From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Wed Nov 5 15:50:40 2014 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 15:50:40 -0800 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] We hope the wait was worth it! Collective Intelligence for the Common Good ~~ News from our first Workshop Message-ID: <5A2B7E80-2E62-4360-A4C2-E7EF912FE00E@publicsphereproject.org> Collective Intelligence for the Common Good ~~ News from our first Workshop We believe that organizing ourselves for collective intelligence for the common good is an obvious, almost obligatory approach, for people who are genuinely interested in collective intelligence for the common good. Now we just need to figure out how to do it! The dust from our first workshop has now settled. Thirty people (about half of our current membership!) spent two full days at the Camden Town office of the Open University (in London) presenting, discussing, and debating projects, ideas and issues relating to Collective Intelligence for the Common Good. We think (and hope) that everybody had a good time, got some good ideas, and is excited about our next steps. This note helps fill you in on where we are with our program. We're still trying to figure out the best way to fill you in on the content of the workshop itself. We received around 20 issue papers including three from people who didn't attend. (And two of those, Todd Davies (Digital Control and the Common Good) and Marc Tovey (Open Source Cognitive Science) have specifically asked for any feedback from our group on their papers respectively). Let Doug know if you'd like a copy. Anna will be working with developers at Open University to establish our new ci4cg.org site. At least for the near future this will serve as the access point to our work and associated resources. We're planning to host useful information there and probably a group blog as well. The list of presentation titles is below. Our current plan is to make the issue papers and the presentations available on our web site. We'd also like to do something like this with the workshop presentations. Some of them are online (e.g. Doug's at http://www.slideshare.net/dougschuler/meandering-incivicintelligencereduced) but most are not. Also see the collaborative document (bit.ly/1DyepXO) for other notes and links. We are still trying to identify effective and efficient ways to lightly coordinate our activities. We listed over a dozen possibilities to promote this type of coordination below and on our online collaborative document. One of us (Doug) at least is interested in working with a list of (1) what individuals could contribute to others in the group, and (2) what individuals would like to use or borrow from others. The hope is that by identifying these potential links we would be able to improve coherence and connectivity among our group — and maybe even develop some kind of automated support. (as an example Doug's preliminary lists are below) Although we didn't get too far figuring out how best to organize ourselves we did allow for the possibility of "clusters." Whether or not we adopt the idea of clusters as a possible name for informal groups that focus on some project or issue, we do now have an organizing cluster. We are now also launching a mail list, ci4cg-announce (http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce), which will be for brief announcements and will not be very active in terms of discussion. We plan to use openDCN, the deliberate system that Fiorella's team in Milano has developed, for discussion and organizing. This will be more active and will include the people who agreed at the workshop to help with organizing in addition to anybody else who wants to work on these issues. The issue of funding came up and of course it would be useful — particularly if the funders subscribed to the vision and the enterprise we're promoting. There seem to be several relevant EU opportunities. I’d like to see if we can get several types of funding, not just EU. Ideally the diversity we hope to develop will be attractive to funders. We're also hoping that there are ways to get funding from one source (say NSF), after some is secured from other places (like EU). And where will our next event be? We talked about having workshops or tutorials or other events in relation to other conferences (such as the Communities and Technology conference next July in Limerick, Ireland). We also talked about having one annual event that was organized by us. Finally, Karamjit Gill, the editor of the AI & Society Journal attended the workshop and is interested in a Collective Intelligence for the Common Good special issue. Fiorella, Anna, and I will be editing the issue. Karamjit encourages creativity so we're thinking about interesting, particularly pertinent ways to proceed. At the very least the papers should be somewhat coherent — thus modeling our field to some degree. Doug is also toying with the idea of some type of group "conversation" in which we lay out our field and issues within it in some collective way. Developing a supportive, effective, and diverse group from around the world is very important and to this end we're developing an invitation letter that you can use to recruit new members. But aside from that, it was decided at the meeting that anybody in the (esteemed!) group of 60 is welcome to invite other people to