1. 29-30 September 2014
The Open University
London Campus, United Kingdom

2. Douglas
Schuler
I’d
like
to
be
involved
in
collaborative
action
and
research
projects
around
developing,
growing,
evolving
social
(animated?)
networks
that
advance
civic
intelligence.
Seattle
Community
Network,
1994
—
Directions
and
Implications
of
Advanced
Computing
(CPSR),
1987
—
2008
(?)
Online
Deliberation
(e-­‐Liberate)
Pattern
Language
work
(Liberating
Voices)
The
Civic
Intelligence
Research
and
Action
Laboratory
(CIRAL)
Boeing
Advanced
Technology
Center
The
Evergreen
State
College
Books
or
articles:
Participatory
Design,
New
Community
Networks,
Shaping
the
Network
Society,
Liberating
Voices:
A
Pattern
Language
for
Communication
Revolution,
Creating
the
World
Citizen
Parliament.
Evil
Twin
Civic
intelligence
is
the
capacity
of
small
and
large
groups
to
address
shared
problems
equitably
and
efficiently.

3. Panayotis Antoniadis
Senior researcher, PhD in Computer Science
Background
Engineering, distributed systems, peer-to-peer economics,
human computer interaction, social software, urban studies,
community informatics, interdisciplinarity
the right to the hybrid city
thinking outside the Internet
the value of diversity
participatory design and
social learning
purposeless information sharing
photo: flickr.com/panayotis/
complementarity
ownership

4. Maurizio Teli
PhD, Research Fellow - Department of
Information Engineering and Computer Science
“Technology is society made durable” (Latour)
Background
Past: The Politics of Free Software, Science and Technology
Studies, Participatory Design
Present: Public and Participatory Design, Digital Commons,
Peer Production, Critical Theory
Expectations
§ To mingle, create connections able to generate really effective projects (beyond
publishing), build something worth at the international level
§ Be part of a group of people who is willing to actually study and change the
world

5. George Pór
Director, CommunityIntelligence Ltd.
“None of us can be free
until all of us are!”
Inspirations
Past: CI, Knowledge Ecology, Online Facilitation Research, VirComm Design
Present: Collaborative Leadership, Collective Awareness & Self-Reflexivity,
CI Enhancenment Lab (CIEL), Collective Wisdom, Generative Action Research,
Global Brain, Pattern Language, Serious Games, Tools 4 Evolutionary Impact
Expectations
• Connect with people working on 3 levels of evolutionary transformation:
personal, communal/organisational, planetary
• Find “co-conspirators” for using our own medicine for boosting the CI of
the field of CI4CG itself, by the right combo of social, inner, and electronic
technologies

6. Andrea L. Kavanaugh, PhD
Senior Research Scientist
Center for Human-Computer Interaction
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA USA
”Only connect” – E.M. Forster, Howards End
Background
Past: Communication, International Development, Urban Informatics
Present: Communication Behavior and Effects, Social Computing, Civic
Engagement, A Kavanaugh Homepage, Virtual Town Square,
Integrated Digital Events Archive and Library
Expectations
• Learn more about state of knowledge in deliberation and engagement
• Make progress on community building and writing project with this group

7. Paolo Torroni
PhD, Assistant Professor
Microdebates
“People are good at arguing – let’s put
arguments at work for the common good”
Background
Past: Logic Programming & Multi-Agent Systems, SOCS project (FP5)
Present: Intersections between Computer and Social Sciences, Online
Debate, Argumentation, Collective Intelligence, epolicy-project.eu (FP7)
Expectations
• Meet likeminded people, enjoy diversity, help others, make a difference,
innovate, get out of my comfort zone
• Exchange views on the role argumentation can have in supporting collective
intelligence for the common good and enlarging citizen participation

8. Ivana Quinto
PhD, Research Fellow
University of Naples Federico II
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and
intelligence wins championships”
Michael
Jordan
Background
Past: decision-making, Web 2.0 collaborative technologies, argumentation
tools
Present: Open Innovation, online deliberation, Collective Intelligence,
Argumentation technology
Expectations
• Meet interesting people, learn new things, enjoy diversity, start new
collaborations, give support to others
• Be part of a community that wants to develop and test technologies to
support Collective Intelligence

9. George Gkotsis
PhD, Research Associate
Community-based Question Answering
“the divisions of the universe are not the
same as the divisions of the university”
Background
Past: Hypertext & Hypermedia engineering, argumentation & collaboration
support
Present: Semantic Web, data & information extraction, knowledge
discovery
Expectations
• Meet people with similar background, exchange ideas about research,
explore collaboration possibilities

