From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Tue Jan 6 09:48:22 2015 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 09:48:22 -0800 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Call for Contributions (First Notice) ~~ Special Issue: Collective Intelligence for the Common Good Message-ID: Here’s the call for the AI & Society special issue. we hope it sounds interesting! Please think about contributing a paper — but even if you aren’t thinking about that please read this: we’re hoping that many people will pitch in by reviewing or helping move the conversation along. Thanks!! — Doug (and Fiorella and Anna) Call for Contributions (First Notice) AI & Society Journal of Knowledge, Culture, and Communication http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/146 Special Issue: Collective Intelligence for the Common Good Co-Editors: Douglas Schuler, Fiorella De Cindio, Anna De Liddo Introduction We have been invited to develop a special issue of AI & Society, a Springer journal, based on the work of our Collective Intelligence for the Common Good Community / Network, particularly — but not limited to — that which was discussed at our recent workshop in London. This call for contributions is intended for members of our Community / Network. Of course because our group is open, this restriction is not as limiting as it might seem. People in the group are free to invite other people — and we have distributed an invitation that you can use for that purpose. In accordance with the objectives of our community / network, we see this special issue as an opportunity to move the broader project forward as well. For one thing, this publication project is built on collaboration. We hope that many of our members will help with this process regardless of whether they are submitting to the journal or not. Ideally this will be an opportunity for integrating and mutually leveraging our work. The special issue should help reflect the integrity and coherence of our work and the issue will be organized in a coherent and relevant way; e.g. perception, memory, reasoning, etc. or philosophy, systems, etc. It may also mean that we will adopt some flexible framework that all authors will use to help organize their papers. With this special issue, we plan to demonstrate our current work and point to both short-term and long-term research and action and projects. We also need to understand the contexts, both local and global, for this work. It is also especially significant to explore, propose, and test frameworks, norms, systems, and perspectives that help expand the reach of this work and/or help integrate the various aspects. Incidentally, with the objective of conveying some collective sense of our community / network for the special issue — and for our own edification, the editors of the special issue will be developing a collective conversation woven together with individual responses to a number of questions that we will pose to the list. This is an experiment so please bear with us! Watch for our questions — and send us your brief responses. Topic Areas The following list provides many of the themes that we believe are relevant. Theory of collective intelligence for the common good Historic, current, and future contexts for collective intelligence for the common good Recognizing and characterizing examples of collective intelligence for the common good Socio-technological systems and other social approaches (which could focus on face-to-face venues) that promote collective intelligence for the common good, including its significance and the real world problems or challenges they address — and how they do that Obstacles or challenges to collective intelligence for the common good Linking and integrating diverse aspects of collective intelligence such as sensing, deliberation, memory, focus, etc. Methodological approaches to collective intelligence for the common good Integrating disparate perspectives, disciplines, and attitudes relate to collective intelligence for the common good Stakeholders — including“ordinary” people and citizens with or without legal rights — and their roles in design, development, and use of approaches to collective intelligence for the common good Future directions for collective intelligence for the common good The points above are intended to help bring out the relevant aspects of your work — not to limit the content of your contribution. If you think a topic is relevant, then it probably is! All submissions must be clearly written, organized, and well-supported. Each should help advance the conversation and other work in this area. Each should explicitly demonstrate plausible or likely relevance to both collective intelligence and to the common good. Development Plan Here is our general plan for developing this issue. Our plan is for people to work together with the pieces that were developed for the workshop and with pieces that are not as fully developed. To help with the work of integrating the pieces and educating each other in the process, two review cycles are anticipated (see below). The first cycle will be an informal one and it is intended to help ensure that the paper is relevant and clear. The second cycle will be more formal. Full papers will be reviewed by the standard academic measures for significance and rigor. Projects, case studies, and editorials will be reviewed for relevance, significance, potential for action, and quality of arguments. We may find that we have more contributions than can be accommodated in a single issue of AI & Society. In that case we can either consult with the editor-in-chief of the journal or make other plans for the papers. Please consult the statement or principles (http://publicsphereproject.org/content/statement-principles-collective-intelligence-common-good-community-network) to help ensure that your contribution is appropriate. Submission Types Works may be submitted in one of the following categories: 1. Full Papers (3,000 words) 2. Projects or Case studies (1,000 words) 3. Editorials (500 words) — focused on challenges, directions, or other issues Statement of Interest A statement of interest is required for papers that are currently being envisioned as well as for those that were prepared for the workshop. The statement of interest should include authors' names and affiliations, title of submission, and a brief abstract that describes the content of your paper and the arguments you plan to make. If you are using your workshop submission as the basis of your journal submission, you should describe how the workshop submission addresses — or will address — these points. The statement should also address the relevance to CI4CG including how your findings could be used. Please indicate which of the following are (or will be) discussed in your submission: policy, experiment, online system, protocol, proposal, curriculum or other educational, institutionalization, e-government, community development, etc. (indicate as many as appropriate and feel free to add your own). Please indicate which of the ten topic areas (above) your paper covers and include a list of relevant tags and a list of stakeholders, i.e. who might be interested in, or affected by the work you discuss in your submission. The statements of interest should have a word count between 200 and 400. If you are planning to work with a paper you submitted to the workshop please include it with your statement of interest submission. Deadlines February 15, 2015. Statements of interest due April 1, 2015. Feedback to authors on statements of interest May 15, 2015. Submissions due for informal review (which will be conducted at least mostly within our group) July 1, 2015. Informal reviews to author August 15, 2015. Submissions due for formal review (which will be conducted at least partially within our group) October 1, 2015. Notification of acceptance or rejection November 1, 2015. Final, revised submissions due Open Access Publication Fees Springer provides an opportunity for individual authors to pay a substantial fee for their papers to be designated as "open access" and be made available publicly right away. While we appreciate and understand the reasoning behind this, we believe that this "pay to play" approach helps reinforce the academic pecking order based on institutional wealth. Consequently, as a matter of solidarity and academic fairness, the co-editors are requesting individual authors not to pay the journal publisher for this designation. We will make every effort to make the preprints of the article widely available. AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication, is an international journal, publishing refereed scholarly articles, position papers, debates, short communications and reviews of books and other publications. Established in 1987, the journal focuses on the issues of policy, design and management of information, communications and new media technologies, with a particular emphasis on cultural, social, cognitive, economic, ethical and philosophical implications. Digital submissions only: text as MS Word. Text should be in English and formatted in accordance with The Chicago Manual of Style Images with short captions for initial submission should be included separately in a PDF file not exceeding 5MB. Submissions/Correspondence: Douglas Schuler, Guest Editor The Evergreen State College The Public Sphere Project douglas at publicsphereproject.org Douglas Schuler douglas at publicsphereproject.org @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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URL: From P.Day at brighton.ac.uk Tue Jan 6 12:10:32 