This handbook explores the concepts, methodologies, and implications of collective intelligence for democratic governance, in the ¿rst comprehensive survey of this field.

Stephen Boucher is the founder and CEO of Dreamocracy and teaches at the Free University of Brussels (ULB), Sciences Po-Paris, and the Centre International de Formation Européenne (CIFE).

Carina Antonia Hallin is the Founder and Research Coordinator of the Collective Intelligence Research Group at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU), Denmark, and Co-Founder of the Academy of Management's Community on Knowledge Integration, Synthesis and Engineering, and Co-Founder of the CI company Mindpool and Global Mindpool in collaboration with the UNDP.

Lex Paulson is the Executive Director of the UM6P School of Collective Intelligence, Morocco, and lectures in advocacy at Sciences Po-Paris, France.

Part 1: Foundations 1. A brief history of collective intelligence, democracy, and governance 2. From the Knowledge Society to the Collective Intelligence Society: Collective Tacit Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence for Policymaking 3. Smarter together? Collective Intelligence and change in government 4. Collective intelligence and governance: Imagining government as a shared brain 5. Measuring the effect of collective intelligence processes that leverage participation and deliberation 6. Key defining concepts: Collective intelligence, democracy and governance Part 2: Reinventing Democracy: New Modes of Representation Introduction 7. Deliberative Policy-making During COVID-19: The case of Taiwan 8. Crowdsourcing a Constitution: The world's first crowdsourced constitution rises from the ashes in Iceland 9. Collective creativity and political entrepreneurship: The Alternative in Denmark (or why failure is an option) 10. How to facilitate the convergence of conflicting constellations of interests: Germany's "Agora Energiewende" 11. How Collective Political Intelligence produced better policy: Political Task Committees in Gentofte, Denmark 12. From Shouting Matches to Argument Maps: An Online Deliberation Experiment in Italy 13. Achieving Parity with Human Moderators: A Self-Moderating Platform for Online Deliberation 14. Hacking start-up policy reforms: Innovating public policy in Senegal Part 3: Eliciting Citizen Knowledge for Collective Intelligence as a Public Good Introduction 15. Reinventing Local Government Through Collective Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence: How a Danish Municipality Harnessed Citizen Insights 16. Slowing down to better tackle a region's challenges: Lessons from Co-Intelligence Wallonia 17. Turning problem makers into creative problem solvers: How New York State creatively shifted the paradigm from managing troubled kids to engaging them 18. Tacit knowledge speaks the language of story: Morocco's Commission spéciale sur le modèle de développement Part 4: Reinventing Public Administration: New Modes of Collaboration Introduction 19. Challenging received wisdom and spreading innovation: Lessons from the Youth Justice Board 20. Hearing the marginalized: The jan sunwai in India 21. Creating collaborative young communities through school participatory budgeting 22. Dreaming, remembering, scaling and innovating boldly: How a small French town initiated a journey towards "Zero unemployment" 23. Public challenges to kindle innovation: How one telegram forever changed public policy in Australia 24. Creating a 'voice' of collective change through simple mobile phones 25. Collective intelligence and digital participatory platforms: Learnings from Barcelonäs DECIDIM Part 5: Social Innovation and Bottom-up Power Introduction 26. Smarter mediation, better dialogue: Lessons from a Swedish protest for local healthcare 27. The power of different perspectives for conflict resolution and community change: "An eagle watches over us" 28. To transform the community, change the story: The Fab City Global Initiative 29. Scaling personal initiatives into collective action: The citizen powerhouse of Sager der Samler in Aarhus, Denmark 30. Pioneering Asia Pacific's first community-driven investment process through blockchain: Impact Collective Part 6: Reimagining International Governance Introduction 31. Unlocking the collaborative potential of national parliaments: The Open European Dialogue 32. Crowd forecasting infectious disease outbreaks 33. Mobilizing collective intelligence and diversity towards Sustainable Development Goals: From global innovation labs to collective intelligence assemblies for sustainable development 34. Bridging science and diplomacy to build a universal agreement on the science of climate change: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 35. Nurturing the right context for fruitful dialogue: The case of Helmut Kohl's "gastrosophy" 36. Thinking ahead collectively: The case of African Digital Futures Part 7: Collective Intelligence, Technology and Collective Consciousness Introduction 37. Smarter Crowdsourcing to tackle Covid-19: Beyond the Open Call 38. Mobilizing collective intelligence for adapting to climate change in the Arctic: The case of monitoring Svalbard's and Greenland's environment by expedition cruises 39. Using Collective Intelligence to Assess the Future with the Pandemic Supermind 40. Using political bots and artificial intelligence to facilitate the interaction between citizens and lawmakers 41. Turning organizations into innovation ecosystems: The Hexagon of Public Innovation (HIP) model 42. Co-initiating, sensing, presencing, creating and shaping: How the Scottish government applied Theory U for collective leadership against Covid-19 Closing Thoughts Concluding dialogue: Collective intelligence and democracy, today and tomorrow