Mobilising collective intelligence to tackle the COVID-19 threat

Peter Baeck from Nesta's Centre for Collective Intelligence Design discusses how collective intelligence can help tackle COVID-19 and future crises. He covers how collective intelligence works by mobilizing a wider range of information, ideas, and insights from people working together, often with technology. Examples of collective intelligence responses to COVID-19 include citizen science projects to understand the pandemic's effects, predictive models of outbreaks, real-time monitoring, and open source test kit development. Better collaboration between crowds and institutions is needed to prepare for future crises.