Forms of collective intelligence
From civicintelligence
Business | Government | Civil Society | |
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Name | Competitive Intelligence | Strategic Intelligence | Civic Intelligence |
Orientation | Profit driven | Power, the "national interest" | Social and environmental amelioration, values-driven |
Organization | Top-down, bureaucratized | Top-down, bureaucratized | Network-based, provisional, fluid leadership; yet still marginal and under-utilized |
Engagement | Public relations campaign, advertising, lobbying | Legislation, speeches, meetings | Protests, letter writing, campaigns, discussions with peers, voting, document disclosure |
Intelligence | Competitive, focus groups, industrial espionage | State level, spy satellites, wire tapping, strategic analysis, covert, polling | New framing of issues, intelligence networks, monitoring, FOIA (freedom of information act) requests |
Products and Products | Services and commodities for sale | Services, licensing, policies, regulations, laws, policing, defense and war | Social innovation, social maintenance, services, policy papers, advocacy and protest, citizen journalism, citizen science, etc. New communication services, applications and technology. |
Resources | Variable but often vast | Variable but often vast | Variable, generally unfocused and insufficient - but potentially vast |