WISDOM OF THE CROWD

Hi there, welcome to my website on ‘wisdom of the crowd’.

Here you’ll find the latest information on my  future study on ‘wisdom of the crowd’ and collective intelligence, I carry out at STT, a think tank on technology and society. A lot of experts, scientists, artists, designers and citizens are involved in this study.

Foresight study

In this study we explored the future of wisdom of the crowd in twenty years. What will be next after crowdsourcing, Wikipedia and Twitter? Will we find a way to make better use of our society and the people in it, sharing knowledge and ideas, collaborating, cocreating and making decisions collectively? And how can artificial intelligence and the internet of things help mankind to become more collectively intelligent? And how can we use this intelligence and everybody’s participation to tackle complex problems such as a healthy lifestyle and clean environment?

The presentation below gives an overview of the foresight study. 

We focus on three domains and develop visions of a possible future in each of them.

1. Public Domain: here we will look at how smart cities and the internet of things can improve the participation of people in public decision making. We also discuss the possible need for an ‘digital’ Public Domain as part of our future internet to preserve collective values.
2. Health: here we’ll build scenario’s on how collective intelligence can be used to improve our health and prevent illness. How can we combine data from sensors and scientific knowledge with personal mood states derived from social media and other inputs. And how can we use this to coach people to improve their lifestyle. Empower people to truly participate in their own health.
3. Innovation: here we look what happens if ‘atoms become the new bits’ and the crowd starts innovating and developing more and more products themselves, even food products. What will the R&D-organization of the future look like?

Whether these visions can become reality, will also depend on the choices we as a society, business and government, are making today. Choices on how we design decision making processes, products and services. How we design the technology (our internet for instance) and what assumptions it is based on. Therefore we aim to present a manifesto with a message to all governments and the establishment.

The results of the future study will be published at this website, in a book (April 2012) and presented during a conference (April 2012). Then also the manifesto will be launched.

Activities

On September 14th at the PICNIC Festival 2011, workshop was organized on Redesigning the Government – Let’s Do It Ourselves. In this session we will be discussing how smart cities can facilitate DIY democracy and what the challenges and dilemmas are.

Recent publication: ‘Participation and Cocreation in the Public Domain‘.

Contact

Please feel free to contact me.

Maurits Kreijveld

wisdomofcrowd[at]gmail.com

LinkedIn-group: Wisdom of the Crowd

P.S. At the moment, most content is only available in Dutch, but I hope to make more content available in English soon.

About me

Maurits Kreijveld MSc is a futurist fascinated by the interaction between new technologies and people and how this shapes the future of our society and organizations. Currently, he carries out a foresight study on the wisdom of crowds at STT, a think tank on technology and society. In this study he explores the future of cocreation, social media and collective intelligence and the consequences for democracy, healthcare and innovation. In recent years Maurits worked with The Ministry of Economic Affairs on innovation, ict and new media policy. Maurits holds a Master degree in Applied Physics and is specialized in nanotechnology.

Maurits is a member of Council, a European think tank for the internet of things. 

Maurits wrote a book ‘Veel gekwetter, weinig wol’ (2011) about the current use of social media by governments and politicians, based on two years of research of Twitter, Hyves and Government 2.0 initiatives in the Netherlands.

Maurits published a paper of his vision on how to unlock the full potential of wisdom of the crowd in the book: ‘Knowledge Democracy – Consequences for science, politics and media’ (Springer, 2010).