Several days ago when I was preparing an introductory lecture about Knowledge Federation for my research group at the university, I realized that there was a central point which I wanted to convey, and I was looking for a suitable visual

metaphor. So I was very happy to find the picture below on the Web. My photoshoping was not perfect, but you might see what the picture represents: It’s a tricycle with a rocket engine! Obviously, it’s a work of art (by “Rocketman” Ky Michaelson); and…

Dear Knowledge Federation Members,



I want to thank and congratulate you for the past year. The development we have initiated together in Dubrovnik in 2008, and properly began at the second Knowledge Federation workshop in Dubrovnik last year –  to ‘foster self-organization in knowledge work,’ or ‘a self-organizing collective mind’ – has during this year reached depth and concreteness that promise us a most eventful year ahead. Each of the three workshops we organized last year was a…

MIT Center for Collective Intelligence is organizing a conference in April 2012, whose aim is to develop an international community for collective intelligence. It is still possible to submit an article – the deadline has been moved to November 18. We have submitted an article that describes Knowledge Federation's value proposition to the cause of collective…

Co-Creating an Innovation Ecosystem for Good Journalism

Santa Mònica Arts Centre, Barcelona, November 13-16, 2011

Join us in Barcelona where the growing variety of media technologies will be used as Lego blocks, to create new systemic solutions for knowledge work.  Following the basic pattern of Knowledge Federation, this event will bring together a team consisting of journalism creatives and knowledge media researchers, along…