The city as collective intelligence - how do we design for crowd and institution collaboration?

Beth Noveck, Director of GovLab Haris Biskos, Head of synAthina platform, City of Athens Georgia Gould, Leader of Camden Council Michael Donaldson, CTO and CIO, Barcelona City Council Cities are facing a number of problems, such as lack of trust between governments and society, hate crime, corruption, or economic and social inequality. Beth Noveck, Haris Biskos, Georgia Gould, and Michael Donaldson discuss how they have managed to bridge those gaps between local authorities and civil society, bring communities together, and change people’s thinking about democracy by tapping into the knowledge of their citizens. They reveal the secrets to successful crowd and institution collaboration, and explain how involving citizens in different ways, adapting collective intelligence solutions to different problems and opening up that has enabled them to successfully tackle some of the most urgent urban challenges.