This is your cross-sectoral network forall crowd-related topics!
Why should we unite?
People and organizations working with crowds often lack a shared language, a common space, and a network that reflects the transversal nature of our work. This limits our collective and individual ability to connect, innovate, and grow.
We are in a paradox: so much of crowd-work is about bringing together diverse people, ideas, and perspectives to augment our capacity to create, produce, and make sense of complexity. Yet the red thread that runs through all these practices remains fragmented.
Most of us belong to proxy networks, focused on design, policy, innovation, finance, or technology. But there is no place where we come together to learn how we work with crowds across different fields, roles, and contexts.
This network begins to change that. We invite you to join us in surfacing and developing the underlying field of Crowd-Thinking, where all methods, tools, skills, knowledge, and sensibilities relevant to crowd-work come together.
These two concepts are helping us to get our heads and hearts together
Crowd-work refers to any structured effort to mobilizes groups of people (often strangers or loosely connected networks) to contribute ideas, labor, knowledge, or resources toward a shared goal.
Crowd-thinking studies and develops the red-thread across the cognitive, emotional, and relational dynamics that makes crowd-work viable, in connection with the methods, frameworks and resources needed for a person or group to mobilize crowds and achieve useful results.
Share your thoughts!
We have an ongoing open consultation around key topics concerning Crowd-Thinking.
It is safe to share, and we use this content to spark conversation among new members of the network at each onboarding session.
You can always contact us here. We onboard new members through a direct conversation, where we share learnings and discuss expectations
