Douglas+Schuler

=Douglas Schuler= **Home page**: http://www.scn.org/commnet/doug.html
 * Your Country : United States**
 * Affiliation: The Public Sphere Project and The Evergreen State College**
 * Contact:** douglas_AT_publicsphereproject_dot_org

Trained in computer science and software engineering, Douglas Schuler has been working on the borderlines of society and technology for over 20 years. He has written and co-edited several books, including //New Community Networks: Wired for Change// (Addison-Wesley, 1996), and most recently //Liberating Voices: A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution// (MIT Press, 2008), a civic intelligence undertaking with 85 contributors. Each pattern presents a theme or idea that people can use information and communication to help move beyond their current thinking. People can view the patterns — and add their own — at the patterns website (in English, Arabic, Chinese, and Spanish). We are in the process of transforming the Public Sphere Project website to make it more useful and collaborative for communities. As an activist with Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, Doug launched the Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing symposia series in 1987. The special section that he edited for Communications of the ACM on "Social Computing" in January, 1994, and several books were the result of this work.

He was a founder of the Seattle Community Network, an early, free public-access computer network and the Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing symposium series sponsored by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. Formerly an Artificial Intelligence Researcher at Boeing Computer Services, Doug has been teaching at The Evergreen State College, a non-traditional liberal arts college in Washington State, since 1996.

One of Doug's main interests is the development of civic intelligence. Civic intelligence, the collective intelligence of people and societies to collaboratively address their shared challenges, integrates research and activism. He is interested in developing large scale collaborative projects (or "grand challenges" — see, e.g.his paper from DIAC-2008 ) that promote deliberation and other socially ameliorative visions and hopes that this CIRN effort can help lead in those directions.