldn't we settle on using it?

2013-02-10 12:37:41 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

What is a community host?

I asked +John Graves whether he would be interested to join our team of the hosts of this community? In spite his busyness with his PhD work, he said yes, and asked "if there is anything in particular you would expect me to 'moderate'."  

To tap into the collective intelligence of what is needed, this moment, I asked that question from my fellow community hosts. +Robert Best replied and what follows is a combination of what emerged from the sensing by both of us of hosting tasks that need to be attended. I'm posting it here, thinking that it may serve other community members too who would want to know what it takes to be a community host/moderator.

First of all, being a community hosts implies more having a certain mindset than a task set. It's more about being than doing. Being in full engagement with helping theco... more »

2013-02-06 21:50:46 (28 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Temperature check for a Hangout open to the whole CICW community, focused on a question like what future potential of this community can we imagine, which would inspire us to do something for realizing it?

What other questions would you like us to explore together, in real time, which then we can revisit online if need be?

+Robert Best +Dan R.D. +Ferananda Ibarra 
+Bret Weinstein +Connor Turland +Elle D'Coda +Fabio Barone +Scott Leslie +Seb Paquet +Tania Arriaga Azkarate  

2013-02-18 07:35:22 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

+Ferananda Ibarra wrote: "I  read a great article about curation.  There is a graphic that is very clean and precise about what 'the ideal curation practice' it also offers evaluation tools, curations tools and more. I think its a great read for our process.  http://www.bethkanter.org/content-curation-101/  "

Her find is truly a gem that I think we need to study carefully and see how we want that curation primer  to inform our own content curation practices.

cc: +Robert Best +Dan R.D. 

2013-01-15 12:02:40 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

about nondominium

Nondominium is a concept tool and framework for "a collaborative and consensual legal and financial framework for sustainable development and management of international resources is capable of revolutionising international economic relations." It was introduced by Chris Cook, Senior Research Fellow of the Institute for Security and Resilience Studies at the University College of London.  
https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/resilience/2011/10/04/nondominium-establishing-consensus-and-collaboration-for-the-caspian-nations/

According to an excellent research paper  by Valona Leister and +Mark Frazier, "Combining Ostrom’s principles with this new approach for shared use of the Commons, promises to give a more solid legal grounding for the 5 'As' (Architecture, Adaptiveness, Accountability, Allocation and Access) in the governance of theglob... more »

2013-01-14 22:26:31 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

an emerging commons theory of value

for those interested in the political economy of value networks, I want to call your attention a series of articles in Kosmos Journal, by James Quilligan, (commons economist, philosopher, and member of our Board at the School of Commoning),  which expresses a more inclusive type of value than in traditional economics. This series is about a common theory of value—rooted in philosophy, psychology, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, and communication.

1.  Toward a Common Theory of Value | Part One: Common Being
http://www.kosmosjournal.org/articles/common-theory-of-value-part-i-common-being

2.  Toward a Common Theory of Value | Part Two:  Common Trust
http://www.kosmosjournal.org/articles/toward-a-common-theory-of-value-common-trust

2.  Toward a Common Theory of Value | Part Three:  Common Knowinghttp:... more »

2013-01-14 19:44:55 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Value Networks & Value Network Analysis

There are 4 well-known models of value networks developed in the past 15 years, used in traditional  and less traditional organizations. Some of them are supported by software.

I believe what Metamaps and Sensorica are trying to accomplish is more radical, i.e. going to the roots of creating healthy, co-productive relationships, yet, there might be something to learn from the older models of Value Networks 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_network and Value Network Analysis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_network_analysis

2013-01-13 15:27:38 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Where are we heading as a society? How does the future in need of our wisdom-driven collective intelligence and action may look like?

Here's what Otto Scharmer has to say about it:

From Ego-system to Eco-system Economies
http://www.ottoscharmer.com/docs/other/2012_BardCollege.pdf

2013-01-09 16:07:51 (14 comments, 2 reshares, 14 +1s)

neurons that fire together, wire together
that's how they/we learn language and form memories

in "associative learning" simultaneous activation of cells leads to pronounced increases in synaptic strength between those cells... any two cells or systems of cells that are repeatedly active at the same time will tend to become 'associated', so that activity in one facilitates activity in the other. (Wikipedia)

a particularly fascinating firing-together could include posts of mutual relevance, cross-referenced, for example, in:

Next Edge
https://plus.google.com/communities/116655844683107788586

Collective Intelligence & Collective Wisdom
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/100666540255152085162

Metamaps
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/115060009262157699234

Peeragogy... more »

2013-01-09 15:29:05 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

neurons that fire together, wire together
that's how they/we learn language and form memories

in "associative learning" simultaneous activation of cells leads to pronounced increases in synaptic strength between those cells... any two cells or systems of cells that are repeatedly active at the same time will tend to become 'associated', so that activity in one facilitates activity in the other. (Wikipedia)

a particularly fascinating firing-together could include posts of mutual relevance, cross-referenced, for example, in:

Next Edge
https://plus.google.com/communities/116655844683107788586

Collective Intelligence & Collective Wisdom
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/100666540255152085162

Metamaps
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/115060009262157699234

Peeragogy... more »

2013-01-09 08:51:14 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

The vid of the CICW hosting team call -9-Jan-2013 is here:
http://youtu.be/t9erqOTith0

#ci-hangout

2013-01-08 18:48:17 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

CICW Community Content Curation, draft 0.02

This version of the roadmap was developed by +Robert Best and George Pór, members of the CICW hosting and curation team.  The team also includes +Dan R.D.  and +Ferananda Ibarra, who will hopefully comment on the draft here.

The team is always open to new members, all those care enough about this community to offer to be accountable for any hosting or curation task. 

Please add your comments and suggestions to improve this draft below.

There will be a team Hangout tomorrow, when we want to upgrade it to version 0.1 and include a new section about the initial curation process.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/106215502462371481623/posts/L36xY6pQhQa

We need your input here, ASAP, if you want to have it flow into v 0.1 that we'll develop in or shortly after the Hangout so that we can post and anupdat... more »