Can a global crisis awaken new forms of collective intelligence?

In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, I wrote an article for The Conversation reflecting on the unprecedented surge of collaborative research and open innovation initiatives emerging worldwide. In particular, I shared the experience of building the OpenCovid19 Initiative on the JOGL platform, where thousands of contributors—from data scientists to high school students—came together to co-develop open-source solutions, from diagnostics to ventilator designs.

This piece explores how digital platforms and participatory methodologies can support large-scale, decentralized collaboration—and asks whether this surge of collective intelligence can be sustained beyond the crisis.

You can read the full article here:
📰 Covid-19: The Rise of a Global Collective Intelligence?