‘The power of organising without organisation’ Allen Lane

‘Groups of individuals doing things collectively that seem intelligent’ socialtext.net

By Sonia, Saffron, Kim and Bridget

‘Why the many are smarter than the few’

• Groups of individuals with a shared intelligence hold far more information than the individual.

• Many forms of decision making in animals, humans and computer networks.

• Studies collective behaviour.

Surowiecki,J (2005)

• Collective Intelligence is referred to Symbiotic intelligence.

• Collective intelligence is defined as a form of network, by the rise of communication technology.

• The Internet is widespread use of mass media, it holds vast quantities of information that is widely available to the masses.

Example 1- Wikipedia

What is Wikipedia???

• The internet offers the opportunity to contribute to community-based knowledge such as Wikipedia.

• Wikipedia is a free multilingual free content encyclopedia that is based on the web.

• It allows anonymous contributors to share and store information. The website consists of 14 million articles from over 75 thousand active participants.

•It allows you edit other peoples articles and add additional information.

•Online Collection of knowledge

•Users can be of any age, culture and social background. Wikipedia also offers these article in over 260 languages making it a universal website.

Example 2- Flickr

What is Flickr???• Is a online community for sharing photos

and videos.

• It hosts more than 4 billion images

Example 3 - Twitter

• Social Networking site

• Allows users to send and receive messages

• ‘We think of Twitter as it's not a social network, but it's an information network. It tells people what they care about as it is happening in the world.’ Evan Williams

What is Twitter???

Example 4 - Google

What is Google???• Internet Search engine

• Consists of collective knowledge created by millions of people, to produce intelligent answers to the questions we type in.

• It includes Google web, images, videos, maps, news, shopping, mail and many

more.

Example 5 - BitTorrent

• For file sharing – uploading and downloading files.

• Used for distributing large amounts of data.

• Consists of 160 million clients worldwide.

• The sending spread and transferring cost depends on the popularity of the software file or video.

What is BitTorrent???

Other Examples:

Sharing of music and Files

Sharing MySpace codes, music, video and games

Get web designs, logo designs and graphic designs from designers around the world

To pitch ideas in response to companies specific creative needs

An online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide.

Send messages, notify friends and join networks.