Intelligence is a word that has many connotations. Most seem to fit in two categories...

Usage of the word consistent with that in jokes about oxymorons.
Usage of the word at most tangentially related to that.

For now, we are interested in the first sense of the word. Recently the term OpenSourceIntelligence has come to be used in that context(====). I| find this alarming an exhort the OpenSystemsMovement to look beyond development of public domain developer tools and take a look at the technology of "intelligence". I propose InclusiveCollectiveIntelligence to refer to efforts that involve people using ExtremeCollaboration to make themselves more "intelligent", and simultaneously refer to a methodology of "intelligence" gathering that is both "open source intelligence" and "open destination intelligence". To borrow an ingenious nomenclature from StarPilot, maybe it's time to decentralize the means to a CentralView.

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Things are coming to a head. Spanking heads of state might provide badly needed comic relief, but concerted technological effort might be more promising. Might be more dangerous, too. Any takers?

Me :-)| (BTW - You can pack a lot into one paragraph.) I'm in. Technological or otherwise, collaboration is the only way to get it done. I am interested in your reference to things comming to a head. Could you elaborate a little. --DavidSiegel

The phrase "things are coming to a head" is used repetitively in the Illuminatus==== trilogy by Shea and Wilson. Repetitively but effectively; kind of wakes up the reader at certain places in the story. I| stole it because I like the sound of it. No other reason. I also stole someone's (was it yours?) format for WikiWorld profile page(s). I hope that is OK. One thing that might help InclusiveCollectiveIntelligence might be shamelessly copying some template and filling it in with data obtained empirically, which is to say copied from some source in the real world. CopyCopy.