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===== CALL FOR WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION ====== Encouraging Collective Intelligence for the Common Good: How Do We Integrate the Disparate Pieces? ======================================= Are you interested in new approaches for promoting the common good? Join us at our workshop! 7th international Communities and Technologies (C&T) Conference Limerick, Ireland June 28, 2015. More information: http://ci4cg.org/C&T2015Workshop/ ------ IMPORTANT DATES ------ May 1, 2015 Workshop submissions due May 15, 2015 Feedback to authors June 17, 2015 Camera-ready papers due June 28, 2015 Workshop at C&T 2015 ------ ABOUT THE WORKSHOP ------ We define CI4CG as a distinctive type of collective intelligence, which emerges in civic contexts; it is aimed at generating societal good; improving civic engagement; enabling democratic decision making and deliberation; and producing, collectively built and owned, transformative solutions to complex societal challenges. In this workshop we will survey a variety of online tools and discuss what aspects of CI4CG they are intended to address and how they would be used by communities. We will consider how the developers could collaborate in the future and what future work, including collaborating with people outside of academia, will be needed. We are also interested in relevant methodologies, frameworks, approaches and non-technological complements to the technological side the workshop focuses on. An important part of the work will be identifying possible approaches towards integrating the tools technologically and socially. We will try to identify frameworks and mechanisms that various systems could leverage. The main output of the workshop will be a short report (white paper) that incorporates the general threads of the workshop into a document. This will be circulated for additional comments within several community and research networks including ones with which the organizers are linked. We also do want to keep the possibility of a special issue or book on the table and ideally an opportunity will be announced at the workshop. ------ SOCIO-TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS ------ For this workshop we focus on socio-technological systems that aim at supporting the very social process of appropriation, understanding and application from a community of new technological platforms for the common good. These include (but are not limited to) systems for: * e-participation and e-democracy; * dialogue and argumentation in open communities; * participatory budgeting and participatory democracy; * large scale collective deliberation and decision making; * early warning, collective awareness, planning; * crowd voting, polling, petition and prediction markets; * crowdsourcing and crowdfunding; * argument mapping, knowledge mapping and collective sensemaking; * open source software and open data; * citizens’ observatories and collaboratories ------ NEW COMMUNITY / NETWORK ------ The proposers of this workshop have also co-founded a community / network devoted to this theme. These approaches may turn out to be particularly fortuitous since, in addition to timeless problems such as inequality and oppression, many of the new problems that the citizens of the world now face (climate change, for example) offer unprecedented challenges, and the creativity, dedication, values, and other resources that communities could potentially contribute are likely to be needed. We encourage people who are interested in Collective Intelligence for the Common Good to join our mailing list: http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce ------ WORKSHOP SUBMISSIONS ------ Interested candidates are asked to submit a position paper (min. 2 pages, max. 4 pages in the ACM format) about your project/research and its relevance to the workshop themes. Position papers will be published online in Workshop Proceedings available from the workshop website. Please submit to: doug...@publicsphereproject.org We envision a maximum of 20 participants for this workshop. This would allow a good diversity of viewpoints and experiences while still allowing participation among all participants. Potential attendees should submit a short position paper that includes the author's interest and experience in the topic, if there is a system to demonstrate (or other information to present) and whether there is interest in possible publications beyond the conference. Please also discuss relevant frameworks or other models that might be useful for characterizing the nature of this work including descriptors, dimensions, and process models. And, finally, while we expect an overall high level of interest and experience we are open to attendees with less extensive experience that have enthusiasm and interest. ------ CONTRIBUTIONS ------ The following topics are welcome insofar as they are relevant to the main goals and theme of the workshop: * Theory of collective intelligence for the common good * Historic, current, and future contexts for collective intelligence for the common good * Recognizing and characterizing examples of collective intelligence for the common good * Socio-technological systems and other social approaches (which could focus on face-to-face venues) that promote collective intelligence for the common good, including its significance and the real world problems or challenges they address — and how they do that * Obstacles or challenges to collective intelligence for the common good * Linking and integrating diverse aspects of collective intelligence such as sensing, deliberation, memory, focus, etc. * Methodological approaches to collective intelligence for the common good * Integrating disparate perspectives, disciplines, and attitudes relate to collective intelligence for the common good * Stakeholders — including“ordinary” people and citizens with or without legal rights — and their roles in design, development, and use of approaches to collective intelligence for the common good * Future directions for collective intelligence for the common good Douglas Schuler doug...@publicsphereproject.org <mailto:doug...@publicsphereproject.org> Twitter: @doug_schuler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Public Sphere Project http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ <http://www.publicsphereproject.org/> Mailing list ~ Collective Intelligence for the Common Good http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce Creating the World Citizen Parliament http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament <http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament> Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (project) http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv <http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/> Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601 <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601>
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