Foreword
“After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space
would say, ‘I want to see the manager’.
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William S. Burroughs was right. Few would look at the world today and give a thumbs up
for the world’s population acting intelligently as a collective. International development
in its drive to advance freedom, rights and welfare is faced with some wicked challenges:
countries are for the most part getting richer, but significant numbers of people living
within their borders are struggling in poverty. And the route taken by the early industrialised
countries to create wealth will likely no longer be viable given the planet’s finite ability to
cope with the side effects of carbon-driven growth. Preventable diseases still kill more than
they should and new ones continue to emerge. While this is not an exhaustive list, there
is still no one manager to complain to - billions of small decisions cumulate to form our
collective sustainable development challenge today.
This paper responds to a broader intellectual effort to flip the coin and make the very
decentralised nature of economic, social and political actions into an asset. Collective
Intelligence is a theory (and a hope) that diffuse technology, smarter machines, hidden
human talents and renewed participatory governance create an opportunity to solve public
problems. Nesta has taken this body of theory and practice and arranged it into a pragmatic
framework that demonstrates the aims and emerging methods for Collective Intelligence. Continue a ler.
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