Knowledge Ecologies A Collective Intelligence Network 
As we move into the digital era, personalized knowledge
ecosystems will become the building blocks of our knowledge society. "Knowledge exists in ecosystems. A knowledge ecosystem is a self-organizing
system of information, inspiration and insights, human and organizational
capabilities; that interact and cross-fertilize - feeding off and growing out
of each other. Knowledge ecosystems are comprised of an integrated triple
network: a people network of conversations that is producing a knowledge
network of ideas, information, and inspiration, supported by a technology
network of websites, forums and other infrastructure elements that generate social and commercial value to their members and sponsors" - George Pór,
Community Intelligence Labs.
Knowledge Ecologies
develop around an easy-to-use and user-centered technology enabling the development of Participative Platforms. Current active Participative Platforms are: SAfE - Security Architecture for Europe; DA:rE - Democracy Ahead: resolve for Europe; Global Italians.
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Collective intelligence is not a new idea and concept . It is the oldest human social organization where individual decide to mutualize their knowledge, know-how and experience in order to generate a higher individual and collective benefit than if they remained alone.
Collective intelligence
is the foundation of positive-sum economies
where the whole is more than the sum of its parties.
Collective intelligence, at a natural stage, has two limitations:
- in size: only a limited number of people can interact before it reaches a too high level of complexity that generates more "noise" than effective results;
- in distance: people need to be together within in a short range so that everyone can participate and get a perception of the whole.
 The bigger human organizations became (cities, companies), the more they had to find other ways of organizing themselves.
"The main structure that prevailed until today is based on the work division sustained by a vertical command & control hierarchy. The command & control structure and the proprietarization/rarity of money are two phenomenon that reinforce themselves and help the world maintain its own social hierarchical structure in a relatively stable manner" (Jean-Francois Noubel). See also MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
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Why collective intelligence is becoming interesting now?
 What is new is that the two initial limitative factors of Collective Intelligence are becoming obsolete because of the arising of the Cyberspace.
The old social form of collective intelligence is now spaying very fast, everywhere at all stages of human organizations.
New social structures, new forms of governance, new relationship between the individual and the group, new economies, new political powers are in formation in the cyber layer, competing with the current social organization.
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