10. Anna De Liddo
PhD, Research Fellow
Collective intelligence Infrastructures
“The secret of good work is having nice
people to work with!”
Background
Past: Urban Planning, Participatory Design, Knowledge Media
Present: Crowdsourcing, Online Deliberation, Collective Sensemaking,
Argumentation; catalyst-fp7.eu and edv-project.net projects
Expectations
• Meet likeminded people, enjoy diversity, help others, make a difference,
innovate, get out of my comfort zone
• Be part of a community that wants to design and use technologies to
support collective sensemaking and enlarge citizen participation

11. Grazia Concilio
PhD, Assistant professor
Living Labs and Urban Innovation
“Be the change you want to see in the world”
(Gandhi)
Background
Past: Urban Planning, Collective decision making, e-governance
Present: Urban Living labs, Socio/digital innovation,
Smart Cities and Collaborative Services, Periphéria and
MyNeighbourhood EU Projects
Expectations
• Be part of a wide action/research network where learning
together by experimenting together
• Make the difference; create impacts; synergize
differences towards similar visions

12. Francesco Molinari
Independent Researcher and Policy Advisor
Living Labs and Participatory Innovation
“Each man's life touches so many other
lives. When he isn't around he leaves an
awful hole, doesn't he?”
Background
Past: Banking and Finance, Territorial Development, Industrial Renewal,
Local Government and Participation
Present: Living Lab research and applications in several domains, from
Workplace Learning to Public Service Co-creation, from Socio-Digital
Innovation to Technology Policy Redesign and Evaluation
Expectations
• Make new friends J
• Extend my network of professional contacts J J
• Enjoy the pleasure of creative thinking and idea brainstorming with diverse
mindsets and from different points of view J J J

13. Dr Andy Williamson
Founder, Democratise
Governor, The Democratic Society
Background
Past: eGovernment, Digital Democracy, Community Informatics, Social
Policy, Strategy.
Present: Designing collaborative, active democracies with parliaments,
governments and NGOs.
Expectations
• Lots of ideas, lots of passion, lots of inspiration.
• Hoping that my work can help and inspire others.

14. Lara Schibelsky Godoy Piccolo
Research Associate @ KMi, The Open University
Quasi -PhD in HCI @ UNICAMP, Brazil
Past
HCI researcher in Digital Inclusion in Brazil
E-gov, Accessibility
Expectations
• Learn from experiences
• Meet people that also believe
we can make the planet a
better place to live by means
of technology

15. Brian Plüss
PhD, Research Associate
Computational Linguistics
“. . . we may not be sure whose shoulders we are standing on,
but we know whose hands we are holding.”
On Whose Shoulders? – Yorick Wilks
Background
Past: Computer Science, IT, Dialogue Modelling, Non-Cooperation
Present: Debate Analysis and Visualisation, Argumentation, Citizen
Engagement, E-Democracy; edv-project.net
Expectations
• Learn about the challenges and potentials of collective intelligence to solve
all kinds of problems, old and new.
• Be inspired by and (hopefully) inspire others; find many new hands to hold.

16. Aldo de Moor
PhD, Research Consultant
Community Informatics
“Making communities work!!”
Background
Past: Academic, Tilburg University, Free University Brussels
Present: Owner CommunitySense, bridging the gap between science and
society. Focus: fostering effective collaboration within, between and with
communities, collaboration patterns
Expectations
• Research: how to better grow and apply the commons
through combination of online and offline participation?
• Action: build a network of networks

17. Peter Day
PhD, Senior Lecturer
University of Brighton
“partnerships of collective intelligence for
collective community problem solving”
Background
Past: Community Action, Community Development, Local Politics & Radio
Present: Community Media, Community Learning, Community-based
learning, Community Media 4 Kenya partnership & Centres development –
Community Radio & ICT Centres (Raspberry Pi)
Expectations
• Meeting up with friends & colleagues, catch-up on what they are doing
after several years, learn from their thinking and activities, challenge myself
and reflect critically on the work I’m involved in.
• Help to develop an exciting community network and refocus the work of
the community/collective intelligence/empowerment & ICT discourse

18. Fiorella De Cindio
Department of Computer Science
University of Milano
resp. Civic Informatics Laboratory (since 1994)
research approach: action research (several real-life initiatives)
research areas
• e-participation, e-democracy, digital citizneship
• social interaction environments, with special attention to civic , grassroots, urban
communities
• online deliberative processes: software tools and design guidelines
research questions
• reconsidering democracy in the digital era
can digital technologies - which enabled people protests around the world:
• support citizens and governments productive dialogue
• enable forms of direct participation within the machinery of representative democracy
(cf. Recommendation Rec(2001)19 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on
the participation of citizens in local public life)
• deliberation in distributed organizations
“The use of computer communication in coordination ... puts forth a challenge to the very
idea of hierarchical organization that pervades our society (Terry Winograd, 1981,
unpublished note)
Fiorella De Cindio @ CI4CG Seminar
London, Set.2014

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