Cultivating collective wisdom

I believe the confluence of academic research, business innovation, smart social movements, and viral collaboration technologies, is a potent booster for collective intelligence. It would be interesting to find a way to test that hypothesis. Shouldn't we measure the evolution of collective intelligence, with advancement in the eradication of all forms of unnecessary human suffering?

Lenses for looking at “co-intelligence”

There are many lenses through which “co-intelligence” can be and are studied. In this blog, I will to introduce you my favorite lenses crafted by people whose work has been inspiring my own passion for the field. They come from:

• Academic research on collective intelligence, Pierre Lévy

• Theoretical framework of co-intelligence combined with, and nourished by grass-roots activism, Tom Atlee

• Implications of the peer-to-peer movement for the emergence of a civilization of collective intelligence, Michel Bauwens

• The movement of communities of practice: communities that learn in business and social life, Etienne Wenger

These four streams are not the only ones but the most influential in co-evolving our co-intelligence. Exploring the ways in which they can enhance each other, has the potential to boost the development of each. It's the potential that I feel attracted to realize with all interested parties, more than anything else.

Invitation to this blog journey ~

We cannot fathom the full power of humankind’s collective intellect, let alone its collective intelligence. But we can ask ourselves, how come that we still have wars, hunger, polution, suicide, and other man-imposed ills, if we’re so mart? (By “intellect” I mean the totality of our mental faculties, and by “intelligence” our capacity to manifest the world we want to live in and leave to our chindren.)

Life is a gift but the way we live it is not given, it’s our choice. Raising our collective intelligence is our best chance and only hope to survive as a species.