Rizwan Tayabali = Management
Consultant & Social Entrepreneur

We’re going to consider a new
angle on Social Intelligence

The power of crowd intelligence.

Socialising knowledge transfer
&
Crowd-sourcing help

Back to Basics

What exactly is Social
Intelligence?

Is there even one clear
definition?

1920 E.L. Thorndike first coined it

In 1987, Cantor & Kihlstrom
redefined it

Howard Gardner said it’s the
interpersonal facet of multiple
intelligences

Daniel Goleman took the
neuroscience approach
Social Intelligence = Social
Awareness + Social Facility

They all essentially view social
intelligence as personal

the ability to get along well
with others and to get them to
cooperate with you

But the world is changing

Social intelligence is now also
networked intelligence

The Web 2.0 generation

And platform intelligence

The semantic web

A whole new field called SID
(social intelligence design) has
even sprung up

We’re more interconnected than
we used to be

So social intelligence can now be
viewed as a collective
phenomenon

I know what you know, as long as
I know you!

Which gives us another
perspective to explore

An opportunity to change the
world

Why?

Societal definition of intelligence =
Academic

This makes it a function of
economics

And since we have social
economic differentials, we also
have social intelligence
differentials

Balancing out these differentials
is what I call socialising
intelligence

In other words...

Facilitating knowledge transfer to
create a collective social
intelligence

Using web technologies and SID
to create a community platform
for socialising knowledge transfer

Crowd-sourcing help by enabling
virtual volunteering

Crowd-Sourcing = Many to one

Virtual Volunteering = Doing stuff
directly online

Removing barriers to
volunteering knowledge

Socialising Intelligence!

Thank You!
Rizwan Tayabali
rizwan.tayabali@gmail.com
www.urbansurvivalproject.org
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