This chapter explores the emergence of a new kind of collective intelligence and its relation to technology. It discusses the efforts of social movements like Occupy Wall Street and the Sunflower Movement to establish transparent and accessible deliberative democracies using digital technology. The chapter highlights the importance of facilitation, political strategy, and building alliances, and expresses optimism about decentralized technologies like Holochain and DaoStak.
In this conversation, I speak with Richard Dennis Bartlett. Richard is an author, organizational consultant, and founder of Loomio and The Hum, as well as a member of Enspiral network. He and I share an identity as former participants in Occupy Wall Street, me in NYC and Richard in New Zealand.
Together we reflect on whether Occupy Wall Street could be seen as a ‘bootstrapped’ collective intelligence, the rise of the vTaiwan movement and digital governance, and the need to leverage both social and digital technology together to create robust expressions of benevolent collective intelligence.
The Hum
https://www.thehum.org/
Enspiral
www.enspiral.com
Loomio
http://loomio.org
Richard on Medium
https://medium.com/@richdecibels