thanks Helene! On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Helene Finidori <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Michel, Kevin,

My conversation with Sahlan was yesterday evening, so I can't quite transmit any request to him orally now. I have put him in copy in case he has more to share about this issue for you to publish.

For the 'bonus text', no need for you to create one, I have made my own here: Collective intelligence is a commons that needs protection and a dedicated language. <https://www.academia.edu/10292904/Collective_intelligence_is_a_commons_that_needs_protection_and_a_dedicated_language> (I think I had already suggested in our exchanges about the p2p foundation blog and republishings, and to avoid cases such as the Heather Marsh sribd one, that you ask the authors to provide the full text links).

As per the intro text, here are Sahlan's words and my own abstract in copyable format.

Thanks & cheers :) H

*Sahlan Momo’s words of introduction of the Issue*

Included are some visions of friends on the Collective Intelligence theme, analysing and depicting its manifestations and its various angles from differing standpoints – some may appear off-topic, nonetheless here deemed instrumental in lightening the common framework in which the process itself is taking place. Worth of attention is also the Collective Intelligence Conference, to be held in Santa Clara, CA, USA , on May 31 – June 2, 2015

*My abstract*

*Collective intelligence is a commons that needs protection and a dedicated language.*

Technology is what boosts the capacity of individuals and communities to become authors of their own stories, and what enables collective intelligence to become aware of itself and to fulfill its long awaited promise. It is also what can lock up potential inside black boxes for just a few to benefit from.

We are facing a paradox. It seems that at the same time as collective intelligence is making itself increasingly palpable and promising as a whole, the possibility of it being actionable locally and effectively enabling us to get ourselves out of a planetary predicament is becoming remote.

In this article, I look at how collective intelligence is being hindered or captured as it comes into being, with the threat of leaving us deprived from a significant source of latent agency, and I suggest what it would take to reclaim it back.

I build upon the Ecology for Transformative Action, which I set the stage for in the last issue of this journal, to examine the condition under which technology and systems dynamics can be turned towards the greater good, and how collective intelligence can be mobilized and operate as a force for systemic change. In particular, I explore further how a pattern language for systemic change regenerative of commons could be the means of expression of operationalized collective intelligence.

*A key quote of me:*

"The mobilization of collective intelligence at wider systemic levels beyond the boundaries of our habitual communities to solve wicked interconnected problems involves more complex mechanisms and in particular the capacity to achieve more complex synergies (i.e. systemic coherence) across multiple centres in addition to ‘simple’ local synthesis (i.e. complexity reductions) within cohesive centres of shared experience.

This requires an expansion of our capacities to meaningfully relate to each other, to understand our position in the bigger picture, to perceive and mutually recognize our respective logics and space for engagement, and to find and interpret the signals and tracks our actions leave in the system and the environment as feedback and feedforward that will inform further interpretation and action.

Achieving coherence involves tools and processes that can facilitate self-coordination of multiple approaches at many levels and scales, in addition to building cohesion through facilitation methodologies within defined contexts."

On Friday, January 23, 2015 9:32 AM, Michel Bauwens < [email protected]> wrote:

some intro presentation on that special issue in a copyable format,

and perhaps we can scribd or issuu your text as a bonus for the same article ?

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Helene Finidori <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Michel,

I don't have more info right now, I'm just an author in this one (you should read my article :) and received this email, and I'm the guest editor for the next one, of which I will be able to tell you more about when it's published.

But what is it you would like to know/have? I'm talking with Sahlan in an hour.

Cheers H

On Thursday, January 22, 2015 4:54 PM, Michel Bauwens < [email protected]> wrote:

hi Kevin,

this seems worth announcing on our blog, Helene may have more info as well as she's involved with spanda,

Michel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Spanda* <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 7:05 PM Subject: Spanda Journal | Collective Intelligence To: Michel Bauwens <[email protected]>

Dear Reader,

The *Spanda Journal *special issue on "*Collective Intelligence", * V (2), December 2014, is now available on Spanda website <http://www.spanda.org/publications.html>.

The issue contains the following articles:

*:: **Editorial* | *Sahlan Momo*, *Mesoteric Intelligence & Collective Serendipity *| Pages V-IX. *:: Ervin Laszlo*, *The One Mind in the Cosmos and its Manifestations in our Consciousness *| Pages 1-4. *:: **Tom Altee*, *The Role of Collective Intelligence in the Wise Democracy Needed for Humanity’s Survival* | Pages 5-16 *:: **Pierre Lévy*, *The Philosophical Concept of Algorithmic Intelligence* | Pages 17-25 *:: **Stanislav Grof*, *Archetypes, Mythic Imagination, and Modern Society: the Re-enchantment of the World* | Pages 27-37

*:: **George Pór*, *From Right Mindfulness to Collective Intelligence to Collective Sentience:Signposts to the Later Stage of Our Evolutionary Journey* | Pages 39-49 *:: **Francis Heylighen*, *Challenge Propagation: Towards a Theory of Distributed Intelligence and the Global Brain* | Pages 51-63 *:: **Charles Eisenstein*, *Qualitative Dimensions of Collective Intelligence: Intention, Wisdom, and Soul* | Pages 65-69 *:: **Derrick de Kerckhove*, *Connective or Collective? The Case for Precision in Terminology* | Pages 71-77 *:: **Helene Finidori*, *Collective Intelligence is a Commons that Needs Protection and a Dedicated Language* | Pages 79-89 *:: **Terri O’Fallon **~ Venita Ramirez ~ **Geoff Fitch*, *Collective Intelligence* | Pages 91-95 *:: **Norman Lee Johnson*, *The Applied Science of Collective Intelligence: Solving the Grand Challenges Facing Humanity* | Pages 97-107 *:: **Jim Rough*, *The Circle: Structuring for Collective Intelligen**ce* | Pages 109-113 *:: **Adebayo Akomolafe*, *The Trees Still Speak: the Collective Intelligence of the Natural World* | Pages 115-118 *:: **Craig Hamilton*, *Collective Intelligence and the Evolution of Self and Culture* (interview by Suzanne Shealy and George Pór) | Pages 119-126 *:: **Robert D. Steele*, *Applied Collective Intelligence:* *Human-centric Holistic Analytics, True Cost Economics and Open Everything* | Pages 127-137 *:: **Ashok Gangadean*, *Awakening Collective Global Intelligence: the Power of Deep Dialogue* | Pages 139-147 *:: **Amit Goswami*, *Love and the Awakening of the Heart Centre* | Pages 149-152 *:: **Arthur Colman ~ Pilar Montero*, *The New Longevity* | Pages 153-162

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