2015 From: P.Day at brighton.ac.uk (Peter Day) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 20:10:32 +0000 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Call for Contributions (First Notice) ~~ Special Issue: Collective Intelligence for the Common Good In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <84E2DDCA9BDB46459FDC95DA348488D5D80194B7@BELLATRIX.university.brighton.ac.uk> Hi all I will submit a paper and will also review Doug ________________________________ From: ci4cg-announce-bounces at scn9.scn.org [ci4cg-announce-bounces at scn9.scn.org] on behalf of Doug Schuler [douglas at publicsphereproject.org] Sent: 06 January 2015 17:48 To: ci4cg-announce at scn9.scn.org Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Call for Contributions (First Notice) ~~ Special Issue: Collective Intelligence for the Common Good Here’s the call for the AI & Society special issue. we hope it sounds interesting! Please think about contributing a paper — but even if you aren’t thinking about that please read this: we’re hoping that many people will pitch in by reviewing or helping move the conversation along. Thanks!! — Doug (and Fiorella and Anna) Call for Contributions (First Notice) AI & Society Journal of Knowledge, Culture, and Communication http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/146 Special Issue: Collective Intelligence for the Common Good Co-Editors: Douglas Schuler, Fiorella De Cindio, Anna De Liddo Introduction We have been invited to develop a special issue of AI & Society, a Springer journal, based on the work of our Collective Intelligence for the Common Good Community / Network, particularly — but not limited to — that which was discussed at our recent workshop in London. This call for contributions is intended for members of our Community / Network. Of course because our group is open, this restriction is not as limiting as it might seem. People in the group are free to invite other people — and we have distributed an invitation that you can use for that purpose. In accordance with the objectives of our community / network, we see this special issue as an opportunity to move the broader project forward as well. For one thing, this publication project is built on collaboration. We hope that many of our members will help with this process regardless of whether they are submitting to the journal or not. Ideally this will be an opportunity for integrating and mutually leveraging our work. The special issue should help reflect the integrity and coherence of our work and the issue will be organized in a coherent and relevant way; e.g. perception, memory, reasoning, etc. or philosophy, systems, etc. It may also mean that we will adopt some flexible framework that all authors will use to help organize their papers. With this special issue, we plan to demonstrate our current work and point to both short-term and long-term research and action and projects. We also need to understand the contexts, both local and global, for this work. It is also especially significant to explore, propose, and test frameworks, norms, systems, and perspectives that help expand the reach of this work and/or help integrate the various aspects. Incidentally, with the objective of conveying some collective sense of our community / network for the special issue — and for our own edification, the editors of the special issue will be developing a collective conversation woven together with individual responses to a number of questions that we will pose to the list. This is an experiment so please bear with us! Watch for our questions — and send us your brief responses. Topic Areas The following list provides many of the themes that we believe are relevant. * Theory of collective intelligence for the common good * Historic, current, and future contexts for collective intelligence for the common good * Recognizing and characterizing examples of collective intelligence for the common good * Socio-technological systems and other social approaches (which could focus on face-to-face venues) that promote collective intelligence for the common good, including its significance and the real world problems or challenges they address — and how they do that * Obstacles or challenges to collective intelligence for the common good * Linking and integrating diverse aspects of collective intelligence such as sensing, deliberation, memory, focus, etc. * Methodological approaches to collective intelligence for the common good * Integrating disparate perspectives, disciplines, and attitudes relate to collective intelligence for the common good * Stakeholders — including“ordinary” people and citizens with or without legal rights — and their roles in design, development, and use of approaches to collective intelligence for the common good * Future directions for collective intelligence for the common good The points above are intended to help bring out the relevant aspects of your work — not to limit the content of your contribution. If you think a topic is relevant, then it probably is! All submissions must be clearly written, organized, and well-supported. Each should help advance the conversation and other work in this area. Each should explicitly demonstrate plausible or likely relevance to both collective intelligence and to the common good. Development Plan Here is our general plan for developing this issue. Our plan is for people to work together with the pieces that were developed for the workshop and with pieces that are not as fully developed. To help with the work of integrating the pieces and educating each other in the process, two review cycles are anticipated (see below). The first cycle will be an informal one and it is intended to help ensure that the paper is relevant and clear. The second cycle will be more formal. Full papers will be reviewed by the standard academic measures for significance and rigor. Projects, case studies, and editorials will be reviewed for relevance, significance, potential for action, and quality of arguments. We may find that we have more contributions than can be accommodated in a single issue of AI & Society. In that case we can either consult with the editor-in-chief of the journal or make other plans for the papers. Please consult the statement or principles (http://publicsphereproject.org/content/statement-principles-collective-intelligence-common-good-community-network) to help ensure that your contribution is appropriate. Submission Types Works may be submitted in one of the following categories: 1. Full Papers (3,000 words) 2. Projects or Case studies (1,000 words) 3. Editorials (500 words) — focused on challenges, directions, or other issues Statement of Interest A statement of interest is required for papers that are currently being envisioned as well as for those that were prepared for the workshop. The statement of interest should include authors' names and affiliations, title of submission, and a brief abstract that describes the content of your paper and the arguments you plan to make. If you are using your workshop submission as the basis of your journal submission, you should describe how the workshop submission addresses — or will address — these points. The statement should also address the relevance to CI4CG including how your findings could be used. Please indicate which of the following are (or will be) discussed in your submission: policy, experiment, online system, protocol, proposal, curriculum or other educational, institutionalization, e-government, community development, etc. (indicate as many as appropriate and feel free to add your own). Please indicate which of the ten topic areas (above) your paper covers and include a list of relevant tags and a list of stakeholders, i.e. who might be interested in, or affected by the work you discuss in your submission. The statements of interest should have a word count between 200 and 400. If you are planning to work with a paper you submitted to the workshop please include it with your statement of interest submission. Deadlines February 15, 2015. Statements of interest due April 1, 2015. Feedback to authors on statements of interest May 15, 2015. Submissions due for informal review (which will be conducted at least mostly within our group) July 1, 2015. Informal reviews to author August 15, 2015. Submissions due for formal review (which will be conducted at least partially within our group) October 1, 2015. Notification of acceptance or rejection November 1, 2015. Final, revised submissions due Open Access Publication Fees Springer provides an opportunity for individual authors to pay a substantial fee for their papers to be designated as "open access" and be made available publicly right away. While we appreciate and understand the reasoning behind this, we believe that this "pay to play" approach helps reinforce the academic pecking order based on institutional wealth. Consequently, as a matter of solidarity and academic fairness, the co-editors are requesting individual authors not to pay the journal publisher for this designation. We will make every effort to make the preprints of the article widely available. AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication, is an international journal, publishing refereed scholarly articles, position papers, debates, short communications and reviews of books and other publications. Established in 1987, the journal focuses on the issues of policy, design and management of information, communications and new media technologies, with a particular emphasis on cultural, social, cognitive, economic, ethical and philosophical implications. Digital submissions only: text as MS