Impact Trust • Working glossary
Collective intelligence
The shared understanding that emerges when many people’s observations, knowledge, and interpretations are combined – smarter together than individually.
Details
Context introduced
Fairly accessible; increasingly used in tech and governance circles. The key is distinguishing it from “crowdsourcing” – it’s about reasoning together, not just aggregating data.
Source
Dark Matter Labs, Cynefin, participatory methods
Source / First Appears In
Signal Spotting TDT session / SenseMaker TDT session
Authors
Impact Trust team
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