Participation Literacy

The Open Peer Review system I have sketched out very briefly above relies heavily on the kind of hybrid intelligence called collective intelligence. Researchers have always communicated at seminars, conferences and staff meetings, and technology has been involved for a long time now. Technology mediated conversations have been extensive with tools such as phone, email and Usenet. Technology mediated Collective Intelligence is hybrid intelligence. The CI machine and all the voices create the intelligence together. Most research environments would probably gain by moving some of the interaction to the Web - such as in the form I sketched above. It is important, though, that the design of the CI machine includes other researchers than hard core mathematicians and programmers, such as psychologists and gender researchers.