Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Genome of Collective Intelligence

Thomas W. Malone, Robert Laubacher, Chrysanthos Dellarocas (Boston University), George Herman, Richard Lai (Wharton School)

The Genome of Collective Intelligence project describes a set of building blocks that can be combined and recombined to design systems that harness the intelligence of crowds. The Genome was featured in a 2010 article in Sloan Management Review. An earlier version of this article appeared as a CCI working paper.

The Genome is based on a collection more than 200 examples of collective intelligence, gathered in an editable online handbook built using Media Wiki software. The handbook also provides an overview of the field of collective intelligence, through multiple disciplinary lenses, and it also includes a list of references.

The handbook is hosted by CCI, but researchers and others from around the world are invited to contribute. The process of adding examples to this handbook could itself be an example of collective intelligence.

 

Articles about the Genome of Collective Intelligence;

-->The Age of Hyperspecialization, Harvard Business Review, July 2011

-->The Collective Intelligence Genome, Sloan Management Review, 2010

-->Harnessing Crowds: Mapping the Genome of Collective Intelligence, CCI working paper, 2009

-->Handbook of Collective Intelligence

 

For more information, please contact Robert Laubacher.