Thread:Dialogue between Expert Panels and Networked Collective Intelligence (1)

This space is reserved for a discussion to consider the merits of placing material mediated by experts alongside completely open and democratic wiki materials so that each has the benefit of learning from the other while exerting their knowledge and judgement in their own way to create distinctive outcomes.

This exercise raises questions about different kinds of knowledge and where they are located, as well as about processes of acquiring, refining, enhancing and distributing knowledge. There are also technical questions concerning how we would go about facilitating both approaches and interaction between them on this platform.

Wayne is a fountain of knowledge with years of experience facilitating this environment and watching it grow and so I propose to ask him some simple/dumb questions. In so doing I hope to create opportunities for newcomers such as myself to understand this complex and promising method of empowering people and tapping into widely dispersed intellectual resources (that would, but for this technology, remain largely inaccessible).

Wayne may migrate this discussion to a wider forum but this is meant to make a start.

A question: what kind of material, if any, lends itself to expert mediation and what is best left completely open to wiki democratic processes?