we present some examples of socially-responsible projects developed in Mexico, while exploring the concept of 'collective intelligence' for the promotion of a socially-aware conscience in different contexts and environments.

1. < InterSymp 2008 >
20th International Conference on
Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics
(Baden-Baden, Germany, July 24-30, 2008)
Real People, Technology, And
Collective Intelligence
Hector Dominguez and Joaquin Rosales
Talleres Libres de Artes y Tecnologias.
Mexico.

2. OUR TIMES
Information Age
Technological Development
Isolated People
Cultural Equalization
Ecological Problems
Social Problems
Singularity

3. ECOLOGY
MEXICO CITY
ORIGINAL AZTECS TIME TODAY

4. CULTURAL LOST
INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE EXTINCTION
CUISINE
TRADITIONAL MUSIC
LOCAL TECHNOLOGY
LOST OF DIVERSITY

5. UNDERSTANDING SOME
UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLES

6. Social Complexity
Emergency in social and
cultural networks
Cultural emergency by
immerging intelligence and
information
The Universe evolution is
based on Emergency
Principles

7. Collective Intelligence
WEB 3.0
Building a collective
intelligence by using
contextual data and a
set of global definitions
or ontologies added to
the current human
digital knowledge in
order to create a global
intelligence

8. Gilbert Durand > Historic Memory
Societies have periods of historic memory
passed from grandparents to grandsons
and therefore traditional knowledge and
mythologies are transmitted
Semantic Basins

9. Social Intelligence and Human
Evolution
Two big evolutive jumps on Human
Intelligence:
Social beheavior
Language
And perhaps we are about to live
another one: “The Singularity”

10. Towards Collective Conscience
Generating Collective Intelligence by immerging
information is not enough for sustainability.
We need a way to process that information and
select the best one for our specific condition and
location.
And, understand the way in which this information
is linked to each other and ourselves.

11. We should do something,
but how? what?

12. Understanding our realities
Individual intelligence becomes a collective one, and
then building culture, relationships and conscience
towards social awareness of the whole.
Each individual sees the world according to its own
experience and limitations.
We can find out more about all those different realities
by using technological developments like Semantic
Web and other Information Technology for building a
digital Collective Intelligence.

13. Look inside
We use these ideas in our own communities,
promoting social responsibility and knowledge
exchange in order to improve our collective
quality of life.
Promote self-awareness in the communities.
Trust in the emergency principle and keep moving
forward to create Cultural change.

14. The Semantic Web System
Julius Project
concept
Information gathering
(DSpace, Wiki, Blog, etc.)
Entering information
New contextual
information
Data mining
Physical storage
Metadata mining
User Data mining (textual,
semi-structurated
Data mining
and contextual information
Knowledge search
Search by concept
Knowledge outcome
Concepts inference generation
(Search of “smart data”)
Resultados de búsqueda
English Translation by Hdoma
Original by Saiba
Marzo 2008

15. EXAMPLES

16. SHOES MAKING WORKSHOPS
CHIAPAS, VERACRUZ
INDIGENOUS AND RURAL COMMUNITIES

17. TEPITO, EL GRAN LIBRO
MEXICO CITY
URBAN COMMUNITY

18. THE MIST FOREST, RURAL
DEVELOPMENT
HUATUSCO, VERACRUZ
RURAL

19. MEXICO CITY
URBAN COMMUNITY
PUNK ART

20. JLUMALTIK, NEWS FROM
MOTHER EARTH
CHIAPAS
INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES

21. CONCLUSIONS
We presented few examples of where and how
collective intelligence and conscience can be enhanced
by using information technology tools
Real people and communities have to be involved in
this process and create that information that can
contribute to that collective intelligence by immerging
intelligence, generating awareness and conscience.
Julius is a semantic web application to support
community development by exchanging information
and contextual data.

22. PERSONAL FINAL THOUGHTS
WE FEEL GOOD
KNOW MORE ABOUT OURSELVES AND LIFE
CREATIVITY HAS EXPLODED LOOKING FOR
BETTER SOLUTIONS
DIVERSITY IS VERY IMPORTANT
NATURE IS OUR HOME
OUR KNOWLEDGE IS FRAGMENTED

23. WHERE DO WE WANT TO BE?
HERE?

24. OR HERE?

25. MORE INFORMATION
Talleres Libres de Artes y Tecnologias
http://julius.dnsdojo.org
https://julius.org.mx