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May the conversations continue…

This book, Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace is not only a book; it is also a gathering of the tribes of CI, at least virtually, on the pages of this collection of essays and interviews.

In this volume, semantic and computational CI researchers, social activists, process consultants and facilitators, writers and journalists, futurists, educational and security specialists, virtual community experts, "crowd wisdom" enthusiasts and opponents, organizational professionals, search engine experts, political scientist and peer production partisans, and many others find each other between the covers of the same book.

The book is but a starting point. It is the hope of all of us contributing to this volume that this Table of Contents might be dramatically expanded both online and in face to face dialog and deliberation.

It is a too good opportunity to miss for seeking common patterns that connect the dots and contribute to the emergence of CI as a field of multi-disciplinary study and practice. To host and facilitate that emergence, Tom Atlee, myself, our friends and colleagues in the field have been envisioning a gathering called "Collective Intelligence Convergence," for many years. That idea has been ripening through a series of shape changes. Here's the current Call:

As a contributor to this book, you are invited to host a review and revision process online. Your chapter is presented in wikified format and linked with a forum where you can interact with your reviewers. You as editor of that chapter can create new revisions, integrating the reviewers comments. Or if you want. you can create a "open text" version of the chapter (or sections of it) that any other author may edit.

As a reader/explorer of the field you can write a review on any chapter, connect points of interest to you with a hypertrail, participate in conversations about the subject of any chapter, and/or publish your own CI-related content.

Your participation is the chance of CI Convergence to become a living laboratory, a platform for advancing CI research and practice. You are invited to join us in some co-creative work on the edge, which involves exchange among researchers and practitioners of CI.

We know that the state of the world needs collective intelligence more than ever and faster than ever. May the conversations that started by your engaging with the ideas of this book, contribute to it.

See you online at http://cic.evolutionarynexus.org.

George Pór 1

1 George Pór is an advisor to leaders in international business and government. Former Senior Research Fellow at INSEAD, currently he is a PrimaVera Research Fellow in Collective Intelligence at Universiteit van Amsterdam and Publisher of the Blog of Collective Intelligence. His clients include: British Petroleum, EDS, Ericsson, European Commission, European Foundation for Management Development, European Investment Bank, Ford Motor Co., Hewlett Packard, Intel, Siemens, Sun Microsystems, Swiss Re, and Unilever. He can be reached at George(at)Community-Intelligence.com.

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