The Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation (CAPS) are ICT systems leveraging the emerging "network effect" by combining open online social media, distributed knowledge creation and data from real environments (Internet of Things), in order to create new forms of social innovation.
They are expected to support environmentally aware, grassroots processes and practices to share knowledge, to achieve changes in lifestyle, production and consumption patterns, and to set up more participatory democratic processes.
The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence brings together faculty from across MIT to conduct research on how new communications technologies are changing they way people work together. Our basic research question is: How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before?'
K. Chan, I. King, and M. Yuen. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE '09, 4, page 1205--1210. (August 2009)
S. Jeffery, M. Franklin, and A. Halevy. Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, page 847--860. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2008)
S. Ahmad, A. Battle, Z. Malkani, and S. Kamvar. Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, page 53--64. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2011)
G. Little, L. Chilton, M. Goldman, and R. Miller. Proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, page 57--66. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2010)