The document discusses collective intelligence and its key principles of openness, peering, sharing, and acting globally. It notes that collective intelligence relies on group interaction and provides examples. The document also outlines some pros and cons of collective intelligence, including accessible community and free recognition as pros, and overload of freedom, tainted knowledge, and loss of privacy as cons. It concludes by noting the future of collective intelligence and listing several references on the topic.

1. History
William Marton Emlir Durkheim
Wheeler

2. Collective Intelligence

3. Theory
‘Collective Intelligence is needs for
principles in order to exist which would be
openness, peering, sharing and acting
globally’
(Don Tapscott and Anthony D, Williams)

4. Group Interaction

6. Examples

10. The Pros and Cons of Collective Intelligence

11. The Pro’s
The Pro’s of Collective Intelligence

12. An accessible community Free Recognition

13. The Con’s
Overload of
Freedom
Tainted Knowledge
Loss of Privacy

14. Future …

16. References
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