Civic+Intelligence

//Civic intelligence// is a form of //collective// intelligence directed towards shared challenges. Its presence or absence will determine how effectively these challenges are met. Civic intelligence exists to a greater or lesser degree in all societies.

Doug Schuler,who has been exploring this concept for several years suggests that understanding and promoting civic intelligence is both a pressing societal need and a perfect focus for community informatics. To this end, he is currently developing models of civic intelligence and has set up two surveys to gather information about examples from around the world: http://www.publicsphereproject.org/drupal/node/13 and http://www.publicsphereproject.org/drupal/node/18.

Ideally the community informatics community would develop distributed participatory projects that would further research and activist objectives at the same time!

Thoughts??

Some of my suggestions for the community informatics community can be found in the I presented.

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