Word. Text should be in English and formatted in accordance with The Chicago Manual of Style Images with short captions for initial submission should be included separately in a PDF file not exceeding 5MB. Submissions/Correspondence: Douglas Schuler, Guest Editor The Evergreen State College The Public Sphere Project douglas at publicsphereproject.org Douglas Schuler douglas at publicsphereproject.org @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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URL: From memarovic at ifi.uzh.ch Wed Jan 7 00:46:33 2015 From: memarovic at ifi.uzh.ch (Nemanja Memarovic) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 09:46:33 +0100 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Call for Contributions (First Notice) ~~ Special Issue: Collective Intelligence for the Common Good In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <50D136FE-9445-4B6C-A1DA-CF235F9B5543@ifi.uzh.ch> Hi all, Thanks for the notice:) Will try to submit a paper, and I can definitely help with reviewing. Nemanja > On 06 Jan 2015, at 18:48, Doug Schuler > wrote: > > Here’s the call for the AI & Society special issue. we hope it sounds interesting! Please think about contributing a paper — but even if you aren’t thinking about that please read this: we’re hoping that many people will pitch in by reviewing or helping move the conversation along. > > Thanks!! > > — Doug (and Fiorella and Anna) > > > > Call for Contributions (First Notice) > > AI & Society > Journal of Knowledge, Culture, and Communication > http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/146 > > Special Issue: Collective Intelligence for the Common Good > Co-Editors: Douglas Schuler, Fiorella De Cindio, Anna De Liddo > > Introduction > We have been invited to develop a special issue of AI & Society, a Springer journal, based on the work of our Collective Intelligence for the Common Good Community / Network, particularly — but not limited to — that which was discussed at our recent workshop in London. This call for contributions is intended for members of our Community / Network. Of course because our group is open, this restriction is not as limiting as it might seem. People in the group are free to invite other people — and we have distributed an invitation that you can use for that purpose. > > In accordance with the objectives of our community / network, we see this special issue as an opportunity to move the broader project forward as well. For one thing, this publication project is built on collaboration. We hope that many of our members will help with this process regardless of whether they are submitting to the journal or not. Ideally this will be an opportunity for integrating and mutually leveraging our work. The special issue should help reflect the integrity and coherence of our work and the issue will be organized in a coherent and relevant way; e.g. perception, memory, reasoning, etc. or philosophy, systems, etc. It may also mean that we will adopt some flexible framework that all authors will use to help organize their papers. > > With this special issue, we plan to demonstrate our current work and point to both short-term and long-term research and action and projects. We also need to understand the contexts, both local and global, for this work. It is also especially significant to explore, propose, and test frameworks, norms, systems, and perspectives that help expand the reach of this work and/or help integrate the various aspects. > > Incidentally, with the objective of conveying some collective sense of our community / network for the special issue — and for our own edification, the editors of the special issue will be developing a collective conversation woven together with individual responses to a number of questions that we will pose to the list. This is an experiment so please bear with us! Watch for our questions — and send us your brief responses. > > Topic Areas > The following list provides many of the themes that we believe are relevant. > > Theory of collective intelligence for the common good > Historic, current, and future contexts for collective intelligence for the common good > Recognizing and characterizing examples of collective intelligence for the common good > Socio-technological systems and other social approaches (which could focus on face-to-face venues) that promote collective intelligence for the common good, including its significance and the real world problems or challenges they address — and how they do that > Obstacles or challenges to collective intelligence for the common good > Linking and integrating diverse aspects of collective intelligence such as sensing, deliberation, memory, focus, etc. > Methodological approaches to collective intelligence for the common good > Integrating disparate perspectives, disciplines, and attitudes relate to collective intelligence for the common good > Stakeholders — including“ordinary” people and citizens with or without legal rights — and their roles in design, development, and use of approaches to collective intelligence for the common good > Future directions for collective intelligence for the common good > > The points above are intended to help bring out the relevant aspects of your work — not to limit the content of your contribution. If you think a topic is relevant, then it probably is! > > All submissions must be clearly written, organized, and well-supported. Each should help advance the conversation and other work in this area. Each should explicitly demonstrate plausible or likely relevance to both collective intelligence and to the common good. > > Development Plan > Here is our general plan for developing this issue. Our plan is for people to work together with the pieces that were developed for the workshop and with pieces that are not as fully developed. To help with the work of integrating the pieces and educating each other in the process, two review cycles are anticipated (see below). The first cycle will be an informal one and it is intended to help ensure that the paper is relevant and clear. The second cycle will be more formal. Full papers will be reviewed by the standard academic measures for significance and rigor. Projects, case studies, and editorials will be reviewed for relevance, significance, potential for action, and quality of arguments. We may find that we have more contributions than can be accommodated in a single issue of AI & Society. In that case we can either consult with the editor-in-chief of the journal or make other plans for the papers. > > Please consult the statement or principles (http://publicsphereproject.org/content/statement-principles-collective-intelligence-common-good-community-network ) to help ensure that your contribution is appropriate. > > Submission Types > Works may be submitted in one of the following categories: > 1. Full Papers (3,000 words) > 2. Projects or Case studies (1,000 words) > 3. Editorials (500 words) — focused on challenges, directions, or other issues > > Statement of Interest > A statement of interest is required for papers that are currently being envisioned as well as for those that were prepared for the workshop. The statement of interest should include authors' names and affiliations, title of submission, and a brief abstract that describes the content of your paper and the arguments you plan to make. If you are using your workshop submission as the basis of your journal submission, you should describe how the workshop submission addresses — or will address — these points. The statement should also address the relevance to CI4CG including how your findings could be used. Please indicate which of the following are (or will be) discussed in your submission: policy, experiment, online system, protocol, proposal, curriculum or other educational, institutionalization, e-government, community development, etc. (indicate as many as appropriate and feel free to add your own). Please indicate which of the ten topic areas (above) your paper covers and include a list of relevant tags and a list of stakeholders, i.e. who might be interested in, or affected by the work you discuss in your submission. The statements of interest should have a word count between 200 and 400. If you are planning to work with a paper you submitted to the workshop please include it with your statement of interest submission. > > Deadlines > February 15, 2015. Statements of interest due > April 1, 2015. Feedback to authors on statements of interest > May 15, 2015. Submissions due for informal review (which will be conducted at least mostly within our group) > July 1, 2015. Informal reviews to author > August 15, 2015. Submissions due for formal review (which will be conducted at least partially within our group) > October 1, 2015. Notification of acceptance or rejection > November 1, 2015. Final, revised submissions due > > Open Access Publication Fees > Springer provides an opportunity for individual authors to pay a substantial fee for their papers to be designated as "open access" and be made available publicly right away. While we appreciate and understand the reasoning behind this, we believe that this "pay to play" approach helps reinforce the academic pecking order based on institutional wealth. Consequently, as a matter of solidarity and academic fairness, the co-editors are requesting individual authors not to pay the journal publisher for this designation. We will make every effort to make the preprints of the article widely available. > > AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication, is an international journal, publishing refereed scholarly articles, position papers, debates, short communications and reviews of books and other publications. Established in 1987, the journal focuses on the issues of policy, design and management of information, communications and new media technologies, with a particular emphasis on cultural, social, cognitive, economic, ethical and philosophical implications. > > Digital submissions only: text as MS Word. Text should be in English and formatted in accordance with The Chicago Manual of Style Images with short captions for initial submission should be included separately in a PDF file not exceeding 5MB. > > Submissions/Correspondence: > > Douglas Schuler, Guest Editor > The Evergreen State College > The Public Sphere Project > douglas at publicsphereproject.org > > > Douglas Schuler > douglas at publicsphereproject.org > @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! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) > http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ci4cg-announce mailing list > Ci4cg-announce at scn9.scn.org > http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From memarovic at ifi.uzh.ch Wed Jan 7 00:45:05 2015 From: memarovic at ifi.uzh.ch (Nemanja Memarovic) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 09:45:05 +0100 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Call for Contributions (First Notice) ~~ Special Issue: Collective Intelligence for the Common Good In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi all, Thanks for the notice:) Will try to submit a paper, and I can definitely help with reviewing. Nemanja > On 06 Jan 2015, at 18:48, Doug Schuler wrote: > > Here’s the call for the AI & Society special issue. we hope it sounds interesting! Please think about contributing a paper — but even if you aren’t thinking about that please read this: we’re hoping that many people will pitch in by reviewing or helping move the conversation along. > > Thanks!! > > — Doug (and Fiorella and Anna) > > > > Call for Contributions (First Notice) > > AI & Society > Journal of Knowledge, Culture, and Communication > http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/146 > > Special Issue: Collective Intelligence for the Common Good > Co-Editors: Douglas Schuler, Fiorella De Cindio, Anna De Liddo > > Introduction > We have been invited to develop a special issue of AI & Society, a Springer journal, based on the work of our Collective Intelligence for the Common Good Community / Network, particularly — but not limited to — that which was discussed at our recent workshop in London. This call for contributions is intended for members of our Community / Network. Of course because our group is open, this restriction is not as limiting as it might seem. People in the group are free to invite other people — and we have distributed an invitation that you can use for that purpose. > > In accordance with the objectives of our community / network, we see this special issue as an opportunity to move the broader project forward as well. For one thing, this publication project is built on collaboration. We hope that many of our members will help with this process regardless of whether they are submitting to the journal or not. Ideally this will be an opportunity for integrating and mutually leveraging our work. The special issue should help reflect the integrity and coherence of our work and the issue will be organized in a coherent and relevant way; e.g. perception, memory, reasoning, etc. or philosophy, systems, etc. It may also mean that we will adopt some flexible framework that all authors will use to help organize their papers. > > With this special issue, we plan to demonstrate our current work and point to both short-term and long-term research and action and projects. We also need to understand the contexts, both local and global, for this work. It is also especially significant to explore, propose, and test frameworks, norms, systems, and perspectives that help expand the reach of this work and/or help integrate the various aspects. > > Incidentally, with the objective of conveying some collective sense of our community / network for the special issue — and for our own edification, the editors of the special issue will be developing a collective conversation woven together with individual responses to a number of questions that we will pose to the list. This is an experiment so please bear with us! Watch for our questions — and send us your brief responses. > > Topic Areas > The following list provides many of the themes that we believe are relevant. > > Theory of collective intelligence for the common good > Historic, current, and future contexts for collective intelligence for the common good > Recognizing and characterizing examples of collective intelligence for the common good > Socio-technological systems and other social approaches (which could focus on face-to-face venues) that promote collective intelligence for the common good, including its significance and the real world problems or challenges they address — and how they do that > Obstacles or challenges to collective intelligence for the common good > Linking and integrating diverse aspects of collective intelligence such as sensing, deliberation, memory, focus, etc. > Methodological approaches to collective intelligence for the common good > Integrating disparate perspectives, disciplines, and attitudes relate to collective intelligence for the common good > Stakeholders — including“ordinary” people and citizens with or without legal rights — and their roles in design, development, and use of approaches to collective intelligence for the common good > Future directions for collective intelligence for the common good > > The points above are intended to help bring out the relevant aspects of your work — not to limit the content of your contribution. If you think a topic is relevant, then it probably is! > > All submissions must be clearly written, organized, and well-supported. Each should help advance the conversation and other work in this area. Each should explicitly demonstrate plausible or likely relevance to both collective intelligence and to the common good. > > Development Plan > Here is our general plan for developing this issue. Our plan is for people to work together with the pieces that were developed for the workshop and with pieces that are not as fully developed. To help with the work of integrating the pieces and educating each other in the process, two review cycles are anticipated (see below). The first cycle will be an informal one and it is intended to help ensure that the paper is relevant and clear. The second cycle will be more formal. Full papers will be reviewed by the standard academic measures for significance and rigor. Projects, case studies, and editorials will be reviewed for relevance, significance, potential for action, and quality of arguments. We may find that we have more contributions than can be accommodated in a single issue of AI & Society. In that case we can either consult with the editor-in-chief of the journal or make other plans for the papers. > > Please consult the statement or principles (http://publicsphereproject.org/content/statement-principles-collective-intelligence-common-good-community-network ) to help ensure that your contribution is appropriate. > > Submission Types > Works may be submitted in one of the following categories: > 1. Full Papers (3,000 words) > 2. Projects or Case studies (1,000 words) > 3. Editorials (500 words) — focused on challenges, directions, or other issues > > Statement of Interest > A statement of interest is required for papers that are currently being envisioned as well as for those that were prepared for the workshop. The statement of interest should include authors' names and affiliations, title of submission, and a brief abstract that describes the content of your paper and the arguments you plan to make. If you are using your workshop submission as the basis of your journal submission, you should describe how the workshop submission addresses — or will address — these points. The statement should also address the relevance to CI4CG including how your findings could be used. Please indicate which of the following are (or will be) discussed in your submission: policy, experiment, online system, protocol, proposal, curriculum or other educational, institutionalization, e-government, community development, etc. (indicate as many as appropriate and feel free to add your own). Please indicate which of the ten topic areas (above) your paper covers and include a list of relevant tags and a list of stakeholders, i.e. who might be interested in, or affected by the work you discuss in your submission. The statements of interest should have a word count between 200 and 400. If you are planning to work with a paper you submitted to the workshop please include it with your statement of interest submission. > > Deadlines > February 15, 2015. Statements of interest due > April 1, 2015. Feedback to authors on statements of interest > May 15, 2015. Submissions due for informal review (which will be conducted at least mostly within our group) > July 1, 2015. Informal reviews to author > August 15, 2015. Submissions due for formal review (which will be conducted at least partially within our group) > October 1, 2015. Notification of acceptance or rejection > November 1, 2015. Final, revised submissions due > > Open Access Publication Fees > Springer provides an opportunity for individual authors to pay a substantial fee for their papers to be designated as "open access" and be made available publicly right away. While we appreciate and understand the reasoning behind this, we believe that this "pay to play" approach helps reinforce the academic pecking order based on institutional wealth. Consequently, as a matter of solidarity and academic fairness, the co-editors are requesting individual authors not to pay the journal publisher for this designation. We will make every effort to make the preprints of the article widely available. > > AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication, is an international journal, publishing refereed scholarly articles, position papers, debates, short communications and reviews of books and other publications. Established in 1987, the journal focuses on the issues of policy, design and management of information, communications and new media technologies, with a particular emphasis on cultural, social, cognitive, economic, ethical and philosophical implications. > > Digital submissions only: text as MS Word. Text should be in English and formatted in accordance with The Chicago Manual of Style Images with short captions for initial submission should be included separately in a PDF file not exceeding 5MB. > > Submissions/Correspondence: > > Douglas Schuler, Guest Editor > The Evergreen State College > The Public Sphere Project > douglas at publicsphereproject.org > > > Douglas Schuler > douglas at publicsphereproject.org > @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! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) > http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ci4cg-announce mailing list > Ci4cg-announce at scn9.scn.org > http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From justingriffis at gmail.com Fri Jan 9 09:34:48 2015 From: justingriffis at gmail.com (Justin Smith) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 09:34:48 -0800 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Call for Contributions (First Notice) ~~ Special Issue: Collective Intelligence for the Common Good In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello Everyone, I am interested in putting something together for this issue. I could also help with reviews if needed. Best, Justin On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Doug Schuler < douglas at publicsphereproject.org> wrote: > Here’s the call for the AI & Society special issue. we hope it sounds > interesting! Please think about contributing a paper — but even if you > aren’t thinking about that please read this: we’re hoping that many people > will pitch in by reviewing or helping move the conversation along. > > Thanks!! > > — Doug (and Fiorella and Anna) > > > > Call for Contributions (First Notice) > > AI & Society > Journal of Knowledge, Culture, and Communication > http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/146 > > Special Issue: Collective Intelligence for the Common Good > Co-Editors: Douglas Schuler, Fiorella De Cindio, Anna De Liddo > > *Introduction * > We have been invited to develop a special issue of AI & Society, a > Springer journal, based on the work of our Collective Intelligence for the > Common Good Community / Network, particularly — but not limited to — that > which was discussed at our recent workshop in London. This call for > contributions is intended for members of our Community / Network. Of course > because our group is open, this restriction is not as limiting as it might > seem. People in the group are free to invite other people — and we have > distributed an invitation that you can use for that purpose. > > In accordance with the objectives of our community / network, we see this > special issue as an opportunity to move the broader project forward as > well. For one thing, this publication project is built on collaboration. We > hope that many of our members will help with this process regardless of > whether they are submitting to the journal or not. Ideally this will be an > opportunity for integrating and mutually leveraging our work. The special > issue should help reflect the integrity and coherence of our work and the > issue will be organized in a coherent and relevant way; e.g. perception, > memory, reasoning, etc. or philosophy, systems, etc. It may also mean that > we will adopt some flexible framework that all authors will use to help > organize their papers. > > With this special issue, we plan to demonstrate our current work and point > to both short-term and long-term research and action and projects. We also > need to understand the contexts, both local and global, for this work. It > is also especially significant to explore, propose, and test frameworks, > norms, systems, and perspectives that help expand the reach of this work > and/or help integrate the various aspects. > > Incidentally, with the objective of conveying some collective sense of our > community / network for the special issue — and for our own edification, > the editors of the special issue will be developing a collective > conversation woven together with individual responses to a number of > questions that we will pose to the list. This is an experiment so please > bear with us! Watch for our questions — and send us your brief responses. > > *Topic Areas* > The following list provides many of the themes that we believe are > relevant. > > > - Theory of collective intelligence for the common good > - Historic, current, and future contexts for collective intelligence > for the common good > - Recognizing and characterizing examples of collective intelligence > for the common good > - Socio-technological systems and other social approaches (which could > focus on face-to-face venues) that promote collective intelligence for the > common good, including its significance and the real world problems or > challenges they address — and how they do that > - Obstacles or challenges to collective intelligence for the common > good > - Linking and integrating diverse aspects of collective intelligence > such as sensing, deliberation, memory, focus, etc. > - Methodological approaches to collective intelligence for the common > good > - Integrating disparate perspectives, disciplines, and attitudes > relate to collective intelligence for the common good > - Stakeholders — including“ordinary” people and citizens with or > without legal rights — and their roles in design, development, and use of > approaches to collective intelligence for the common good > - Future directions for collective intelligence for the common good > > > The points above are intended to help bring out the relevant aspects of > your work — not to limit the content of your contribution. If you think a > topic is relevant, then it probably is! > > All submissions must be clearly written, organized, and well-supported. > Each should help advance the conversation and other work in this area. Each > should explicitly demonstrate plausible or likely relevance to both > collective intelligence and to the common good. > > *Development Plan * > Here is our general plan for developing this issue. Our plan is for people > to work together with the pieces that were developed for the workshop and > with pieces that are not as fully developed. To help with the work of > integrating the pieces and educating each other in the process, two review > cycles are anticipated (see below). The first cycle will be an informal one > and it is intended to help ensure that the paper is relevant and clear. The > second cycle will be more formal. Full papers will be reviewed by the > standard academic measures for significance and rigor. Projects, case > studies, and editorials will be reviewed for relevance, significance, > potential for action, and quality of arguments. We may find that we have > more contributions than can be accommodated in a single issue of AI & > Society. In that case we can either consult with the editor-in-chief of the > journal or make other plans for the papers. > > Please consult the statement or principles ( > http://publicsphereproject.org/content/statement-principles-collective-intelligence-common-good-community-network) > to help ensure that your contribution is appropriate. > > *Submission Types* > Works may be submitted in one of the following categories: > 1. Full Papers (3,000 words) > 2. Projects or Case studies (1,000 words) > 3. Editorials (500 words) — focused on challenges, directions, or other > issues > > > *Statement of Interest* > A statement of interest is required for papers that are currently being > envisioned as well as for those that were prepared for the workshop. The > statement of interest should include authors' names and affiliations, title > of submission, and a brief abstract that describes the content of your > paper and the arguments you plan to make. If you are using your workshop > submission as the basis of your journal submission, you should describe how > the workshop submission addresses — or will address — these points. The > statement should also address the relevance to CI4CG including how your > findings could be used. Please indicate which of the following are (or will > be) discussed in your submission: policy, experiment, online system, > protocol, proposal, curriculum or other educational, institutionalization, > e-government, community development, etc. (indicate as many as appropriate > and feel free to add your own). Please indicate which of the ten topic > areas (above) your paper covers and include a list of relevant tags and a > list of stakeholders, i.e. who might be interested in, or affected by the > work you discuss in your submission. The statements of interest should have > a word count between 200 and 400. If you are planning to work with a paper > you submitted to the workshop please include it with your