the community / network. (Although we have no agreed-upon systematic approach towards membership management.) Let us know if you have ideas about how to proceed. You can mail them to Anna, Fiorella, or Doug. Also (recommended!) please join our discussion / organizing effort on openDCN. (Please wait for information on how to sign up.) Thanks everybody! — Anna , Fiorella , and Doug Issue Papers Meanderings in Civic Intelligence Space, Douglas Schuler Collective Awareness as a Public Good, Antoniadis Panayotis On Public Design: Affection in the Transition to Postcapitalism, Maurizio Teli Augmenting the Collective Intelligence of the Ecosystem of CI4CG Initiatives, George Pór Too Small to Fail: Social Interaction in Small Groups and Discussion Networks, Andrea Kavanaugh Microdebates: a Debate-oriented Collective Intelligence Software Tool, Paolo Torroni ACQUA: Automatic Community-based Question Answering Using linguistic Features, George Gkotsis Contested Collective Intelligence for the Common Good: New Tools for Crowdsourcing Arguments and Deliberating Online, Anna De Liddo The Union’s Dream, and the Need for a European Public Sphere, Grazia Concilio and Francesco Molinari Co-creating a Better and a more Intimate Democracy, Andy Williamson Engaging Citizens to Raise Collective Awareness of Climate Change, Lara Piccolo, Miriam Fernandez and Harith Alani Collective Intelligence Meets the Political Agenda: Enhancing Election Debates to Foster Viewers' Engagement, Brian Plüss, Anna De Liddo and Simon Buckingham Shum Towards a Social Innovation Storytelling Architecture: Connecting the Conversations Between Communities, Aldo de Moor Developing a Community-based Learning Approach – Partnership Education: Action Research & Learning Scenarios (PEARLS), Peter Day Towards Abstracting Patterns of Civic Online Deliberation from Field Experiences and their Evaluation, Fiorella De Cindio Connecting Computers and Humans: a Question of Purpose, Karamjit Gill ‘Common good’ and civic intelligence, Yuri Misnikov Open Source Cognitive Science, Mark Tovey Digital Control and the Common Good, Todd Davies Two presentations without papers: Volkmar Pipek title? Grazia Concilio title? Coordination Ideas that were shared at the workshop. Which ones should we pursue — and how should we do it? Shared principles or manifestos Work supports each other (e.g. theory and practice; life cycle) Work within given framework Uses similar concepts, framework commitment to each other meet together, talk together data interchange, API, taxonomy, ontology group project(s) group research agenda I’m working on X and so are you My output (x) could be your input (y) How could my work be useful for you? How could your work be useful to me? What research or other work could benefit multiple people? Coordination Offers and Needs (examples from Doug's presentation) Offers I'm offering the Liberating Voices pattern language (and the anti-patterns) I'm offering the work I've done on civic intelligence including various frameworks for analysis, diagnosis, etc. Based on my CIRAL (civic intelligence research and action lab) work at Evergreen I'm offering the idea of forming informal clusters in our community / network, There is also the possibility of CIRAL students working with your students I can offer to help set up CIRAL work in other places I will have a new generation of e-Liberate fairly soon. (e-Liberate is an online system that uses Roberts Rules of Order to support distributed online meetings) Trying to get mileage out of looking at “discrete” aspects of intelligence — and then connect them? • perceiving • discerning • naming • interpreting • evaluating • abstracting • filtering • reasoning about the processes • storing (memory 1) • retrieval (memory 2) • searching • analogizing • theorizing • imagining • arranging • reconfiguring • mashing up • questioning • hypothesizing ! • communicating • formulating questions • reasoning • abstracting • adapting • problematizing • weighing evidence • judging • arguing • roles of emotion The premise that we can get mileage by looking at intelligence / cognitive functions in individuals The suggestion that looking at intelligence / cognitive functions will be useful for integrating tools Needs I want to convincingly demonstrate the existence of civic intelligence in, say, a city I’m looking for metrics or indicators for civic intelligence — and ideas as to how to obtain them I want to use the models and frameworks with community groups and activists I want to promote comparative research with little (or no) coordination ! !! For my pattern language work, I need methodologies in relation to developing, using, exchanging, patterns and pattern languages I need more design workshops and games that use the patterns I'd like to work with community groups I need new domain(s) for pattern language development I need ways to integrate my work with others in this community / network Douglas Schuler douglas at publicsphereproject.org https://twitter.com/doug_schuler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Public Sphere Project http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ Creating the World Citizen Parliament http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (project) http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv Liberating Voices! 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