Societal civic intelligence indicators

Here are some possible answers (or are they hypotheses??)...

• New organizations devoted to civic causes (and new networks, critical mass, etc. that connect them)

• Qualitative differences in new — and established — organizations

• Changed "issue environment" (size, constitution and diversity)

• Increased resource flow to civic intelligence organizations

• New framing concepts and vocabulary — "human rights", "sustainability"

• Educational and cultural references (in literature, schools, museums, theater, art, music, etc.)

• Changing reward structures

• Active campaigns — e.g. US elections and global anti-war movement

&mdash Presentation at HCII, Beijing