statement of > interest submission. > > > *Deadlines* > February 15, 2015. Statements of interest due > > April 1, 2015. Feedback to authors on statements of interest > > May 15, 2015. Submissions due for informal review (which will be conducted > at least mostly within our group) > > July 1, 2015. Informal reviews to author > > August 15, 2015. Submissions due for formal review (which will be > conducted at least partially within our group) > October 1, 2015. Notification of acceptance or rejection > November 1, 2015. Final, revised submissions due > > > *Open Access Publication Fees* > Springer provides an opportunity for individual authors to pay a > substantial fee for their papers to be designated as "open access" and be > made available publicly right away. While we appreciate and understand the > reasoning behind this, we believe that this "pay to play" approach helps > reinforce the academic pecking order based on institutional wealth. > Consequently, as a matter of solidarity and academic fairness, the > co-editors are requesting individual authors not to pay the journal > publisher for this designation. We will make every effort to make the > preprints of the article widely available. > > AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication, is an international > journal, publishing refereed scholarly articles, position papers, debates, > short communications and reviews of books and other publications. > Established in 1987, the journal focuses on the issues of policy, design > and management of information, communications and new media technologies, > with a particular emphasis on cultural, social, cognitive, economic, > ethical and philosophical implications. > > Digital submissions only: text as MS Word. Text should be in English and > formatted in accordance with The Chicago Manual of Style Images with short > captions for initial submission should be included separately in a PDF file > not exceeding 5MB. > > > Submissions/Correspondence: > > Douglas Schuler, Guest Editor > The Evergreen State College > The Public Sphere Project > douglas at publicsphereproject.org > > > Douglas Schuler > douglas at publicsphereproject.org > @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! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) > http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ci4cg-announce mailing list > Ci4cg-announce at scn9.scn.org > http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce > > -- Justin G. Smith, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow EECapacity and The Civic Ecology Lab Cornell University *Phone*: 425-652-8415 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Mon Jan 12 18:00:34 2015 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 18:00:34 -0800 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] [1] Questions can lead to Collective Intelligence.... ?!? Message-ID: Please bear with me — but just for a few years! :-) As I mentioned in an earlier note I'm planning to post a new question to this list every 4-7 days for awhile. The idea is to try to get a sense of the collective intelligence in our group via a series of questions, whose answers I will attempt to characterize. Please — if you can spare a couple of minutes — send me brief responses to these questions as often as you can. Brief = probably somewhere between one word and 10 sentences. It's important to note that your answers can be as informal or formal as you want. They can be whimsical, complex, mystical, .... And please send your responses only to me (douglas at publicSphereProject.org). I KNOW that you are all busy and I'm trying to make this is as unobtrusive as possible. While my first question was going to be something like "why is collective intelligence for the common good important right now?" I changed my mind and am now posing a meta-question: [1] If you were going to ask the entire CI4CG group one (or more) questions, what would it / they be? Thanks! — Doug PS. I'm going to assume that unless I hear otherwise, I can use your name in relation to your response. Douglas Schuler douglas at publicsphereproject.org Twitter: @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! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sarah at cope-land.co.uk Fri Jan 16 11:31:07 2015 From: sarah at cope-land.co.uk (Sarah Copeland) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 19:31:07 -0000 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Call for Contributions (First Notice) ~~ Special Issue: Collective Intelligence for the Common Good In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <007501d031c2$fa0df6e0$ee29e4a0$@cope-land.co.uk> Hi Doug, and everyone, Aldo and I are working on a co-authored paper that we would like to submit. It will make up for me not being able to attend the conference a bit! I’m also very happy to help with reviewing. Cheers, Sarah From: ci4cg-announce-bounces at scn9.scn.org [mailto:ci4cg-announce-bounces at scn9.scn.org] On Behalf Of Doug Schuler Sent: 06 January 2015 5:48 PM To: ci4cg-announce at scn9.scn.org Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Call for Contributions (First Notice) ~~ Special Issue: Collective Intelligence for the Common Good Here’s the call for the AI & Society special issue. we hope it sounds interesting! Please think about contributing a paper — but even if you aren’t thinking about that please read this: we’re hoping that many people will pitch in by reviewing or helping move the conversation along. Thanks!! — Doug (and Fiorella and Anna) Call for Contributions (First Notice) AI & Society Journal of Knowledge, Culture, and Communication http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/146 Special Issue: Collective Intelligence for the Common Good Co-Editors: Douglas Schuler, Fiorella De Cindio, Anna De Liddo Introduction We have been invited to develop a special issue of AI & Society, a Springer journal, based on the work of our Collective Intelligence for the Common Good Community / Network, particularly — but not limited to — that which was discussed at our recent workshop in London. This call for contributions is intended for members of our Community / Network. Of course because our group is open, this restriction is not as limiting as it might seem. People in the group are free to invite other people — and we have distributed an invitation that you can use for that purpose. In accordance with the objectives of our community / network, we see this special issue as an opportunity to move the broader project forward as well. For one thing, this publication project is built on collaboration. We hope that many of our members will help with this process regardless of whether they are submitting to the journal or not. Ideally this will be an opportunity for integrating and mutually leveraging our work. The special issue should help reflect the integrity and coherence of our work and the issue will be organized in a coherent and relevant way; e.g. perception, memory, reasoning, etc. or philosophy, systems, etc. It may also mean that we will adopt some flexible framework that all authors will use to help organize their papers. With this special issue, we plan to demonstrate our current work and point to both short-term and long-term research and action and projects. We also need to understand the contexts, both local and global, for this work. It is also especially significant to explore, propose, and test frameworks, norms, systems, and perspectives that help expand the reach of this work and/or help integrate the various aspects. Incidentally, with the objective of conveying some collective sense of our community / network for the special issue — and for our own edification, the editors of the special issue will be developing a collective conversation woven together with individual responses to a number of questions that we will pose to the list. This is an experiment so please bear with us! Watch for our questions — and send us your brief responses. Topic Areas The following list provides many of the themes that we believe are relevant. * Theory of collective intelligence for the common good * Historic, current, and future contexts for collective intelligence for the common good * Recognizing and characterizing examples of collective intelligence for the common good * Socio-technological systems and other social approaches (which could focus on face-to-face venues) that promote collective intelligence for the common good, including its significance and the real world problems or challenges they address — and how they do that * Obstacles or challenges to collective intelligence for the common good * Linking and integrating diverse aspects of collective intelligence such as sensing, deliberation, memory, focus, etc. * Methodological approaches to collective intelligence for the common good * Integrating disparate perspectives, disciplines, and attitudes relate to collective intelligence for the common good * Stakeholders — including“ordinary” people and citizens with or without legal rights — and their roles in design, development, and use of approaches to collective intelligence for the common good * Future directions for collective intelligence for the common good The points above are intended to help bring out the relevant aspects of your work — not to limit the content of your contribution. If you think a topic is relevant, then it probably is! All submissions must be clearly written, organized, and well-supported. Each should help advance the conversation and other work in this area. Each should explicitly demonstrate plausible or likely relevance to both collective intelligence and