The core concept of collective intelligence is as old as the saying that two heads are better than one. When diverse groups of individuals collaborate on certain kinds of phenomena, they can produce results collectively which are better than the results produced by any inidividual in the group: we together are smarter than any of us is alone.
Next Generation Internet applications are designed to take advantage of this insight, combined with new communication and collaboration technologies, to leverage communities of interested participants.
Undoubtedly the most well known example of collective intelligence is Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia of human knowledge created and maintained through mass collaboration.
MediaWiki, the software behind Wikipedia and many other popular sites, is just one of many excellent open source platforms supporting mass collaboration and enabling collective intelligence.
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