Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Foundations

A brief history of collective intelligence, democracy, and governance / Lex Paulson

From the knowledge society to the collective intelligence society / Carina Antonia Hallin

Smarter together? : collective intelligence and change in government / Stephen Boucher

Collective intelligence and governance : imagining government as a shared brain / Geoff Mulgan

Measuring the effect of collective intelligence processes that leverage participation and deliberation / Paolo Spada, Lex Paulson

Key defining concepts : collective intelligence, democracy, and governance / Stephen Boucher, Carina Antonia Hallin, Lex Paulson, Nino Javakhishvili-Larsen, David Leal Garcia

Part 2. Reinventing democracy : new modes of representation

Deliberative policymaking during COVID-19 : the case of Taiwan / Helen K. Liu, Tze-Luen Lin

Crowdsourcing a constitution : the world's first crowdsourced constitution rises from the ashes in Iceland / Elisa Lironi

Collective creativity and political entrepreneurship : the Alternative in Denmark (or why failure is an option) / Stephen Boucher, Jeff van Luijk, Uffe Elbaek

How to facilitate the convergence of conflicting constellations of interests : Germany's “agora energiewende” / Lars Grotewold

How collective political intelligence produced better policy : political task committees in Gentofte, Denmark

From shouting matches to argument maps : an online deliberation experiment in Italy / Mark Klein, Paolo Spada, Lex Paulson

Achieving parity with human moderators : a self-moderating platform for online deliberation 1 / Lodewijk Gelauff, Liubov Nikolenko, Sukolsak Sakshuwong, James Fishkin, Ashish Goel, Kamesh Munagala, Alice Siu

When bottom-up and top-down meet : the ADDIS process and the co-creation of the Nigeria Startup Bill / Jon Stever

Part 3. Eliciting citizen knowledge for collective intelligence as a public good

Reinventing local government through collective intelligence and artificial intelligence : how a Danish municipality harnesses citizen insights / Carina Antonia Hallin, Naima Lipka

Slowing down to better tackle a region's challenges : lessons from Co-Intelligence Wallonia / Pierre Portevin

Turning problem makers into creative problem solvers : how New York State creatively shifted the paradigm from managing troubled kids to engaging them / Tim Switalski

Tacit knowledge speaks the language of story : Morocco's Commission spéciale sur le modèle de développement / Lex Paulson, Marwane Fachane

Part 4. Reinventing public administration : new modes of collaboration

Challenging received wisdom and spreading innovation : lessons from the Youth Justice Board / Stephen Boucher, Jonathan Oates

Hearing the marginalized : the jan sunwai in India / Stéphanie Tawa Lama

Creating collaborative young communities through school participatory budgeting / Ankitha Cheerakathil

Dreaming, remembering, scaling, and innovating boldly : how a small French town initiated a journey towards “zero unemployment” / Stephen Boucher

Public challenges to kindle innovation : how one telegram forever changed public policy in Australia / Luis Lafosse

Creating a “voice” of collective change through simple mobile phones / Aaditeshwar Seth

Collective intelligence and digital participatory platforms : learnings from Barcelona's Decidim / David Leal Garcia, Antonio Calleja-López, Juan Linares-Lanzman

Part 5. Social innovation and bottom-up power

Smarter mediation, better dialogue : lessons from a Swedish protest for local healthcare / Bernard Le Roux

Conflict resolution and community change / David Baum

To transform the community, change the story : the Fab City Global initiative / Mary-Alice Arthur

Scaling personal initiatives into collective action : the citizen powerhouse of Sager der Samler in Aarhus, Denmark / Paul Natorp

Pioneering Asia Pacific's first community-driven investment process through blockchain : impact Collective / Charlotte Arribe, Stephanie Arrowsmith, Songyi Lee, Eunielle Yi

Part 6. Reimagining international governance

Unlocking the collaborative potential of national parliaments : the open European dialogue / Verena Ringler, Chiara Rosselli

Crowd forecasting infectious disease outbreaks / Emile Servan-Schreiber, Camille Larmanou

Mobilizing collective intelligence and diversity toward sustainable development goals : from global innovation labs to collective intelligence assemblies for sustainable development / Catherine Jacquet, Mamello Thinyane

Bridging science and diplomacy to build a universal agreement on the science of climate change : the intergovernmental panel on climate change / Kari De Pryck

Nurturing the right context for fruitful dialogue : the case of Helmut Kohl's “gastrosophy” / Knut Bergmann

Thinking ahead collectively : the case of African digital futures / Passy Amayo Ogolla, Julie Anne Jenson

Part 7. Collective intelligence, technology, and collective consciousness

Smarter crowdsourcing to tackle COVID-19 : beyond the open call / Anirudh Dinesh

Mobilizing collective intelligence for adapting to climate change in the Arctic : the case of monitoring Svalbard's and Greenland's environment by expedition cruises / Gitte Kragh, Michael K. Poulsen, Lisbeth Iversen, Ted Cheeseman, Finn Danielsen

Using collective intelligence to assess the future with the Pandemic Supermind / Annalyn Bachmann, Adriana König, Robert Laubacher, David Kong

Using political bots and artificial intelligence to facilitate the interaction between citizens and lawmakers / Cristiano Ferri Soares de Faria

Turning organizations into innovation ecosystems : the hexagon of public innovation model / Raúl Oliván, Pilar Balet

Co-initiating, sensing, presencing, creating, and shaping : how the Scottish government applied Theory U for collective leadership against COVID-19 / Keira Oliver, Karen Lawson

Closing thoughts

Concluding dialogue : collective intelligence and democracy, today and tomorrow / Lex Paulson