to the common good. Development Plan Here is our general plan for developing this issue. Our plan is for people to work together with the pieces that were developed for the workshop and with pieces that are not as fully developed. To help with the work of integrating the pieces and educating each other in the process, two review cycles are anticipated (see below). The first cycle will be an informal one and it is intended to help ensure that the paper is relevant and clear. The second cycle will be more formal. Full papers will be reviewed by the standard academic measures for significance and rigor. Projects, case studies, and editorials will be reviewed for relevance, significance, potential for action, and quality of arguments. We may find that we have more contributions than can be accommodated in a single issue of AI & Society. In that case we can either consult with the editor-in-chief of the journal or make other plans for the papers. Please consult the statement or principles (http://publicsphereproject.org/content/statement-principles-collective-intelligence-common-good-community-network) to help ensure that your contribution is appropriate. Submission Types Works may be submitted in one of the following categories: 1. Full Papers (3,000 words) 2. Projects or Case studies (1,000 words) 3. Editorials (500 words) — focused on challenges, directions, or other issues Statement of Interest A statement of interest is required for papers that are currently being envisioned as well as for those that were prepared for the workshop. The statement of interest should include authors' names and affiliations, title of submission, and a brief abstract that describes the content of your paper and the arguments you plan to make. If you are using your workshop submission as the basis of your journal submission, you should describe how the workshop submission addresses — or will address — these points. The statement should also address the relevance to CI4CG including how your findings could be used. Please indicate which of the following are (or will be) discussed in your submission: policy, experiment, online system, protocol, proposal, curriculum or other educational, institutionalization, e-government, community development, etc. (indicate as many as appropriate and feel free to add your own). Please indicate which of the ten topic areas (above) your paper covers and include a list of relevant tags and a list of stakeholders, i.e. who might be interested in, or affected by the work you discuss in your submission. The statements of interest should have a word count between 200 and 400. If you are planning to work with a paper you submitted to the workshop please include it with your statement of interest submission. Deadlines February 15, 2015. Statements of interest due April 1, 2015. Feedback to authors on statements of interest May 15, 2015. Submissions due for informal review (which will be conducted at least mostly within our group) July 1, 2015. Informal reviews to author August 15, 2015. Submissions due for formal review (which will be conducted at least partially within our group) October 1, 2015. Notification of acceptance or rejection November 1, 2015. Final, revised submissions due Open Access Publication Fees Springer provides an opportunity for individual authors to pay a substantial fee for their papers to be designated as "open access" and be made available publicly right away. While we appreciate and understand the reasoning behind this, we believe that this "pay to play" approach helps reinforce the academic pecking order based on institutional wealth. Consequently, as a matter of solidarity and academic fairness, the co-editors are requesting individual authors not to pay the journal publisher for this designation. We will make every effort to make the preprints of the article widely available. AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication, is an international journal, publishing refereed scholarly articles, position papers, debates, short communications and reviews of books and other publications. Established in 1987, the journal focuses on the issues of policy, design and management of information, communications and new media technologies, with a particular emphasis on cultural, social, cognitive, economic, ethical and philosophical implications. Digital submissions only: text as MS Word. Text should be in English and formatted in accordance with The Chicago Manual of Style Images with short captions for initial submission should be included separately in a PDF file not exceeding 5MB. Submissions/Correspondence: Douglas Schuler, Guest Editor The Evergreen State College The Public Sphere Project douglas at publicsphereproject.org Douglas Schuler douglas at publicsphereproject.org @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! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2 &tid=11601 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From yishaym at gmail.com Fri Jan 16 16:49:21 2015 From: yishaym at gmail.com (Yishay Mor) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 01:49:21 +0100 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Call for Contributions (First Notice) ~~ Special Issue: Collective Intelligence for the Common Good In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Doug, Davinia, Muriel, Page (cc-ed) and myself are working on a paper on "communities of design". We are also happy to review. all the best, Yishay ________________________________ learning; design; technology; research http://www.yishaymor.org +44 7891 456690 (mobile) On 6 January 2015 at 18:48, Doug Schuler wrote: > Here's the call for the AI & Society special issue. we hope it sounds > interesting! Please think about contributing a paper -- but even if you > aren't thinking about that please read this: we're hoping that many people > will pitch in by reviewing or helping move the conversation along. > > Thanks!! > > -- Doug (and Fiorella and Anna) > > > > Call for Contributions (First Notice) > > AI & Society > Journal of Knowledge, Culture, and Communication > http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/146 > > Special Issue: Collective Intelligence for the Common Good > Co-Editors: Douglas Schuler, Fiorella De Cindio, Anna De Liddo > > *Introduction * > We have been invited to develop a special issue of AI & Society, a > Springer journal, based on the work of our Collective Intelligence for the > Common Good Community / Network, particularly -- but not limited to -- that > which was discussed at our recent workshop in London. This call for > contributions is intended for members of our Community / Network. Of course > because our group is open, this restriction is not as limiting as it might > seem. People in the group are free to invite other people -- and we have > distributed an invitation that you can use for that purpose. > > In accordance with the objectives of our community / network, we see this > special issue as an opportunity to move the broader project forward as > well. For one thing, this publication project is built on collaboration. We > hope that many of our members will help with this process regardless of > whether they are submitting to the journal or not. Ideally this will be an > opportunity for integrating and mutually leveraging our work. The special > issue should help reflect the integrity and coherence of our work and the > issue will be organized in a coherent and relevant way; e.g. perception, > memory, reasoning, etc. or philosophy, systems, etc. It may also mean that > we will adopt some flexible framework that all authors will use to help > organize their papers. > > With this special issue, we plan to demonstrate our current work and point > to both short-term and long-term research and action and projects. We also > need to understand the contexts, both local and global, for this work. It > is also especially significant to explore, propose, and test frameworks, > norms, systems, and perspectives that help expand the reach of this work > and/or help integrate the various aspects. > > Incidentally, with the objective of conveying some collective sense of our > community / network for the special issue -- and for our own edification, > the editors of the special issue will be developing a collective > conversation woven together with individual responses to a number of > questions that we will pose to the list. This is an experiment so please > bear with us! Watch for our questions -- and send us your brief responses. > > *Topic Areas* > The following list provides many of the themes that we believe are > relevant. > > > - Theory of collective intelligence for the common good > - Historic, current, and future contexts for collective intelligence > for the common good > - Recognizing and characterizing examples of collective intelligence > for the common good > - Socio-technological systems and other social approaches (which could > focus on face-to-face venues) that promote collective intelligence for the > common good, including its significance and the real world problems or > challenges they address -- and how they do that > - Obstacles or challenges to collective intelligence for the common > good > - Linking and integrating diverse aspects of collective intelligence > such as sensing, deliberation, memory, focus, etc. > - Methodological approaches to collective intelligence for the common > good > - Integrating disparate perspectives, disciplines, and attitudes > relate to collective intelligence for the common good > - Stakeholders -- including"ordinary" people and citizens with or > without legal rights -- and their roles in