The Potential of Collective Intelligence in Online Community Projects
ABSTRACT
This paper introduces the theoretical model of CI (Collective Intelligence) Potential Index for a scientific discussion. The index will allow users to identify and to analyse conditions that lead online communities to become more intelligent, inclusive, reflective, and safe. The subject of the research is online community projects, which include collective decision-making tools and innovation mechanisms fostering creativity, entrepreneurship, collaboration, new forms of self-regulation, and self-governance. The CI Potential Index (CIPI) will show the state and dynamics of the CI according to changes of various internal and external parameters. The data necessary for the identification of the CI Potential Index dimensions were collected using quantitative and qualitative research and will be revised during the scientific experiment. A longitudinal observation of a number of networked platforms will be undertaken to measure agreed-upon representative parameters. The value of the Index is that it defines capacity of the online community for aggregating and creating knowledge, for creativity and decision making, for self-organising, for adaptivity, and for the emergence of “swarm effect”.
AUTHORS
Institute of Communication and Mediation Mykolas Romeris University,
Lithuania
Project leader and professor, Dr. Aelita Skaržauskienė is an initiator and scientific leader of a priority research program for ‘Social technologies’ at Mykolas Romeris University (MRU). Her research field is application of new technologies in different fields of society life, focusing on innovative leadership and management approaches in knowledge society (distributed leadership, collective intelligence, etc.). Dr. Skaržauskienė’s research is based on principles of system theory, and her scientific research publications cover the topics of networked structures, clusters, and networked organizations. From 2007-2008, Dr. Skaržauskienė led the project for the development of self-managing teams in European Parliament in Luxemburg and Brussels with DEMOS Group Belgium (www.demosgroup.com).
Institute of Digital Technologies Mykolas Romeris University,
Lithuania
Monika Mačiulienė is a lecturer and Ph.D. student at the Social Technologies Faculty and the Faculty of Policy and Management at Mykolas Romeris University. Mačiulienė’s research is based on the analysis of principles of service-dominant logic, customer behavior, collective intelligence, and innovative management approaches. She has contributed to a number of national and international research projects, including the global grant study entitled Integrated transformations of eHealth development: the perspective of stakeholder networks.
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Journal of Information Warfare
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