Just discovered this new volume, published January this year, that brings together fifty-five scholars and researchers from the “emerging discipline of collective intelligence”. The book’s contributors, including digerati like Yochai Benkler, Howard Bloom, Jaron Lanier, and Howard Rheingold, explore models for “digital deliberative democracy, self-governance, legislative transparency, true-cost accounting, and the ethical use of open sources and methods”. Of special interest to this project, Mark Klein’s chapter on “Achieving Collective Intelligence via Large-Scale Argumentation” (on which I will be blogging more about shortly).

You can find the whole book online at the Open Source Intelligence Institute or available in dead-tree format at Amazon.com.