WICI Panel Discussion: Open Source Democracy
Open Source Democracy: Can collective intelligence, mass collaboration, and large-scale problem solving using open architectures redefine democratic engagement in the 21st Century?
Mark Tovey, Michael Nielsen and Hassan Masum will join WICI in exploring the possibilities that information and communication technologies are providing for the creation of new types of political engagement, problem solving and collective decision-making. We will be exploring issues such as collective intelligence and open source collaboration The discussions will be organized around three themes, generated by questions posed by our panelists:
- "How do we make collective intelligence relevant to the policy world?"
- "How to scale up conversation about controversial topics, without melting down"
- “How can we agree on 'progress' and accelerate it?
SPEAKER PROFILES
Mark Tovey is the editor of Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace (Oakton, VA: EIN Press, 2008) and of the group blog WorldChanging Canada (http://www.worldchanging.ca). He is currently at the Institute of Cognitive Science, Carleton University.
Michael Nielsen is one of the pioneers of quantum computation, and together with Ike Chuang of MIT is the author of the standard text in the field. He is currently working on a book entitled "Reinventing Discovery", which describes how new online tools for collective intelligence are transforming science.
Hassan Masum is Senior Research Analyst at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health and is the author of many articles covering issues such as creative problem solving, peer production and technological and social innovation. He is currently co-editing a book on reputation systems and their impact on society.
