1. Collective Intelligence:
what is it and why is it good
for cities?
Kathy Peach
Head of the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design,
Nesta
@KathyPeach

2. Nesta is an innovation foundation. For us, innovation means
turning bold ideas into reality. It also means changing lives
for the better. This is what keeps us awake at night and gets
us out of bed in the morning.
About Nesta |Our purpose
We bring bold ideas to
life to change the world
for good.

3. How do we get smarter together?

4. Collective Intelligence

5. Becoming
smarter
together
People
Data Technology

6. Collective Intelligence

8. The
smart
cities of
the
past…

9. …were
not so
smart
cities
Four main problems with the traditional
smart city approach
Focus on the
technology, rather
than the problems
No integration with
other work in cities
No role for people
Little evidence of
return on investment

10. Collective intelligence makes smarter
cities

11. 1. Smarter decision making

12. Participatory budgeting: “Madame Mayor,
I have an idea”

13. Block by block - participatory urban design

14. 2. Smarter data collection
and use

15. Peta Bencana

16. Citizen sensing makes people active contributors to city intelligence
Breathe London
I See Change - Community
environment monitoring

17. Waze Tranquilien

18. 3. Smarter use of resources

19. Good Sam App

20. Citizen first collaborative economy
Seoul Sharing City Good Gym

21. The Centre for Collective
Intelligence Design

22. Events
Programmes
and tools
Funding
experiments
Research

23. Collective Intelligence Grants

24. UNDP
Developing a Collective
Intelligence curriculum &
toolkit.
Using with UNDP,
supporting 60 new
accelerator labs working
on Sustainable
Development Goals.
Training and intensive
support to trailblazer
countries

25. Questions