General Collective Intelligence and Web Science

General Collective Intelligence or GCI is an emerging science that creates the possibility of exponentially increasing the general problem-solving ability of groups which various researchers have hypothesized to be measured by the group’s collective intelligence factor (c), which in turn has been equated with the group’s ability to solve any problem in general. This translates into radically increasing capacity for social impact so that ”wicked” social problems might be more reliably solvable where they have not proved to be in the past. This workshop explores both GCI and the patterns through which GCI might be leveraged to achieve this radically increased social impact, as well as how in the absence of GCI, groups suffer from systematic errors in decision-making that limit their collective intelligence. This workshop will explore the hypothetical limits to the collective intelligence that web science or any other collective activity can be conducted with in the absence of General Collective Intelligence, why GCI is required to overcome these limits, and the predicted consequences of not doing so.