Learning and participation through connecting intelligence: experimenting with a wiki to co-create an article

What is 'connected intelligence'? What is the impact on learning in organisations? What value does it contribute? And what must organisations do to maximise the potential? These are the questions investigated while conducting a 'connecting intelligence' experiment. The authors used a wiki to gather resources and ideas and invite contributions. The resulting lessons learned are shared. Our 'connected intelligence' story begins at Xerox PARC in 1973, with Dr. Robert Metcalfe inventing Ethernet, a computer networking protocol destined to transform work. Today our 'always-on' global connectivity, of people and computers, enables organisations continuously to learn and adapt. Speaking more than three decades later at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Center for Collective Intelligence, Metcalfe preferred to use 'connected intelligence' and unknowingly inspired this article. What is 'connected intelligence'? What is the impact on learning in organisations? What value does it contribute? And what must organisations do to maximise the potential? These are the questions investigated while conducting a 'connecting intelligence' experiment. The authors used a wiki to gather resources and ideas and invite contributions. The resulting lessons learned are shared. The article writing history is available in the ConnectedIntelligence wiki.