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What if we had a FitBit or Fuel Band for large scale online community discussions and debates? Could we create a feedback loop for more efficient, inclusive, and creative online deliberation? Online communities have been playing an increasingly important role in supporting grassroots initiatives in the area of social innovation and sustainability. However, as such platforms go larger and larger, it is more and more difficult for community managers to ensure efficient debates among citizens, i.e. to ensure collective ideation, decision and action. https://medium.com/@leesean/a-fitness-tracker-for-online-communities-7b229c31f468 http://catalyst-fp7.eu/
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A Fitness Tracker for Online Communities? !
Collective Intelligence meets Wisdom Hackers
Online communities have been playing an
increasingly important role in supporting
grassroots initiatives in the area of social
innovation and sustainability.
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However, as such platforms go larger and
larger, it is more and more difficult for
community managers to ensure efficient
debates among citizens.
Major community networks and leading
research institutes have teamed up to
tackle this issue with the support of the
European Commission’s research funding
programme.
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Over 2 years, through the CATALYST
project, they will develop and test
collective intelligence tools and make
them available, as open source solutions,
to any interested communities.
Meet Catalyst
Watch the "Meet the Catalyst Team" Video on YouTube
What is Collective Intelligence?
Collective intelligence is the ability of a
group of people to be collectively
smarter than the smartest individuals in
the group if they acted alone.
This has been happening for a very long
time in the natural world.
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The advent of the Internet however, has
allowed for collective intelligence to be
much more easily implemented, and is
allowing people from many different
regions and backgrounds to connect. !
Source: http://assembl.org/what-is-collective-intelligence/
Use cases planned in the short term should
demonstrate how CATALYST developments
can boost local initiatives in the area of
social innovation, increase awareness on
new sustainable lifestyles, support
eGovernance efforts of European cities and
even empower citizens and the civil society
in debating emerging issues for the new
European Constitution.
Connecting Communities
Help us test Catalyst
We have partnered with the Wisdom Hackers
community to test DebateHub, part of the
CATALYST suite of open source tools.
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Join us in a collective ideation, discussion, and
debate of ways to maintain the festival spirit in
everyday life, how to think outside the cubicle
and activate the thinking body, and much more.
DebateHub Visualizations
Comparing Communities with EdgeSense
Catalyst + CAPSCATALYST addresses the CAPS domain. CAPS are non-commercial, open Internet platforms, connecting citizens to each other (and to the “Internet of Things” whenever necessary) and providing them with a more effective way to: !• Spontaneously adopt more sustainable
behaviours and lifestyles, based on better information (extended awareness); !
• Contribute to a low-carbon economy, for instance by lending, exchanging and reusing goods at scale, across geographic boundaries (collaborative consumption); !
• Get facts/evidence from citizens for better decision making, at personal or institutional levels (e.g. crowdmapping);
• Develop alternative collaborative approaches to problem solving (crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, participatory design, collective intelligence, collective decisions);
!• Actively engage, innovate and act,
individually or collectively, towards societally, environmentally and economically sustainable approaches and solutions to tackle societal challenges: growth and employment, environment, climate change, health and education, inclusive societies, wellbeing, etc.
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Source: http://caps2020.eu/
Catalyst Consortium Partners
