Building Adaptive Collective Intelligence: A Blueprint for the Next Generation Governance
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Dec 31, 2025
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Adaptive Collective Intelligence Governance Participation Digital Platforms Ethical Pluralism Resilience
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Adaptive Collective Intelligence (ACI) offers a governance model emphasising participation, learning, and coordination to manage complexity with trust and resilience. It promotes human-AI teamwork in sensing, deliberating, and adapting, transforming ideas into policies through fair oversight and digital inclusion. Drawing from democratic growth and challenges (like health, economy, migration, and religion) ACI views contradictions as opportunities for renewal. It incorporates ethical pluralism and intercultural dialogue to foster trust. In practice, it supports social foundations, participatory planning, and shared governance through interoperable platforms and feedback loops that turn input into flexible strategies. Combining diversity with data-driven improvements, ACI sees governance as a continuous learning process that protects rights and scales from pilots to national and international levels. The goal is a future-ready system that turns uncertainty into growth, linking innovation and fairness to build more equitable, effective public institutions.
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Zafeiris, K., Lioudaki, A., & Zafeiri, V. (2025). Building Adaptive Collective Intelligence: A Blueprint for the Next Generation Governance. HAPSc Policy Briefs Series, 6(2), 18–30. https://doi.org/10.12681/hapscpbs.45356
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