design, development, and use of > approaches to collective intelligence for the common good > - Future directions for collective intelligence for the common good > > > The points above are intended to help bring out the relevant aspects of > your work -- not to limit the content of your contribution. If you think a > topic is relevant, then it probably is! > > All submissions must be clearly written, organized, and well-supported. > Each should help advance the conversation and other work in this area. Each > should explicitly demonstrate plausible or likely relevance to both > collective intelligence and to the common good. > > *Development Plan * > Here is our general plan for developing this issue. Our plan is for people > to work together with the pieces that were developed for the workshop and > with pieces that are not as fully developed. To help with the work of > integrating the pieces and educating each other in the process, two review > cycles are anticipated (see below). The first cycle will be an informal one > and it is intended to help ensure that the paper is relevant and clear. The > second cycle will be more formal. Full papers will be reviewed by the > standard academic measures for significance and rigor. Projects, case > studies, and editorials will be reviewed for relevance, significance, > potential for action, and quality of arguments. We may find that we have > more contributions than can be accommodated in a single issue of AI & > Society. In that case we can either consult with the editor-in-chief of the > journal or make other plans for the papers. > > Please consult the statement or principles ( > http://publicsphereproject.org/content/statement-principles-collective-intelligence-common-good-community-network) > to help ensure that your contribution is appropriate. > > *Submission Types* > Works may be submitted in one of the following categories: > 1. Full Papers (3,000 words) > 2. Projects or Case studies (1,000 words) > 3. Editorials (500 words) -- focused on challenges, directions, or other > issues > > > *Statement of Interest* > A statement of interest is required for papers that are currently being > envisioned as well as for those that were prepared for the workshop. The > statement of interest should include authors' names and affiliations, title > of submission, and a brief abstract that describes the content of your > paper and the arguments you plan to make. If you are using your workshop > submission as the basis of your journal submission, you should describe how > the workshop submission addresses -- or will address -- these points. The > statement should also address the relevance to CI4CG including how your > findings could be used. Please indicate which of the following are (or will > be) discussed in your submission: policy, experiment, online system, > protocol, proposal, curriculum or other educational, institutionalization, > e-government, community development, etc. (indicate as many as appropriate > and feel free to add your own). Please indicate which of the ten topic > areas (above) your paper covers and include a list of relevant tags and a > list of stakeholders, i.e. who might be interested in, or affected by the > work you discuss in your submission. The statements of interest should have > a word count between 200 and 400. If you are planning to work with a paper > you submitted to the workshop please include it with your statement of > interest submission. > > > *Deadlines* > February 15, 2015. Statements of interest due > > April 1, 2015. Feedback to authors on statements of interest > > May 15, 2015. Submissions due for informal review (which will be conducted > at least mostly within our group) > > July 1, 2015. Informal reviews to author > > August 15, 2015. Submissions due for formal review (which will be > conducted at least partially within our group) > October 1, 2015. Notification of acceptance or rejection > November 1, 2015. Final, revised submissions due > > > *Open Access Publication Fees* > Springer provides an opportunity for individual authors to pay a > substantial fee for their papers to be designated as "open access" and be > made available publicly right away. While we appreciate and understand the > reasoning behind this, we believe that this "pay to play" approach helps > reinforce the academic pecking order based on institutional wealth. > Consequently, as a matter of solidarity and academic fairness, the > co-editors are requesting individual authors not to pay the journal > publisher for this designation. We will make every effort to make the > preprints of the article widely available. > > AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication, is an international > journal, publishing refereed scholarly articles, position papers, debates, > short communications and reviews of books and other publications. > Established in 1987, the journal focuses on the issues of policy, design > and management of information, communications and new media technologies, > with a particular emphasis on cultural, social, cognitive, economic, > ethical and philosophical implications. > > Digital submissions only: text as MS Word. Text should be in English and > formatted in accordance with The Chicago Manual of Style Images with short > captions for initial submission should be included separately in a PDF file > not exceeding 5MB. > > > Submissions/Correspondence: > > Douglas Schuler, Guest Editor > The Evergreen State College > The Public Sphere Project > douglas at publicsphereproject.org > > > Douglas Schuler > douglas at publicsphereproject.org > @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! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) > http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ci4cg-announce mailing list > Ci4cg-announce at scn9.scn.org > http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Sat Jan 17 15:50:14 2015 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 15:50:14 -0800 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Question 2 Message-ID: Here's the 2nd question... If you have a couple of minutes please get back to me... [2] What definition of Collective Intelligence for the Common Good would you suggest? (Or: what attributes might it have?) Thanks! — Doug PS. I'm going to assume that unless I hear otherwise, I can use your name in relation to your response. PPS. It's not too late to address previous questions.... 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URL: From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Sat Jan 17 16:08:23 2015 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 16:08:23 -0800 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Communities and Technologies ~~ papers, etc. due soon.... Message-ID: <6F1B27AC-3A4D-4480-941C-E2696B7054A0@publicsphereproject.org> Reminder.... http://comtech.community/?page_id=7 1 Feb 2015 Papers, Workshop and Tutorials Proposals due We hope to have a good presence at this conference! Thanks! — Doug Douglas Schuler douglas at publicsphereproject.org Twitter: @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! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Tue Jan 20 15:03:54 2015 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 15:03:54 -0800 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Question 3... thanks in advance! Message-ID: <61CFAA3A-BAF4-401A-BD1A-E5749F0E8A77@publicsphereproject.org> Here's question 3. Imagine a CI4CG event that you’d really like to attend. What would it look like? (Feel free to describe a broad vision or just an interesting element.) If you have minute please let me know your answers to the question. And remember to mail your answers to me — not the group — unless you think the group might want to see it. Thanks! — Doug And the previous questions are below. My plan is to keep accepting your answers in any order.... [1] January 12, 2015. 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(Feel free to describe a broad vision or just an interesting element.) Douglas Schuler douglas at publicsphereproject.org Twitter: @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! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Tue Jan 27 22:51:33 2015 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 22:51:33 -0800 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Another question... An important one! If you can find 10 minutes.... Message-ID: Thanks in advance!! Here's the fifth question: Please describe one or more ways in which members of the Collective Intelligence for the Common Good Community / Network might be able to build on the work you're doing. This is one question that would really benefit from getting LOTS of replies! The first four questions are below. You can still address them if you're able. Also — please let me know if you don't want your answer(s) to be attributed to you. Also, if you'd like clarifications to any of the questions, please ask! [1] January 12, 2015. If you were going to ask the entire CI4CG group one (or more) questions, what would it / they be? [2] January 17, 2015. What definition of Collective Intelligence for the Common Good would you suggest? (Or: what attributes might it have?) [3] January 20, 2015. Imagine a CI4CG event that you’d really like to attend. What would it look like? (Feel free to describe a broad vision or just an interesting element.) [4] January 22, 2015. What are some of the barriers that stand between our work and the outcomes we’d like to see? — Doug Douglas Schuler douglas at publicsphereproject.org Twitter: @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! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: