The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance

Part 1: Foundations

1. A brief history of collective intelligence, democracy, and governance

2. From the Knowledge Society to the Collective Intelligence Society: Collective Tacit Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence for Policymaking

3. Smarter together? Collective Intelligence and change in government

4. Collective intelligence and governance: Imagining government as a shared brain

5. Measuring the effect of collective intelligence processes that leverage participation and deliberation

6. Key defining concepts: Collective intelligence, democracy and governance

Stephen Boucher, Carina Antonia Hallin, David Leal Garcia, Lex Paulson and Nino Javakhishvili-Larsen

Introduction

7. Deliberative Policy-making During COVID-19: The case of Taiwan

8. Crowdsourcing a Constitution: The world's first crowdsourced constitution rises from the ashes in Iceland

Elisa Lironi

9. Collective creativity and political entrepreneurship: The Alternative in Denmark (or why failure is an option)

10. How to facilitate the convergence of conflicting constellations of interests: Germany's "Agora Energiewende"

11. How Collective Political Intelligence produced better policy: Political Task Committees in Gentofte, Denmark

12. From Shouting Matches to Argument Maps: An Online Deliberation Experiment in Italy

13. Achieving Parity with Human Moderators: A Self-Moderating Platform for Online Deliberation

14. Hacking start-up policy reforms: Innovating public policy in Senegal

Jon Stever and Eva Sow Ebion

Introduction

15. Reinventing Local Government Through Collective Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence: How a Danish Municipality Harnessed Citizen Insights

16. Slowing down to better tackle a region’s challenges: Lessons from Co-Intelligence Wallonia

17. Turning problem makers into creative problem solvers: How New York State creatively shifted the paradigm from managing troubled kids to engaging them

18. Tacit knowledge speaks the language of story: Morocco’s Commission spéciale sur le modèle de développement

Introduction

19. Challenging received wisdom and spreading innovation: Lessons from the Youth Justice Board

20. Hearing the marginalized: The jan sunwai in India

21. Creating collaborative young communities through school participatory budgeting

22. Dreaming, remembering, scaling and innovating boldly: How a small French town initiated a journey towards "Zero unemployment"

23. Public challenges to kindle innovation: How one telegram forever changed public policy in Australia

24. Creating a ‘voice’ of collective change through simple mobile phones

25. Collective intelligence and digital participatory platforms: Learnings from Barcelona´s DECIDIM

Part 5: Social Innovation and Bottom-up Power

Introduction

26. Smarter mediation, better dialogue: Lessons from a Swedish protest for local healthcare

27. The power of different perspectives for conflict resolution and community change: "An eagle watches over us"

28. To transform the community, change the story: The Fab City Global Initiative

29. Scaling personal initiatives into collective action: The citizen powerhouse of Sager der Samler in Aarhus, Denmark

30. Pioneering Asia Pacific’s first community-driven investment process through blockchain: Impact Collective

Introduction

31. Unlocking the collaborative potential of national parliaments: The Open European Dialogue

32. Crowd forecasting infectious disease outbreaks

33. Mobilizing collective intelligence and diversity towards Sustainable Development Goals: From global innovation labs to collective intelligence assemblies for sustainable development

34. Bridging science and diplomacy to build a universal agreement on the science of climate change: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

35. Nurturing the right context for fruitful dialogue: The case of Helmut Kohl's "gastrosophy"

36. Thinking ahead collectively: The case of African Digital Futures

Introduction

37. Smarter Crowdsourcing to tackle Covid-19: Beyond the Open Call

38. Mobilizing collective intelligence for adapting to climate change in the Arctic: The case of monitoring Svalbard’s and Greenland’s environment by expedition cruises

39. Using Collective Intelligence to Assess the Future with the Pandemic Supermind

40. Using political bots and artificial intelligence to facilitate the interaction between citizens and lawmakers

41. Turning organizations into innovation ecosystems: The Hexagon of Public Innovation (HIP) model

42. Co-initiating, sensing, presencing, creating and shaping: How the Scottish government applied Theory U for collective leadership against Covid-19

Keira Oliver and Karen Lawson

Concluding dialogue: Collective intelligence and democracy, today and tomorrow

Lex Paulson with Oumar Ba, Helen Liu, Cristiano Ferri Faria and Ksana Nechyporenko

Biography

Stephen Boucher is the founder and CEO of Dreamocracy and teaches at the Free University of Brussels (ULB), Sciences Po-Paris, and the Centre International de Formation Européenne (CIFE).

Carina Antonia Hallin is the Founder and Research Coordinator of the Collective Intelligence Research Group at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU), Denmark, and Co-Founder of the Academy of Management's Community on Knowledge Integration, Synthesis and Engineering, and Co-Founder of the CI company Mindpool and Global Mindpool　in collaboration with the UNDP.

Lex Paulson is the Executive Director of the UM6P School of Collective Intelligence, Morocco, and lectures in advocacy at Sciences Po-Paris, France.

"Democracy is in crisis because today’s governments largely fail to capitalize on their greatest untapped resource : the collective intelligence of their citizens. The cases in this book show the way to the smarter, more open democracy that humanity deserves."
Prof. Helene Landemore, Yale University, author of Democratic Reason (2013) and Open Democracy (2020)

"None of this century’s hardest problems will be solved by a single stroke of genius -- rather, we can only make progress by inventing new and better forms of collaboration. This book gives an essential guide to our emerging field."
Prof. Thomas Malone, Founder, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

"Addressing the crises of the new world  requires new tools based on the transformative participation of connected local communities on a South/South and not just North/South basis. This book feeds into such governance perspectives that can be one of the remedies to the most serious crisis: the crisis of trust in institutions."
Isabelle Durant, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium, Vice-President of the European Parliament and Deputy Secretary General of UNCTAD.

"The Routledge Handbook fills a gap in an emerging literature on collective intelligence and public innovation as a process of finding new way to provide people with public goods. This long-awaited book with a comprehensive view of the most sophisticated analyses, concepts and methodologies in the field."
Florent Parmentier, Sciences Po, France

"The extent of the movement toward deliberative democracy has been poorly understood until now. The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance enhances our understanding of the breadth of activity across geographies and social institutions, while providing a valuable resource for insights from a host of experiments in collective intelligence."
Dawn Nakagawa, Executive Vice President of the Berggruen Institute, USA

"A key challenge presented in The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy & Governance, that of moving from the individual knowledge society to one that elicits the collective intelligence of all citizens, might be the greatest area of potential impact for democracy and governance today."
Andy E. Williams, Founder, Executive Director, Nobeah Technologies Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya