Action Project 03: Improve Collective Intelligence for communities involved in the socioeconomy

Issue

Most communities involved in the socioeconomy are not Internet litterate. Even less communities are aware about collective intelligence and how they could dramatically increase it with the right methodologies, technologies and training. This means that:

1. their collective intelligence remains limited to the small team level (see original collective intelligence) and cannot extend to a larger scale with a higher level of complexity and efficiency
2. they are nor well represented neither interconnected with other communities --> learning, sharing experience and cross-fertilizing are limited
3. self-awareness as a global movement is absent or very low
4. inner efficiency is limited because no digital collective memory and no synchronous/asynchronous balance in communication
5. no feedback loop? tools are available to contribute in stabilizing the whole system (no matter whether this is just barter or currency-based)

Objectives

Provide turnkey and ready-to-use training, methodologies and online tools in order to solve the issues mentioned above.

Methodology

Make a first investigation (see Research Project 01).

• Explore current collaborative platforms, social software and collective intelligence technologies
• Explore what are the most common needs
• Define a basic package that will fit most communities' needs
• Provide an easy-to-use toolbox + instructions manuals
• Build training sessions

Similar and related projects

• The open money project with community currencies? initiated by Michael Linton
• Access Foundation, initated by Bernard Lietaer
• Strohalm

Milestones

• Will depend on the demand

Participants

Please add your name below if you want to participate in making the project happen (you need to be registered):

• Jean-Francois Noubel as initiator
• Community Intelligence Ltd if the project gets bigger
• Mose as community expert, as well as Tikiwiki coder

Budget

• To be determined

Funding

• To be determined

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Discussion

What are basic needs for communities involved in the socioeconomy and players supporting it? Below is a shortlist to begin with.

Basic needs

Training and methodologies.

Tools such as:

• Hosting service (free)
• Webmail for each participant
• Online article publishing
• Wiki
• Forums
• An profiling and matching feature (see whogle)
• File library
• Registration/right management features
• Alert features
• A shared platform for all players to find resources and share experience (which is the aim of TheTransitioner)
• Voting feature

Most of these features are provided by Tikiwiki with the following restrictions — mose

• hosting for tiki is free on SourceForge, but not simple enough to setup there
• hosting elsewhere is not difficult, but will be enhanced (with better GUI, and less ram required to run : goal is under 4Mb)
• Webmail included in tiki is poor. There are plans to integrate Imp or another third party software for that feature. Contacts have been made with other projects about it.
• There is a need for spreading a transversal voting feature, so every item in tiki could be voted as they can be commented now.

If there is a dedicated server, I bet we can find people to help on prototyping a model mixing alternC and Tikiwiki or something that taste.. — mose