Real People, Technology, And Collective Intelligence
In this paper, we present some examples of socially-responsible projects developed in Mexico, while exploring the concept of 'collective intelligence' for the promotion of a socially-aware conscience in different contexts and environments. These examples include projects such as shoe-making workshops in rural areas, an indigenous multi-language on-line news agency, punk art in conflictive neighborhoods, sustainable rural community development in the mist forests of Veracruz, and a multimedia local news agency in popular urban neighborhoods. These projects are supported by open-source semantic database implementations and content management software.
The term 'collective intelligence' comes from the idea that human communities share a common background that most people refer to as 'culture'. Intelligent individuals build this collective knowledge as a result of the accumulation of their own personal experience, function inside a community and local environmental conditions. Our efforts revolve around the implementation of current techniques and technologies, such as 'emergence' of complex systems and the Internet, in the creation, management, and sharing of collective intelligence in practical situations.
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