Toward a Political Theory of Social Innovation: Collective Intelligence and Co-Creation of Social Goods

Abstract

This paper proposes a political theory of social innovation. The paper begins by introducing and reviewing recent claims made for the ways in which social innovation can co-create public goods and services by utilizing forms of collection intelligence (CI) and CI Internet-based platforms. The paper provides a discussion and classification of the literature on collective intelligence before investigation the question of new forms and ways of delivering public goods and services through forms of co-creation and co-production.

An educational theory of innovation: What constitutes the educational good?

“…There is now a huge literature on collective intelligence and new forms and ways of delivering public goods and services through forms of co-creation and co-production. This constitutes a political theory of social innovation (Peters & Heraud, 2015) which centrally involves educational Innovation for social democracy.…”

Citizen science and post-normal science in a post-truth era: Democratising knowledge; socialising responsibility

“…Some critics interpreted this as the shift from 'truth' to 'quality assurance'. Fourth, there has been a rapid growth of what is referred to as Open Science or Science 2.0 that uses new technologies to increase and explore the democratization of and citizen participation in science (Peters & Heraud, 2015;Wals & Peters, 2018). As Halkay (2015) observes,…”

“…Peer production can be thought of as social innovation that has arisen as a result of internet-based networked systems and online platforms that broaden, deepen and extend the concept of 'peer' to include all 'stakeholders' in policy processes, including local citizens directly or indirectly affected by decisions. Increasingly, citizens will become active in science projects (some more than others) and also active in the science policy processes and its evaluation through the technology-mediated co-production of social goods (Peters & Heraud, 2015).…”

Knowledge socialism: the rise of peer production - collegiality, collaboration, and collective intelligence

“…Over the past decade, I have explored the interrelationships between peer production, collective intelligence, collaboration and collective intelligence as a basis for a socialised academic knowledge knowledge (knowledge socialism) firmly anchored in a concept of creative labour (Peters, 2015;Peters & Heraud, 2015;Peters & Reveley, 2015;Peters & Jandric, 2015a,b;Peters & Jandri c, 2018). In particular, with a group of co-authors, I have tried to demonstrate that social innovation can co-create public goods and services by utilizing forms of collection intelligence (CI) and CI Internet-based platforms.…”