Inspiring collective intelligence case studies from around the world

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Enriched case study breakdowns taken from The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance.

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Curating experts insights to tackle Covid-19 with Smarter Crowdsourcing

A new method to attract diverse ideas from global experts and rapidly develop actionable proposals.

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Understanding the levers of public opinion: deliberative polling and AI assisted online deliberation

A new way for governments to reduce polarization and uncover how citizens change their mind on important policy issues

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Citizen sourcing local health policy with AI assisted idea curation

How Slagelse used AI to gather citizen insights on health and well-being to craft local policy

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How a small French town reduced unemployment with citizen-led innovation

Dreaming, remembering, scaling and innovating boldly to spread good ideas

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Actionable consensus from conflicting interests: how Agoras facilitated Germany’s energy transition

A new deliberation format to help disagreeing stakeholders pick climate and energy policies

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Deliberative policymaking: how vTaiwan engaged its citizens in policymaking during Covid-19

An online deliberation platform for stakeholders to remove deadlocks on thorny policy-making issues

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Hearing the marginalized: How Indian Jan Sunwais help the voiceless speak, learn and act

To uncover and heal grievances on public issues, Jan Sunwai use a public hearing format and skilled facilitators to guide debate and emotions.

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Challenging received wisdom and spreading innovation: Lessons from the Youth Justice Board

How the UK's successfully reduced youth crime with smarter insitutions that delegate power and encourage experimentation

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Crowd forecasting infectious disease outbreaks: how John Hopkins leveraged the wisdom of crowds

How crowds of public health experts and vetted civilian forecasters helped the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security tackle uncertainty and predict the future.

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More legitimate and impactful policy: how Gentofte enhanced dialogue between citizens and politicians

Policy mistakes are costly, but Political Task Committees can make dialogue between citizens and politicians more inclusive and productive.

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Smarter mediation, better dialogue: Lessons from a Swedish protest for local healthcare

A story on what makes mediation efforts succesful.

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Collective intelligence and digital participatory platforms: learnings from Barcelona´s DECIDIM

By channeling the collective intelligence of the many, Decidim seeks to better and more fairly include societal actors into policy co-production

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Creating a ‘voice’ of collective change through simple mobile phones

A participatory platform that enables people to share and discuss issues with one another via voice messages, using simple mobile phones that do not require any Internet connectivity

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Tacit knowledge speaks the language of story: Morocco’s Commission spéciale sur le modèle de développement

Renewing Morocco’s development model through the power of listening to citizens

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Public challenges to kindle innovation: How one telegram forever changed public policy in Australia

The time-tested ingredients for succesful public calls for innovation

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Creating collaborative young communities through school participatory budgeting

A 3 staged participatory budgeting model to get practical ideas from students

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Turning problem makers into creative problem solvers: How New York state creatively shifted the paradigm from managing troubled kids to engaging them

What if youth labeled as “juvenile delinquents” can instead be engaged as key stakeholders in resolving challenges in their communities?

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Slowing down to better tackle a region’s challenges: Lessons from Co-Intelligence Wallonia

How a regional adminisatration harnessed citizens insights to design a development plan, and why it failed

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When Bottom-Up and Top-Down Meet: the ADDIS Process and the Co-Creation of the Nigeria Startup Bill

A new wave of collaborative problem-solving between African entrepreneurs and governments

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Conflict resolution and community change

Empowering youth to be the mechanism for an entire community to talk to itself and make decisions for future generations

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To transform the community, change the story: the Fab City Global Initiative

How cities are rethinking their future with local, emotionally intellgient discussions

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Scaling personal initiatives into collective action: The citizen powerhouse of Sager der Samler in Aarhus

How Danish medical students came together to help marginalized citizens access healthcare and change the system from within

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From Shouting Matches to Argument Maps: An Online Deliberation Experiment in Italy

Why online discussions devolve into chaos and how to recover the wisdom of the crowd.

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How the Scottish government applied Theory U for collective leadership against Covid-19

Fostering bold creativity in times of crisis through co-initiating, sensing, presencing, creating and shaping

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Crowdsourcing a Constitution: The world's first crowdsourced constitution rises from the ashes in Iceland

Turning organizations into innovation ecosystems: the HIP model

Mobilizing collective intelligence and diversity toward Sustainable Development Goals

Collective creativity for political movements and party entrepreneurship: The Alternative in Denmark, or why failure is an option

Using political bots and artificial intelligence to facilitate the interaction between citizens and lawmakers

Thinking ahead collectively: the case of African Digital Futures

To transform the community, change the story: the Fab City Global Initiative

Pioneering Asia Pacific’s first community-driven investment process through blockchain: Impact Collective

Unlocking the European potential of national parliaments’ collective intelligence: the Open European Dialogue

Bridging science and diplomacy to build a universal agreement on the science of climate change: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Nurturing the right context for fruitful dialogue: The case of Helmut Kohl's "gastrosophy"

Mobilizing citizen science for adapting to climate change in the Arctic: The case of monitoring Svalbard’s and Greenland’s environment by expedition cruises

Using Collective Intelligence to Assess the Future with the Pandemic Supermind